Celebration Florida Christmas Snow Fall
Celebration in Orlando Florida is kicking off the holiday season with there nightly snow fall from Saturday 26th November. On opening night Santa Claus will be there so you still have time to sit on his knee and ask for a present. There will also be strolling carollers, christmas tree lighting at 5.55pm, festive treats and all the local restaurants are open as normal so why not take the kids to enjoy the snow and grab some dinner afterward.
Highly recommended, is the clam chowder at the Boston Market restaurant, but make sure you get extra crackers (mine always get stolen by Claire!).
The Celebration Snow Fall runs daily from the 26th November to 31st December at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm and 9pm.
Below is a video from last year to give you an idea of what it’s like, sorry about the music but this was the best video I could find on youtube. If you have your own video that is better please let me know and I will add it.
Disney Fastpass and Universal Express Plus Pass – lose the queues!
If you’re heading out to either Disney or Universal theme parks and want to fit in the most ‘play’ time along with the least ‘stand in line’ time to really optimise your days in the parks, you’ll want to make use of the passes available. As they differ between the parks, I’ve got a run down here of how each works. In short, where regular lines can average an hour or more wait time per attraction, these passes will reduce that to a maximum of 10 minutes per attraction – making choosing attractions for the family much easier.
So with the Disney FastPass, good news its free for all park guests and you just buy a standard admission ticket.
Ridgewood Lakes – Davenport Florida
Ridgewood Lakes is located on HWY27 in Davenport Florida which is only 15 minutes from Disney World. This 24Hr a day gated community offers luxury vacation rentals in Orlando Florida and features a championship golf course, tennis courts plus much more. Read more 
Windsor Hills Resort – Villas to Rent in Orlando Florida
Windsor Hills Resort is one of the newer short term rental communities located in Orlando Florida, built over the last few years. Located only 3 miles from Disney’s main gate it is the perfect place for your dream holiday, with it’s large selection of accommodation from 3 bedroom Windsor Hills townhome through to 6 bedroom 4 bath Windsor Hills villas.
Florida Snowbird Vacation Rentals
To all you Florida snowbirds out there looking for some winter sun in 2012 we have a selection of over 570 privately owned Florida rental villas. All our Orlando villas are close to the main attractions and lots of golf courses, restaurants and shops. Most are located in Kissimmee, Davenport, Clermont and surrounding areas.
Most of our villa owners offer weekly rates but will give you a good discount to snowbird vacation rental guests if you are renting over 4 weeks so please contact them with your dates to get a quote.
Please visit our web sites to see photos and a 360 Virtual Tour of every Florida vacation rentals and save money by booking direct with the owners.
Orlando Villas to Rent – VR360floridavillas.co.uk
Florida Snowbird Rentals – VR360homes.co.uk
Tuscan Hills Villas to Rent in Orlando, Florida
Tuscan Hills is appropriately named! It is a small, exclusive community that was built by Great American Homes in Davenport, Florida – a small family run company specialising in high quality homes – and was completed in April 2007. We have a selection of Tuscan Hills vacation villas to rent all close to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Swimming with the Florida Manatees
Last year I had one of the best experience’s of my life when we went swimming with the Manatees at Crystal River. We decided to go with Capt Mike’s Sunshine River Tours as we liked the look of his web site and had read a guest book in a villa we stayed in that said how good it was. The tour started at 7am so we left Orlando about 5am as it’s about a 2 hours drive to Homosassa and Crystal River, probably 90mins if you know where you are going but you are bound to get a little lost a 5 in the morning.
Once you arrive you are greeted with coffee and doughnuts while you watch a short video explaining the do’s and don’t of swimming with the Manatee, after that you get suited and booted in your wet suit and then it’s on to the bus which takes you to the boat and off to swim with the Manatees. If you do have your own web suit or rash vests I would recommend taking them as the water is cold around 70 degrees.
If you don’t want to swim you can still go along and watch them from the boat which is still worth doing.
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They are the most amazing animals I have ever seen so big yet so gentle, once you are in the water and before you even see them you can hear them scrunching on the weed, then they appear. If you do get to touch one it has very wiry hair like a brush.
Anyway I don’t want to spoil it for you but it’s the best $50 you will ever spend!!
Celebration in Orlando Florida
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One of the nicest places to visit whilst in Orlando is Celebration it’s located just of the HWY192 and is well sign posted. To me Celebration is like stepping on to a film set with it’s white picket fences and mixture of Colonial houses and modern condos, it also has it’s own golf course which is awesome but I will cover that in another post.
Sea World in Orlando Florida
Here are some photos of my day out at Sea World. Sea World is one of the best parks and I go back on a regular basis I never get tied of the Clyde and Seamoor show, it’s awesome!!
Renting a Hummer (H2) in Orlando Florida
I rented a Hummer for day last year, it was great fun and well worth it apart from when I came to fill it up with petrol!! The funny thing is that when you are driving the car and put your front is goes to about 1mpg which is scary.
It’s about $250 per day here is a link to the company I used – http://www.luxrentals.com/ they also have a number of other luxury cars to rent like a Corvette, Navigator and an awesome car called a Prowler.
