William and Kate are going to Santa Barbara

hannikan

so William can play polo there. Apparently there's world class polo grounds there. I lived there for 5 years and didn't know that.

http://www.santabarbaraview.com/index.php/2011/06/a-royal-welcome-from-santa-barbara/

pink.dutch.tulips

polo's big out there .. just ask any of the celebs that live out that way. chances are the polo fields are more towards monecito than goleta.

i wanna say in the early to mid 90's UCSB had a club polo team. i think it was the topic of conversation at a lacrosse tourney i was playing in.

hannikan

It makes sense. I had a roommate who played lacrosse.

dani2480

Glad we already booked our room in SB for our anniversary trip later this summer  (we won't be there the same time as them though). I imagine the exposure will have some people wishing to follow their example, making rooms possibly more expensive/harder to come by.

hannikan

dani2480:

Glad we already booked our room in SB for our anniversary trip later this summer  (we won't be there the same time as them though). I imagine the exposure will have some people wishing to follow their example, making rooms possibly more expensive/harder to come by.

Oh it will be a zoo, I'm sure! SB is already a really popular tourist destination but this will make it really crazy. My mom and I originally wanted to go back to PEI this summer but since William and Kate will be there in July I'm glad we're not!