David B.
Yelp
This is specifically about Blue Note's "Summer Sessions" at the Meritage Resort, not about the club. Where do I begin, what a terrible venue. Possibly the worst concert experience I have had in my life. First off, even with Silver Tickets you can't even see the stage, let alone the musicians they are so far off. People are constantly standing behind the sound booth and no one makes them sit down so I have no clue how the people in the Bronze section behind me even remotely saw the show.
1. Parking: This parking is a complete scam and I am making a formal complaint about it. $18.00 to park and we are sent to (and I'm not making this up) the parking lot of the Napa Branch of the Health and Human Services division. So I'm paying $18.00 for parking in a lot and building I paid for with my taxes.
2. Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms available TOTAL for at least 3,000 plus people. I'm talkling like 6 stalls max. The line is constantly 20+ people deep.
3. Sound: Muddled and atrocious sound. You would expect a high end resort to have some decent sound equipment but it could be the worst sound I've experienced.
4. Food: OK you expect your water bottle to be expensive, I actually joked to my wife wait til we see the $8.00 water... it was $9.00, for a bottle of water that cost them maybe, just maybe, 50 cents.
5. Rooms: We considered booking one of the terrace rooms and watching from the balcony (at least you could see the musicians without people standing in front of you). The rooms went from $250, $250 the 2 days before and the day of the concert they were $1000 then back down to $250. Every balcony was empty, no one was watching from a room. Having worked in Travel Marketing for 40 years I can say, hey Meritage, empty rooms make no revenue, quit overcharging when you could have a full house situation.
This venue is now on my banned list. I don't care who comes to this place, I won't bother to see it. Blue Note, you don't do your reputation much when you don't sweat the details on concerts like this.
There is not a chance in the world I would ever attend this venue again, I don't care who the band is, it's not worth having concerts at this place.