Property Location
When you stay at The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort and Spa in Sonoma, you'll be in the historical district, within a 15-minute drive of Sonoma Plaza and Domaine Carneros. This 4-star hotel is 9.7 mi (15.6 km) from Sonoma Raceway and 14.7 mi (23.6 km) from Napa Valley Wine Train. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
- Sonoma TrainTown Railroad - 0.1 km / 0.1 mi
- Sonoma City Hall - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
- Sonoma Plaza - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
- Sebastiani Theatre - 2 km / 1.2 mi
- Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau - 2 km / 1.2 mi
- Terra Firma Gallery - 2 km / 1.3 mi
- Sonoma Presidio - 2 km / 1.3 mi
- Sonoma Barracks - 2.1 km / 1.3 mi
- Mission San Francisco Solano - 2.1 km / 1.3 mi
- Vallejo Home - 2.8 km / 1.7 mi
- Lachryma Montis - 2.8 km / 1.8 mi
- Haraszthy Villa - 4.9 km / 3 mi
- Bartholomew Park Winery - 5.2 km / 3.2 mi
- Buena Vista Winery - 5.3 km / 3.3 mi
- Gloria Ferrer Caves and Vineyards - 6.7 km / 4.2 mi .The nearest airports are: Santa Rosa, CA (STS-Sonoma County) - 48.7 km / 30.2 mi
- Concord, CA (CCR-Buchanan Field) - 61.7 km / 38.4 mi .
Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 182 guestrooms featuring iPod docking stations and flat-screen televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters and premium bedding. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have designer toiletries and hair dryers.
Dining
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's coffee shop/café, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are served on weekdays from 6:30 AM to 11:30 AM and on weekends from 7 AM to 11:30 AM for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include express check-out, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in Sonoma? This hotel has facilities measuring 6000 square feet (557 square meters), including conference space. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Recent Sonoma Trip Takeaways - The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance
We recently returned from a four-day stay in Sonoma at The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa, and in no particular order, here are the major takeaways: - As far as the rooms go, we stayed in a Cottage Suite King on the 2nd floor. Please note the 1st floor rooms and Cottage Suites allow dogs so the condition of these rooms may fall short of expectations. Many of the resort’s peripheral rooms on this property face the parking lots, study their property map – also there’s a “Broadway Building” in the very front that has guest rooms facing the parking lot and the other half face the bustling Broadway Street!!!! - Even post-Covid, there’s zero housekeeping at this resort – you have to call for everything to be dropped off. Also ask for several large trash bags – fill your bag every morning and leave it outside of your door. - There’s a $39 a day resort fee – seriously not worth it, but it will be added to your bill regardless! - Coordinated transportation from the resort to the wineries is super limited – if you use Sonoma Taxi (only accepts cash) and Lyft is often unavailable. Even though the resort claims to have a shuttle bus to take guests to and from the Plaza (which drops at City Hall), we found that it was unreliable and there’s no set schedule. - Don’t waste your time standing in a horrifically crowded line for counter service at Bean & Bottle in the mornings, instead walk five minutes across the street to the fabulous Broadway Market for pre-made, delicious breakfast sandwiches – they also have pre-packaged fresh food and entrees, produce, beer, wine, alcohol, snacks, ice, etc. Fill your fridge in your room with everything from here instead!!! - Unfortunately, there’s very young, clueless staff everywhere – never once did we see a “tenured manager” with hospitality/customer service experience. - Sonoma was way more crowded than we expected - 100% capacity at the resort – crowded vineyards and restaurants. Pool was crowded every single afternoon and zero available lounges and cabanas. Tons of kids in the pool. Be sure to make restaurant and winery reservations 1-2 months in advance. Lots of families traveling with tiny babies and toddlers – to wine country….WTF???? - It was way hotter in Sonoma than we expected – this made red wine tastings challenging! But with that said, the A/C unit in our Suite worked amazingly – it got down to 59 degrees, yaasss!!! - Obnoxious young Bridesmaid parties were all over the Lodge Renaissance Resort and in Sonoma in general – with zero interest in wine tasting but yet loud and ever-present for Instagram photos of course, yuck!! Lots of veils and sashes….. - We often smelled super strong marijuana being smoked while on property at The Lodge and around Sonoma – it didn’t bother us much but with all of the kids at the resort, please know this aspect. One of our drivers had just smoked before driving us to a vineyard, it made for an anxious, curvy drive uphill….. - We were also underwhelmed by the new Wit & Wisdom restaurant on property in general – it was hot, crowded and service was marginal. Food was seriously meh…….too much hype on this place! Also know that room service only comes from this restaurant at night and is super limited! With that being said, we will definitely go back to Sonoma – and will definitely stay at The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa again…..we’ll just return at a different time seasonally and will be way more educated on what to expect!! If you hit the right vineyards and do all of the up-front research/reservations, you will have a fantastic time.
Would not Return
My husband and I stayed here to get away from San Francisco for a weekend. This hotel did not provide a nice setting in which to do so. The service was not friendly at check in. Our bedding was stained. The hotel is located on a busy street, so it's not a very relaxing setting. Finally, I was overcharged for several mini bar items that we did not use. I had to call several times to get these charges resolved. I would not return to this hotel.
Spend your money elsewhere
We arrived and one of the beds had crumpled sheets that were dirty. It was 9pm and we asked for new sheets since our 7 year old was exhausted. It took an hour and 3 calls to get the bedding. This hotel has 178 rooms and approximately 25 pool chairs. They have the same amount of paid cabanas which are essentially the same chairs enclosed with a curtain. The food options are limited, the service is mediocre at best and the price tag does not reflect all things written. I would suggest one of the many other options in the area and avoid this place! It is especially not great for families.
Poor service, poor quality at a high price
You might look at the pictures and price of this resort and think it is comparable to other nice Sonoma and Napa resorts, but it isn’t worth the money. I spent $700+ per night for a cottage suite over Memorial Day weekend and had a terrible experience. Start with their tiny pool. It is a 178 room hotel that maybe has 25-30 pool chairs. At 8:30 am it is full with half the chairs “reserved” but with no one there. The front desk was rude and could only reply that “this is the way their guests like it.” If you have Marriott status don’t expect to get recognized. The breakfast restaurant in the lobby is incredibly overprice, slow, and got my order wrong twice. $18 for some eggs and bacon in a cardboard box. Our room was under stocked on linens including bedding. It took over an hour to get the right linens on arrival while I had to keep my kids up. I had to call 3 times to get the linen. My short takeaway is that this isn’t a real resort. It’s the equivalent of an apartment complex with a pool and a Marriott brand on it. You’d be 10x better off spending just a little more to go to the Fairmont or Solage. This is just a let down and I regret the $2500 I wasted on a 3 day weekend.
Good potential but not the best experience
We didn't have the best experience here. When we checked in, we were told that they had "overbooked" their king bed rooms, so my husband and I had to stay in a room with two double beds for one night. We had booked our room many weeks in advance, so this was quite frustrating. They did waive the resort fee to make up for this, but I would rather pay the fee and get the room I booked. The couple we were traveling with did not have hot water in the morning, which made them late for our day's activities as they had to deal with getting the hotel staff to help address the issue. They did eventually get hot water though. There was a lot of construction around the hotel and grounds, which they hotel did not give us any warning about. It definitely took away from the whole vacation experience. Also, when we went to the pool in the afternoon, the woman working there arranging the sunbeds basically laughed at us when we asked if we could use a bed, and said they were reserved ahead of time. She was a little rude about it. The hotel itself has potential to be quite pretty and the location is pretty good. But they definitely have some issues to sort out. We would not stay here again.