Wine Country adds new ultra-luxury resort in the midst of a pandemic shutdown

 

Matt Villano • Updated 26th December 2020
The views from the adult pool at the Montage Healdsburg are spectacular.
Healdsburg, California (CNN) — The newest ultra-luxury resort in California Wine Country has a yoga lawn in the middle of a vineyard, a guest-friendly apiary program, a massage with locally sourced olive oil and a special glass-enclosed dining room that is cantilevered into the middle of a 100-year-old oak tree.
Still, perhaps the most notable attribute of the new Montage Healdsburg in Sonoma County is that the 130-room resort with rates starting at $695 per night opened in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Technically, the 258-acre resort in this tiny-but-vibrant town opened earlier this month (Dec. 12). Because that date also was the start of the county's latest shelter-in-place edict, occupancy is way below what management expected, and the hotel is significantly limited to "essential" travelers only by order of the county public health officer.
When the order expires, guests will enjoy one of the most highfalutin resorts in a hotspot full of them.
Montage Healdsburg is rumored to have cost more than $300 million, and it represents the only luxury resort on the west side of the mountains that separate Napa and Sonoma. All the others -- including Meadowood, which suffered damage during a recent wildfire -- are to the east, on the Napa side.
 
for more... californiawine.com
Location: California, USA

Comments

  1. theresoMay 21, 2021 at 1:54 AM

    California never disappointin me

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  2. amanda shoziMay 21, 2021 at 1:56 AM

    oh lord this is so humbling

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  3. mandisaMay 21, 2021 at 1:57 AM

    i love this place

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  4. Ashely775May 21, 2021 at 1:58 AM

    wow amazing, please share their booking link, i might take my family there next year

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  5. sindiswa mchunuMay 21, 2021 at 1:59 AM

    amazing and beautiful, wow i just love it

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