Santa Clara Marriott
Claims the largest hotel pool in Silicon Valley, ringed by cabanas, and Great America is an easy walk. If pool time is the hotel requirement, this is the Santa Clara pick.
2700 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054
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Playful tech-themed hotel with a big pool deck, cabanas, and a fire pit about a mile from Great America. Feels less like a business hotel than its neighbors, which kids appreciate.
The Bay Area's big theme park: 50+ rides, the Planet Snoopy kids' area, and the South Bay Shores waterpark included with admission. Planet Snoopy alone can fill a day for the under-8 set.
Two-room suites with free made-to-order breakfast and an evening reception, under two miles from Levi's Stadium. Kids sleep in one room, the grown-ups get the other.
Casual Italian where kids get their own pizzas and pastas, piadine for the adults, and a Thursday kids-eat-free tradition, near Mission College.
Free weekday museum at Intel HQ where kids can see how chips are made: clean-room bunny suits, silicon wafers, binary games.
Sunnyvale suite hotel with full kitchens and free hot breakfast, a base for Magical Bridge, with Fair Oaks park minutes away.