Calistoga Motor Lodge & Spa

The hotel is at 1880 Lincoln Ave, at the east end of Calistoga's main street, a ten-minute walk from the downtown core. San Francisco International is 85 miles and about two hours by car; Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Airport is roughly 40 minutes.

MoonAcre's signature riff on the Calistoga mud bath: mud painted onto your body, sun-dried in the spa garden, then rinsed under an outdoor rain shower. Thirty minutes, $100, weather permitting, booked as an add-on to a treatment. Painted-on mud and full immersion are not the same treatment, which is the gap reviewers who expected tubs are describing.

Massages run $200–$340: Signature at $200/60 minutes and $300/90; deep tissue at $225/$335; CBD at $220/$330; Himalayan Salt Stone at $220/$320; prenatal at $220/60. Facials span $205–$295. Baths — CBD, salt, Cabernet, and the Mud Bake — add $100 per 30 minutes. Guest reviews report a 20% gratuity added at billing, though the official menu page doesn't state it — confirm when booking.

All geothermal, all year-round: a 20-by-40-foot main pool at 80–84°F (six and a half feet at the deep end), a two-foot-deep 20-by-20 wading pool at a warmer 90–96°F, and a whirlpool at 100–104°F — with an outdoor shower, changing rooms, and cabana loungers alongside.

Yes — 16 and over, the lowest treatment-spa gate in Calistoga (everywhere else runs 18+ except Indian Springs' accompanied-minor policy). The shallow, warm wading pool makes the pool scene the most family-usable in town after Calistoga Spa Hot Springs.

Not on a day pass — the property currently sells none, and its day-pass platform listing sits inactive. The workaround is a treatment: MoonAcre spa guests get up to two hours of pool and spa-garden time around their appointment.

No. It joined JdV by Hyatt in July 2023 and left the Hyatt system on September 23, 2025 — it now runs independently. Practical upshots: book direct (no points earning or redemption), and note that its Booking.com listing still carries Hyatt-era branding and review history.

The listing reset when the property rebranded — the current count (around 39 reviews, ranked last in Calistoga) is an artifact, not a verdict. The Hyatt-era record lives on Booking.com: 7.7/10 across 393 reviews. Read both before judging.

Unclear, honestly. Stale third-party data shows a Hyatt-era $30 nightly fee covering pools, bocce, coffee, WiFi, and parking; the hotel's current amenities page lists those items as complimentary without mentioning a fee. Confirm at booking — the post-rebrand fee picture hasn't settled into public record yet.

The on-site restaurant and bar: wood-fired Italian-Mediterranean cooking; daily breakfast from 7 a.m.; dinner nightly; weekend lunch; and Friday-to-Sunday poolside service. It survived the Hyatt exit intact and remains one of the better hotel kitchens in town at this price level.

Renovated 1947 motor-lodge rooms with a deliberate retro-camp streak — including Camper Rooms that take dogs. The 2017–18 renovation did the heavy lifting; the register is playful roadside, not luxury. Families and design-curious travelers rate it higher than polish-seekers do.

December through February midweek, when rooms drop toward the low $200s. Peak-harvest weekends push higher but remain well under Calistoga's luxury tier. With the fee picture in flux post-rebrand, comparing the direct rate against OTA totals is worth two minutes.