HotelChatter - American Canyon

The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel is Green But Not Luxe

juliana — 2009-07-08T18:25:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/gaia_freeway.jpg" class="top">Every so often we feature a hotel review from one of our readers that we feel should be shared with the rest of you dear hotel guests. These reviews are highlighted because they are timely, about cool hotels in cool places and are relatively level-headed. Think you can submit one just like this? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send it in</a>. The other day, a couple very near and dear to us took our recommendation and spent the night at the new-ish, LEED-certified <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gaia+Napa+Valley/local/504">Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa</a> in American Canyon, Calif. While a romantic inn in Yountville was a more desired lodging option, the price was right for our friends at this hotel--$92 a night on Expedia.So how

Gaia Hotel Owner Says Missing Bibles Was an 'Oversight'

juliana — 2007-05-09T14:34:37-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gaia_napa_valley.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gaia+Napa+Valley/local/504">The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel</a> made waves <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/3/92726/79917/hotels/Al_Gore_s_Inconvenient_Truth_Replaces_Bibles_in_Green_Hotel">last week</a> for putting copies of Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth in its guestrooms and removing the bible from the nightstands. However, the owner Wen-I Chang has said that the hotel's "replacement" of the bible has been overexaggerated.<blockquote>Chang, 62, said in a telephone interview that Gaia had not "replaced" the Bible with Gore's book, as has been claimed by some media outlets. Instead, he said, the hotel staff overlooked providing Bibles in their haste to prepare for the official grand opening March 30 and did not intentionally leave them out of the rooms. "I apologize to Christians" who may have been offended, Chang said. "We made an oversight."

Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Replaces Bibles in Green Hotel

juliana — 2007-05-03T09:31:38-05:00

We just learned that one of the hotels on our Green Hotels list is even greener than we thought. The Gaia Napa Valley in California has replaced the Gideon bibles in the nightstand with a copy of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" (the book), which is placed on the bureau for guests to see right away. Expect other green hotels to do the same, except of course, Marriott.

Related Stories:
· California Hotels Go Green With Low-Flow Toilets, Solar Lights [Bloomberg News]
· Best Green Hotels in the U.S. [HotelChatter]
· Finding your religion in the nightstand [HotelChatter]

Green Hotels Are the New Boutique Hotels

juliana — 2006-12-15T15:40:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gaia_napa_valley.jpg" class="imgborder">Another Northern California area has gotten its very own Eco-Hotel. <a href="http://www.gaiahotelnapavalley.com/">The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel</a> in American Canyon broke ground in 2001, just one block away from Napa, with the developer/owner Wen-I Chang's motto being: "Our mission is to change the world one traveler at a time."The hotel recently opened to guests and has a plethora of environmentally-friendly products, but the biggest, or the greenest thing about this hotel, is its green construction. Essentially, using more recycled materials and less energy to build the actual structure. The hotel "fuses natural light and recycled materials into a sustainable and environmentally sound motif" and inside everything is green (not the color) from recycled carpets to low-emissions paints. Even