I visited this hotel a year ago and loved it, especially the pool. I returned 10/2019, and hotel was as nice and silent just as I remembered BUT something very important had changed: the pool! Previously, the pool was beautiful, relaxing and big; it was the heart of the hotel. But now it was converted into "normal family-pool" where children (and their fat daddies) jump on you from the poolsides, throw objects on you, splash, hit you at face with swimming flippers etc. Unnecessary to say, that it is not relaxing and suitable for swimming. In addition, the size of the pool was cut into half of what it previously was.
So, sorry, Santa Barbara, I don't love you anymore. You're just one hotel among many others like you.