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 ...
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 ...
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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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, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...
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