The girls are shocked when the ’special’ lunch their parents promised them is actually on a cruise ship!

40 featured road bike rides, from easy rambles to long, difficult challenge rides make this a great book for any cyclist interested in seeing the sunshine state.

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Road Biking™ Florida features forty-two carefully designed rides throughout the state, from Navarre Beach, Okefenokee, and Atlantic Beach in the north to Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and the Keys in the south, and Tampa Bay and the Cape Canaveral seashore in between. Highlighting not only the unique features of the road but also the people, the ecology, and the history of the areas covered, local cyclist Rick Sapp provides a sampling of Florida’s diverse offerings. Enjoy halcyon rides under hammocks of oak draped with Spanish moss as well as edgy rides so uptown that your eyes may blur at the endless series of stops and turns.  Look inside to find:• Detailed maps and directions• Rides for every fitness level and ability, from easy 25-mile rambles to mor (more…)

Videoclips and Pictures from our 4 Night Cruise on Board the Disney Wonder to Castaway Cay and Nassau. 9 Minutes for Disneymaniacs.

Flyfishers will finally have detailed comprehensive information on the hundreds of excellent fisheries for everything from black bass and stripers to shad, pickerel, crappie, gar and a host of other warmwater species ?even some great opportunities to take saltwater denizens like snook, redfish, and flounder in brackish inland waters. Famous lakes like Okeechobee, Lake George, and Lake Kissimmee and rivers like the enormous St. John?s and Apalachicola are just the tip of the iceberg. Veteran angling author, Larry kinder details the best flyfishing in hundreds of lesser-known waters as well. As always this book includes detailed travel information, along with the best fly patterns and tactics for taking fish.

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The AquaDuck water coaster will sweep guests on a 765-foot high-speed flume ride with uphill acceleration and a swing-out loop letting you look down to the ocean 150 feet below. While you’ll have to wait until 2011, when Disney Cruise Line launches the Disney Dream, to experience the “real” AquaDuck, this video will give you the virtual experience.

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…Lonely Planet for honesty, history, irreverence and budget.’ –Esquire

From wrecks to reefs, the Florida Keys offer a treasure trove of diving opportunities, for advanced divers and novices alike. This book describes the best dives in the region, from Biscayne Bay to the Dry Tortugas.In This Guide:Detailed dive information to 64 sites.Full-color photos throughout.Maps of dive regions.Guide to marine life.Travel logistics and topside attractions.

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Florida can be divided into seven distinct regions, each corresponding to specific geographic and cultural criteria. Marshy Everglades, and tropical Keys occupy the south, while the vacation capital of Miami rises along the east coast. From the extravagant Gilded Age of manses and fantastic beaches of the Gold and Treasure Coasts to the amusement parks of Orlando, and St. Augustine’s Spanish-Colonial era architecture in the Northeast, Florida is a region of stark contrasts. For (more…)

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“Browsing through the pages of “The Walt Disney World Trivia Book” is almost as much fun as being there!” — The Bookwatch on December 2004″Fascinating… great for keeping road trip companions entertained… or perking everyone up if travel fatigue sets in.” — Mark Sedenquist, RoadTripAmerica.com, 10/3/04″Mongello brings the “magic” to life.” — Seton Hall Magazine, Fall 2005Anyone who is lucky enough to pick up Mongello’s book will find it to be very entertaining. — Mike (more…)

Hundreds of thousands of people vacation in Orlando every year; many come for the entertainment. Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World and Animal Kingdom are just a few of the theme parks located here. Everyone is a kid when it comes to the theme-parks, and trying to figure out which ride to take next, or which show to take in later becomes your only worry.

While the major Orlando entertainment parks are the magnet, along with their non-stop nightlife and linked attractions, there is no shortage of other Orlando highlights and attractions. Theaters, parks, restaurants, museums, shopping, golfing, anything you could want is here. State parks and national forests dot the landscape north of Orlando and huge lakes lie in wait to the south, providing opportunities for hiking, trail riding, camping, fun on the water and bush walking.

Orlando is home to more than 95 attractions; 300 lakes, springs and rivers; 150 golf courses; 800 tennis courts; over 50 million square feet of shopping space; more than 115,000 rooms in luxury resorts, themed hotels and economy motels; 4,500 restaurants and 180 annual special events.

Downtown Orlando has a vibrant nightlife, with over 40 bars, restaurants and nightclubs within a three or four block radius of the intersection of Central Avenue and Orange Avenues.

Orlando is bang in the middle of Central Florida which is defined as a “band” that stretches across the Florida peninsula between the gulf coast towns of Cedar Key and Punta Gorda across to the Atlantic coastal towns of Daytona and Vero Beach. Central Florida has fabulous weather all-year round, with mild winters, and hot, sunny summer months, so you will almost always be able to enjoy the great outdoors while your family is on vacation here. Florida also has 150 golf courses in the area making it the perfect golf vacation destinations.

Visitors to the central Florida area will also find plentiful shopping and dining outside of the Orlando area in towns such Winter Park and Altamonte Springs.

Overall a florida holiday vacation can be a very memorable experience.

Are you considering a central Florida vacation near Kissimmee? You can be within 10 minutes of Disney and all the other major attractions that Orlando Florida has to offer. Our 4 bed villa with pool is second to none and makes a great base.