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If you need to get away for a day, Santana Row in San Jose is a shopping center for starters, but offers movies, concerts, nightlife, and a hotel all in one walkable complex.

For starters, the shops and boutiques include Loft, Gucci, Diesel, Franco Uomo, Cole Hahn, Chico’s, Brooks Brothers, Flying Lizard Designs, Anne Fontaine, Anthropologie, kate spade new york, Free People, Lucy, Madwell, Oakley, Smith Adler, Pink Stripes, Salvatore Ferragamo, St. Croix, Ted Baker, The Blue Jean Bar, Splendid, Tommy Bahama and many more.

Then there’s the restaurants–close to 30 of them serving Mexican, Italian, Indian, steaks, desserts, Irish, vegetarian, Mediterranean, pizza, sushi and countless culinary treats. Many have a nightclub atmosphere and light up with evening entertainment such as bands performing. In the summer there are a free concerts in the courtyard you can enjoy under the stars, as well!

When you’re done shopping, dining, partying, playing and pampering yourself with a spa treatment, relax and stay at the on-site Hotel Valencia overlooking it all.  It’s a simple vacation worth about a day of relaxation. If you feel like you need to escape and maybe even leave your loved ones behind for a little R&R all on your own, Santana Row offers the right mix of things to do on a 24 hour escape. See: santanarow.com