Visiting Orlando, Florida for your Family Trip
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For most people, Orlando is an image of theme parks, especially Disney World. In fact, it has much more things to offer. Downtown Orlando includes no major theme parks, but some additional great ideas for your enjoyment.
Getting There
The city is frequented by many tourists between June and August and another optimal time is the period between March and April. The best times to visit are those when there are less tourists. Orlando has balmy, warm springs and autumns, usually hot summers with regular thunderstorms and temperate winters. You can travel to Orlando by commercial air via Orlando International Airport. The airport is centrally located southeast of downtown Orlando.
Theme Parks and Shopping Centers
Orlando is a fantastic tourist destination because of the resorts and nearby amusement parks. In the City of Lake Buena Vista located near Orlando, is the Walt Disney World home, the largest private tourist vacation spot on the planet. It has two water parks, four theme parks, several hotels, eight golf courses, three shopping districts and much more. Alternate places are Universal Orlando Resort, SeaWorld Adventure Park Orlando, Aquatica, Discovery Cove, Holy Land and Gatorland.
If you are a shopaholic, you may visit the Mall at Millenia, Orlando’s most gorgeous and high end mall, featuring the most popular and posh brands. The Florida Mall is the greatest mall, located at the crossroads of Sand Lake Road and Orange Blossom. It is the home of over 200 shops and one certainly can’t visit it in only one day.
Eating Out and Entertainment
Eating out in Orlando is a difficult decision. There are several pubs, restaurants, bistros and fast food joints making it close to impossible not to find something to your liking Some of the recommended places to eat out are: Alexander’s, for contemporary American food, Calypso Bar and Grill, with a themed dinning inspired by Key West, Bubbalou’Bodacious for sandwiches and smoke delights, Rossi’s Pizza for the great taste of the 12 inch thin-crusted pepperoni or Stefano’s Trattoria, a Sicilian restaurant here Stefano himself walks around the tables and makes recommendations.
Orlando’s nightlife is mostly centered on Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard in downtown Orlando. On these streets one can find a lot of bars, or just a short walk away, is the minuscule Thornton Park District, positioned near the crossroads of Summerlin and Washington. Amongst several pubs and cafés, you may stop in for a quick bite and a drink at Dexter’s on Washington. Most of the downtown avenue crowd comprises of the twenty something crowd, but if you are in your thirties or more, you may experience the entertainment of live jazz on several evenings in the lounge of the Westin Grand Bohemian Hotel. It is here that the jazz is excellent and the ambience is relaxed.
Museums
There are also several museums in Orlando. Museums can be your answer to enjoying a perfect afternoon suitable for any art or history lover. Some museums to consider include; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Orlando Science Center, International Trolley and Train Museum, The Holy Land Experience or Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and Orlando Odditorium.
Botanical Gardens and Recreation Areas
You can experience long walks in some of the Orlando’s gardens and parks. The Arboretum of the University of Central Florida hosting an arboretum and botanical garden on over 80 acres contains over 600 species of plants. The Harry P. Leu Gardens is notorious worldwide since 1936 and is the home of the greatest rose garden in Florida.
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