My girlfriend and I spent 3 fantastic days at The Victoria Garden Inn. The surroundings in the garden and the room was just amazing and we enjoyed every minute of it.
The service was more than you could ask for. Smiles all day long and a friendly atmosphere. They were so kind in recommending places to go and the personal service in connection with breakfast made us feel like home,

I would recommend this B&B to anyone who should find themselvs so luckyh to be in Sonoma at some point.

My husband and I booked this bed and breakfast the day before (luckily we were in during the less busy season). We were pleasantly surprised with our find!

The room was nice and had plenty of room to store our belongings, the staff was very courteous, and we were within a SHORT walk of Sonoma's beautiful square with an old theater, many varieties of cuisine, and, of course, wine tasting rooms. We were also within walking distance of a great winery!!

The best part was that our hostess gave us four tasting tickets which allowed us to have a tasting at these wineries for FREE :) We really got a great value with this bed and breakfast by saving $10-$20 for each tasting we had!

When we returned from our day of adventures, we were welcomed with Sherry sitting out in the living room with relaxing classical music playing softly in the background!

The breakfast was wonderful -- the most interesting cabernet sauvignon JELLY (locally made), eggs from chickens that were practically in our back yard, and all local produce and pastries. We stuffed ourselves with delicious food for our day of wine tasting.

We were absolutely delighted to stay at the Victorian Garden Inn, and we highly recommend it to others!

My husband and I stayed here (Oct.3-) for one nite for our Honeymoon on our way through California...

We thought we would be staying in a nice, romantic B&B in Sonoma... Boy, we were WRONG.

Well first it started when we tried to cancel our room b/c we were 7 hours south of Somoma and didn't think we could make it back in time to tour Sonoma (we only had a the day to spend there)...we were told we would be changed for our room anyway if we did not make it. We were told that the B&B was "sold out ",and that they have been turning people away all weekend.

We were then rushed to check-in before 4 O'clock so that they could go home. So we spent the whole day rushing and driving to make it in time to ckeck-in.

We found out after checking in that we would be the only guest staying in the main house, which meant that they were not "sold out!"

Our room was very small and musty and it seemed like no one had stayed in that room for a year. None of the linens matched and it seemed like they had just threw a bunch of odds and ends in this room to TRY to make it homely.

This place is a dump and over priced! They charged us $204 for a room with a shared bathroom. I would have rather stayed at a Motel 6 and at least had matching linens and our own bathroom!

Beware!!!

My huuband and I first visited the Victorian Garden Inn in July 1998 for part of a Honeymoon trip. We have just completed a trip celebrating our 10th anniversary (a bit early) and the Garden Inn was on the itinerary. It was just as wonderful as it was 10 years ago. We highly recommend this as a very special place to go when you want to relax and enjoy being with your partner. It is not a place to just pass through, it is place to be savored!

We also reneted bikes from the Good Times Touring Co. and had a wonderful bike ride through the wine country, not a tour, but they do offer that.

We had two wonderful meals at local restaurants.

April was a great time to visit California, the flowers were spectacular everywhere we went. Not much of that in our neck of the woods yet.

Phoebe Barash and Bob Donnis, Bristol, Vermont