Lakeland - Winter Haven hotels

Haines City
Part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven metro area, Haines City is mainly residential. In recent years, Haines City has grown as a tourist destination due to its easy access to Orlando and its theme parks. The city also has a new golf and country home with vacation and residential homes nearby.

Lake Wales
Part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven metro area, Lake Wales was part of central Florida's building boom, with a historic downtown to prove it. It is also home to Spook Hill, a sort of optical illusion that makes a car in neutral seems as though it is traveling uphill.

Lakeland
A boom town during railroad construction in the late 1800s through to the 1920s, Lakeland in central Florida is still home to many significant buildings from that time period, many of which are on the National Register of Historical Places. During the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright designed Florida Southern College's campus. It is the largest one-site collection of Wright works in the world.

Plant City
Halfway between Brandon and Lakeland, Plant City is famous for its yearly Strawberry Festival, which draws visitors from throughout the US and worldwide.

Winter Haven
Part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven metro area, Winter Haven is best known as being the home of Cypress Gardens, a theme park.