After I had committed to the booking I read the finer print.
Over $70 in local taxes and resort fees and only a 180 minute window for check-in. These two things really cheesed me off. The good people of Napa realized that they could collect a ton of money from visitors with exorbitant hotel taxes. "I live here. Hotel taxes won't hurt me!"
If that sort of thing burns your buns, stay in Fairfield.
In PDX they have a very high tax on airport car rentals. Not a problem for locals. If you take light rail to the downtown Enterprise you cut your rental costs in half!
Anyway, I had an event in Napa and my boss told me to stay in town, so I did. I was very cheesed off, re: resort fees, taxes, short check-in window...BUT, I could not stay mad at this little inn.
If you are not a cheapskate and a grouch, you will absolutely adore the Cedar Gables. The complimentary breakfast is brought to you. Not the awful continental breakfast you see everywhere with cold cereal dispensers and crusted waffle irons. Plates brought to your table by a quaint gentleman who will not stop telling you all the wonderful places to visit. Even which gallery he has his art in it. A week at the Cedar Gables, in good weather, with bicycles and kayaks would be a good get-away indeed.
Check out the Railroad Arts District.