Silicon Valley Hotels & Intel Museum, San Francisco California

Grosvenor Suites puts you in easy access too the most technically advanced areas. You can take a "Silicon Valley" tour which provides a searching look at this ingeniously cobbled nexus of our global communications future. Grosvenor Suites, one of the top Silicon Valley hotels, keeps up with the current trends in technology offering secure online reservations for anyone with a computer and internet access.

From the beginning of IT-history, a great deal of the IT key-solutions have been reaching worldwide market from California's Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is an area that is located on the San Francisco, California, peninsula, the area radiates outward from Stanford University. It is contained by the San Francisco Bay on the east, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Coast Range to the southeast.  Fruit orchards used to dominate the area and was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight.

While staying with Grosvenor Suites you might want to start the day with a drive to the Intel Museum, for an hour at this exceptionally well-designed space featuring the history of, the concepts behind, and the design and manufacture of microchips, the essential core of every computer. What is a microchip? A microprocessor is an integrated circuit built on a tiny piece of silicon. It contains thousands, or even millions, of transistors, which are interconnected via superfine traces of aluminum.

You can enjoy a student docent-led tour of the architecturally distinctive, multi-faceted campus of Stanford University, the intellectual wellspring of much of the Valley's innovation. About 40 years ago, Stanford University had some financial problems. The authorities of university tried to solve the problems by leasing part of the university land to high-tech companies for 99 years.

Following lunch at a memorable local restaurant, you can catch the current IMAX release at the new Technology Museum in downtown San Jose, whose exhibit halls emphasize the innumerable roles computers play in our workaday lives.

By mid-afternoon several options are available: a guided tour of heiress Sara Winchester's Mystery House, an eccentric yet technologically avant-garde Victorian mansion and grounds; an exploration of ancient creativity at the Rosicrucian Museum, the most complete and compellingly displayed gallery of ancient Egyptian artifacts on the West Coast; or quick stops at Apple's or Oracle's stunning headquarters.

Grosvenor Suites offers access to tomorrows technology leaders. If all this technology is over powering your senses, then you can always return too you fully furnished suite and relax.