The Best Hotels in Saint Helena
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The best hotels in Saint Helena, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide and the Forbes Travel Guide have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Auberge du Soleil comes out on top.
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Meadowood Napa Valley and Alila Napa Valley hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with the Forbes Travel Guide next.
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A hillside olive grove in Rutherford that started as a Provençal restaurant and kept going until it became a Forbes Five Star resort. The 33 acres feel genuinely removed from the valley floor, and the rooms lean into the California light without apology. There's a spa, a pool, and the kind of staff-to-guest ratio that makes hot-air ballooning seem like a reasonable thing to schedule before breakfast.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 3 Keys
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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Shingled cottages scattered across 250 acres of St. Helena woodland, reached by golf cart, set the tone at this secluded wine-country resort. Meadowood holds a Forbes Five Star and three Michelin Keys, and it earns them quietly, through handwritten welcome notes and staff who seem to have memorized your preferences before you arrived. Three pool areas, a spa, and the kind of wine immersion that makes Napa feel like homework you're thrilled to do.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 3 Keys
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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Rooms at this 64-room adults-only hotel look directly onto the Beringer Estate vineyards, which sets the tone before you've unpacked. The Indonesian-born Alila brand usually goes modernist, but St. Helena softened it into something with Arts and Crafts warmth. The spa is lavish, the restaurant sits in a separate Georgian farmhouse that reads as an intentional counterpoint to the rest, and downtown St. Helena is just outside. A Forbes Four Star property.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A working farmhouse aesthetic along the St. Helena Highway, this inn sits in the kind of wine country quietude where the main activity is deciding which bottle to open next. Rooms lean pastoral without being precious, and the Russian River Valley surrounds you with enough vineyard scenery to feel like you've genuinely left civilization, though civilization is about twenty minutes away when you need it.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels