See inside El Encanto Hotel, the luxury property in the Santa Barbara hills that LVMH just sold for $82.2 million.

El Encanto hotel in Santa Barbara: Seven years and $134 million later, the reopened Orient-Express hotel features an infinity pool, monogrammed pillows and mystery stairs. News.

Historic Santa Barbara retreat El Encanto will re-open its doors on March 18 after a seven-year, multimillion-dollar renovation. The expansive restoration features 70 rooms and 22 suites all ...

El Encanto is perched on the hillside above Santa Barbara and offers a secluded bungalow-style retreat in the American Riviera. Operating as a hotel since 1918, the property is set on 7 acres of ...

On a visit to Santa Barbara back in 1998, The Hotel Detective got a tip that there was a great old hotel up in the hills near the Mission Church that he had to see. When he arrived at El Encanto ...

The five-star El Encanto resort in Santa Barbara, a Hollywood getaway for more than a century where rooms cost north of $1,000 a night, has been sold to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen for $82.2 ...

El Encanto, Santa Barbara Introduces a New Mediterranean-Inspired Menu and Enhances Its Wellness Program. A new all-day dining menu and expanded wellness offerings welcome summer to one of Santa ...

El Encanto, Santa Barbara Introduces a New Mediterranean-Inspired Menu and Enhances Its Wellness Program. Tambi Saffran. Tue, June 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM UTC. 4 min read.

Santa Barbara’s only Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star resort, Belmond El Encanto, is once again poised to be the ultimate luxury summer destination, with ...

The internationally-acclaimed Forbes Travel Guide announced its 2014 luxury travel ratings and named El Encanto as part of the prestigious portfolio — the only Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star resort in ...

The French chef learned his chops with two Michelin men in Burgundy, recently opening Peter in Tokyo.

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 ...