El Encanto, A Belmond Hotel

You’ll feel every inch the off-duty starlet lazing on a lounge chair by El Encanto’s infinity pool. A Santa Barbara icon since the 1920s when it became a popular Hollywood hideaway, this five-star hillside hotel continues to dazzle. Perched high in the hills overlooking the Pacific, a range of California Craftsman and Spanish colonial-style bungalows are dotted among seven acres (3ha) of terraced gardens. Unwind in the spa before watching the sunset with a perfectly mixed gimlet.