Blogs from Orlando, Florida, United States, North America - page 69

A trip to Walt Disney theme parks is a dream for many kids. But I ain't no kid. So what was I doing there during a couple of days before Christmas? Well Walt Disney parks in Florida are one of the top tourist destinations in the work. Millions visit every year. Christmas holiday time is more crowded than other times of the year, I think. The lights, decorations and festivities surrounding the holidays make it a little more special. So I was curious. After a really long road trip to Everglades and Florida Keys during Thanksgiving holidays in Nov, maybe I was a little reluctant to drive again to Florida in less than a month. But having not gotten any good deals for flights to anywhere in US, here I was, ready to drive from DC ... read more

Christmas eve 6pm ... our travel day we leave for London in route to Madrid! TravelMap The adventure begins! Day 1 Orlando airport and our flight is 2 hours late. Darn... and I forgot 2 check that ahead of time, so here we sit in our home airport. Oh well, no worries, it just shortens the 3 hour wait we have for our London flight to Madrid. LESSON LEARNED .... Always check ur international flight BEFORE u leave home. But waiting here is no real problem since ..hey..we gotta wait somewhere. We came pretty close to getting a seat upgrade. The flight has only 50 people, so we asked for the upgrade, the line attendant was trying to get us to her cousin at the counter..she had said 'why not?..its Christmas!' But another attendant was available ... read more

Suite de notre week-end "décollage de shuttle reporté". A environ 1h de route du Cap Kennedy se trouve la ville d'Orlando et tous ses célèbres parcs d'attractions. Cet endroit est vraiment surprenant. Sur des dizaines de km², il n'y a que de l'amusement ! Dans les parcs et aussi en dehors. Nous avons choisi Magic Kingdom Disney. Féerique ! Nous sommes restés dans le parc de 9h du matin jusqu'à minuit, comme deux grands enfants. A la différence de Paris, l'accent est plutôt mis sur la reconstitution d'univers entiers sortis des studios Walt Disney et sur l'interactivité, on participe beaucoup aux attractions.... read more

Obfuscator writes: We left Savannah a bit later than we had planned, but since we didn't really have anything on our itinerary other than getting to Cape Canaveral, it didn't end up mattering. The drive was moderately annoying, mostly because it's all construction between Savannah and there. It took a few hours, but nothing too unreasonable. When we got near Cape Canaveral, we stopped at a barbeque place for lunch. It wasn't great, but it was all right for an all you can eat. Following that, we headed out to the Kennedy Space Center, to pick up our tickets. This was relatively trouble free, aside from slow people with bizarre questions in front of us in line. The launch passes also function as basic tickets to see the Visitors Complex, and they're good for two days. ... read more

Leaving the Keys, we drove to our next destination -- a time-share in Orlando. Turned out that each of us got our own suite for a room! Irene & Carl (Nicole's folks) were in Orlando, so we met them for dinner that evening, then later tried to watch a movie. Had a bit of troubles with the surround sound, so 2 guys came out to fix it from maintinence. Took probably 20+ minutes, and it was already 11pm, so Carl & Irene went back to their hotel. We decided to meet the next day at Disney Animal Kingdom around 9am. For the next few days, we explored Animal Kingdom, Disney MGM, Epcot, and the Magic Kingdom together. The sun was out full-strength, but it felt great. We went on every ride we could; some four or ... read more