travel42 Hotel Review: Rosewood Miramar Beach Hotel

Rosewood Miramar Beach Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Situated 90 minutes from LAX, on 16 spectacularly expansive acres bridging Highway 101 and the beach, this is a redo of the original Miramar Beach Hotel, a built-from-scratch trophy overseen by mall-magnate and keen real estate developer Rick Caruso.

The project was on the drawing board for nearly a decade, and with California's Coastal Commission hovering in the background, progress was slow and arduous.

Planted in Montecito proper, it is an easy 20...