Napa Valley Expo RV Park

We stayed at the Napa Valley Expo RV through the Christmas Holidays not knowing what to expect. I am very picky and critical of many RV experiences we have had in the 3 years we have been RVers and I found myself loving this place. If you want to go to a resort style resort this is not for you but if you want to explore wine country, San Francisco and all the wonderful Bay Area sites, this place to me is perfect. The host here Bob and Kenny are so helpful and nice and take great care of the property. Rosemary who takes reservations was excellent as well. To me this is what I expected when we set out and bought our motor coach after retirement. I want to travel to amazing places with our dogs where I feel safe and the park is clean. I do not need pot lucks, bingo, pool and spa. Bob checked us in and helped us park in the pouring rain and was so nice and helpful. We had trouble with our RV electrical and Kenny was so helpful with recommending service. We needed to extend our stay and Rosemary did her best to make that happen.
I love being able to walk the short walk to downtown Napa and it restaurants and shops. It is also at the beginning of the amazing Silverado Trail. If you have a car you take the beautiful ride through wine country and pick and choose your wineries. I could go on and on. I read that some did not like the entrance and thought it was hard to find. We had no problem with directions.
I realize that we are not all oping for the same experience in RV travel but this is my kind of experience. 1) clean level concrete pads with picnic table and lots of grassy area. 2) lots of area to walk your dog (though no closed area or run) 3) perfect location, oxbow Market, downtown Napa. 4) great friendly staff. 5) clean and close to just about anything you could want.
Tomorrow (we are still at the park) I will do one of my all time favorite things. take the Ferry from Vallejo to San Francisco after a week of Napa restaurants, wine tasting, beautiful drives. I take that any day over resort style RV park. I will be looking forward to returning. So happy this park is here.

I really like this little, well-​kept, centrally located RV park. However, the camp host is a grumpy, rude jerk! I don’t understand how someone who treats campers so poorly got to be in the position of camp host in this RV park. Really?!? Wouldn’t it be nice if he were capable of a kind word like «welcome» or «enjoy your stay»??? We confirmed the day before our arrival for a specific site we had reserved 6 months earlier. But, he was so upset that we pulled into our assigned site, even though we didn’t hook-​up anything before I immediately came up (a 30 second walk) to the office within a minute of our arrival! He demanding that we pull out both the RV and tow car and then back again to the front so he could see our license numbers., I told him I had those numbers to give him, and he yelled at me about not following the «rules». I read the rules and they said nothing about where to park during check-​in. This same host was here a couple years ago and he got nasty with me back then about having 3 dogs with us (now we have 2 dogs but he still read off the dog rules to me in a threatening manner). As I followed him to the office with him scolding me about «rules», I started to call my hubby to bring the car up to the office window so Mr. Host could see the license plates, but then when my hubby answered the phone, the Host yelled at me «never mind!» Then, he wouldn’t write the Internet code on our park map, I asked him to write it and he threw a pen at me and said, Here, you write it!” There’s nothing pleasurable about dealing with this rude and angry old man when you check in, looking forward to your stay in Napa Valley :(((

Horrible, horrible customer service! Never will be back or recommend To anyone! we stayed here in April for my 35^th birthday where we had reservations at a special restaurant we had been wanting to try. The camp hosts, Sandy or Sarah & husband Don or Dan (forgot names) seemed nice but extremely nosy when we pulled in. My husband and I camp in our trailer all the time so we are not new to checking in and setting up. so we then changed and headed out for the night… so I thought. We then got an extremely rude phone call from Sandy the camp host telling me that she has been waiting for us for over an hour and she has waited long enough and we needed to get back immediately to move our truck and had parked on private property! I told her we had dinner reservations and couldn’t be back to move the truck unless we missed our dinner reservations. She blaintly stated that we would have to miss our reservations then because apparently I didn’t understand what immediate meant! And then hung up on me. My husband then called her back and stated we would be there after dinner to move it if that was ok? And made sure we were not blocking anyone and our truck wasn’t going to get towed. She then told him the same thing and how we intentionally didn’t park where her husband had directed us to park. When my husband told her that he pointed out the space to her husband before parking, she said he would never tell anyone to park there, so basically called us liars and hungodly up on hI’m too. So we made a u-​turn and missed our dinner reservations to go back and move our truck. In the traffic back to the RV park I called the main desk and spoke to Rose who was apologetic and said they were new hosts and she would talk to them. I expected a free night or some kind of accommodation but nope.
In addition to the camp host unprofessional attitudes, the rv park is in the middle of downtown and extremely noisy next to a busy road. Only good thing about this park is it is close to the tourist areas and is walking distance. Traffic to get there is horrible. Not a fan of Napa Valley at all. So choose Sonoma if you want a more relaxing trip.

We stayed here for 4 nights as a rest stop during our trip and found this park to be very accessible to the wineries. All sites are paved and can accommodate large RV’s. Full hook ups, WiFi worked great and the hosts were very accommodating. There are laundry facilities and bathrooms which were very clean. If we were to stay here again I would not get a site in the very back because you have the Silverado Trail road behind you and the traffic starts right up in the am, so if you are a light sleeper this would bother you.

We stayed at the Napa Expo RV Park from Feb 19 – 22, 2015. I was met by Camp Host Don. While it went smoothly, Don was always acting grumpy and made us feel like we were bothering him by showing up. We then parked and set up our Trailer. On our site and only on our Pad was our tow vehicle and my wife’s car. At times a friend or 3^rd car would come by to visit, but would only be on our pad, never on the street or grass area. Our friends next to us had also only had 2 cars on their spot and well within the Pad area only. On Saturday morning after being there for 2 days Don came up and Rudely told us we had to move. He was very loud and disrespectful and kept calling us liars and said we had to move the cars, and left. I went in got my rule sheet I had signed to review it. While I was reading Don Returned like 40 minutes later and again Rudely told me to move our cars off our pad as the rules said only one vehicle per pad. I had to keep asking him to not yell and please calm down. I said the Rules say nothing about 1 car, The Rule Sheet clearly says «Along with your RV ALL Vehicles in the site must be contained on the concrete and not on the grass or roadway. Ours were clearly on the pad and never on the grass pad or roadway like Don kept saying. We also had issues with the Camp Host regarding using the meeting room for meals. We have never been treated this rudely at any park ever, as a group we will not be returning as long as he is the host there and will not recommend this RV park to anyone

I camped the weekend at the Napa Expo with my camping club, we camp once a month for many years and all the camp sites we have never been so disappointed in a camping host as the one that greeted us here. From the minute we arrived Don the host was crumpy, hostile, very unfreiendly, and called a member of our group a liar. If you do not like people do not work as a camp host. Our group will not return as long as this man is there.

We just happened to be in this area this weekend. I saw signs on the curb announcing crafts fair, food and coffee. I thought to myself we needed to kill some time. Why not do what I love the most? Shop & eat !!!
So we swung over to this park where there was a community center. They had plenty of parking as well as handicapped spots too!
We entered and saw that they had a good number of crafts people here. I saw several tables until I came to Sue F. Payne ’ s jewelry table. OMG! My eyes kept hovering over her jewelry especially one particular gorgeous necklace and a pair of earrings. I tried on the earrings and the necklace. Well you can figure out what happened next!
So glad we stopped here. We got to use their public restrooms plus they had complimentary cookies, candy and coffee to enjoy as well!
By the way Sue Payne and her friends were putting on the crafts sale here. I asked Sue if she sells outside of Napa. No she doesn’t! So Napa here I come next year!!!

When we pulled in here, we saw that our reserved space was directly in front of the camp hosts so we pulled directly into our spot and got out to check in (leaving the truck running and all). We were informed that we ignored the «host» that was motioning us that we would have to drive around the building to check-​in before parking — REALLY?!? I find it absurd that the host chooses to have an attitude about this when there was nobody else checking in — not sure why it would make sense for us to have to circle around a building blocking all the RV sites so we can check and then drive around the building and campground again to line our rig up to park. Those five minutes we were parked in our reserved RV space did not cause grief to anyone and actually allowed for other rigs to come in.
The site we had was pretty noisy during the weekend as there were events taking place at the halls next to the RV park. There were lots of cars pulling in and out up until 11pm. We were also shocked to come back to our RV later one night and the gates were closed appearing as though they were locked — thankfully they weren’t just wired shut (what a pain to have to undo and redo). There was NO mention about gates being closed at any hour on anything provided to us — nor did the host inform of this.
Dogs must be on a leash in ALL areas around the campground (they definitely have enough grass areas to create a small dog run so pets can stretch their legs). This would be a nice addition.
While we had no further interactions with the camp hosts, we did hear several other angry conversations take place with the hosts. One was so bad the wife was video taping the conversation.
The location is close enough to walk into downtown Napa — less than 1 mile away (although it is hard to find an exit from the fairground). Overall, for $ 50 a night, it is a nice location if you want to be in the heart of things.

So after a pleasant phone call with a lady I decided to make the drive to Napa to stay at this RV park. After I got here and parked I looked for someone to pay but didn’t find anyone. About 5 hours later some scum came driving up on a golf cart with an attitude. Started accusing me of lying about having reservations. Then went to the story that they are full (tons of empty) finally when I called him out again he made another excuse about my dog (weighs 40lb and is gentle). At this point I was offended and wouldn’t stay here if it was free. Facilities were bad. Everything was bad. Don’t come here!

My husband and I came in with no reservation on Wednesday night and Don (the gentleman with the negative reviews from others) asked us how many nights we’d stay and accommodated us. Most people said he was rude therefore we came in with certain reservations about this place. Nonetheless, we had a great experience here. Yes, you can hear the cars on the road but it’s not unbearable. We also had a small dog and this location had plenty of grassy areas for him. The location is also very clean.
It’s also very close to downtown Napa, we rode our bikes but it’s also walking distance.

The RV camp host on a golf cart was EXTREMELY RUDE! He didn’t even say hello before telling us to go away, because they had no space for our RV.
DO NOT GO THERE!

A little tight getting in but not impossible, a 45 foot Prevost may it, so… Full hook ups, 50 amp, small laundry, value a little low for overall amenities.

Rude, rude, rude! Horrible customer service! Will never stay there again! The camp ground host acted like we were inconveniencing him when we were checking in and the confirmation email that was sent to us for our reservation didn’t even have to correct address for the camp site which made it very difficult to find. When we called to get directions no one answered. There was no way to get a hold of anyone if you are lost. The washer and dryer in the laundry room were pathetic and did NOT clean our clothes despite the $ 7 it cost to use them. The camp host drove around the park in his golf cart making everyone feel uncomfortable with his poor demeanor and he was even rude to our kids. During a 20 day road trip, this was by far the worst RV park we encountered.

We had 3 small dogs in the RV next to us who barked constantly. Brought the problem up with the park stewards and was completely blown off. Didn’t seem interested. Talked to the guy again a the next day asking if he could at least ask them to close their RV windows, since they had heat and AC on their rig — it was one of those big bus-​like ones. He never did a thing.
No trees to speak of, rigs right next to each other, stockyard pens open to campground. No restaurants or grocery stores within walking distance. No mini-​mart on site or nearby. Wouldn’t stay here again.

Dark night so we called ahead for directions — NO ANSWER. We found the narrow driveway with the help of local folks — NO ONE IN GUARD SHACK. We were intercepted by a surly man driving a golf cart with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth who asked if he could help us. I asked if he was smoking and he pulled the cigarette out of his mouth, hid it behind his back, and said «I’m done.» Though the place was half empty, surly-​man ASSIGNED us a spot of his choosing. He had the nerve to insist that I remain inside our rig, and further complained to my husband that he had the right to smoke wherever he wanted in the park becuse it was legal (legal? possibly. RUDE AND INCONSIDERATE? DEFINITELY!) Whenever we saw him after that he was driving the cart (or picking through everyone’s trash for recycleables) cigarette butt in-​mouth and spewing ashes and smoke everywhere. My husband later discussed the problem with another guest who reported that his experience was identical. Fearing for retaliation against our rig, we waited to complain to the managment until after we were home — we demanded our money back. And the price was about double what we had been paying during the rest of the trip for much nicer places. WE WILL NEVER STAY HERE AGAIN.
P. S. The driveway is set up ONLY for entry from the NORTH and exit to the SOUTH. The photos on their web site don’t show the narrow spaces, narrow roads, narrow driveway.

My staff, residents and I came here for the aloha festival. Is was the Saturday when it was pouring rain. I had to drive from wast sacramento to here. Anyways the parking was crazy, I was driving a 16 passenger van. Everything was flooded. Just really a bunch of stuff to buy. Lucky the parking was free!

We just returned from staying three nights at the RV park and we will definitely be back. The close proximity to town was very convenient. It was clean, pretty well maintained and can’t beat the price. It is not fancy by any means, so if you are looking for amenities, this is not the place.

We recently stayed a few nights at The Napa Expo, while visiting our daughter who attends the Culinary Institute in St. Helena.
The grounds were well maintained, with nice sized sites. The bathrooms were clean and the lighting was good. Downtown Napa was about a 15-​minute walk, where we found great restaurants and shops.
The camp hosts were pleasant, and assisted us with multiple options of RV mechanics when we needed an emergency repair on our 5^th wheel trailer brakes.
The location is connected to the Napa fair grounds, so it is not a luxury resort. But if you are looking for an affordable, clean and centrally located spot to stay in the Napa Valley the Napa Expo will be perfect!

DO NOT GO HERE!!! It sits right off the Silverado Trail. You Hear EVERY CAR, TRUCK AND HARLEY going by! The park itself was not maintained the grass was overgrown and dead (Yes, it was both) weeds every where! and they also have the biggest JERK of a camp Host! I could put up with the noise and the sites not being maintained But THE CAMP HOST WAS THE RUDEST, MEANEST Horrid man I have ever encountered in my life!!! This guy is beyond evil!!! I cannot believe the owners let him continue to work there!!! I would not camp here if it was the last campground on earth!!! We have since been back to the area multiple times and camp at the Skyline Wilderness Park. Omg NICE PEOPLE THERE!!! And camp sites are nice!!!

Tucked away, this is a great place to stay. We drove in at the 3^rd street entrance and at first we didn’t see any RV’s and wondering if we were at the right place. After a few turns, we saw the park and glad we found this place.
Pros: Clean & well-​maintained, grass in between each RV, spacious area, very nice hosts, laundry facility, 4 private bathrooms w/​showers (no coins), right on the Silverado Trail Hwy which leads to great wineries and less crowded then the nearby Hwy 29, within walking distance of downtown Napa, felt safe, accommodates all sized RVs, Raleys grocery store just down the street. We walked or rode our bikes to most places.
Cons: Stayed at the back of the park by the fence & Silverado Trail Hwy. One of the houses has owners of a hot rod and Harley, so we heard them start their loud engines daily, but nothing that caused us grief.
Yes, we would stay here again.
Other: liked Silo’s jazz club; Inti-​great little eclectic store filled with beautiful earrings, other jewelry, incense, candles, etc. Napa Running Co is a great store with great help. Recommend Downtown Joe’s Restaurant on the river & we sat outside in the back — quiet, very good food, beer & wine.
For Runners: Good running around the Napa City College & up the road on Imola Ave there is Skyline Wilderness Park — hiking/​walking/​running. Great trails.