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Cubicle Dreamin: Bacara Resort & Spa

Where: 8301 HOLLISTER AVENUE [map], Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 93117

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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Heidi Montag Takes Her 'Hills', Spencer to Bacara Resort

Where: 8301 Hollister Ave [map], Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 93117

We have actually been looking to go to the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara because we hear such great things about it from friends but now that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of D-list The Hills fame have sullied up the place, we're reconsidering.

The two have been constantly staging photo-ops everywhere to show off their romance and also, Heidi's new assets (bigger chest, smaller nose.) It's fine when these photo-ops take place on a Malibu beach or on the streets of Beverly Hills but the fact that photographers were let into the Bacara (or at least perched on a tree overlooking the Bacara pool), doesn't really help the Bacara's effort for guest privacy. And Spencer was probably chatting away on his cellphone the whole time too.

The whole point of leaving LA is to avoid people like him.

Related Stories:
· Bacara Resort & Spa reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt [Gossip Rocks]