Arcadia Community Regional Park

Every room is a two-room suite, the cooked-to-order breakfast is free, and the indoor pool works whatever the weather.

Watch thoroughbreds race against a San Gabriel Mountains backdrop, with pony rides, jumpers, face painting and carnival games in the infield on Family Fun Zone days.

Free hot breakfast, connecting rooms and an outdoor pool, two miles from Santa Anita Park and an easy walk to restaurants.

A walkable neighborhood park with multiple play areas, picnic shelters and exercise equipment for parents while kids climb.

Hot pot where kids pick what goes in the pot, with a sauce bar, snacks while you wait and the famous noodle-pulling dance as the floor show.

Soup dumplings folded behind a glass window that kids watch like a show, plus noodles and fried rice picky eaters actually eat. Inside Westfield Santa Anita, so parking is easy.