Napa Travel Tips: 10 Things to Know Before You Go to Napa
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2017
- Things you'll want to know before you travel to the Napa Valley in California. The best time of year to come: September & October. Grape Harvest seasons. June/July/August is HOT! Really Hot in the day like 90-100F. But cold at night... in the 50's. The morning fog during June through August is deceptive; temperatures get toasty once it burns off
2. Napa is Expensive: Think Disneyland prices, Hotels, Food, and wine tasting. Wine tastings cost $20-$75
3. Napa is more than the city of Napa: The whole Napa Valley, St Helena, Calistoga, Sonoma too
4. Getting to Napa: Ultimately Driving, but you can fly in to
Sacramento, Oakland, SFO, SJC. Napa is located 40 miles south of Sacramento and 50 miles north of San Francisco. About an hour drive from each. You can also take a bus to Napa from Oakland and San Francisco.
5. Public transit is non-existant, but there are "wine tours" if you don't want to drive.
6. Reservations: Make reservations, for winery tastings, and dinner. You'll thank me later.
7. Wake up early: Especially on the weekends if you are visiting the wineries, go to the busy ones before noon. After 12 is when they get crazy busy.
8. No nightlife -- all the wineries close at 5-6pm to prevent drunk driving. Only thing to do a night is eat. And you better do that before 9pm.
9. Food: Best food is in the town of Napa itself. Think about a picnic lunch from V. Sattui or Dean and Deluca (Both in St. Helena)
10. Don't drink too much -- particularly on a hot day... the wine goes to your head faster. Many tasting rooms have a place that you can spit your wine. It's okay to spit it out after tasting, the more you spit, the more you can taste.
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This was so helpful in planning my upcoming honeymoon, thanks!
This was such a helpful video!!! Thank you!
My pleasure Haley!
Great advice👍
Perfect presentation
Nice vid. Skimpy on the food, which is a shame. The town of Napa has Joe's, good beer and music, Filippi's pizza across from the Oxbow, Bounty Hunter for pulled pork sandwiches and great wine. Gotts's Roadhouse, across from Oxbow, has great burgers and you can buy a $100 bottle of great Napa wine with it, or stick to the great shakes. Spend money if you must or try the local way. BTW, Panchas in Yountville, next door, sort of to Napa, is fun. Local dive with fun ambience. In the parking lot is usually the best taco truck in the valley. And I say that coming from a taco background. Bon chance. Bon appeptit! Keep up the good vids.
Really good tips Chris. I hope that Napa, Sanoma and areas surrounding are recovering from the recent bushfires.
+landscaperben Thanks Ben! Napa is definitely "open" again.. I think full recovery will certainly take awhile
It wasn't just a brush fire. 1380 homes burnt down right in front of me. (Santa Rosa). About 3 houses are being rebuilt. Pretty sad.
wonderful,
I love your video, helpful ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome
Very helpful. I do plan on going to Napa one day. This was great!
+Just Swell - A Surf Channel My pleasure! I think you'll enjoy Napa! Thanks for the feedback!
I have friends who live there!!! We visit them all the time!!! I love it there!!!!!
NAPA, so memorable for me. There’s the free wine tasting back then. No one told me that you don’t have to drink the whole sample. I was beet red and tipsy after three small sips. That the only time my bro told me that I didn’t have to drink the whole thing.
Loved your panda so I subscribed. Very good video and tips too. Thank you. 🐼
Thanks Jennifer!
Great video! I’ll be skipping Napa on my 3-day trip to San Fran. Doesn’t seem worth it. Very helpful!
slammko yeah right, you couldn’t afford it😆
@@metalmk6839 ive never heard somthing so right
thank you
My pleasure!
If we go definitely going to fly
Left Frisco at 10 pm got to Ventura county at 3 am
Thank you.
Thanks Jaye!
Very informative thank you.
Thank you
Thanks Jason!
I live here and only thing I will say is watch out for Sept here it's tricky. It's our hottest month usually the first week or two and then it starts to cool down. We hit triple digits here every summer as well. Not unusual for us to get 105-110. Spring is beautiful here and so is Fall. Best times to visit (weather wise) in my opinion. LOL so true about Napa's night life! Napa is truly a foodie place. Good advice about the drinking, wine catches up to you fast.
Thanks for the local tips!
You're welcome :) Thanks for making such an informed video about it.
I'm from napa. August is the hottest time hello
@@ramonavina2109 I live up at Lake Berryessa for many years. My husband has lived up here since he was a teenager. Up here our hottest time is the first couple weeks of Sept.
Hi how do you like living there? Are there jobs. Housing? I lived in LA for 15 years currently in Florida and really would like to live in the Napa area.
Yountville has great restaurants.
I live in Napa
I lived in Napa for 9 years, and it is pretty nice? But sooo many people!
You didn't mention the most popular forms of transport in Napa Valley are Uber and Lyft!
nice!
Thanks Becki!
You should go to trefethen if you like wine
I live in napa, this review is pretty accurate. Night life has gotten better within the last year, but still isn't stellar.
Thanks Charles!
I’m from there too... nightlife’s way better than it was 10/15 years ago
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Hot during the day but cools off significantly at night!
40 miles south of Sacramento, oh boy.
I know right lol. What a dunbass
Northern California is expensive to live at period (Napa, Bay Area, South Bay, East Bay to some extent). I have relatives from Los Angeles that travel to Tracy, CA to do fishing at the Delta.
You should do walla walla, they have a nice wine there :)
+A gamer Walla Walla Washington?
Nightlight* you got joints like Downtown Joe's, Bilcos, Napkins, Eikos, and others that people go to in the weekend to hang out, eat, dance and drink. Most of those places close around 1:45am
Ch.Tos no, don’t taint Joe’s and Bilco’s with these yuppie-ass tourists... those locals bars.
“MENDOCHINO”
I caught that too; lived there in Napa for about five years (14 years: Vallejo, Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek). Super Expensive, nice region, though. I'm in Florida now; planning to move to Loveland, CO area soon.
"ST. HELEN AH"
Sounds like Mt. St. Helens
Westside Road.....in the Russian River area is good
I lived in Napa for 27 years. I do miss it.
Myrddin Greybeard where do u live now
Myrddin Greybeard Can you tell me what you miss? Why did you leave? Reason I’m asking is that I am considering moving to Napa.
TheUnlimited001 Napa is a nice little town. Expensive though :/
Napa felt weirder to me than Santa Cruz. I can’t really describe it, it was like the local residents were in on a joke and you weren’t. Anyway, great vid. 👍🏻
Hah! Interesting perspective! :)
Yes, the locals are JERKS
@@metalmk6839 Or maybe the tourists are jerks and too busy expecting us to play act a roll for them to notice we're just people trying to live our lives.
Farrer From Paradise I lived in Napa in the 90s
@@metalmk6839 And the relevance of that is...?
As a 5th generation Napanee, Keep calm and go to Sonoma....
Napanee.. I like that term! :)
It's Napkin* 😂
Wats Sonoma
Lol. Totally thought this was going to be a NAPA auto video
Hah
Carneros?
I grew up in Napa. It was a nice little town until it became a tourist trap. Never going back.
Chris smart travelers fly to Sacramento, rent a car drive to your hotel and take Uber from then on until your flight home. Design your own wine tasting tour (do research!), plan no more than 3 wineries per day. You are never more than 10 minutes away from your next Uber or Lyft.
Wine tours by limo are very, very expensive unless you have a large group but for parties of 2 to 6 definitely Uber.
+Buddy Hatton Thanks for the tip!
What would be some good tourist cities to visit in California for a first trip to Cali
Check out this video I put together on California’s top attractions. ua-cam.com/video/CD7Aq42EpeE/v-deo.html
French Laundry is in Yountville, CIA Greystone is in ST. Helena, not to mention tons of other amazing restaurants in ST. Helena, Calistoga and throughout the county. For casual cheap lunch you didn't even think to mention Gotts? Some off information in this video, slthough I am glad you didn't try to pronounce Calistoga as well...
I grew up in St. Helena, so I"m going to add #11. Do not, and I repeat DO NOT, under any circumstance walk into a private vineyard, and think that it's ok to start picking grapes off the vines without the land owner's permission. We had 240 acres of vineyard around our house, and more than once some rude ass tourist would come into our vineyard and just walk around, and start eating the grapes. Be polite, understand that it is private property. You wouldn't like it if someone started walking around your private property, so please do not walk around ours.
That's crazy that people do that
@@YellowProductions stupid people.
Are you hiring on your vineyard? I lived in LA for 15 yrs currently in Florida looking to get back to California and the Napa Region looks amazing.
Why did i watch this im not even going to napa
😂😂😂😂
Prepare to pay triple for autoparts
My 2 cents....Fly into the Sonoma County Airport (Sts) and skip Napa County altogether. The wine is way too expensive in Napa county. Go try the zins in dry creek and also go to Alexander Valley. Full disclosure, I live in Sonoma County. Also, look up "barrel tasting weekend" for a great time.
Great tips. Thanks Larry!
I grew up in Napa Valley and live in Sonoma Co. Both are lovely and interesting and full of amazing wineries. But, Napa Valley is truly spectacular and is set up for first class weddings, parties and major events. It's the big time. Sonoma County is more quaint and is not even close in the full scope of options (which may be a good thing as far as being more home-y). Even as a snarky teenager, the Valley took my breath away and when I was in France, I got it.
Is it true that you have to pay to Taste Wine at the cellar doors
in Napa?
Most of the wineries in Napa charge for tastings
do you know what I own in napa valley and my biological parents and grandparents
is your t-shirt on backwards??
+landscaperben I don't think so... Did it look backwards?
what about Lyft??
You can use Lyft or Uber to get around the Valley
I live in Napa lol and downtown the only good part
excuse me，what is the flower behind you？
the flowering trees behind him are crepe myrtle. originally a large shrub trained to be a small deciduous tree
@@lynnkurumaji2478 We have lots of them in Milton, FL, too. Funny thing: when I lived in the Napa Valley, I didn't see any crepe myrtles there; more like, Indian Bottle Brush trees.
You forgot the wine train...
It's in my "things to do" in Napa video :)
You can fly into Santa Rosa, much closer and rent a car there.
Thanks for the tip John!
Mendo Chee no? its mendo "scene" -O
Get started early so you can get drunk early....then pace yourself
Mendocino = Mendo see - no.
Vineyards have drained our creeks
Deforestation of thousands of trees and habitats
Buildings developed overnight it used to take 10minutes drive across town
Now it takes an hour. Where are all these people coming from?
Don't forget all the marijuana growers that live here
Lmfao. So old school.
Nite life only happens with the ....
Mendo - chino ? Hahaha
I live in Napa and besides the tourists everyone’s poor... The only nice place is in YountVille but still there’s places in YountVille that are poor
Really? Everyone is poor..? EVERYONE is POOR? (laughs out loud. Literally)
MsGML it is true. unless you have a corporate job or work at a winery or medical job you are pretty much broke compared to everyone else.
Everyone is poor?
If they are poor , how they managed to live in Napa!!
I've seen all the people that work at the grapes fields, 😲 the cars they drive, the oldest car is 2016.
I got surprised, I know these people work hard, but with the cars they drive, I don't think they poor, and they live in Napa. Oh, and ALL the workers are LATINOS.
@@spearmint1569 i didn’t actually mean poor but i meant lower class to lower middle class, and not rlly everyone, but like 3/4 of the ppl, there’s some ghetto parts of the city tho , there’s some really high paying jobs but most people have regular paying jobs and live in apartments or cheap houses (cheap houses for napa cuz there’s lots of expensive houses). it’s a nice city still don’t get me wrong but most people don’t have much money here
I live in Sonoma a great City, farmers market is very fun with live music every Tuesday. Vintage Festival is around the corner October 7,8 and 9. Come and enjoy.
Mendo-CHINO? Like Cappuccino? 🤦🏻♀️
Less face more B roll plz
I grew up and got into mischief while living in Napa, met my wife of 42 years and had four wonderful children while living there. Then in 83 we saw what was happening to the state and the Shit that was happening there. My loving wife kidnapped me in spring time to come back to the city where we met. Wow what a change. We found out that California is a sanctuary state. Isn’t it funny you can score as much wine as money will allow, but to purchase cannabis from a dispensary in Napa County forget about it. You need to go south to Vallejo!
Why not Colorado? Great Rocky Mountains there.
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Seems to have been written by someone who has been there once. Lived here 23 years, let me correct some of your more glaring errors. Coming during harvest is just plain stupid. Prices are jacked up, the winery staff is harried, and there is nothing to see. They haul the grapes around back to crush and you don't get to go there. An hour from SFO? Maybe if you drive at 3:00 AM on a Sunday. Otherwise, it will take you an hour to get from the airport to the Bay Bridge on a busy day, then another hour to Napa. Sacramento is the best airport choice. You don't need a rental car because you don't get a pass on DUI because it's Napa Valley. I can't tell you how many rental cars I see on the side of the road during DUI enforcement, and Napa has DUI checkpoints as well. You're probably coming here to drink, so take Uber or cabs. And you can get a shuttle from the airport if you don't want to drive at all. Or stay downtown, which most people miss. You can walk to anything you need, including tasting rooms, restaurants, theater, live music, breweries, pool hall, etc. Which reminds me, no nightlife? See previous comment. And you left off wine tours. A good wine tour company like Platypus will pick you up at your hotel, take you to a few wineries, feed you lunch, and drop you back at your hotel.
Thanks for the local tips John!
Any recommendations for shuttles from Sacramento to Napa?
MENDO CHINO!?!?!?!?! dear god, all credibility lost.
well said, Chris. i was thinking the same thing.
I’m from Napa and disagree on so many levels.
Ok. I look forward to watching your tips video then :)
Don’t come to Napa 10 million tourist annually
Men-do-SEE-no. Not MendoCHino.
This guy's giving me advice and he can't even pronounce most of the towns and counties there?
What did I mispronounce?
Mendecino and saint helena . Men-de-cino and saint hel-ena. Napa native here with helpful advice.
I laughed at that too. I lived there for 10 years and my sons were born and raised there . My oldest son still lives there and it always has been high cost of living. Even more so now.
@@YellowProductions it's easy to mis-pronounce places when you're not from the area. Don't know what's the big deal. I enjoyed the video.