Saturday, August 7, 2010

Orlando

A long long time ago...

We've spent the last four days in Orlando. Orlando has not much to see except the parks - that's what we did.

We arrived on Monday and searched for a hotel/motel/hostel for a while. The cheapest to find was the Days Inn (a hotel room that is actually cheaper that the 8 room mixed hostel in NY :-P) and opposite to all our expectations it was even clean ;-)

So what to do for the next day? We had to return our car at the airport at noon so we still had half a day to spent doing anything. The airport of Orlando is full of park shops: 2x Universal, 2x Disney, 2x Seaworld, 2x Kennedy Space Center (I forgot to write that we have been there as well...)
So we went to the Universal Shop first and bought a 2-day ticket there. The park is open until 9 p.m. so there was more than enough time to see one part the same day.

Universal Studios
We returned our car a bit early so we arrived at the Universal Studios at noon. The Universal Resort contains two parks: The Adventure Park and the Studios.

I actually thought that we would see some movie stuff in the Studios park but there were more or less "just" other attractions. They were fun too, but they didn't have that much to do with movies (most of them had just the name of a movie :-P).
OK, to be fair: The Simpson's Ride is very much fun :-D

We spent the whole afternoon in the park and went home at 9 p.m. when the park closed.

Universal Adventure Park
The next day we walked to the park again (after we found out that our hotel was more or less directly next to the park ;-) )

The Adventure Parks consists mostly of rollercoasters and of course: The Harry Potter park. This park was really crowded. Fortunately, we arrived early in the morning and waited "only" 75 minutes to go into Hogwarts. Hogwarts is great! Everything looks the same as in the movies. They even had the talking frames at the walls.

We spent the rest of the day riding rollercoasters and waiting in lines. There were only a few lines that were shorter than 60 minutes :-\

Disney Hollywood Studios
Next day, next park... We went to the Disney Resort. Disney has 6 parks to visit. Every park takes about 1 day to see everything. We decided to go to the Hollywood Studios (what a surprise ;-) ). There where actually movie things to see :-D Simulators, rollercoasters, behind the scenes, the Disney costume factory, ... there was a lot of movie stuff to see and it was great!

So, one day left in Orlando, where to go now? One more day in Disney? SeaWorld? Aquatica?

SeaWorld
We decided to go to SeaWorld. There are mostly shows to see there, but since we already had 3 days of rollercoasters behind us, so it's time to do something else ;-)
The shows were cool. Killer whales, dolphins, MANATEEEEEES, turtles, birds, cats, dogs, rats and even a pig :-D

Once again, we spent the whole day in the park and were both quite tired when we returned to the hotel.

Today we travel up to Washington DC. We are waiting at the airport right now and wait for our flight. We will have our own personal guide in Washington due to Woody's connections :-D I'm really looking forward to this city.

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