Unique Resorts, Spas and Vacation Rentals in Wine Country

Sonoma County boasts more than 40 spas and wellness centers, and many are unique to our region, offering soothing, restorative treatments using local products like goat’s milk, honey, grape seeds, and wine. Even our mud is special, bringing warming wraps and soothing skin, while we’re also home to one of the most distinctive spa treatments in America – Japanese cedar baths. Find all Sonoma County spas and resorts. Renting a vacation home overlooking the ocean is another great relaxation option.

With spring comes Mother Earth renewal, and in Sonoma County, that means flowers, baby lambs, butterflies, gentle rain showers, and warming sunshine.

It can also mean personal renewal, as we shed our winter jackets, fluff up our spirits, and treat ourselves to the refreshment and rejuvenation of spa treatments.

Many spas are located inside resorts and inns, so why not extend the therapy and restore your mind, body, and spirit with a getaway? Relax, enjoy, and inspire with these pampering partners where you unwind on a massage table, then stay the night in a plush, feather-top bed.

Kenwood Inn & Spa, Kenwood

This is truly one of Sonoma County’s hidden hideaways. It’s tucked in an unlikely place – a tiny Mediterranean-style property on the edge of Highway 12 – yet it’s a lavish 29-room resort, with a luxurious spa, a sparkling pool, two hot tubs, and a delicious breakfast buffet. May we suggest the Himalayan Salt Stone Massage, letting warm, hand-carved salt stones from the Himalayan Mountains glide across your body, alleviating tension and increasing circulation.

Gaige House, Glen Ellen

It’s part bed and breakfast, part luxury resort. With just 23 graceful Asian-inspired guestrooms and suites plus eight ‘Zen’ suites featuring granite soaking tubs and private Japanese gardens, you’ll feel like you’ve escaped to a private sanctuary. Spa services can be enjoyed in the loft salon, en-suite, or in an outdoor cabana, followed by a dip in the hot tub or a steam in the sauna. The B&B part comes in the personal, attentive service and the complimentary, three-course breakfast served every morning, plus the home-style amenities like creek-side hammocks.

Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, Sonoma

Feel the earth’s healing and relaxation powers in the water from thermal springs 1,100 feet directly beneath the iconic Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn. The waters include 24 trace minerals, and are so vital they have to be cooled for guest use. This elegant Spanish Mission-style inn is the ultimate Wine Country destination, with a spa, golf, and an award-winning restaurant. The inn’s state-of-the-art Fairmont Spa spans 40,000-square-feet across a rotunda, 36 treatment rooms, and indoor and outdoor pools. Included with every spa visit, the Bathing Ritual features an exfoliating shower, two mineral water soaking pools, herbal steam, dry sauna, and cool down showers.

Farmhouse Inn, Forestville

The upscale rural property has expanded and the circa-1870 retreat redesigned. Here, amid the towering redwoods of the Russian River Valley, eight guest rooms are now housed in an elegant new ‘barn.’ That’s in addition to the Inn’s original 10 guest rooms and its Michelin-starred restaurant that fronts the property. Baths are gussied with large jetted tubs and saunas or steam showers, morning starts with full breakfast and fresh flowers in your room, and in the afternoon, you can take wine tasting classes with Sonoma County’s only Master Sommelier, then move on to homemade cookies and milk. For even more heaven, gift yourself with farm-to-table spa signatures like the honey ginger massage, or treatments using heirloom cider apples from the inn’s home ranch plus herbs grown in Farmhouse’s kitchen garden.

Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary, Freestone

Oh, such bliss! It’s a Zen experience straight from Japan, escaping into tranquility with deeply blissful cedar enzyme baths, meditation in creek-side sand gardens, and massages in outdoor pagodas amid the whispering trees. The idea is health, wellness, and healing through communion with nature. Ah, but the bath – it’s a couple’s experience taken in two large side-by-side wooden tubs filled with finely ground cedar, rice bran and plant enzymes imported from Japan. Each partner rests in a hollowed out bed in the shavings, covered up to their necks, where they ‘ferment’ in the naturally occurring heat and cleansing enzymes. The attendant brings cold face cloths and iced beverages periodically, while the couple enjoys views of the garden. Bliss.

Vacation Rentals in Sonoma County

How about renting a whole house with a gorgeous view, pool, or beautiful garden as your own private resort? There are many, many places to choose from in Sonoma County.

Check out our directory of Sonoma County vacation rentals on the beach, near vineyards or in the redwoods. Vacation rentals are conveniently located in Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Glen Ellen, Sebastopol, Jenner, Monte Rio, Guerneville, Healdsburg, etc.

Plus, take a look at Sea Ranch Escape, Jenner Vacation Rentals, or Russian River Vacation Homes, just to name a few.