This page will hopefully provide you with some further information on the huge amount of things to do in the region, as well as provide you with some useful links to sites we personally use to obtain flights and car hire.

We have 20 + years experience of holidaying in Orlando and this page can only begin to scratch the surface in what there is available, so if you require any information about anything contact us and we will try our best to help.

Attractions / Theme Parks

Florida is the attraction capital of the world for good reason. Disney is only 10 minutes away from the villa, then you have Sea World and the two Universal parks within a 25 minute drive, and Busch Gardens is only an hours drive west along the I-4.

Click on the links below to take a look at the parks web sites full of information

Walt Disney World Official Web site

Universal Studios Official Web site

Sea World Official Web site

Busch Gardens Official Web site

Weather

Florida's is known as the sunshine state and is semi tropical so there is never a bad time to visit.

Expect hot and humid days and nights with an afternoon thunderstorm during the summer months (June - September), very warm and less humid days with less rain during the spring (March - May) and autumn (October - November), and warm sunny days with cooler nights during the winter months (December - February)

Food

Orlando offers a huge selection of restaurants catering for all your needs, ranging from McDonalds, KFC and Subway, IHOP, Dennys, Shoney's, and Wendy's also some of the top specialist restaurants in world. There is simply something for every one only minutes from the villa. Eating out is as generally as cheap as eating in so you can treat yourself every night.

If you decide you want to stay in and use the villas excellent cooking facilities a Publix supermarket is only a 3-4 minute drive away, and close by you will find various other super and hyper markets including 3 WalMarts within a 10 minute drive.

Shopping

Orlando and the surrounding area offer some of the best shopping opportunities in the world. Within 30 minutes drive from the villa you can find the huge Florida Mall (265 stores), the new Mall at Millennia (150 stores including Macys, and Bloomingdales), and the designer outlets at Orlando Premium Outlets (110 designer stores). As well as the malls there are literally thousands of different places to shop along International Drive, the 192, and all around the parks, including Market Place that includes the worlds largest Disney store The World of Disney.

Flight and Car Hire

Getting to Orlando by air is easy as it is served by 2 major airports, Orlando International Airport, and Sanford International Airport. Almost all the major scheduled airlines fly in to Orlando International Airport, and from the UK almost all charter flights will fly in to Sanford. Both airports have all the major car hire companies on site, so hiring a car is easy once you arrive. Car hire is essential in Orlando as everything is so spaced out.

The price of flights vary greatly through out the year, and are highest when schools are out. Our best advice is if possible book out side school breaks, be flexible on dates, and shop around.

For us here in the UK we find the Travel Super Market web site a good base to search for the best deals out there.

The Travel Super Market Web site