Our own Uber Napa FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE

First of all, there is no UBER WINE feature enabled in Napa Valley.  However, recently again in 2020, our own team at Winery Finder App had an opportunity to test UBER in Napa Valley.  We used UBER from Domaine Carneros Winery to get to Downtown Napa.  After concluding our Sparkling wine tasting at Domaine Carneros at 12 noon, we decided to have lunch at Morimoto Napa in Downtown Napa on the riverfront.  Instead of driving, some of us decided to test Uber, we tapped the app and were pleasantly surprised to see quite a few drivers around our area.  We requested one and within 8 minutes an UBER driver showed up.  The car was nice & clean, the driver was super friendly and knew his way around.  He dropped us off at our destination.  The entire UBER Napa cost from Domaine Carneros Winery to Morimoto Napa cost us $14.81.  You can also UBER between wineries in Napa Valley, UBER cost to go between wineries will come out to $10 – $30 depending on how close wineries are to each other. Most wineries are very close to each other on Hwy 29 and Silverado Trail.  To calculate your Napa Uber cost, here is Uber’s official cost estimator and Lyft’s official cost estimator.  Please note, in Califormia as of January 2020, UBER will stop showing exact cost prior to ride.  This means, UBER App now only shows approximate cost in Califormia, for example, they show something like, “Your ride will be approximately $25 – $35”. 

In our other visits we also tested UBER to visit various other wineries and also took UBER from Napa Valley back to our office in San Francisco, we will write more about this later.  We will also write about taking UBER from San Francisco to Napa Valley.  Our conclusion is that overall UBER is very dependable and an awesome way to visit wineries in Napa Valley.

–  solomentehawaii, a user on TripAdvisor’s Napa Valley Forum answers  how is Uber in Napa Valley?

Hello!

I was a little leery about using it in Napa, given the TripAdvisor forum posts, so I wanted to share my experience: it works quite well. We used Uber each day of our trip. We stayed in Yountville. Each morning I would be the DD for one to two wineries for my husband to taste, then we’d have lunch, park the car at the hotel, and I’d join in the tasting. I only have the tolerance to visit 2 wineries. This is one reason Uber was better than having a driver for some minimum of hours, during which I would drink too much.

Limitations of Uber were that I tended to want to stay closer to the hotel, probably for cost, so unlike when we have had a driver, we didn’t venture far up the valley or into the hills. Secondly, you have to know where you want to go next. We did sometimes sit outside a winery calling the next winery to see if we could come by, but if we had been better organized, we might have really planned it out. Wait times fluctuate for uber, and I’d recommend getting to appointments early. Our wait times varied from 3-11 minutes typically, with one time being almost 20 minutes.

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On previous trips we have hired a driver and even once did a tour. A driver is less hassle if you want to travel all over, see several wineries, and don’t want to have to deal with the planning.

We use Uber at home ALL the time so there was no learning curve. 60% of our drivers were knowledgeable locals and 40% were from neighboring towns who came in to work for the day. We got dropped by one driver at peak time, I think because he didn’t want to come all the way out to Rutherford, when he was in Napa. We called a second driver, no problem.. Follow this perticular entire discussion on on TripAdvisor Forum for Napa Valley

Here is another updated post on TripAdvisor about Uber Napa Valley –
User named LBishop06 

We just returned from Napa and Sonoma and had no problems with Uber. Cell service is spotty in some places on the road but we never had an issue getting service at any of the wineries. The longest he had to wait was 15 minutes, but the average wait was 3-6 minutes. We were also there on a Monday and Tuesday so wait times may be shorter on the weekends if there are more drivers.  Follow this perticular entire discussion on on TripAdvisor Forum for Napa Valley

Here is the most updated post on TripAdvisor about Uber Napa Valley to visit wineries –
User named Kmj1980

So I’m sat in Napa (having visited wineries so sorry for typo’s!). We arrived around midday and only have one night so we walked to oxbow market for lunch (totally recommend), then an uber to Robert Mondavi, then to Mumm and on to hotel (embassy suites). In total around $60-65 including being snared in traffic on the way back.

If we were here for the whole day maybe hire a driver but today no problem in time to call,the drivers/service and cost a whole.. Follow this perticular entire discussion on on TripAdvisor Forum for Napa Valley

NomadicMatt also wrote about how to visit Napa Valley on a Budget with Uber

Here is a more recent article about Uber/Lyft in Napa Valley

Here is also an article on Quora about Uber in Napa Valley in 2016

Reddit also has a great article on how reliable is Uber in Napa Valley

Thinking about hiring Uber in Napa? Here is a link we found for an Uber driver in Napa Valley

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