Downtown Santa Barbara & the Waterfront

Santa Barbara proper, where State Street runs down to the sea – with one hotel, a block from the water.

Luxury hotels in Downtown Santa Barbara & the Waterfront

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Hotel Californian

Four-star · Downtown Santa Barbara & the Waterfront

The 2017 hotel at the foot of State Street, a block from the beach, with Martyn Lawrence Bullard's Moorish tiles.

From $500 per night

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Other neighborhoods in Santa Barbara & Montecito

Montecito

The village east of Santa Barbara, with two of the four hotels – one on the sand and one up San Ysidro Creek. It takes in Coast Village Road's shops, Butterfly and Miramar beaches below and lanes of estates climbing into the foothills.

Ojai Valley

A citrus valley in Ventura County, forty-five minutes from Montecito and a world apart. It lies thirty-five miles inland, ringed by the Los Padres National Forest, and is known for the pink light on its mountains at sunset.

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