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The Upham Hotel

Charming Garden Hotel with Courtyard and Intimate Meeting Rooms

Hotels & Resorts / Outdoor Venues

About the Venue

A historic garden hotel with mature landscaping and intimate meeting rooms offers a calm setting for smaller events that favor conversation over spectacle. The Garden Courtyard provides an outdoor option surrounded by greenery, while the Garden Room can accommodate groups of roughly 50 for meetings, meals, or private celebrations. A smaller Board Room suits gatherings of about 14, giving executive sessions and intimate dinners a properly scaled space. Altogether, the property offers around 2,000 square feet of event space, with the garden setting providing much of the visual appeal. The atmosphere is quiet, charming, and residential in feel, a useful alternative to larger downtown hotels or conventional conference rooms.

Catering is available, and outside catering can also be accommodated, which gives hosts flexibility with menus and service style. Wi-Fi supports presentations and business use, while the courtyard can serve as a break area, cocktail space, or relaxed gathering point between sessions. For a small wedding event, shower, memorial, retreat, board meeting, or private dinner, the modest scale helps the occasion feel personal. Guests can move easily between indoor rooms and the garden without navigating a large property. The surrounding hotel also offers the convenience of accommodations close to the event itself. Hosts looking for an understated venue with mature gardens, flexible food options, and several intimate spaces will find a setting that feels welcoming and composed rather than overly formal. Having courtyard and intimate meeting rooms close together makes it easier to give different parts of the event their own setting while preserving the practical advantage of keeping lodging and hospitality in one place.

Highlights

Wi-Fi Air Conditioning

Allowed

  • Outside Food
  • Overnight Stays
  • 21st Birthday Parties

Patio

Air Conditioning Heating Wi-Fi Restrooms

Provided

  • Tables and Chairs
  • Food Service

Add-ons

  • Food served
  • Tables and chairs

Location

Santa Barbara, CA

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