
Napa Valley Welcome Center

Information about Napa Valley Welcome Center
Opening hours
- sunday: 9:30-18h
- monday: 9:30-18h
- tuesday: 9:30-18h
- wednesday: 9:30-18h
- thursday: 9:30-18h
- friday: 9:30-18h
- saturday: 9:30-18h
The Napa Valley Welcome Center has expert knowledge and a passion for sharing the best Napa Valley has to offer. Armed with insider tips on everything from where to find the best wineries to locating hidden hiking spots, the Welcome Center experts are your best resource for planning an epic Napa Valley vacation.
While we do not book appointments for visitors, we do offer travel planning tips, and have complimentary maps and guides available daily at the Welcome Center.
The Welcome Center Mercantile is stocked with an impressive array of locally crafted gift items, Napa Valley souvenirs, unique home décor items, and more.
Our comment from TraTraTravel about Napa Valley Welcome Center:
The Napa Valley Welcome Center is an essential stop for anyone visiting the beautiful Napa Valley. This center offers a clean and welcoming environment, staffed by friendly and knowledgeable personnel who are eager to assist.
- Visitors consistently praise the helpfulness of the staff, who provide detailed maps and helpful recommendations for wineries and restaurants in the area.
- The center features a lovely gift shop with unique souvenirs, perfect for remembering your trip.
- Guests can enjoy information about the local attractions, including wine tasting locations, making it a great starting point for planning your Napa experience.
- Many users highlighted the amazing rooftop views and interactive exhibits, such as the 3D topo map of the valley.
- Please note that some customers found the prices in the gift shop to be a bit on the expensive side, and a few felt that the information provided could be limited during busy times.
Overall, the Napa Valley Welcome Center is highly recommended for its friendly atmosphere and extensive resources, ensuring you make the most of your visit to this stunning wine region.
Napa Valley Welcome Center: Reviews
Fantastic experience: A great welcome center with very helpful staff. It is very nice and clean. The staff have lots of useful information about all the wineries located around the Napa area.
Fantastic experience: Staff was very nice, answered all my questions and gave good recommendation for restaurants in the area.
Fantastic experience: It was very cool to hang out there and see the view from the rooftop. The 3d topo map of the valley in the lobby puts it all in perspective.
Fantastic experience: Great place with local goods. I received a map and great tips.
Positive experience: Beautiful in the center of Napa, a bit expensive the store
Fantastic experience: Very polite ,knowledgeable and professional... Gave us maps highlighted with great sites to visit. Also bought magnet and stickers.
Fantastic experience: Napa Valley Welcome Center is definitely a very nice stop on your visit. Not only do they have a large selection of unique products but they are extremely friendly and helpful. We are very pleased with all of our dealings with everyone including Ariana that was super responsive. I am looking forward to returning.
Positive experience: Very friendly but not a lot of good information. Think we knew the valley better than they did just from winery visits.
Fantastic experience: Napa valley welcome center is so cute and the people work here are so helpful and they explain each and everything in a very detailed way. They have very unique souvenirs as well.if you are looking for souvenirs in Napa valley,you must visit here.
Fantastic experience: Extremely knowledgeable people here. They know everything and will direct you to the best experience. .....and they won't accept tips.
Positive experience: Ask
Positive experience: An informative shop with local goods , maps , and information along with great recommendations.
Fantastic experience: They gave me great information about the visit. So professional. Thank you to the team!
Fantastic experience: Add this stop when you first visit Napa. Helpful guidance.
Fantastic experience: Very knowledgeable staff. Helped us with some history and recommendations. We drove up one side of the valley and down the other, both sides were beautiful. Wine that we tasted from this region is top notch and definitely worth the chance to try. We went during the off season in January, weather was in the 60's. Worth the trip.
Fantastic experience: Loved how helpful they were. Gave us maps and a booklet to look through. Told us where the restaurants and wine tasting spots were!!!
Fantastic experience: Very good place to find information about the city's attractions and although the items they sell are not cheap, it's worth bringing back a souvenir from Napa.
Fantastic experience: cute place ..
Positive experience: Parking is not easy. The interior is well decorated, making it a good spot for taking photos. There are various souvenirs, but the prices are high. It seems sufficient to visit while exploring downtown.
Fantastic experience: Friendly, helpful, and very informative
Fantastic experience: Very knowledgeable staff, who helped us organize our day to discover Napa Valley.
Fantastic experience: Very nice friendly people helping a lot :)
Fantastic experience: We had questions that were answered and we had great suggestions
Fantastic experience: Helpful staff. Public toilets located here too.
Fantastic experience: Good service from the staff, recommended to see the whole area and famous vineyards. If you like wine, this place is for you.
Fantastic experience: Very pleasant, with all the necessary information and more. Magnificent service.
Positive experience: Parking was awful. Attendants were great.
Fantastic experience: This is the MUST first stop for me when going to Napa. They have beautiful gifts in the shop and the people working here are very knowledgeable about the region. We share our preferences and they make suggestions on which wineries to go to. They often have free wine tastings. It’s also surrounded by cute shops and restaurants.
Fantastic experience: Had a public restroom!!
Positive experience: The lady at the desk gave me 2 websites to get reservations in the wineries. Very helpful, i wish they would have provided me with other family-friendly options instead of just given me the guide-book
Negative experience: Nice shop but not helpful. We got there early and basically were just told to go to the online screens for info. Very dismissive. Go to Sonoma Welcome Center. They will actually have a chat with you and recommend best ways to see what you are looking for.
Fantastic experience: Great visitor center! I happened upon it on their free wine tasting night! Six wineries offered a taste or two! It was great! Nice gift shop and it's a classy Center with clean restrooms. I ❤ NAPA!
Positive experience: Very kind staff
Fantastic experience: Really nice visitors center. Very helpful staff, nice shop for souvenirs
Fantastic experience: Great place to visit very nice and knowledgeable people love it... Love the new location.
Positive experience: Napa is not what it used to be 15 years ago… wineries tasting is a ripoff experience by appointment only! Downtowns of NAPA and other smaller towns are pretty and offer lots of shopping and food choices. A mixed experience, not a satisfying one.
Fantastic experience: Strong suggest visit them first to know which Winery is open and its open hour.
Fantastic experience: New and improved since we were here last. Great place to start your first or subsequent visits to see what's changed. You'll get at least 1 free tasting coupon which is at least $20 and a clean public restroom.
Fantastic experience: Very good service and many souvenirs from Napa.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and really helped us plan our day!
Fantastic experience: Warm welcome. Rest rooms provided. Answered all my questions.
Fantastic experience: They provided us with a lot of great information.
Positive experience: Helpful. They have detailed maps.
Positive experience: Save our visit to the wine country. They have good displays, souvenirs of the napa valley. It wasn't a friendly environment tho. If you welcome a visitor i would prefer a smile on your face. Thats the main purpose of the Welcome Center. Attract tourists!!!
Positive experience: Super clean bathrooms, the front desk lady seems nice but didn't really engage with me when I walked in.
Fantastic experience: We enjoyed this little gift shop and info center. Less pretentious than many of the other shops in town, and the women working there were very friendly and helpful.
Positive experience: Nice place with tourist information and nice restrooms
Fantastic experience: The girls at the Napa valley welcome center were very helpful!! If you go wow the valley don’t go on Sunday lol lots of people! We still enjoyed ourselves!!
Fantastic experience: The best information center. They provided us a map for visit Napa Valley.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and just the what was needed
Fantastic experience: You can get a Napa Valley map. The staff are friendly and there are a variety of souvenirs.
Fantastic experience: Great and friendly guidance
Fantastic experience: Very friendly and helpful staff. Gave us great suggestions for wineries. Cool gift store and very clean and warm bathrooms on this chilly morning. If you have a chance to stop in do it. Well worth the chat.
Fantastic experience: Very welcoming welcome center.
Fantastic experience: This place is beautiful specially when the weather is perfect
Fantastic experience: They are very friendly, informative and helpful
Fantastic experience: Good welcome and good information
Positive experience: Was helpful, once we laid expectations
Positive experience: Good people with great info here. Not so great to buy stuff but nice enough info centre.
Fantastic experience: Volunteer Staffs are very eager to help. Gave me good directions to the locations I needed to visit
Fantastic experience: Don was awesome. He provided us with so much info and tips of the wineries around the Napa area. I wish the souvenirs had a better selection though.
Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful staff.
Fantastic experience: Nice
Positive experience: Very informative, a must
Fantastic experience: A great little shop
Fantastic experience: Nice!
Fantastic experience: Awwww Napa valley. Simply amazing.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful. If you're new to the area you should stop in. They'll give suggestions and explain the layout of Napa so you can make the most of your experience.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful staff, lots of info, and even a few discounts on winery tours!
Fantastic experience: Very nice and helpful!! Always ask the older employees.
Fantastic experience: One of the good place to visit in Napa Reasons 1) information about various wine yards 2) Riverfront with walking Ramp 3) Gondola ride on the River 4) Kayaking Options 5) Napa Valley Downtown with lots of Restaurants Most of the shops (Except food & coffee) closes between 5:00 to 6:00 PM so plan accordingly
Fantastic experience: Beautiful.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful Napa!
Positive experience: Napa Is worth a visit if you are in Bay Area
Fantastic experience: Great info from well informed people
Positive experience: Really useful information from knowledgeable staff. Thank you for your help and assistance.
Fantastic experience: A must stop to learn about the the valley Tom provided some great ideas of where to stop and provided great details on the types of wine each tasting provided.
Fantastic experience: We had a wonderful visit with Fred. He was so friendly and knowledgeable! His love for Napa really was evident. Great place to start your visit. We had an excellent visit and appreciated his expertise! All of his suggestions were a hit.
Positive experience: Beautiful, informative, and picked up a gift! Thank you.
Fantastic experience: Loved this place. So helpful!!
Positive experience: Pleasant and quiet
Fantastic experience: Very knowledgeable employees
Fantastic experience: Very gentle and kind present!
Positive experience: Helpful staff
Positive experience: The staff area very helpful. They can answer all your questions about the area. They will give you map to all the wineries, and coupon for two for one wine tasting.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful and extremely friendly. Thank you.
Fantastic experience: Very informative, especially about all of the wineries!
Fantastic experience: California is full of many interesting places and Napa must be visited, it is quiet and full of wonderful spots.
Fantastic experience: The Napa Valley Welcome Centre is a great place to start if you don't know where you want to go within Napa Valley. My friend and I stopped here first and we got a ton of great recommendations from our free consultation with a staff member. Very helpful and informative!
Fantastic experience: Visited for some wine tasting recommendations and was so impressed with the service provided. The woman who helped us was so knowledgeable, so helpful, and was so kind to us. She provided us with a great breakfast recommendation (the Napa General Store) and several great winery recommendations. You could tell she genuinely cared about providing us with detailed information and was sure to review everything on the map with us. She also provided us with a few 2 for 1 wine tasting vouchers to a couple of specific wineries she thought we would like!
Positive experience: The place we very warming and quite informative. They give pretty good suggestions. You can also get some cool souvenirs here from Napa valley. The items are pricey and the people are warm, receptive and quite helpful.
Fantastic experience: Lots of interesting things to buy, helpful staff
Positive experience: Very quiet city at this time of year.
Fantastic experience: I was greeted at door and helped by a friendly fellow. They have a lot of area info in a well organized, clean facility.
Fantastic experience: When I went there, there were two grandparents who provided information necessary for the trip and guided us to wineries that fit our itinerary. It was nice that there was also a souvenir shop in one corner.
Fantastic experience: If you like art, old style buildings, and peaceful vibes I highly recommend this place. It’s a wonderful place to spend a few hours to chill and relax. Napa Valley has a lot of lovely resorts, vineyards, gardens, and wineries that can serve as a background for your special occasion.
Fantastic experience: Started here, received some BOGO Free wine tasting coupons. Excellent choices!
Fantastic experience: Lots of information and very friendly service
Fantastic experience: Nice place to visit!
Positive experience: Very helpful. Maps of wineries keyed for appointment only vs walkin. Also map of restaurants on the other side.
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