- Excellent downtown Santa Barbara location
- Beautiful rooms
- Free parking
- Very helpful and friendly staff
- To reach some of the upstairs rooms, you'll have to climb the stairs
- 915 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Phone: 805-564-4700, 866-564-4700
website - 23 rooms
- Free high-speed Internet access (wireless and wired)
- Gas fireplaces, soaking tubs, DVD players (and a video library)
- Tripadvisor reviews
- Small, open-air fitness center with treadmill and elliptical cycle. Lap pool. In-room spa treatments by advance reservation
- Pets are not allowed
- 100% non-smoking
- Continental breakfast delivered to your room on request.In-room French coffee press.
- AAA and AARP members get a 10% discount
Built in 2001, the Inn of the Spanish Garden looks like it's been here much longer, its architecture well integrated into the Santa Barbara red-tiled Spanish Colonial style. Rooms have red-tiled floors and plastered walls and the place is full of wrought iron and other details. The Inn is in an excellent location three blocks from State Street, just far enough away to be out of the hubbub, but surrounded by lush vegetation that makes it feel isolated.
This small hotel is an excellent place to stay, toward the more expensive end of Santa Barbara accommodations in price but a good value for the money if you can afford it. Despite all of the good things we have to say, though, the Inn of the Spanish Garden lacks the wow factor that distinguishes a great hotel from a very nice one.
A word of caution about getting there: the map on the Inn of the Spanish Garden website leaves out some streets for the sake of simplicity, so don't be alarmed and think you've missed your turn. It may still be ahead.
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