Local Area Guide

Activities and Attractions

Lake Eola Park in Orlando

Discover Lake Eola Park, a super beautiful park in Orlando and open to the public. Lake Eola is full of trees and such, with a lake in the middle that you can upgrade the park and buy plants and even rent. The park is located in Downtown Orlando and is perfect to rest, feel or be pure and vary a little from the routine of amusement parks in Orlando. If you can take an extra day out of your trip to just explore, hike, run or relax at Lake Eola Park, we guarantee it will be worth it. Lake Eola Park is beautiful, safe and very peaceful in the heart of Orlando. That means you can still visit the promenade and experience other wonderful local attractions found in one of the wonderful restaurants and cafes found in Downtown

Disney Parks

In the Disney complex there are 4 theme parks and 2 aquatic:

Universal Parks

In the Universal complex, there are 2 theme parks and 1 aquatic:

SeaWorld

As a result of being very controversial and criticized by a large part of tourists because of exploitation and mistreatment of animals, SeaWorld has been reinventing itself. In recent years, they have announced that they will no longer create new whales and will gradually change the experience offered with these animals.

In addition, SeaWorld has created attractions that go beyond marine life. This is the case of some of the most radical roller coasters in Orlando, Kraken, Manta and Mako. The famous whale and dolphin shows continue there attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, as well as the exhibits of animals such as dolphins, turtles and stingrays.

For children, an entire area dedicated to Sesame Street is usually a hit with the little ones.

Legoland

Located 40 minutes from Orlando, Legoland is perhaps the only park that doesn't please tourists of all ages. This is because the focus of the park is clearly children from 2 to 10 years. Maybe even 12, but not beyond that. Adults really have nothing to enjoy in the park, precisely because it was created for the children, so every bit of it is perfectly made for them. When we went to visit, I kept thinking about how much fun I'd be having if I was seven. So here's the tip: if you're not going with kids to Orlando, don't worry about visiting Legoland.

Kennedy Space Center

Despite being called a park, the Kennedy Space Center looks much more like an interactive museum than a theme park. Built around one of NASA's research, training and rocket launch centers, the U.S. special agency, the Kennedy Space Center is a park for space lovers. There visitors can watch 3D movies on the subject, meet real rockets, walk through the control centers of space missions and even chat and have lunch with an astronaut.

Shopping

Orlando offers some of the best outlets and malls in the world for shopping, plus numerous department stores with excellent prices and qualities. It is possible to buy items from designer brands at considerably cheaper prices.

Usually on public holidays outlets offer larger discounts. The day before and a day later too. That's because outlets know that these days the movement is bigger and want to make the most of promotions to move sales.