Downtown Napa not so good. Go up the Valley.

by Allan
(Washington)

Well, our trip to Napa didn't go as well as we had hoped. We spent three days staying in downtown Napa and found about half of the retail spaces boarded up. They're struggling. As a parting gift, the City of Napa sent us a several hundred dollar traffic ticket about TWO MONTHS LATER! They have cameras at every intersection and a company in Arizona contracted to have people watching hours of film and writing tickets!

I called City of Napa saying that it wasn't good to treat tourists that way and the lady asked me "Why do you think you shouldn't pay like anyone who visits Napa?" Nuf said....

I'm staying on Hwy 29 and out of downtown. It's very nice in Yountville and St. Helena with lots of shops and no police cameras!