
|
 |
|
|
 |
Best of Orlando |
|
 |
With some 48 million visitors a year, Orlando is America's unrivaled champion of family-friendly vacations and a titan among trade show and convention hosts. But while the region claims seven of the world's ten most-visited theme parks, it's also dotted with charming villages and vestiges of dignified living that seem to clamor in vain for attention.
|
Read entire article here |
|
|
Use this interactive map to explore the sights and hotels that await you in Orlando. Click on a neighborhood to see the hotels in that area.
 | | What to Expect |
 |  |  | | When to go | | Want to avoid large crowds in Orlando? Try visiting from early September until just before Thanksgiving; from the week after Thanksgiving through mid-December; or the weeks before and after school spring vacations. January is also a good time to visit. |  |  | | Are we there yet? | Flight times 2.5 hours from New York City, 3.5 hours from Chicago, 5 hours from Los Angeles
Drive times 1.5 hours from Tampa, 3.5 hours from Miami, 7.5 hours from Atlanta |  |  | | Must-see sights | | Theme parks: Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Orlando® Resort
SeaWorld and Discovery Cove: For close encounters with marine animals
International Drive (I-Drive): The tourist strip, offering theme restaurants, shopping, and attractions
Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, located 45 minutes east of Orlando |  |
|  |
 |  |  | | | Avoid having to stand in line at the ticket booth: Purchase your theme-park tickets and other attraction tickets when you book your flight and hotel with Expedia.
If you travel from the airport during rush hour (7–9 AM and 4–6 PM), you may experience delays of up to an hour or more, but at other times, it takes 30–40 minutes. |  |
|  |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|