Walt Disney World, Orlando

Favorite thing: Disney World lists its hotels in four catagories: Value, Moderate, Deluxe, and Home Away From Home. These catagories are based on price and amenities offered. Value resorts are the cheapest. You won't find the wonderful luxury spas. What you will find are the only resorts on Disney property under $100 a night (during the offseason) and plenty of families and kids. Moderate resorts are a bit higher on the chain. You will find much better theming here and room quality and amenities are bumped up a bit. All rooms on Value and Moderate resorts open outdoors and none have balconies. Deluxe resorts are top of the line! Here you will find very expensive rooms (over $200 a night), but you will also find less kids, more romance, beautiful views, and in some cases luxurious spas! These resorts are the only ones to have balconies and all rooms open to an interior hallway. Home away from home resorts are just as they sound. Sort of like small apartments. They usually have sleeping area, sitting/living room, and small kitchen. These are generally the most expensive rooms at Disney but are more like villas than hotel rooms.

Favorite thing: Alright, first timers to Disney World are often overloaded from the first day they arrive. There is so much to do and see! The biggest question is always, where to start! For regular visitors, we always go to whatever we enjoy the most, but I have a strategy for first timers that seems to work good. On your first day visit the Animal Kingdom. This park doesn't have many attractions, but is meant to be savored leisurely, not quickly. This is a place of discovery and adventure! See the two or three top draws early, then roam the grounds looking at the different animals the rest of the day. On your second day, visit Epcot. This is a huge park that will require a lot of walking! There are several attractions but most are educational, as well as entertaining. The third park you should visit is MGM and then finally the Magic Kingdom! Most first timers make the mistake of visiting the Magic Kingdom first and then they are bored with Epcot. They thing Disney is all about fantasy and excitement! Epcot is very very interesting and popular, but it's very different from the Magic Kingdom so definitely see it before you see the Magic Kingdom.

Favorite thing: Stay away from the Length of Stay passes. The name has changed now, I'll look into what it's currently called. These passes are available only to Disney resort guests and are valid only for the number of days that you are staying at the Disney resort. If you don't go to a Disney park one of those days, you basically paid for a ticket you never used. Get instead a Park Hopper Pass. These still allow you to go from park to park and any unused days never expire!! You can come back and use them on your next trip in 50 years!

Favorite thing: I have to highly recommend if you are spending most of your time at Disney World, stay at a Disney resort! It really will make your life so much easier! The best perk being the wonderful theming of most of the resorts but also free transportation all around "the World" and you are close to all the parks!

Favorite thing: DISNEY WORLD

Fondest memory: Spending the day --long day--at the park with my family. We arrived an hour before the park opened and left when the park closed that night. I wanted to cram as much into the day as I could and we saw most of the attractions we wanted to see.I would recommend a multiday visit. You cannot see everything in one day here!!

Favorite thing: Orlando's not a one -mouse town and this is the site that proves it..

Lake Eola Swan Boats, right in the heart of Orlando's super- serious business district is this charming bit of whimsy.
lake Eola is Orlando's signature park, with its spectacular floating fountain.
Along its shore, at a tiny kiosk called the Lake Eola Cafe, you can rent paddle boats decked out as graceful white swans .

Fondest memory: A sunset cruise on a swans .
Coast $7 per half hours, including tax.

Favorite thing: This is the world of fairytales and entertainment. As well fun and pleasure as scientific and learning. Of all the parks present at Orlando, disneyworld is by far the most famous and largest. Four themeparks can already keep you busy for five days (better take a day of after two and then take the others). Magic Kingdom (the actual Disneypark), EPCOT-centre (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow), MGM-studios and the World Showcase. Besides the parks, Disneyworld also delivers accomodation in five (theme)hotels and a campground. Further attraction is the Adventure-lake, guaranteeing unlimited waterfun.

Fondest memory: The forework and lasershow at Seaworld is (was?) exceptionally progressive and beautiful.

Favorite thing: Visit the Comedy Warehouse at Disney's Pleasure Island (Downtown Disney). It's a great place! The shows are improv, much like 'Who's Line is it Anyway' but I think the Warehouse is much better. It's a live experience, and they have been doing this for ten years. Every show is different, so you never see the same one twice. If you travel to Orlando a lot, an annual pass for Pleasure Island is relatively inexpensive, and in my mind, worth every penny.