On the north edge of Santa Clarita/Valencia, the new Courtyard by Marriott (opened 2007) is a full service, 145 room hotel with a restaurant/lounge/bar serving breakfast & dinner, a heated outdoor pool, hot tub, fitness center, business center, 24 hour market, guest laundry and 2 meeting rooms. The building is right next to interstate 5 (exit 172), though soundproofing makes all rooms quiet, and within 2.5 miles of the Magic Mountain amusement park. The nearest off site restaurants are about a mile to the south, along The Old Road.

Valencia's Holiday Inn Express is part of a group of modern hotels either side of I-5 exit 170 - the Magic Mountain Parkway, which leads up a hill to the famous amusement park, less than a mile away. Within 2 miles south, the interstate passes several other important sites including the Valencia Country Club, College of the Canyons and California Institute of the Arts. The Express has 120 large, quiet, east or west-facing rooms, with views either over the interstate towards the mountain, or of the outdoor pool & carpark. As with all Holiday Inn Express properties, free continental breakfast is served, but here the selection and quality are above average.

Right next to the Holiday Inn Express, the Best Western Valencia Inn occupies a spacious, treelined site on the east side of interstate 5, one mile from the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. Its 122 rooms are divided into three motel-style 2-floor blocks, large & clean if not particularly modern, and the hotel offers amenities of an outdoor pool, free continental breakfast & guest laundry. The nearest restaurant is a Denny's, next door; there are a few others on the west side of the interstate and an even better selection about a mile south in Valencia/Santa Clarita.