Orlando Travel Forum

Hi, I posted a question a couple of months back as I'm researching somewhere to stay on holiday next year. We are looking for a 3 bedroom property in a resort with facilities onsite - pool, restaurant etc. I came across the ginn reunion resort which looks fab! Has anyone stayed there? Or can anyone suggest something similar to this? Appreciate any suggestions, thanks.

So I'm planning a trip to Disney for the winter and I'm wondering if anyone knows of any good books for choosing restaurants, hotels, etc? There are so many books out there about Disney that I'm starting to feel overwhelmed...I recently bought a great book about the secrets of Disney called “The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World” by Susan Veness. It’s got a lot of secret facts about Disney and it walks you through all the attractions so it doubles as a guide to the park. I know it'll come in really handy while we're there. But I'm still looking for more info about where to stay/eat/shop/etc. Any suggestions??

I have finally confirmed our flights and know where we are staying!

Now to plan what we are doing when we get there, we are travelling 11 December - 8 January!

1, First, it's my friends birthday on New Years Eve? Any ideas of what to do It'll be 4-6 Adults and 4-5 Aged 5-16 Children! I am thinking most places book early so need some options to consider!

2, In 2004 when I bought my Disney Pass it included a free character breakfast, when I went in 2006 it didn't and we never got round to finding out how to book and how much it would be! Can anyone let me know?

3, Any info on the Disney Christmas Parties would be great - are they worth the additional cost?

4, What dates do the parks start getting busy over Christmas?

5, Do the Sales in the Malls start on Boxing Day or Jan 1st?

If anyone has any other ideas or info that might help I would be much obliged!

Hi

We'll be in Orlando for 10days in early Decemeber.
We will not be driving, any recommendation which area will be more convenient, International Drive, Buena vista or kissimmee?

Have anyone been to HGV International Drive, Vacation Village at Parkway, Orlando International Resort Club or Polynesian Isles? Any comments on these resorts? Are there any eating places, supermart, and shopping malls nearby?

Beside DisneyWorld, Universal Studios and IOA, we plan to go Richard Petty Driving Ride-along and Gatorland. May I know how can I get there?

Thanks in advance for all feedback and comments.

Hi,

i have been to Orlando quite a few times and have stayed in various places - I avoid I-drive like the plague though - hate really touristy areas!

We have stayed in a few places around Kissimmee and when I visited with work last year we stayed at the Lake Buena Vista Village (next to the factory outlets) and I was considering staing here again. 1 problem - I am staying for 28 nights and even with an ahents discount it's proving to be costly. $2750.00 for a 2 bed apartment and $3335.00 for a 3 bed! I am staying mid december to mid Jan so I am aware that it is over a peak time.

I liked this as an option as it's OK if you don't drive ( I drive, it's others in our pary that don't). If they don't want to rely on us it's only $20.00 in a taxi to Universal and they even do shuttles. And then theres the option to stay on resort and if you fancy a drink theres a separate bar just over the road. Theres also the shops in the outlet.

If we stay in a villa in Kissimmee it can get quite isolated as you have to drive everywhere and obviously you can't drink - if you are in a big group you always have to compromise when sharing a car! It's generally always been to expensive to use taxis to get anywhere in Kissimmee or Davenport.

Can anyone recommend and suites similar to the LBV Village? we require 2 or 3 bed suites.

We are taking our 8 year old boy for to Disney World for the first time for the last two weeks of October (2009). Couple of questions. What's the weather like at this time of year? We will be staying at the Radisson Hotel Orlando-Lake Buena Vista. Any comments on this hotel? Area? I appreciate any comments or anything that might help us make this a memorable trip. Thanks

Has anyone stayed at the Walt Disney Hotel - Dolphin or the Royal Plaza Hotel in downtown Disney area and/or experienced a 4-night cruise from Port Canaveral to the Bahamas (July)? Please share your experience about these hotels and any Royal Carribean cruise to the Bahamas.

Should I be concerned about a cruise from Port Canaveral, Florida to the Bahams in the month of July?

I appreciate your input. Thank you so much.

Hi



If you are to choose between going to Disnyland California or Disny world Orlando with 4 kids from November 20 to December 5 which one would you choose



Thanks so much

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We are planning a trip to Disney world Orlando this coming November 20,2009 for 7 days we are 2 adults and 4 kids ages 13,11,9,7 .

I like to know please what are the best 4 or 5 stars hotels with a good locations since that i am not driving .

thanks so much

Hello, Spending next week in Kissammee area and besides visits to both coast's beaches and a canoe day at Wakiwa State Park I want to take kids to a water park but don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for all 5 of us. Is there any State Parks that also have a water park/Wet Zone/ kids water activity or large public pool with that kind of water kid play zone type of thing?
Thanks Jim

About 15 years ago my nephew took me to Church Street Station in downtown Orlando. I have seen some comments that it is closed or no longer a good attraction. Has anyone gone there recently and is it worth going? 4th trip to Florida, did all the parks already as well as beaches but we never ventured into Orlando City. Any suggestions on what to see in the city for a family?
Jim

Hi

We are planning a trip to Disney world Orlando this coming November 20,2009 we are 2 adults and 4 kids ages 13,11,9,7 .

Could you please let me know if the weather is OK at this time of the year to visit Florida

thanks

Hello,

My husband and I are planning to go to Orlando over the Memorial weekend. This will be our first visiit to Florida
Can someone suggest where to start from in Orlando? We will be there for 5 days.I have booked the hotel and car
Since there are so many places to visit, if someone can suggest what are the "not to miss" places to visit for both of us..please note..no kids (we don't have any yet:))
Also, where can I buy discounted tickets for the places you suggest?

thank you in advance.

Hiya, We are planning a trip to Florida next year from the UK, and want to hire a villa near Disney etc. Have heard the gated communities are a good choice. We would like one that maybe has a restaurant / bar onsite but having problems finding anything on the net. Don't know if these facilities are available? Does anyone have any suggestions? Can anybody recommended the best resort to stay? Thanks for any help

Hiya im traveling to orlando next month and my friend told me you had to have a machine readable passport, please can you tell me if this is trure, because i dont have this on my passport as i hav had my passport since 2003

Hiya we have just booked and paid for a holiday with travel city direct, i was just wondering has anyone traveled with them before since virgin bought them when they went under

Hello

We are visiting Orlando over the Xmas Period. Can someone please advise me what type of weather we would be able to expect?

Many thanks

Hiya cab anyone tell me what the weather eill be like in july in orlando ?

hiya im going away on holiday to orlando, and was wondering if anyone can tell me of average how much a burger,drink and stuff is in $ please as im trying to work out my spending budget.

thanx xxx

Hi,

I'm due to be coming to Orlando in a couple of weeks and then heading on to Miami afterwards. I've got a couple of questions that I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out with please !!

1) - I am looking to stay at the Fairfield Inn and Suites (on Canada Avenue) and was wondering if someone could tell me the best way to get there from the airport. Would it be a taxi ?? And if so, do you have any idea of the approximate cost ?? Or is there some sort of hotel shuttle bus option ??

2) - When I head down to Miami after a week in Orlando, the obvious option is to just hire a car. However, I'm just wondering if there are any other options such as train or bus ?? I don't suppose someone can say whether these options exist ?? And are they any good ?? And how close to the hotel that I mention are the relevant stations or pick-up points ??

Any help is great and thanks again in advance...

Darren

Hello all! I need help deciding between staying at the All-Star Music resort or the Pop Century one. Any tips/advice?? Thanks!

Thinking about going to florida in july and renting a villa for 2 or 3 days. Would like to know since i read it,if you have to pay a $500 security deposit for this amount of time? Has anyone stayed at the Vista Cay villa and what was that like? Thank you

I am travelling to florida later in the summer, and travel agents are highlighting the prepaid cash passports - the new alternative to the travellers cheque. These cards are visa electron cards and i have been told this is different to the plain old visa card. The visa electron is a pre paid card loaded with your travel money, and this is debitted as you pay. Unlike a visa card that is a credit card. Could anyone out there tell me how widely the visa electroncard could be used in florida and especially around the disney area?

We go to Orlando, for the kids to have fun. We are Belgians and enjoy fine food.

In San Francisco we loved the fusion kitchen restaurants, are there tables like that around Orlando.

I was in Daytona, years ago. We ate Mexican at a very big, but refined place, It was if my memory serves me well, not far from the race-track. The good thing about it, that is was not the Taco-burrito joint, but they served really special things, like special seafood. It was a very popular place at the time, don't know if it still excist and if there is a similar place in Orlando!

Our favourite cuisine is Thaî. i go every year to Thailand to eat the royal kitchen food. Some really good Thai's you can recommend? We are a bit West of Disney....

Hello,
I will be heading to Orlando the last week of May with 5 other friends, ages 21-22. We're staying at the Summer Bay Resort which is very close to Disney and offers free shuttles. We are a little bit concerned about other sites though, such as golf courses and nightlife which may not be as accessible without a car. Cars are an extra $25 / day if you aren't 25!

Does Orlando have affordable cabs that will be available on short notice? Or a good bus system? We figured splitting cabs 5 ways wouldn't be so bad, but we are also aware that 5 people don't fit in regular cabs. Will calling cabs slow us down significantly?

Also, although we will go to a Disney park or two, we would also like to incorporate some drinks and nightlife into our vacation without offending the families. We aren't the clubbing type, but like to go out and have a good time. What kind of entertainment would you suggest, preferably somewhat near the Disney area?

Thanks!

Can anybody tell me how Aquatica compares to the Disney water parks? I have been to Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach. I'm wondering if my kids aged 11,8 and 6 will have a good time at Aquatica or if we should revisit the Disney water parks which we enjoyed last year.

I want to make a reservation for a character breakfast and lunch for my trip to Disneyworld in May. I wondered if anybody could recommend a breakfast/lunch. I have two boys aged 6 and 8 and an 11 year old girl. We are not too bothered about which characters we dine with (obviously nothing too girly). If you have had a good experience somewhere, I would be grateful for your comments. We are vegetarian but I guess Disney will cater for this. Many thanks...

Hi all, I'm hoping you guys can help me to narrow down my options a bit. My wife and I will be visiting Orlando in May and as two kids who's barely grown up, Disney World is of course top of our todo list.

But then there are so many other parks that we'd love to see and we will only have five days to spend in the Orlando area. After consulting many travel guides and soliciting personal recommendations, we've identified these 6 parks as the ones we'd definitely like to visit:

Magic Kingdom
Animal Kingdom
Epcot
MGM Studios
Kennedy Space Center
Sea World

Problem is, that is one more park that we have days. So I was thinking we could visit two of these parks for only half a day and so squeeze 6 parks into 5 days. Would anyone care to suggest which of these two parks would be best visited in half a day and which we definitely don't want to spend less than a full day at?

Also, are there any other parks that you feel one should not miss out on? Just remember that with every new park recommendation our choices gets tougher ;-) Aaah well, I guess those are nice problems to have.

Thanks in advance.

I am staying at the Sheraton Vistana the week of May 12 and hope to catch either of the launches on May 12 or May. 15. Now, I received an email from KSC saying the launch transportation tickets and some of the launch viewing tickets have already been sold out. How do I book the tickets for viewing the launch from the visitor complex. How do I get from the resort to the complex? (I decided not to rent a car after reading that traffic can be quite horrible especially on the day of the launch.) Has anyone does this before. It is a bit of a scramble right now, since the mail says the tickets go on sale on Apr 3 morning.

Please help me out.

Thanks a ton.

Hi, we are from Pennsylvania and we never went to any kind of church or worship services on our previous Florida vacations but want to this year. Does anyone have websites of churches on the lower side of Orlando or the Kissammee area. We are staying at Sunset Lakes community off 192 near the Disney parks. About 12 years ago I was visiting my nephew while I was at a training conference and he took me to a sort of Shopping Mall, theater where they had a full rock band and worship music. I am sort of looking for that type of thing, relaxed, visitor friendly, not too charasmatic, just a good sermon and worship opportunity.