Originally Posted by whimike

Frankly, after a long flight the last thing I would want to do is have to deal with transferring to a train station, take the train up, then have to find a taxi to get me to the hotel.

If it was me, I would consider to rent a car, stop off to have dinner in San Jose, then drive up to the hotel afterwards with minimal traffic and drop off the car at a city location (due to the hour you will have to keep the car overnight and drop off the next day).