Hotel prices / United States / Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara hotel price comparison: 14 hotels across booking sites
This snapshot was for a stay that has passed.
Prices for the stay of Nov 3 to 5, 2026, as listed on September 29, 2026.
14 Santa Barbara hotels, each priced on every booking site we recorded for it. Prices on this page are per night, all-in where the sites reported taxes and fees; the study's count below uses the before-tax prices of its CSV. The going rate is the price the largest number of listings that named a room or offered free cancellation agreed on (ties go to the lower price).
One snapshot on September 29, 2026 for Nov 3 to Nov 5, 2 adults, US market, USD. Prices change daily.
Which booking site was cheapest for Santa Barbara hotels?
The study's count, before taxes and fees: in the September 29, 2026 snapshot, at 8 of the 14 Santa Barbara hotels with a price, the cheapest listing was 5% or more below the going rate. The cheapest site there: Super.com at 5, Booking.com at 1, the hotel's own site at 1 and trivago DEALS at 1. These are the Santa Barbara rows of the study's per-hotel CSV (going_rate_usd and cheapest_usd, before taxes and fees).
On this page, all-in: with taxes and fees included as the sites reported them, at 8 of the 14 hotels listed below a site was 5% or more below the all-in going rate. The cheapest site there: Super.com at 6, Booking.com at 1, the hotel's own site at 1 and Vio.com at 1 (a tie counts for each site). At the other 6, no site was 5% or more below it. Each hotel below shows every site's all-in price. Across all cities: the cheapest site to book hotels, measured.
- Ala Mar Motel
Lowest $159 on Super.com, 8% below the going rate of $172. 20 sites.
- Cabrillo Inn at the Beach
No site 5% or more below the going rate of $134. 4 sites.
- Casa Del Mar Inn
No site 5% or more below the going rate of $173. 10 sites.
- Casa Iglesia, a ZenStay Hotel
Lowest $227 on Booking.com, 5% below the going rate of $239. 8 sites.
- Drift Santa Barbara
No site 5% or more below the going rate of $310. 15 sites.
- Hideaway Santa Barbara, A Kirkwood Collection Hotel
No site 5% or more below the going rate of $200. 12 sites.
- Hotel Santa Barbara
Lowest $239 on Super.com, 18% below the going rate of $291. 22 sites.
- La Playa Inn
Lowest $197 on Super.com, 14% below the going rate of $228. 20 sites.
- Lemon Tree Inn
No site 5% or more below the going rate of $143. 11 sites.
- Montecito Inn
Lowest $292 on the hotel's own site, 12% below the going rate of $333. 21 sites.
- Pacific Crest Hotel
Lowest $124 on Super.com, 18% below the going rate of $152. 15 sites.
- Riviera Beach House
Lowest $198 on Super.com, 15% below the going rate of $233. 26 sites.
- Santa Barbara Inn
Lowest $331 on Super.com and Vio.com, 12% below the going rate of $376. 27 sites.
- Villa Rosa Inn
No site 5% or more below the going rate of $209. 21 sites.
Taxes and fees at Santa Barbara hotels
At the 12 hotels with both an all-in and a before-tax going rate, taxes and fees, as the booking sites reported them to Google Hotels, added a median of 14% ($29 a night) to the before-tax going rate: from 11% at Ala Mar Motel to 15% at Casa Del Mar Inn. At 2 hotels no site reported a before-tax price, so their prices are listed prices that may leave out resort or property fees. Our data does not split the gap into taxes and fees.
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