Candlelight Inn Napa Valley

The aim of our trip was to drink wine, eat well, and walk 10-15km a day in Nappa Valley. Candlelight Inn is a very nice place. The personal in the morning to attend us during breakfast was super welcoming (a 5/5). The breakfast itself was good (a 4/5) and the overall facilities (terrace, salon with chimney, fresh bottles of water, garden under huge trees) giving the feeling of being home (a 5/5).

The inn is quite a long way from the actual things to do in Nappa Valley, and Uber is summing up rapidly (65 usd minimum for a one way). The bus option is not that good and frequent. At the end we had to rent a car. The person who made the check inn, and fortunately she was the one and only case, was not that trained to warmly welcome people... Thanks god the rest of the personal compensated. But for the check inn I would put a 2/5... Our room (#6) was calm, relatively clean, although having stayed 5 days we could see that it was less clean at the end that at the beginning (3.5/5).

It’s a gorgeous property, it’s like a time capsule and every felt really well thought out/put together. The pool/back garden was amazing - we only stayed for the night, but worth a trip back in the future.

The inn and grounds were lovely. That's the only word for it. The staff was great too -- very professional and well trained. We enjoyed the breakfasts and the afternoon cookies as well.

The room we stayed in (#1, the Starlight Room) was spacious and generally clean, except for a false eyelash that we found on the bathroom floor. That's something intimate that you don't want to see. Also, the drywall in the room needed some work. There were two large cracks on either side of the interior wall between the bedroom and bathroom. The crack on the bathroom side was unfilled. The crack on the bedroom side was filled and painted over, but in a color that doesn't match the rest of the wall. The rest of the property was excellent, with the exception of the pool. The inn needs to keep up with skimming it. Pine needles were floating in the water and there were green splotches on the floor of the pool where organic matter had begun to decompose.

Old school charm.

Perhaps invest in some newer in room features (update TVs as an example) and tidy up the backyard.