One of Orlando’s most popular summer events is back – Universal Studios’ Summer Concert Series, bringing some big names in music to entertain you on weekends over the summer.  Every Saturday, live concerts at the Universal Music Plaza stage commence at 9pm with legendary performances from great artists. First gig was Saturday 11 June and they are running until 16 July.

Admission to the Summer Concert Series is FREE with your Universal Studios admission ticket or annual pass – a real bonus for the evening’s entertainment on your visit to Universal.  Your tickets are also valid for free entry to the Official After Party at Universal’s CityWalk – so get your party on!

All-female group the Go-Gos including Belinda Carlisle kick started the first weekend concert last Saturday – check out the video below…

Summer Concert Series 2011 Lineup dates:

11 June – Go-Gos
18 June – Nelly
25 June – Third Eye Blind
2 July – Trey Songz
9 July – Boys Like Girls
16 July – Drake

VR360 Florida Villas are happy to keep you updated on all the great and upcoming attractions in Orlando year round via this blog- and if you’re looking to book your vacation rental for your holiday in Orlando we have listed over 500 luxury private villas the majority with private pools and all within 10-20 minutes drive away from Disney and the main theme parks!

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.

Ridgewood Lakes - Main Entrance

Ridgewood Lakes - Gated Entrance

Ridgewood Lakes is an ideal location for your Orlando theme park vacation with access to the I4 (interstate 4) only 2 miles away, from there you can get to all the attractions with ease (Disney, Sea World, Universal, Downtown Disney etc).

Ridgewood Lakes - Entrance Drive Way

The main entrance to Ridgewood Lakes is one of the nicest in the whole of Orlando with it’s landscaped drive, the road winds though the golf course leading to the spacious homes. All of our Orlando holiday rental villas on Ridgewood Lakes have private pools and some even have a spa for those times when you want to relax after a round of golf on the championship course.

View down the Par 5 2nd Hole

Communal Tennis Courts

Just minutes from Ridgewood Lakes you have Publix Supermarket (1 mile) and Walmart (4 miles) where you can get everything you need for your self catering holiday. Along the way you also have a number of family restaurants so if you don’t feel like cooking these are great places for a very reasonably priced meal.

We have a number of Orlando villas to rent on Ridgewood Lakes from 3 to 5 bedrooms, all our vacation rentals have there own private pools and most have spas.

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The golf courses as a rules in Florida are very well priced except for January to the end of April which is when the snowbirds arrive in Florida and this puts the price up so a good place to get a great deal is from GolfNow.com .

GolfNow.com is a web site that offers cheap tee times from course all over the USA so all you need to do is register on the site and the select Florida/Orlando and you will see an up to date list of the current offers.

If you find a tee time you want all you need to do is click on the time and hit the book now button this then reserves the tee times for you for a small fee which I think is about $2 per booking, you will then receive an email with the date, time and price you paid which you take to the course with you on the day.

Once at the course you will pay the green fee listed the email regardless of there current rate.

This is a great site and I have used it many, many times.

Some great courses to play in the Orlando area are Ridgewood Lakes, Highlands Reserve and Southern Dunes which we have luxury villas to rent on so you stay right on the course.

Discount Tee Times GolfNow.com

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.

It is a community of only 160 Orlando villas, comprising 90 linked town homes in groups, and 70 detached villas, of which most are single storey and a few are two storey villas. The two storey detached villas are much larger than a usual standard Orlando villa. All have red Mediterranean, terracotta roofs and this plus the tasteful planting gives it a feeling of Tuscany.

Tuscan Hills has a 2,700 sq ft clubhouse at the entrance, which has a gym, computer room, games room, comfortable sitting area with TV, outdoor games area for children, tennis courts, volleyball court and coming soon will be a restaurant adjacent to the entrance.

All our Tuscan Hill Orlando vacation rental villas are only 10 minutes drive from Disney World and two minutes away from restaurants and the bustle of HWY 192.

Just across the road from the entrance, two minutes away is a mall which has a large Publix supermarket and takeaway Chinese, Indian restaurant, Pizza takeaway, Bistro as well as other shops. Five minutes north there is a Lowes, Super Walmart, Chiropractic Clinic, Opticians, computer repair shop etc – everything you might need is on your doorstep!

Bahama Bay is a short walk away, where you can have a drink and relax in the complex. And there are championship golf courses a few minutes drive away.

If you would like to rent a luxury villa on Tuscan Hills in Orlando Florida please click on this text.

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.

Celebration has it’s own town centre located on Market Street which has lots of shops and restaurants from a 50′s style dinner to a sushi bar, it even has an old school ice cream parlour.

After a good meal relax by the lake in one of the rocking chairs and see if you can spot the ever present gators, but don’t feed them!!

From Thanks-giving until Christmas they have snow fall every night starting at 7pm which is great for the kids, (it’s not real snow).

On Sundays they have a local market where you can by home made cakes, art work, memobilia and much more, after the market why not take the natual walk which starts by the lake and goes off into the woods.

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.

Welcome to our Florida villas blog where we have loads of information about things to do in Florida, renting a villa in Florida, restaurants, theme parks, golf course in Orlando plus lots more useful stuff, so whether you live in Florida or are planning on visiting we should have something for everyone.

Our main business is renting villas in Florida but we wanted to start a site with lots more info about Florida, Orlando, Disney World etc and also allow you to add you say.

We have two web sites which currently have over 480 luxury Orlando villas, these are all privately owned and all close to Disney World. Every holiday rental villa and condo on our web sites has a large selection of high quality photos and a 360 Virtual Tour so you can get a real feel for the property before you book.

We offer Florida villas and condos from 2 to 8 bedroom, all the villas have private pools and the condos have community pools which are free to guests.

Once you have decided which Florida villa you want to book all you need to do is either call the owner direct or send them an email with your dates etc and they will arrange everything for you.

All the Orlando villas are maintained by local management companies and are on call almost 24hrs a day if you have any problems.

We have a large selection of holiday villas on some of Orlando’s top short term rental communities such as Formosa Gardens, Windsor Hills Resort, Ridgewood Lakes, Southern Dunes, Highlands Reserve and many more.