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Hotel Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

533 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

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Hotel Santa Barbara

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The Hotel Santa Barbara is a Mediterranean-style boutique hotel located in the heart of downtown on State Street. Experience world-class shopping, fine dining, cultural venues, superb entertainment, great beaches, and so much more all within walking distance of the front doors. The beach and Stearns Wharf are a short walk or ride on the Santa Barbara Trolley. Whether touring the California coast, on a romantic get away or attending a conference, the Hotel Santa Barbara will be the most memorable stay. All guestrooms provide complimentary bottled water, hair dryers, irons/ironing boards, and coffeemakers. A complimentary Continental breakfast is served daily, and complimentary fruit and hot beverages are available all day. All rooms also include High speed wireless internet access, Premium pillow-top mattresses, down, feather and non-allergenic pillows, extended cable & HBO, voice mail, hairdryers, room safe, iron & ironing board, writing desk and chair and in room coffee maker. A Starbucks is in the building. The hotel is completely non-smoking.

Amenities

Air Conditioning (In Room)	Newspaper (Free)	Refrigerator
Iron	Television (Cable/Satellite)	Microwave Oven
Non-Smoking Rooms	Daily Maid Service	Coffee Maker
Telephone (Voicemail)

Hotel Details

75 Rooms / 4 Floors	Built in 1926	Electronic Key
Laundry/ Dry Cleaning Service	Multi-lingual Staff	Sprinkler in Rooms
Smoke Alarm in Rooms	Photocopy Service	Meeting Facilities
Barber/Hair Stylist	Common/Public Areas Accessible to Wheelchairs	A-V Equipment Rental
Parking Area Well Lit	Fax (For Guests)	Complementary Coffee
Gift Shop	ATM/Bank	Room Service

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Reviews for Hotel Santa Barbara: 22

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SERVICE (2.5)

CLEANLINESS (3.5)

LOCATION (4.5)

VALUE (2.5)

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Hotel Santa Barbara is real Santa Barbara

By Travis, 7/15/10

If you want to vacation in Santa Barbara, this is the place. I loved the location, the friendly staff and the cozy room. Right out the front door is State Street, the main drag, and you have shops, beach, bars and restaurants in easy walking distance. The service was good, but I skipped the continental breakfast to hang out at Starbucks right on the corner of the hotel. This is worth the money for a couple of days in paradise. I'll be back.

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Fabulous stay in a perfect location.

By armenaa, 3/25/09

I am having a hard time reading the negative reviews of this hotel. I have stayed there a few times with my boys and it was nothing but perfect!! They love the old elevator and the couch that become a bed for them. The staff is very helpful, carried my things out of the car, helped with the stroller, etc. The rooms were clean and small but enough for the price. The location is the best and the easy parking situation is a breeze. Close to the pier which had a fabulous museum and boat rides for the boys too. We are planning on returning soon.

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Bad service is yours

By A Yahoo! Contributor, 10/6/08

Terrible service, I lookied at reviews but didnt heed the advise. Dont visit this place. Managers dont care about you. The folks here are not interested in assiting when you bring a concern to them, like your door lock wont open so you have to spend the entire day locked out of your room.

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Recent stay was a pleasant one. ..

By la prof, 5/28/08

My husband and I just returned from two nights over Memorial Day week-end at the Hotel Santa Barbara and, overall, it was a pleasant experience: no spiders, unconcerned staff, or mishaps with the valet. In fact, the valet parking was extremely convenient and reasonably priced and the valets could not have been more helpful or prompt. The continental breakfast is better than average and is served in the very charming lobby. When asked if we could change rooms because our room was too close to the elevator noise, we were accomodated immediately. However, the second room was smaller, but adequate. The decor of the rooms is pretty much what you see in the on-line photos, as is the lobby. There is internet service in the rooms and a heat lamp with the other usual amenities in the bathroom. The hotel doesn't boast of views and there really are none; just a great location. It's only a 10 minute walk to the pier and right in the heart of shopping and museums and theatres, among other things.I would recommend this hotel.

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CLEANLINESS (4)

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Horrible Hotel! They kick you out!

By A Yahoo! Contributor, 5/5/08

This is the worst hotel ever. Firstly the decor is VERY old, and the furniture was decorated in yellow. The rooms are extremely small, and everything creeks. An incident happened to me whereby I tried to bring guests to my room. The night manager (Greg) said there was a capacity of 4 (we had 5). After much dispute, we left, and later 3 friends needed to use the restroom. He changed his mind and said no one else was aloud. After more arguing, he decides to KICK me out!!!!! Mind you, this is now at around 2:30 a.m., and I have no place to go, despite having already paid an excessive $200/night. I am a physician, and my first concern is safety. Some of my colleagues needed to drive safely home and wanted to rest, but the hotel did NOT care. Instead they kicked me out....what hotel would ever do that! The night manager and the hotel does NOT care for your well being...they only care about their own rules

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Horrible Hotel

By Irene, 4/15/08

This was the worst hotel I could have choosen to stay at in Santa Barbara. The room was infested by spiders and when we asked hotel management to switch us out they said that they were going to charge us. Horrible service, would not reccomend it AT ALL! Beware of their whisper policy...the walls are so thin that you can hear everything going on next door and are told that after 10pm you must Whisper!

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Be aware of the double parking charges

By A Yahoo! Contributor, 3/2/08

We liked the location and the old charm of the hotel. We were also impressed with their better then average continental breakfast which they served in their classy lobby area. The only thing that was disappointing was that we had to pay the nightly parking fee twice; once to the parking attendant and again when we were checking out. When I pointed out to the hotel concierge that we already paid the parking fee to the parking attendant she told me that the attendant probably thought it was tip and took it and still charged us. We will probably stay there again but will not be so generous with the unintended tip to the parking attendants.

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Unacceptable service

By A Yahoo! Contributor, 2/15/08

Service was terrible !!!! We approached staff on an issue and we were brushed off. We asked to speak with management and we were brushed off. This place was not concerned about the customer what so ever.

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Great Location

By A Yahoo! Contributor, 9/3/07

We went with another couple to visit SB on Labor Day weekend. I was very leary about staying here, especially after reading the most recent reviews about this hotel. My friends had stayed there previously and said they did not have any issue's with the hotel..and besides, we made a last minute decision to stay in SB so there was not many hotels to choose from! The hotel is in the BEST location. It is very central to all the restaurants, beaches, local winery's, etc. The hotel is by no means a 5 star, but it was very clean. The room was small and the hotel was noisy, but again, the location is so perfect it would be hard for me to say I would not stay there again. The rooms were actually reasonable ($240 a night, last minute, holiday weekend). There is no pool, spa or restaurant inside, but they do have a continental breakfast included in the price.

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Charming But Then It All Fell Apart

By A Yahoo! Contributor, 7/11/07

It's a lovely place, clean, comfortable, charming and the staff is friendly. But! I had made a reservation for myself and for my mother. When I arrived I discovered they somehow they had us down for three separate rooms/reservations. When I told them we didn't need three reservations, since there were only two people, they wouldn't cancel because it was less than 48 hours. I was appalled. What kind of customer service is that?? You make a mistake, you eat it and move on. But they wouldn't and so I got charged for the extra rooom. The first person I spoke to about this was like talking to a wall except less intelligent - a nightmare. The second conversation with someone higher up was more civil but equally frustrating. They wouldn't budge. It's really too bad. Otherwise I really liked the place but I can't go back now - their attitude ruined my weekend.

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