Cubicle Dreamin: Bacara Resort & Spa
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Jenna heads to Santa Barbara. Enjoy.
With Britney Spears and her cronies hiding from child protective services in otherwise perfectly nice hotels all over the LA area, escaping from dirty, sticky Manhattan to that area of Cali didn't seem to appealing.
A bit North of LA, however, sits Santa Barbara's Bacara Resort, a gorgeous 360-room getaway boasting "Spanish Colonial warmth and old Hollywood glamour." Because yeah, modern Hollywood is really not so glamorous. Listen to this for a start:
Like an intimate Mediterranean village, Bacara sprawls over 78 beachfront acres, nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez mountains.
One, three and four-story villas made up of clusters of rooms are scattered among lush gardens. The serenity of the coastal setting is reflected in the use of rustic, natural materials and subtle earth tones throughout the resort. .
Mmmm...nice. Also noteworthy: the spa is huge, offering 36 treatment rooms and an all-organic spa cafe.
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Rooms start at $475 per night for the most basic "garden view" room, and go all the way up to about $3000 per night for a Presidential, ocean-view suite. All rooms have fireplaces, in front of which to enjoy your leftovers from your dinner at Miro, the resort's restaurant that serves "Basque-Catalonian" cuisine.
The beach is right in front of you, but I'd prefer to just look at the ocean from one of the three zero-edge pools on property in one of the 26 private full-service cabanas, where "all day lounging is encouraged."
I'd totally grab my best girlfriend and book the Thelma & Louise package, which includes a two-night stay, a chaffeured and catered wine tour in the Santa Ynez Valley, two 50-minute spa treatments, and a personal shopper. Fabulous!
Paris, Britney and Lindsay: stay in LA. I'm going to Santa Barbara. Heidi and Spencer can come too.
[Photo: Joy]
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· Hotels in Santa Barbara [HotelChatter]
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