Yes, it is a truly beautiful place, and it's worth staying a couple of extra days. Santa Fe downtown has beautiful architecture, outdoors cafes and restaurants, and back in 2002 when I visited it there was a very Austin-like coffeeshop downtown; one could not-so-unreasonably expect that since then it may have started offering free WiFi. But it's just a wild speculation on my part. :-)
Another worthwhile thing to do, if you have several free hours, is to visit an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement. I'm sure there must be a Santa Fe visitor center or something that would tell you how to get there. It's about 1.5 hour drive out of town, if I remember correctly. It's a site where Indians used to live in pre-Columbian times. They lived in caves in the mountains. Most of those caves are high up in the face of the rock, and there are wooden ladders you can climb to get inside a cave. (I don't know how authentic those ladders are. They obviously don't date back to the times when the settlement was populated, but I don't know if the Indians used them at all, or if they climbed the rock instead. So I'm not sure if one can get an authentic Indian experience from visiting this place. :-)) There are trails in the mountains that lead to ancient sacred sites; some of them require climbing long ladders, so I didn't do that as I don't trust my sense of balance all that much. :-) But it's really worth visiting.
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Another worthwhile thing to do, if you have several free hours, is to visit an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement. I'm sure there must be a Santa Fe visitor center or something that would tell you how to get there. It's about 1.5 hour drive out of town, if I remember correctly. It's a site where Indians used to live in pre-Columbian times. They lived in caves in the mountains. Most of those caves are high up in the face of the rock, and there are wooden ladders you can climb to get inside a cave. (I don't know how authentic those ladders are. They obviously don't date back to the times when the settlement was populated, but I don't know if the Indians used them at all, or if they climbed the rock instead. So I'm not sure if one can get an authentic Indian experience from visiting this place. :-)) There are trails in the mountains that lead to ancient sacred sites; some of them require climbing long ladders, so I didn't do that as I don't trust my sense of balance all that much. :-) But it's really worth visiting.