Hudson Valley Wine & Food Festival — Local services in Town of Rhinebeck

The Hudson Valley Wine Festival was OK. The buildings are a good idea but get way too crowded and hot. Should take the middle row of vendors out of the buildings and open up another building that was vacant. The wine pick up was a complete joke. They made an announcement saying at 3:30 they were ending it. So hundreds of people rushed to the tent to get the wine they had at the pick up. Turns out whoever made the announcement should have made it more clear saying the message was for the vendors, not the attendees. So…..After walking a 1/2 mile to the tent, waiting in line for a hour, they could not find our wine. Hours of time wasted. Went back and forth with the man at the pick up. He said to go back to the vendor and they would give me another order. Got to the vendor and they said they could not do it. I totally understood them. I found an info booth. Finally met the “Promoter” at the info booth and he walked us over to make the vendor give us more bottles of wine to make up our lost order. Although it was nice of him to muscle the vendor, it was wrong. I felt so bad for the hard working vendor to replace our order for no charge. Our original order had to be someplace. Idk. Didn’t really like the promoters attitude. I have been to better festivals for sure. Adirondack is a great...

My husband is 75 and has a bad knee and I have problems walking yet no one was willing to help us. We had to beg to get a lift up the hill to the wineries. Also when we picked up all the wine no one offered to carry it to the car. Liked it much more when it was at the Ulster fairgrounds. More wineries and food tasting. Will not be coming back. Rather go to Lake George Ŵine festival...

VIP tickets a rip off. In a group of 4 and we had to walk back to exit as no rides available. As the ride was the only VIP real amenity this was significant. Rain had long stopped. It did not help that the VIP attendant had no idea...