Scomas Restaurant

Wharf hotel with an in-room fridge and two-queen rooms that work with young kids.

The tourist stretch of the waterfront: street performers, crab pots, and the sea lions a short walk along. Crowded, flat, and easy with a stroller.

A kids' menu of spaghetti and meatballs, fish and chips and grilled cheese, and clam chowder in a bread bowl for everyone else.

A WWII submarine tied up at the wharf that you walk through end to end, torpedo room included. Thrilling for school-age kids.

A free room at the wharf packed with working penny arcade machines, from a hand-cranked carnival to old strength testers.

A free exhibition hall by the cannery with a huge Fresnel lighthouse lens and ship models.