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| Great America Theme Park
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Paramount's Great America Theme Park offers 100 acres of family theme entertainment including rides, stage shows, IMAX theatre, dining and shopping.
Paramount's Great America is Northern California's favorite place for family fun and thrills starring your kids' favorite Nickelodeon characters, and the most kids rides and attractions in the Bay Area. If you're looking for a cooling splash for the whole family to share or an adrenaline rush, this is the right place.
Located off Hwy 101 at Great America Parkway, Santa Clara. Located 5 minutes from our hotel.
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Click here to visit the official site for Great America.
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| Winchester Mystery House |
 | In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. This 160 room Victorian mansion is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House.
Come see the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name; a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, and doors that open onto blank walls! No one has been able to explain these mysteries - come visit us and see if you can! Located 5 minutes from our hotel.
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Click here to visit the official site for Winchester Mystery House.. |
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| San Jose International Airport
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San Jose International Airport (SJC) is located two miles north of downtown San Jose. SJC averages 388 commercial and 335 general aviation departures and landings daily. Passenger totals last year exceeded 11.1 million. 10 rental car companies are housed in the Rental Car
Center. Taxi and bus services are also available outside of baggage claim at both terminals.
The San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau provides extensive information about San Jose attractions, events and activities. Located 15 minutes from our hotel.
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Click here to visit the official site for San Jose Airport. |
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| Santa Clara Convention Center |
 | The perfect location for your next meeting or convention!
Located just south of San Francisco in the center of the Santa Clara Valley's high-tech corridor internationally known as "Silicon Valley," this 262,000 square foot state-of-the-art meeting, trade, and convention complex has taken its cue from the dynamic business that now surround it. In addition to being one of the most modern, well-equipped facilities in the state, the Santa Clara Convention Center is the only complete resort-style convention center in the Bay Area, featuring an 18-hole championship golf course and complete tennis facility.
The Convention Center also is a great place for Weddings! Located 9 minutes from our hotel. |
Click here to visit the official site for Santa Clara Convention Center. |
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| Santa Clara University |
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Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University offers a rigorous undergraduate curriculum in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering. It has nationally recognized graduate and professional schools in business, law, engineering, pastoral ministries, counseling psychology, and education.
Founded in 1851 by the Society of Jesus as Santa Clara College, it is California's oldest institution of higher learning. Located 9 minutes from our hotel.
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Click her to visit the official site for Wild Santa Clara University.
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| Stanford University |
 | Jane and Leland Stanford established the university in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. They created a great university, one that, from the outset, was untraditional: coeducational in a time when most private universities were all-male; nondenominational when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing cultured and useful citizens when most were concerned only with the former.
"Die Luft der Freiheit weht" is Stanfords unofficial motto and translates as "The wind of freedom blows." Located 15 minutes from our hotel. |
Click here to visit the official site for Stanford University. |
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| The Tech Museum
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The Tech Museum of Innovation is a cosmopolitan museum singularly focused on technology how it works and the way that it is changing every aspect of the way we work, live, play and learn. Its people-and-technology focus and the integration of advanced technologies into visitor experiences and infrastructure, distinguishes it from other science centers. Located 15 minutes from our hotel. |
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| Shopping |
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Santa Clara offers an exciting and unique shopping experience at her newest center: Santana Row. This shopper's paradise provides a vibrant and diverse mix of shopping, dining, and entertainment designed to enhance the individual experience. Directly neighboring Santana Row is Silicon Valley's largest Shopping Mall, Valley Fair, which boasts over 170 retailers. Located 5 minutes from our hotel |
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| Intel |  |
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Intel was originally founded in 1968 by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce to build alternate forms of memory for the semiconductor market. Today, Intel is one of Silicon Valley's largest companies and is the world's leading computer chip maker. Its Pentium and Celeron processors are found in 80 percent of all personal computers. Located 8 minutes from our hotel.
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| Hewlett Packard |
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HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939. The company's first product, built in a Palo Alto garage, was an audio oscillator an electronic test instrument used by sound engineers. One of HP's first customers was Walt Disney Studios.
Compaq Computer Corporation was formed after a 1982 meeting in a Houston, Texas pie shop. Together, employees in the new HP, share a passion for customers, an intense focus on teamwork, speed and agility, and a commitment to trust and respect for all individuals. Located 6 minutes from our hotel.
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| Apple
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On April 1, 1976 Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniack incorporated the Apple computer company. Apple I was Steven Wozniak's first contribution to the personal computer field. It debuted in April 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, but few took it seriously but with the introduction of Apple Disk II, the most inexpensive, easy to use floppy drive ever (at the time), Apple sales further increased, and by 1980, when the Apple III was released, Apple had several thousand employees, and was beginning to sell mass amounts of computers locally and abroad. Located 11 minutes from our hotel.
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| Santa Cruz Boardwalk |  |
The 96-year-old Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is a true West Coast treasure. It is California's oldest amusement park and a State Historic Landmark. Owned and operated by the Santa Cruz Seaside Company since 1915, the Boardwalk remains a family style amusement park creating memories that last a lifetime.
Rides aren't the only excitement at the Boardwalk - during park hours you can check out Climb & Conquer climbing wall, Venturer Simulator motion theater, 3-D Fun House, and much more. The Boardwalk Grand Arcades feature the largest selection and hottest video games around. Located 45 minutes from our hotel. |
Click here to visit the official site for Santa Cruz Boardwalk. |
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