Hotel Californian

Gorgeous hotel, friendly and welcoming staff and super location in terms of walking to the beach, great restaurants and shops on State Street. I will come here again and again when I visit Santa Barbara. At Majorelle Spa both Quinn our masseuse and Jennifer our facial were the best we ever experienced.

Great hotel experience except for being placed next to a room with a family with loud kids. The noise woke us up at 6:30am. Upon checking out, the front dest told me that I should have asked NOT to be placed next to a family next time. That was disappointing considering the amount of money I spent.

hotel is lovely but be forewarned, A. room was described as overlooking courtyard and city,. Actuality was looking at a parking lot. When we asked to change was told additional $ 600. B. had to leave a day early. even though hotel was not fully booked no adjustment in price., Bottom line is that hotel was not guest friendly and attempt to work with guest.

This is the place to stay if you're going to Santa Barbara and want the best of all worlds--beautiful hotel, walk to everything from tasting rooms to great dining to the beach etc. The rooms are a good size (larger than most hotels) and very well appointed, staff was excellent. We enjoyed the rooftop pool at the end of the day, it's on the small size but not unusual for a hotel in a downtown area. Given the limited number of loungers, it would be great if they could add more--especially that there's space on the upper deck which seems to be wasted. Also, the pool menu is very limited---it could use more snack/appetizers.

Our time at his hotel was limited. We only stayed one night without time to experience everything offered. Our room was large and wonderful despite the fact it was marketed as an ocean view room when in fact it was a parking lot view with a just sliver of ocean viewable down the street. If you book an ocean view, be sure you are on the third floor. Apart from that, everything was nice, if pricey. We would return.