Redesigning a landmark is risky business, no matter your zip code. But in Santa Barbara, it’s a particularly dangerous endeavor. In the land of red-tiled roofs, if you dare mess with tradition, you’d ...

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Here are three tweets I would have sent from my recent stay at Santa Barbara’s just-reopened El Encanto hotel if I hadn’t been busy behaving like royalty and pretending the Internet didn’t exist: ...

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The doors of the El Encanto luxury hotel reopened to guests Monday after more than six years of being closed for extensive renovations. Purchased in 2004 by Orient-Express, the El Encanto at 1900 ...

It would be hard to encounter a frequent visitor to Santa Barbara, if not one of the city’s inhabitants, who hasn’t visited the El Encanto Hotel. Perched high in the hills, with a panoramic view of ...

It takes a lot to create a legend these days and Orient-Express Hotels, recently rebranded as Belmond, has done just that with its extensive renovation of the 100-year-old El Encanto in Santa Barbara, ...

With its commanding view of both the city and the Pacific Ocean, one of the most engaging neighborhoods in Santa Barbara is the Riviera. For many decades, however, people deliberately avoided the ...