Located in Mountain View, the heart of Silicon Valley, Hotel Avante^® salutes the spirit of creativity and invention. Our custom made Avante desk has been designed to serve both sides of your brain; the left side contains office supplies to support your work life and the right side is equipped with a Yo-Yo, Etch A Sketch and Rubik's Cube so you can exercise the creative side of your brain.

Or, you can unleash your inner decorator with furniture on wheels. After a day of meetings, grab a local ale at the wine and beer hour and relax by the heated pool, or chill out in the Hi-Fi lounge and read Wired magazine. Whether you're here for work or play, you'll enjoy the innovative details that make this a unique experience.

Top Reasons to Stay at Hotel Avante

• Complimentary breakfast
  
• Weekday evening reception featuring local ales and wines
  
• Outdoor pool with hot tub and fitness room
  
• Hi-Fi music listening lounge
  
• Fun "executive toy box" to stimulate your creativity in every room
  
• Named in the "Chic Geek Hotels Around the World" list by Wired Magazine for making a "big play for big players."

Business friendly

We provide complimentary shuttle service to companies within a 10-mile radius of the hotel, Monday through Friday.

A Green Hotel

The Hotel Avante is certified by the county of Santa Clara as a Bay Area Green Business. By implementing green practices such as water conservation, solid waste recycling and reduction, energy conservation, and pollution prevention, the Hotel Avante not only complies with the Bay Area Green Business Standards policies, but also goes a step further to improve and protect our environment.

Joie de Vivre Gives

Joie de Vivre Hotels is a grass roots organization that strives to have a positive impact on our community. Each of our hotels is dedicated to donating at a minimum $200 per guest room per year to organizations in their communities. Examples of these donations include gift certificates for hotel stays or dinner for two at one of our restaurants, donating meeting space and food to a non-profit for fundraising events or meetings, organizing an event to raise money for an organization, donating employee hours for time volunteered, or cash donations.

As part of our philanthropic efforts at Hotel Avante, we have partnered with two local organizations.
1) Lucile Packard Children's Hospital's "Hotels with a Heart" Program providing lodging for financially limited families of patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and

2) Community Services Agency which provides vital social services (including Emergency Help, Senior Services, Alpha Omega Homeless Services and Holiday Sharing programs) to people in our local community.

Location

Hotel Avante is located in Mountain View, California in the heart of Silicon Valley. It is 26 miles south of San Francisco International airport, 11 miles north of San Jose International Airport, 35 miles from Oakland Airport, 35 miles north of Santa Cruz, 10 miles from Stanford University, 4 miles from Shoreline Amphitheater, 7.5 miles from California's Great America, 10 miles from the Winchester Mystery House, 10.5 miles from Mountain Winery, 14 miles from the San Jose Convention Center and 7.5 miles from the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Guestroom Amenities

• Egyptian cotton linens
• Free high speed Internet access (wired and wireless) Two-line cordless speaker phone with Voicemail and dataport
  
• Entertainment: Cable TV, Pay-per-view movies and stereos (iPod docking stations included in upgraded guestrooms)
  
• Executive Toy Box: Rubik's Cube, Yo-Yo, cards, Etch-A-Sketch, Slinky, 15 puzzles and gyroscope
  
• Custom furnishings
• Writing desk
  
• Complimentary high speed Internet access Two-line cordless speaker phone with voicemail and dataport
  
• Coffee maker
  
• Honor bar
  
• Iron and board
  
• Hairdryer
  
• Makeup mirrors
  
• Bathrobes
  
• Electronic lock
  
• A/C
  
• Upgraded rooms include: turn down service, rainfall showerheads, iPod docking station stereos and upgraded terry, robes, slippers and hair dryers
  
• Hotel Avante is a non-smoking hotel