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What to book before you travel to San Jose?

Most visits can be booked on the spot. A few sell out days ahead. Here they are, stop by stop, with what you can do without booking underneath. Keep the rest of your time free.

Trip length
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5 activities to book

San Jose

Days 1-7
Days 1-7Winchester Mystery HouseA 160-room Victorian mansion that Sarah Winchester, widow of the rifle heir, kept enlarging from 1886 to 1922, full of stairs leading to the ceiling and doors opening onto nothing.€16Book on GetYourGuide →
Days 1-7Computer History MuseumOne of the world's largest museums of computing, in Mountain View, tracing 2,000 years of calculation from the abacus to the Cray-1, an Apple I and Google's first home-made servers.paid entry ticketBook on GetYourGuide →
Days 1-7The Tech InteractiveDowntown San Jose's hands-on science and technology museum, where you design a robot, code a game or study cells in a biology lab, before ending up under the IMAX dome.€33Book on GetYourGuide →
Days 1-7Rosicrucian Egyptian MuseumAn unexpected collection of Egyptian antiquities assembled by an esoteric order in a building inspired by the Temple of Amun at Karnak, with mummies, sarcophagi and a replica Old Kingdom tomb.€13Book on GetYourGuide →
Days 1-7Big Basin Redwoods State ParkCalifornia's oldest state park, created in 1902 to save the coast redwoods, where most of the giants survived the 2020 fire and trails pass trees more than 1,000 years old.€5Book on GetYourGuide →

No booking needed: Stanford University · Apple Park Visitor Center · Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

All activities in San Jose on GetYourGuide

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Frequently asked questions

How much do the activities to book in San Jose cost?

5 activities are paid; 4 have a known price in euros, for about €67 per person. The others are paid on the spot or in local currency: the price is on each card.

What can you do in San Jose without booking anything?

3 visits on this itinerary need no ticket or time slot, starting with Stanford University, Apple Park Visitor Center, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. They make up most of your days: booking ahead only concerns a handful of sites with limited places.

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