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 ...

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.

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 ...

In came Orient-Express, known for such posh hideaways as the Hotel Cipriani in Venice and the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg, to give the El Encanto a much-needed facelift.

Originally opened in 1918, El Encanto is a 90-room luxury retreat perched in the Santa Barbara hills, offering sweeping views of the Pacific and unmatched historical charm. The new ownership group ...

The hotel will happily drive you to a favorite beach and send you off with all the essentials. You can, of course, take one of El Encanto’s artisinal picnic baskets with you.

The El Encanto has partnered with First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara, 21 E. Constance Ave., to provide 40 parking spaces for employees. The hotel provides a shuttle that Fajardo said runs ...

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 ...