Premier Garden Cottage

As the name suggests, the Premier Garden Cottage at Carneros Resort and Spa has a peaceful garden view across the resort's landscaped grounds. Cottages at the resort come with a private deck or patio, so you can enjoy the greenery outside your own door. The cottage is reached by exterior corridors, in keeping with the resort's spread-out, cottage-style layout.

The cottage has one king bed and a double sofa bed and sleeps up to four guests in 450 sq. ft. The bedding is Frette Italian sheets on a pillowtop mattress, and it is hypo-allergenic. Turndown service is included. If your group is larger, connecting rooms are available.

The bathroom has a deep soaking bathtub and a separate rainfall shower, so you can choose between a long soak and a quick rinse. Bathrobes, towels and a hair dryer are provided.

Inside the cottage you get a fireplace, air conditioning, a ceiling fan, a flat-screen TV with a DVD player, an iPod dock, a coffee and tea maker, a minibar and complimentary bottled water. The resort lists a daily resort fee of $70 plus 15.292% tax and tourism assessment. It covers property-wide WiFi, parking, the daily newspaper, the in-cottage soft beverage bar, fitness center access, wellness classes, first-come first-served bicycles, welcome wine at reception, EV charging and Cadillac car service within five miles.

Yes. The cottage is family friendly, with a king bed and a double sofa bed, a free crib, and connecting rooms for larger groups. In-room childcare can be arranged for a surcharge. Children can swim in Otto's Pool, the family pool, while the Hilltop Pool is adults-only (ages 16 and over). The resort's family activities include beehive and garden tours and a children's gardening tour. Carneros Kids Night runs on Saturday nights in summer. The Spa at Carneros is for guests 16 and older.

Carneros Resort and Spa allows up to two dogs per guest room, with a one-time non-refundable cleaning fee of $150 per dog plus tax. Dogs are not permitted in the spa, the pools, Market or the indoor restaurant dining rooms. They are welcome at the FARM Pavilion, Town Square, the Hilltop patio and Kelso's Dog Park.

The resort has FARM at Carneros for seasonal farm-to-table dinners, Boon Fly Café for comfort food and its mini cinnamon-sugar donuts, and the guest-exclusive Hilltop Dining Room, which serves breakfast and lunch. Market opens daily at 6:30 a.m. for coffee. POST Tasting Lounge serves wine and spirit flights. You can also dine without leaving your cottage: in-cottage dining runs daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The resort does not provide airport transfers, and no public transit serves the property directly, so most guests arrive by car. San Francisco International is about 44–59 miles away, roughly an hour to an hour and a quarter by road. Private car services also run transfers from SFO. Once you are here, the complimentary house Cadillacs offer first-come, first-served drop-offs within five miles for drivers aged 25 or older. Free loaner bicycles are available for guests 14 and over.

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM. Check-out is around 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM, depending on how you book. Guests must show photo ID and a credit card, and the minimum check-in age is 21. Early check-in or late check-out may be possible on request, subject to availability. Several wineries are close by: Hyde Estate is about 0.3 miles away, Saintsbury about 0.7 miles and Domaine Carneros about a mile. Downtown Napa is about 5 miles away.