Terranea Resort is conveniently located 20 miles from the Los Angeles International and Long Beach airports and 30 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. This oceanfront destination is also about 45 minutes away from the top cultural, entertainment and sport centers found in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The hotel features world class swimming pools with one particularly geared towards families and children with its 140-foot water slide. The Tide Pool kids' club offers the young guests a number of supervised activities such as arts and crafts, tide pool exploration and nature trail walks. Other premier pools of the hotel include an adult-only pool and a spa pool.
Being located in a premier family and beach destination in the Greater Los Angeles Area, the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa highlights their children-friendly amenities with the Slyders water playground, which features three water slides dropping into two splash pools, a ribbon shaped main pool and a shallow children's wading pool. The hotel also offers two fire pits perfect for roasting marshmallows poolside over open flame, a poolside cafe serving smoothies and other refreshments and nine private cabanas complete with flat-screen TVs and wireless Internet. All the resort amenities complement the hotel's Pacific oceanfront setting and the natural sights of indigenous plants and palm trees.
With Anaheim's series of hotels mostly offering kid-friendly amenities, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa features one of the most renowned swimming pools with water slides and Jacuzzi in the area. All hotel guests benefit from complimentary services such as free transportation and early entrance admission to Disneyland Parks. They also have direct access to the California Adventure Theme Park. All rooms have extra family provisions like portable cribs, in-room child care and laundry facilities.
Palm Desert's Marriott's Shadow Ridge I-The Villages offers a number of spacious and elegantly appointed one- to two-bedroom villas that can accommodate up to eight guests. Each villa provides open living and dining areas, fully-equipped kitchen, master suite with over-sized soaking tub and an option of either a private balcony or terrace. Guests can also enjoy any of the hotel's heated pools and pool with water slide, along with the on-site Faldo Golf Institute by Marriott, an exclusive golf course and training center offered in selected Marriott hotels.