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.

Sessions start at $160, although multi-treatment gift packages begin at $345. Activities & Excursions: Guests usually come to the El Encanto seeking rest and quiet, but not far from the property is ...

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 ...

Built in 1918, El Encanto is Santa Barbara’s oldest existing hotel and has hosted everyone from Clark Gable to Barbra Streisand.

The El Encanto Hotel doesn’t have enough on-site parking for employees and they’re instead parking in nearby neighborhoods. A new management plan will force the hotel to become more proactive ...

Despite its 100 years El Encanto has pretty much everything you could want in a 21st-century hotel (conference rooms, Wi-Fi and the like) but it has also managed to retain the glamour and ...

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.