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.

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 ...

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.

LVMH has just sold its only U.S. hotel, the five-star El Encanto nestled in Santa Barbara enclave, to Tinder founder Justin Mateen for $82.2 million.

Justin and Tyler Mateen, along with Culver Capital, acquired El Encanto Hotel from LVMH. El Encanto, located in the hills of Santa Barbara, was LVMH's only US hotel. See inside the hotel, which ...

Facing a packed chamber, the Santa Barbara’s City Council waded into the contentious and long-running dispute between neighbors and the owners of the still-closed El Encanto Hotel on the Riviera.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.