San Francisco Marriott Marquis

Market Street hotel with a rooftop terrace and family-sized rooms.

Team virtual reality in a booked room with full body tracking. There's a minimum age, so it's a big-kid outing.

Union Square hotel with a kids' concierge, milk and cookies in the evening, and kid-sized robes.

Rotating contemporary art with performance and film in the mix, and the gardens right outside for when attention runs out.

A playground known for its tall metal slides, with a sensory garden and the 1906 Looff carousel next door at the Children's Creativity Museum.

The barracks where immigrants were held from 1910 to 1940, with the poems they left on the walls, a beach and picnic areas, 1.2 miles from the ferry dock.