Travel
If you plan to fly from Northern CA, we recommend either Southwest Airlines out of OAK or United Airlines out of SFO as they have direct flights to SBA.
SBA is a 10-15 minute drive to downtown Santa Barbara. Depending on your plans, you may want to rent a car or you can use Uber.
As for accommodations, the hotels below are great! A couple are within walking distance to the venues, a couple closer to the beach, and others near the airport.