Disappointed :(…read more Emailed Rancho de la Fuente to see if they had availability, they emailed me back saying they had an available room. I called to book after being on hold for several minutes, they advised me they were mistaken and they were fully booked. Very disappointed in customer service! --------------------------------------------------------------- From: info@ranchodelafuente.com To: Andrea B. Subject: RE: AVAILABILITY Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:25:03 -0700 Thank you for inquiring about Rancho de la Fuente Bed & Breakast and Special Event Center in Lakeport. I'm pleased to tell you that the dates you have requested are available at the Pool house private cottage. We're happy to answer any questions you may have and aim to respond within 24 hours. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us by telephone 707.263.3160 Should you reconsider and opt to proceed with a reservation, we ask that you please response to the email. Payment should be maid time of arrival; please call In advance before arrival. We look forward to hearing from you and hope to accommodate you soon at Rancho de la Fuente. Kind regards. Rosana 707.263.3160 info@ranchodelafuente.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: AVAILABILITY From: Andrea B. Date: Fri, June 19, 2015 3:58 pm To: info@ranchodelafuente.com Hi, I am interested in living social deal, wanted the know if you had any availability on Friday 6/26? Thanks, Andrea B.

Country Fields - Country Quiet - Country Nights - Country Simple…read more The stay at Rancho de la Fuente set the stage for our visit to Lake County. For those who appreciate an agritourism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agritourism) getaway from the Bay Area, this is the place for you! Surrounded by 42 acres of open corn fields, sunflowers, tomatoes, watermelons, and other organic vegetables, you'll appreciate simpler, natural times. We stayed in the spacious Rock n Roll cottage. Inspired by our cottage theme, we played our favorite music during the days (without the fear of disturbing anyone) and enjoyed stargazing on our private porch at night. The room was well cleaned every day and supplied with ample towels for our days on the lake. The terrific hosts (R and F) kept the main house open for us to use the kitchen, access to free drinks and fruits, and access to Internet (I strongly urge you to stay off-line as long as possible). True to country hospitality, when we found a lack of venues for dinner, they invited us to a gracious family dinner. Many thanks for welcoming us into your family and home. Treat yourself to simple pleasures - spend the day swimming in the local watering holes, spend the evening enjoying wine at the vineyards, curl up with a John Steinbeck novel on the porch and welcome the starry night sky at the Rancho de la Fuente!

Very chill place to taste all kinds of wines. No pressure. The owner was there pouring and it was…read morejust a delight experience. Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon

You can now taste Smiling Dogs wines at the new tasting room in downtown Kelseyville (right next to…read morethe brewery). This location is the home of the winemaker, Scott, and his two Samoyeds (who the wines are named for), Vino and Sophie. The wine is made at this location and it's fun to see the huge barrels of barbera, cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon blanc, etc. The wine is delicious and seems to get better every year! I hope that Kelseyville and Lake County become a new wine tasting destination though the windy roads to get there might make this a bit trickier than Sonoma or Napa... I should note that Scott is my father-in-law but everyone I've offered his wine too has agreed that it's delicious and a good value buy (bottles are currently less than $30).

Decent supermarket: but food products were a little pricey…read more Clerks were very nice and the grocery store was pretty clean. Parking was super easy to find in the large plaza. I will only shop here once in a blue moon.

The employees out number the customers shopping there. You…read morewould think the prices marked for items would be correct. This isn't the first time I was charged more than the price on the shelf.

Thank you Billie Jo and the team from Lake Event Design for your amazing work and support for our…read morewedding of Auguste and Soleil. Your attention to detail and keeping us all on track made special day perfect!

Great service and such nice folks to work with! Professional and were easy to communicate with.read more

Beyond Friendly service to a new face! Seems like a "regulars" type of spot in the best way! My…read moreNapoli panini was delightful start to finish. There's a neat little grocery section and lots of hot menu items to choose from.

As a New Yorker, I can say unequivocally this is one of the best bakeries I've ever had the…read morepleasure of visiting. It's hard to come by espresso like theirs, and their baked fresh pastries are some of the best I've ever had. Lakeport is such a quaint town, but Angelina's alone is worth the trip.

I would like to highly recommend Lake Event Design. We recently held a rehearsal dinner for my son…read morein Kelseyville and needed to rent tables, chairs, and tablecloths for the event. Although already very busy with the wedding the next day, as she was the wedding coordinator for the wedding also, she took the time and effort to help us with our needs. She also delivered 4 heating lamps at the last minute as the weather was cooler than expected. If you chose Lake Event for your special occasion you will get the best service!!

I contracted Alexis and her company for a wedding event and I want to say that it was the worst…read moredecision I could of made! Horrible customer service, did not follow through with what I had planned for this special day. After I confronted her about the lack of communication and planning she went ahead and had the audacity to overcharge me. I definitely do not recommend her services should of done my research before hiring her.

We had our wedding in March of 2019 and had hired Alexis and her team for our wedding coordination…read more We were excited to work with her and met with her several times in the lead-up to the wedding. We were told to expect several staff from her team on-site to help coordinate in our outdoor multi-site venue. She was even on-site the day before our wedding with an assistant to plan everything out. Then the day-of came, and Alexis did not show up. She sent her assistant with one other person, who we had never seen before and who knew nothing about our wedding. We were expecting Alexis, her coordinator, plus additional support based on our discussions up until that point. Having only two people show up day-of was alarming. So much went wrong on the day of the wedding, most of which she had told us she and her team would coordinate: 1. We spent the week before hand-crafting floral arrangements - many of which were not set out, even though our coordinators were responsible for putting out our decor. Our theme was "wildflowers," but you wouldn't be able to tell because a lot of it stayed boxed up. 2. Our wedding site didn't have enough chairs set up. Fortunately, the bride's mother arrived early and had to run around trying to find staff who could bring out and arrange the site. 3. Our DJ was supposed to be driven out to the wedding site in an ATV because it was muddy. The assistants apparently didn't know this though it was discussed, and so he ended up running late for the ceremony while he waited for a lift. 4. Our DJ was then supposed to be picked up from the ceremony site, but the coordinators didn't have a ride ready. In a rush he ended up driving his personal van out to the site and got stuck in the mud and couldn't make it back to the cocktail party and had to be hauled out. 5. The bridal party was very late to the ceremony site because the coordination staff wasn't communicating with each other or the site staff. The drivers, therefore, were running behind just because they weren't told about timing. Our guests waited in the sun at the ceremony site while the bridal party waited to be taken there. 6. The ceremony site was not set out the way we'd agreed and was missing most of the decorations. A ton of decor and flowers we expected at the wedding site stayed boxed, leaving us with an unadorned aisle and ceremony site. 7. The backup coordinators set aside none of the cocktail hour appetizers for the bride and groom - something Alexis said she would make sure to do. 8. The DJ came to us sheepishly at the end of the night, saying that typically he would coordinate payment with the coordinator, but they had left without notifying anyone. He went to the groom in the middle of the reception to make sure he would get paid. 9. Many of the guests spent the day picking up the slack of things we had agreed Alexis's team would do. We were agitated that they couldn't just enjoy the day after we went to so much expense in hiring coordinators. 10. The backup coordinator spent the day asking the bride and groom what she was supposed to be doing next and what we expected of her next. 11. The backup coordinator and her assistant were given walkie-talkies from the venue staff because cell phone reception was spotty at best. The venue staff was unable to find the coordinators when they needed them because the walkies apparently weren't often on. 12. Because of all this, the bride was pulled away so often she could not take pre-ceremony photographs with her bridesmaids. 13. Because the ceremony started so late, we ended up having to pay for an extra hour for our photographers and videographer to stay for the events we wanted to have filmed. We followed up with Alexis, and she asserted that they fulfilled their end of the bargain, and she proceeded to blame us for how everything fell apart and accused us of not being organized enough. She also said that enough chairs were at the ceremony site even though this was blatantly untrue, and we can prove it so with photographs and drone footage taken that day. Also, how would she possibly know? She was not there. Nothing changes the fact that the person we had been working with for five months didn't make it to our wedding, sent someone who knew nothing about our wedding to coordinate, and the day-of was chaos when it didn't have to be. Looking through photos of the day brings such mixed emotions. Having no pre-ceremony photographs with bridesmaids is one thing, but seeing pictures of our unfinished ceremony site is a heartbreaking reminder. Those pictures will last forever, as will those memories of a day that did not go as planned due to the poor coordination by Alexis Solano. All we can do at this point is to warn others against working with Alexis Solano Events for something as meaningful or costly as a wedding. If we knew then what we know now, we would have been better off hiring anyone else or just doing it all ourselves.

I felt welcomed like a friend to Mrs Olof's vineyard and home…read more These wines and grapes are not the normal, run-of-the-mill grapes one might be familiar with which makes it even more special. Different colors and flavors that almost make it feel humbly like a whisky-ish wine being soaked in the oak barrels. Beautiful views with birds, trees, vineyards, mountains and their vintage car collection. $15 you get to keep the wine glass and it comes with the tastes of about 7 wines, water and a cracker.

I was attracted to this place for all the Nordic accents. Then I saw the 3 vintage cars in the back…read morearea. Then I saw the views. Then the owner showed up and this winery visit is really a one family owned vinery. No mass distributions of their bottles and no tour busses/vans. For $15, I got a beautiful wine glass and samples of their wines. It's quite artisanal tasting, in that I don't have any standard winery to compare their taste to. Best to make a reservation.