The island of Cozumel lies 12 miles off Playa del Carmen on the east coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsular, 30 miles south of Cancun. Cozumel is 30 miles long and 9 miles wide, and this relatively flat island has an interior covered by parched scrub, ...
Viewed 6945 times.
|
Since I last wrote in the guide about Seaworld, there have two new significant additions! Firstly and the most important – a new baby killer whale (think it’s an orca but not sure). It is the 11th baby born in Seaworld since it opened some ...
Viewed 9023 times.
|
If you have children, and time to fit in a Disney cruise during your Orlando stay in a wonderful villa, then the Disney Dream could be just up your street. Disney already has two ships sailing out of Port Canaveral on the Atlantic coast, about an hou...
Viewed 6704 times.
|
If you haven’t visited Busch Gardens before, then you must try it on your next trip. The drive to Tampa is approximately one and a half hour from Kissimmee, but as driving in Orlando is easy you really won’t have any problems getting there. O...
Viewed 20605 times.
|
If you want a good night out I would recommend city walk at Universal. There are lots of places to go to you can either visit the movies. The theater has 20 screens so there is sure to be something you would want to see Or just have something ...
Viewed 8357 times.
|
Universal’s Islands of Adventure is a fantastic theme park made up of “five islands”. When you first enter the park if you head left the first Island you come to is “Marvel Super Hero Island” which is more suitable to older children as the ri...
Viewed 8230 times.
|
When you enter World Showcase from Future World, The American Adventure is directly across the Lagoon. It is the centre -most pavilion in the World Showcase and is flanked by Italy on the east and Japan on the west. If our group splits up we ...
Viewed 8512 times.
|
Four parks in one day? Is it possible? Most people would think that it wasn’t but, always up for a challenge, we thought it was worth giving it a go. It wouldn’t be possible to go on every ride, or visit every attraction in each park of course, but w...
Viewed 7697 times.
|
What’s so great about Universal Studios? Islands of Adventure 4
In the last part we had just visited Ripsaw Falls and got wet, well if you fancy something a bit more sedate and dry then why not visit Popeye’s Me Ship The Olive this is ...
Viewed 6452 times.
|
As you walk along Main Street, U. S. A. , toward Cinderella Castle, the first path on your left will bring you into Adventureland Here you will find an exotic combination of Africa, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Polynesia and the Caribbean. ...
Viewed 8385 times.
|
Wishes Fireworks and more! Amazing, awesome, fantastic, marvellous, incredible – just a small selection of the words I heard being exclaimed after we saw this display at Easter and none of them do justice to Disney’s newest night tim...
Viewed 11470 times.
|
It’s been quite a while since we have tried a new show in the Orlando area so we were really excited to give the new Universal Blue Man Group show a try. We felt it would be a bit intense for our 3 year old-but we did take in our 10 week old baby and...
Viewed 8436 times.
|
I am now of any age (sad, but true) when I can just remember what is now called The Golden Age of Hollywood. I cannot remember all of the 100 years that this new show is celebrating, but getting closer! !
The stars were really big stars the...
Viewed 6427 times.
|
Disney legend tells the
tale of a freak winter storm that dropped snow all over the western side
of the WDW resort! And as temperatures soared back the usual Orlando
temps and the snow began to melt, great slides etc wer...
Viewed 7432 times.
|
Review of Aquatica – Seaworld’s water park
Whilst me, my sister, my Nanna and my mum were in Orlando America one of our theme park choices was Aquatica. Aquatica is just around the corner from Sea World. First we parked the car, it cost $1...
Viewed 12252 times.
|
Hollywood Studios home to Disneys biggest building – but which one – read on to find that information and more… • Disney Hollywood Studios, the third theme park opened its doors in April 1989 and cost more than $500 million. It covers 231 acre...
Viewed 15307 times.
|
As villa owners we are frequently asked what do we do in Florida as we go there so often. When we first travelled to Florida we did not have children and we used to enjoy the beaches and parks as ‘big’ kids ourselves. As time went on we had our famil...
Viewed 7151 times.
|
This little gem is tucked around Crescent Lake between Hollywood Studios and Epcot theme parks. It echoes the Atlantic New England Resorts from the bygone era of the 40’s with it’s charming clapperboard style buildings and pretty ice cream colours an...
Viewed 8797 times.
|
As you enter Disney Hollywood Studio through the turnstiles onto the main street you are in Hollywood Boulevard where you will see lots of neon and chrome, art deco and modern architecture. Here you will find an assortment of “Streetsmosphere...
Viewed 8515 times.
|
On our recent holiday at our villa my Mother and I as usual woke about 4.30. Normally when this has happened in the past we sit and drink coffee and delight in being back at the villa and talk about how we want to spend our holiday. Last time...
Viewed 7312 times.
|
There are two courses attached to the Marriott at Sawgrass which is near Ponte Vedra, both designed by the famous golf course architect Pete Dye there is the Valley course and the famous players Stadium Course which is home to one of the best tournam...
Viewed 7601 times.
|
If you enjoy walking during your holiday and especially if you enjoy walking in the Old Floridan areas then this article will be right up your street!
One area I would like to recommend to you is Flat Island Preserve (The Daubermile Trail...
Viewed 7096 times.
|
Our favourite places to eat in Orlando area
When you visit Florida for the first time it can be very daunting trying to choose a place to eat, with so many restaurants everywhere you look and lots of unfamiliar chain restaurants (for us Br...
Viewed 7675 times.
|
Someone asked me the other day what my favourite Disney experience was?
Well that was a poser and I spent the best part of an evening flip flopping between all my many favourites.
It was while I was mentally checking through t...
Viewed 6910 times.
|
Festival Of The Lion King Join Simba, Timon, Pumba and a host of their jungle pals, in this spectacular musical production that puts you right into the heart of their tribal celebrations. Featuring state of the art lighting and sou...
Viewed 9312 times.
|