The Meritage Resort and Spa

The Meritage Resort and Spa lies four miles from downtown Napa, California, evoking Old World Tuscany at the gateway to Napa Valley wine country. Groups settle into a choice of 158 luxurious rooms and suites, then enjoy the largest, most flexible modern meeting space in the region. The venues range from a 10,500-square-foot ballroom to intimate boardrooms, a wine cave, vineyard terrace, patio, and pool deck adjoining fire pits and bocce courts.

Catered events draw on the Tuscan-inspired talents of the chef at Siena, the resort's wine-country restaurant with lively exhibition kitchen. For some, free time begins with daily wine-tasting classes in the Estate Wine Cave. Others head straight for the spa, an exotic pleasure palace housed in a subterranean cave equipped with steam grottos, soaking pools, water walls, and ten private treatment rooms. There are no reviews posted at this time. There are no packages available at this time.

Start	End	Rooms	Rate
2/01/12	2/29/12	50-150	From $149

Posted 04 Oct, 2011 by Sheri Thomas Napa Valley’s Premier Conference and Group Destination Offers Guests a Complete Experience FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Andrew Bradley, AugustineIdeas
(916) 960-2897
abradley@augustineideas.com

NAPA, Calif. (May 2011) – The Meritage Resort and Spa was built to provide guests with the complete Napa experience. The resort features North America’s first underground, full-service spa; a vineyard and underground tasting room; meeting and event space that is unrivaled in the area; a Tuscan inspired restaurant and soon it will have even more to offer.

The Resort
With a welcoming lobby, a knowledgeable resort staff and professional concierge team, The Meritage Resort is a favorite lodging choice for casual visitors as well as corporate retreats, incentive trips and large meetings and conferences. Each of the 323 guest rooms are designed to be a home-away-from-home with luxurious bedding, large bathrooms with upscale amenities and Wi-Fi and wired internet, DVD Player and MP3 Player ports for personalized music. Guests are welcomed with a bottle of Trinitas Cellars wine and daily bottled waters. Eight suites offer luxurious seating areas and can be connected to up to four additional guestrooms, perfect for entertaining small groups during a stay.

For more information about the resort, amenities and rooms available please visit http://www.themeritageresort.com/ or call (707) 251-1900.

Conferences and Events
The Meritage Resort and Spa offers the largest ballroom north of San Francisco and West of Sacramento, and after a 131,000 square foot resort expansion it will include more than 50,000 square feet of indoor and covered outdoor meeting space. The spectacular Grand Salon offers 10,500 square feet, which can be easily configured for large conferences or for up to ten individual meeting rooms. The ballroom also features a unique pre-reception foyer with French doors that open to a terrace on both sides of the ballroom. The foyers, with floor-to-ceiling arched windows, add more usable space to the ballroom and create a light and airy ambiance. The Vineyard Terrace offers more than 3,250 square feet of covered, outdoor event space including the Terrace Bar. Once the expansion is complete in spring 2012, the Carneros Ballroom will provide an additional 7,300 square feet of flexible indoor event space plus 2,500 square foot pre-function space opening onto the Oakville Terrace, a covered 4,000 square foot space for receptions, lunches and dinners. The outdoor Event Piazza will have a croquet lawn, space for events, weddings and more.

Our one-of-a-kind Estate Wine Cave provides meeting planners and groups nearly 3,500 square feet of elegant event space underground. This space is perfect for groups of up to 200 and can be used for everything from weddings to receptions and trade shows.

For complete details on event space and Our Lady of Grapes Chapel please visit http://www.themeritageresort.com/meetings-and-groups.php or call (707) 251-1900.

Additional Amenities: Spa, Restaurant, Tasting Room, Ultra-Lounge and Bowling Lanes
The Meritage Resort and Spa offers many services that are not available at any other resort in North America.
Spa Terra is North America’s first, full-service spa in an underground cave. Its hushed serenity provides guests with the perfect, relaxing atmosphere to enjoy a massage, facial or almost any other spa service. For more information about Spa Terra please visit http://www.spaterra.com/ or call (707) 251-3000.

Siena is The Meritage Resort and Spa’s signature restaurant. It features a menu gathered from California’s finest ingredients inspired by Tuscany. Every dish is prepared fresh from local organic farms with farm-raised beef, artisan cheeses and more. To reserve a table and review current menus please visit http://www.themeritageresort.com/siena-restaurant.php.

The Trinitas Tasting Room is the embodiment of all things Napa. This underground tasting room is directly underneath acres of vineyards and the famous Grape Crusher Statue. Tasting room visitors are immersed in the natural stone and dark woods of the Estate Wine Cave and can enjoy tasting with samplings of artisan cheeses or purchase a bottle to enjoy with dinner in Siena (no corkage fees for wines purchased in the Trinitas Tasting Room). The tasting room also offers a variety of wine country gifts and cheeses for a picnic in the resort’s vineyards or under a stunning gazebo. For more information about Trinitas and current hours please visit http://www.trinitascellars.com/ or call (707) 251-3012.

Once the resort expansion is complete in Spring 2012, Crush Ultra Lounge will offer guests six luxury bowling lanes in an setting with a full-service bar. In addition to Crush Ultra Lounge, The Meritage Resort will also feature Spa Terra’s nail salon and boutique, and a café. The expanded fitness studio will feature floor to ceiling windows that look out onto private vineyards and the Grape Crusher Statue. For additional information about the expansion and to see a virtual tour visit http://themeritageresort.com/travel-professionals.php.

Conveniently located at the crossroads of Highway 29 and Highway 221 in Napa, The Meritage Resort is just an hour away from San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento International Airports and is less than 10 minutes away from the Napa County Airport. The resort offers a nightly shuttle to and from Downtown Napa and a variety of other special events.

The Meritage Resort and Spa provides its guests with Four-Diamond luxury accommodations and encompasses every aspect of what has made California’s Napa Valley famous around the world. It is the perfect destination resort for leisure travelers, meeting and event planners or those looking to plan a romantic wine country wedding. The Meritage Resort and Spa, We Are Napa.

The Meritage Resort
The Meritage Resort and Spa is an extraordinary Napa Valley luxury resort set within a private vineyard. The idyllic Napa Valley luxury hotel and resort is set against rolling hills of vineyards. A destination unto itself, it features Tuscan-inspired guestrooms and luxury suites, seasonal farm-to-table cuisine in Siena restaurant and wine tasting in the Estate Cave featuring Trinitas Cellars. Regain a healthful balance with curative treatments at Spa Terra – a lavish underground Napa luxury spa with steam grottos, soaking pools, treatment alcoves and tranquil walls of water. The resort boasts the most comprehensive event and meeting space in wine country. Far more than a place for expert relaxation, our unique property is an old world escape from the ordinary. Experience The Meritage Resort and Spa – an extraordinary Napa luxury resort perfect blending gracious hospitality, unrivaled amenities, and peerless personal care. We are Napa. www.themeritageresort.com. Posted 04 Oct, 2011 by Sheri Thomas Unused Soap and Amenities Help Save Lives Around the World FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Andrew Bradley, AugustineIdeas
(916) 960-2897
abradley@augustineideas.com

NAPA, Calif. (July 20, 2011) – The Meritage Resort and Spa has teamed up with the Clean the World campaign to help save the lives of children around the world. Every day in the United States alone, one to 1.5 million bars of soap are thrown away along withother bathroom amenities like shampoo. These unused soaps and bathroom amenities can be sanitized and distributed to millions around the world to help stop the spread of and deaths from diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infections.

Every year 3.5 million children under the age of five die because of two deadly diseases: acute respiratory injection (pneumonia) and diarrheal disease (cholera). The most tragic part of this statistic is that up to 65 percent of these deaths could be prevented through simple hand washing with a bar of soap. Clean the World has teamed up with more than 260 hospitality partners across the nation to recycle their unused soap and bathroom amenities. Once collected and sanitized they distribute them to those in need in more than 50 countries worldwide, including some of the poorest regions in Africa, the Caribbean and Central America.

The Meritage Resort and Spa’s partnership with Clean the World will initially support 131 children with enough soap and 65 children with enough bottled amenities for an entire year. When the resort’s 165 room expansion is complete in Spring 2012 those numbers are expected to more than double. Soap will be provided to an estimated 266 children and 132 will receive bottled amenities each year. Not only will this effort help children around the world, but it will also help to remove approximately two tons of waste from our landfills each year.

“This program doesn’t just protect the environment, it saves lives,” said Sheri Thomas/Michael Palmer, director of sales and marketing/general manager for The Meritage Resort and Spa. “We are proud to be able to partner with Clean the World to help prevent needless illness and death around the world.”

This is part of The Meritage Resort and Spa’s continued effort to be a more environmentally-friendly resort. In addition to recycling soap and bathroom amenities, the resort utilizes compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the property and places recycle bins next to every trash can on the premises – including guest rooms. It has also replaced all paper products with recycled paper, including facial tissue, toilet paper and paper towels. Meeting planners also have the option to use recycled paper for handouts and can utilize biodegradable silverware and greenware plastic cups and plates rather than traditional plasticware.

To learn more about the Clean the World program go to: http://www.cleantheworld.org/

To learn more about The Meritage Resort and Spa go to: http://www.themeritageresort.com/

The Meritage Resort
The Meritage Resort and Spa is an extraordinary Napa Valley luxury resort set within a private vineyard. The idyllic Napa Valley luxury hotel and resort is set against rolling hills of vineyards. A destination unto itself, it features Tuscan-inspired guestrooms and luxury suites, seasonal farm-to-table cuisine in Siena restaurant and wine tasting in the Estate Cave featuring Trinitas Cellars. Regain a healthful balance with curative treatments at Spa Terra – a lavish underground Napa luxury spa with steam grottos, soaking pools, treatment alcoves and tranquil walls of water. The resort boasts the most comprehensive event and meeting space in wine country. Far more than a place for expert relaxation, our unique property is an old world escape from the ordinary. Experience The Meritage Resort and Spa – an extraordinary Napa luxury resort perfect blending gracious hospitality, unrivaled amenities, and peerless personal care. We are Napa. www.themeritageresort.com.

About Clean the World Global LLC
Clean the World Global LLC is a social enterprise committed to saving lives and protecting our planet. It offers sustainable, socially responsible, and charitable programs and services to the international hospitality community. Clean the World Foundation Inc. is the 501 (c) (3) charitable arm of Clean the World. Clean the World Foundation Inc. executes its mission of saving millions of lives around the globe by leading a global hygiene revolution to distribute recycled soap and hygiene products to children and families suffering from high death rates due to the top two killers of children worldwide – acute respiratory infection (pneumonia) and diarrheal diseases (cholera). For more information visit: www.cleantheworld.org. Text CLEAN to 20222 to donate $10 to help Clean the World. Posted 04 Oct, 2011 by Sheri Thomas As Expansion Nears Completion, Resort Looks to Increase Bookings NAPA, Calif. (August 10, 2011) – As The Meritage Resort and Spa prepares to add an additional 12,500 square feet of meeting space and 165 guestrooms in spring 2012, it has joined Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI). The AAA Four-Diamond hotel will now receive dedicated National Sales services and support from ALHI and its professional sales force throughout North America to the meetings and incentive/recognition marketplace.

When The Meritage Resort and Spa’s expansion opens early next year, it will have more than 50,000 square feet of indoor and covered outdoor meeting space and 320 luxurious guestrooms. Its partnership with ALHI will help the resort to continue to bring conferences and events to Napa. ALHI is a prestigious dues-based membership National Sales organization that represents more than 130 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide. It assists meeting professionals, association executives, incentive/recognition specialists and business executives interested in conducting their face-to-face programs at upper-upper-tier and luxury level member properties.

As ALHI’s only Napa property, The Meritage Resort and Spa can offer guests and meeting planners many unique opportunities:

Conferences and Events can be held in the largest ballroom north of San Francisco and west of Sacramento. The spectacular Grand Salon offers 10,500 square feet, which can be easily configured for large conferences or for up to ten individual meeting rooms. The ballroom also features a unique pre-reception foyer with French doors that open to a terrace on both sides of the ballroom. The foyers, with floor-to-ceiling arched windows, add more usable space to the ballroom and create a light and airy ambiance. The Vineyard Terrace offers more than 3,250 square feet of covered outdoor event space including the Terrace Bar. Once the expansion is complete in spring 2012, the Carneros Ballroom will provide an additional 7,300 square feet of flexible indoor event space plus 2,500 square foot pre-function space opening onto the Oakville Terrace, a covered 4,000 square foot space for receptions, lunches and dinners. The outdoor Event Piazza will have a croquet lawn, space for events, weddings and more.

The one-of-a-kind Estate Wine Cave provides meeting planners and groups nearly 3,500 square feet of elegant event space underground. This space is perfect for winemaker dinners of up to 170 or receptions and weddings of up to 240.

Spa Terra is North America’s first full-service spa in an underground cave. Its hushed serenity provides guests with the perfect relaxing atmosphere to enjoy a massage, facial and many other spa services. The spa’s elegant relaxation lounge and twelve treatment rooms, including four signature couples rooms, are all cocooned in the heart of the earth. Many of the treatments integrate Napa Valley influences with essential ingredients indigenous to Northern California, including grape seeds and oils. Both ladies’ and gentlemen’s private lounges feature whirlpools, steam grottos and soothing water walls.

Siena is The Meritage Resort and Spa’s signature restaurant. It features a menu gathered from California’s finest ingredients inspired by Tuscany. Every dish is prepared fresh from local organic farms with farm-raised beef, artisan cheeses and more.

The Trinitas Tasting Room is the embodiment of all things Napa. This underground tasting room is directly underneath acres of vineyards and the famous Grape Crusher Statue. Tasting room visitors are immersed in the natural stone and dark woods of the Estate Wine Cave and can enjoy tasting with samplings of artisan cheeses or purchase a bottle to enjoy with dinner at Siena (no corkage fees for wines purchased in the Trinitas Tasting Room). The tasting room also offers a variety of wine country gifts and cheeses for a picnic in the resort’s vineyards or under a stunning gazebo.

Once the resort expansion is complete in Spring 2012, The Crush Ultra Lounge will offer guests six luxury bowling lanes in an setting with a full-service bar. In addition to Crush Ultra Lounge, The Meritage Resort will also feature Spa Terra’s nail salon and boutique, and a café. The expanded fitness studio will feature floor to ceiling windows that look out onto private vineyards and the Grape Crusher Statue.

Conveniently located at the crossroads of Highway 29 and Highway 221 in Napa, The Meritage Resort is just an hour away from San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento International Airports and is less than 10 minutes away from the Napa County Airport. The resort offers a nightly shuttle to and from Downtown Napa and a variety of other special events.

The Meritage Resort and Spa provides its guests with Four-Diamond luxury accommodations and encompasses every aspect of what has made California’s Napa Valley famous around the world. It is the perfect destination for meetings and events, while casual enough to welcome leisure travelers. The Meritage Resort and Spa, We Are Napa.

The Meritage Resort
The Meritage Resort and Spa is an extraordinary Napa Valley luxury resort set within a private vineyard. The idyllic Napa Valley luxury hotel and resort is set against rolling hills of vineyards. A destination unto itself, it features Tuscan-inspired guestrooms and luxury suites, seasonal farm-to-table cuisine in Siena restaurant and wine tasting in the Estate Cave featuring Trinitas Cellars. Regain a healthful balance with curative treatments at Spa Terra – a lavish underground Napa luxury spa with steam grottos, soaking pools, treatment alcoves and tranquil walls of water. The resort boasts the most comprehensive event and meeting space in wine country. Far more than a place for expert relaxation, our unique property is an old world escape from the ordinary. Experience The Meritage Resort and Spa – an extraordinary Napa luxury resort perfectly blending gracious hospitality, unrivaled amenities and peerless personal care. We are Napa. Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Meritage.Resort. Follow us on Twitter: @MeritageResort. www.themeritageresort.com.

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI)
With a worldwide portfolio of over 100,000 rooms and suites and more than 10 million square feet of meeting space, ALHI provides planners and their organizations experienced National Sales services with diverse options among its outstanding worldwide member hotels and resorts which specialize in meetings and incentive programs. There is no cost to planners’ or executives’ organizations to utilize the National Sales services of ALHI, as its members’ dues fund the organization to serve planners. For more information about ALHI, or to inquire about a future meeting at any of the ALHI member properties, contact your nearest ALHI National Sales Office, call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at (866) 303-ALHI (2544), and visit www.alhi.com. Posted 27 Jul, 2011 by Shameka Alford Unused Soap and Amenities Help Save Lives Around the World NAPA, CA - July 26, 2011 - In conjunction with Preferred Hotels Group, The Meritage Resort and Spa has teamed up with the Clean the World campaign to help save the lives of children around the world. Every day in the United States alone, one to 1.5 million bars of soap are thrown away along with other bathroom amenities like shampoo. These unused soaps and bathroom amenities can be sanitized and distributed to millions around the world to help stop the spread of and deaths from diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infections.

Every year 3.5 million children under the age of five die because of two deadly diseases: acute respiratory injection (pneumonia) and diarrheal disease (cholera). The most tragic part of this statistic is that up to 65 percent of these deaths could be prevented through simple hand washing with a bar of soap. Clean the World has teamed up with more than 260 hospitality partners across the nation to recycle their unused soap and bathroom amenities. Once collected and sanitized they distribute them to those in need in more than 50 countries worldwide, including some of the poorest regions in Africa, the Caribbean and Central America.

The Meritage Resort and Spa’s partnership with Clean the World will initially support 131 children with enough soap and 65 children with enough bottled amenities for an entire year. When the resort’s 165 room expansion is complete in Spring 2012 those numbers are expected to more than double. Soap will be provided to an estimated 266 children and 132 will receive bottled amenities each year. Not only will this effort help children around the world, but it will also help to remove approximately two tons of waste from our landfills each year.

“This program doesn’t just protect the environment, it saves lives,” said Sheri Thomas, director of sales and marketing for The Meritage Resort and Spa. “We are proud to be able to partner with Clean the World to help prevent needless illness and death around the world.”

This is part of The Meritage Resort and Spa’s continued effort to be a more environmentally-friendly resort. In addition to recycling soap and bathroom amenities, the resort utilizes compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the property and places recycle bins next to every trash can on the premises – including guest rooms. It has also replaced all paper products with recycled paper products where possible, including facial tissue, toilet paper and paper towels. The resort also uses reusable tote bags and compostable to-go containers, biodegradable silverware and greenware plastic cups and plates rather than traditional plasticware.

To learn more about the Clean the World program go to:
http://www.cleantheworld.org/

To learn more about The Meritage Resort and Spa go to:
http://www.themeritageresort.com/

The Meritage Resort
The Meritage Resort and Spa is an extraordinary Napa Valley luxury resort set within a private vineyard. The idyllic Napa Valley luxury hotel and resort is set against rolling hills of vineyards. A destination unto itself, it features Tuscan-inspired guestrooms and luxury suites, seasonal farm-to-table cuisine in Siena restaurant and wine tasting in the Estate Cave featuring Trinitas Cellars. Regain a healthful balance with curative treatments at Spa Terra – a lavish underground Napa luxury spa with steam grottos, soaking pools, treatment alcoves and tranquil walls of water. The resort boasts the most comprehensive event and meeting space in wine country. Far more than a place for expert relaxation, our unique property is an old world escape from the ordinary. Experience The Meritage Resort and Spa – an extraordinary Napa luxury resort perfect blending gracious hospitality, unrivaled amenities, and peerless personal care. We are Napa. www.themeritageresort.com.

About Clean the World Global LLC Clean the World Global LLC is a social enterprise committed to saving lives and protecting our planet. It offers sustainable, socially responsible, and charitable programs and services to the international hospitality community. Clean the World Foundation Inc. is the 501 (c) (3) charitable arm of Clean the World. Clean the World Foundation Inc. executes its mission of saving millions of lives around the globe by leading a global hygiene revolution to distribute recycled soap and hygiene products to children and families suffering from high death rates due to the top two killers of children worldwide – acute respiratory infection (pneumonia) and diarrheal diseases (cholera). For more information visit: www.cleantheworld.org. Text CLEAN to 20222 to donate $10 to help Clean the World. Posted 27 Jul, 2011 by Shameka Alford Self-taught Chef Brings New Flavor to Siena NAPA, CA - July 26, 2011 - The Meritage Resort and Spa has hired Michael Collins as its new executive chef. Chef Mike, as he prefers to be called, began at the end of May and is in charge of all hotel food operations, including the signature Siena restaurant and banquets. As The Meritage Resort and Spa’s expansion readies for its Spring 2012 grand opening he will also develop menus and themes for its new Crush Ultra-Lounge and Café. He is currently working to add some new flavors to the Tuscan-inspired Siena restaurant, making it a place where both area residents and resort guests can feel welcome.

Chef Mike grew up in Sacramento, California, and learned to cook by watching his Sicilian mother and grandmother dish up spectacular Christmas Eve dinners and nightly meals that were just as tasty. When he was 12 his mother took a traveling sales job. With a father whose idea of cooking was making a sandwich, Chef Mike was determined to make meals just like his mother and grandmother had. By age 16 he was helping at local restaurants, and at age 18 he became a professional chef and completed a culinary apprenticeship at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia. In his nearly 25-year career he has taken various chef positions at four and five star resorts in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Arizona, Louisiana, Maui, Utah and throughout California.

Just a few days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Chef Mike began consulting with and later accepted the challenge of being the Executive Chef at the historic Windsor Court Hotel. He was tasked with reopening all culinary operations at the world class hotel, while revamping the menu at its fabled restaurant, The New Orleans Grill. While Chef Mike ensured that every guest had the perfect meal, he will never forget meeting with then President Bush on several occasions and preparing many meals for him and his staff during their visits to the city.

Now back in California, Chef Mike is getting reacquainted with the tastes of the Napa Valley and is working on updating the Siena menu, keeping many of the dishes that residents and guests love while bringing his own unique creations to diners’ plates. He envisions the menu as one that blends Italian and Californian influences, combined with light cooking methods to produce rustic dishes that are full of bold yet simple flavors. Chef Mike is working to train his sous chefs to cook by taste, rather than recipe, a skill they will continue to need as the restaurant strives to purchase as many local ingredients as possible, including eggs, fresh produce, meats and seafood.

“My goal with Siena is to make it friendly to both travelers and Napa residents,” said Chef Mike. “My vision is to create dishes and an atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable coming in, relaxing and eating fabulous food that is also friendly to their pocketbooks.”

Chef Mike now lives in Napa, with his wife and eight-month-old daughter. He is an avid golfer and fisherman. When not in his chef’s jacket, you may be able to find him on the greens of nearby Chardonnay Golf Club, Eagle Vines Golf Club and Silverado’s two golf courses.

To learn more about Siena and review current menus go to:
http://www.themeritageresort.com/siena-restaurant.php

To learn more about The Meritage Resort and Spa go to:
http://www.themeritageresort.com/index.php

The Meritage Resort
The Meritage Resort and Spa is an extraordinary Napa Valley luxury resort set within a private vineyard. The idyllic Napa Valley luxury hotel and resort is set against rolling hills of vineyards. A destination unto itself, it features Tuscan-inspired guestrooms and luxury suites, seasonal farm-to-table cuisine in Siena restaurant and wine tasting in the Estate Cave featuring Trinitas Cellars. Regain a healthful balance with curative treatments at Spa Terra – a lavish underground Napa luxury spa with steam grottos, soaking pools, treatment alcoves and tranquil walls of water. The resort boasts the most comprehensive event and meeting space in wine country. Far more than a place for expert relaxation, our unique property is an old world escape from the ordinary. Experience The Meritage Resort and Spa – an extraordinary Napa luxury resort perfect blending gracious hospitality, unrivaled amenities, and peerless personal care. We are Napa. www.themeritageresort.com.