The Capwell Hotel Santa Barbara

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Among all C.C. Capwell's prosperous affairs, we count a hotel, the Capwell Hotel. Jewel of the Capwell hotel chain, it is moreover the very first hotel, the point of departure of the Capwell empire. In a modern architecture (a big building settled right in the heart of the city), the establishment is constituted by a big welcome area at the first floor.

It is besides in the hall of the hotel, that allows to reach the elevators, that Cruz will make his first wedding proposal to Eden, under the dumbfounded glances of several persons, of whom C.C..

In the numerous floors can be found the one after the other superior class bedrooms and elevators.

Robert Barr will settle his office in his suite in 1989.

The most famous bedroom of the entire hotel is naturally the presidential suite, situated in the 5th floor (depending of the episodes, it carries the number 501, 607 or 828). Conceived as a duplex on two floors, it welcomes the richest customers or the family and the friends close to the Capwell family deserving this privilege. The first room is a big space lounge, with a big pink sofa, armchairs, diverse paintings and flowery vases, the whole in front of an immense plate glass window looking onto the city.

A staircase allows to reach the bedroom, more rarely shown on the screen.

Among the successive occupants of the presidential suite, can be quoted Gina DeMott and her son Brandon upon their arrival in Santa Barbara, Mason Capwell during his unemployment period (often installed in the suite without the authorization of his father), or Sophia Capwell when she reappears in California under the identity and the costume of the Countess Armonti.

One of the peculiarities of this suite is unquestionably the very secret two-way mirror, that Peter Flint makes install a few days after having been named as the hotel manager. It allows, by going in the lingerie adjacent to the suite, to follow with the image and the sound (a microphone can be activated) all the activities and the conversations held by the occupants of the room. It is in particular like this that Augusta will allow C.C. to discover that Sophia, his ex-wife he considered dead, is well alive. Besides Peter, the only ones to know its existence are, at first, his secretary Veronica Gayley and Lionel Lockridge, for whom she works in secret. But very fast, according to the needs of the current storylines, the other characters will come to use it for personal purposes, like Warren Lockridge, his mother Augusta, Marcello Armonti, Kelly and Joe or, even later, Gina Capwell. This last one will moreover know how to make a good use of it when, in 1986, she steals videotape of the camcorder which recorded behind the mirror the drama taking place inside the suite : Dylan Hartley's fall from the plate glass window, pushed by Kelly Capwell whom he threatened with a weapon.

We also know of the hotel the basements, which can be accessed by an elevator or the stairs. It is from there that in 1985, Marcello Armonti will install a bomb to explode the building the day of Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo's wedding.

Besides the presidential suite, the Capwell Hotel is also the accommodation place of strategic places of the show :
- The restaurant the Orient Express, C.C.'s present to his beloved daughter Eden, and settled in the very last floor of the building,
- Peter Flint's office,
- Dr. Marcello Armonti's consulting room,
- Jack Stanfield Lee's office,
- The Last resort agency, the detectives' agency created by Cruz Castillo in 1987,
- The offices of the Armonti Enterprises,
- The offices of Capwell & Capwell,
- The Capwell health club.

The Capwell Hotel finally remained famous for its letter "C", the one of the signboard settled on the roof of the establishment. This "C" that, one stormy evening, will collapse in 1986 on the poor Mary DuVall who will die instantly. Because the roof of the hotel is also used as place of refuge, of rest far from the tumult of the life, by some characters such as Mason Capwell or precisely Mary, this sad fateful evening. In 1987, it is another character, Lucy Pickett, a friend of Ted Capwell's, victim of rape, who will try to kill herself by jumping over the safety rail.

During the first years, the Capwell Hotel will occupy an important place in the constitution of the storylines. Then, as time goes by, it will lose of its importance for the benefit of the restaurant the Orient Express.