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Here, seven of the world's top ten theme parks are planted within a 10-mile radius of each other. If you're into furry characters and indoor rides, bank about a day for every park you wish to visit. It would also be a shame to spend a week in O-Town without venturing out to the historic Kennedy Space Center, golfing, or spending an afternoon at the pool. Families that don't want to kill themselves should pare their wish lists down to three or four days' worth of park-going (they should split their schedules between the Disney and non-Disney efforts, because they both have features worth recommending) and fill the remainder of their time with less grueling sights.
In 1994, Disney capitalized on the Central Florida real-estate boom in a controversial way: It opened its own town where it could professionally administer the...more
Located a few miles north of downtown Orlando in tony Winter Park, the Morse Museum's core collection, spread over 8,000 square feet of hushed and artfully...more
Added in 1998, Animal Kingdom is the most spacious Disney Park by a large margin (500 acres), although most of that belongs to the menagerie of exotic,...more
Opened in 1989 (in part to head off Universal Studios, which debuted the following year), Disney's third Florida park was intended to double as a functioning...more
Considered by aficionados to be the best-designed amusement park on earth, IOA's designers spared little expense. Its five themed areas (Marvel Super Hero...more
When most first-time visitors imagine Walt Disney World, the place with the castle, the Hall of Presidents, and Space Mountain, they're thinking of the Magic...more
Here, the pace is slower than at most amusement parks, because the focus is on wildlife and education instead of magic or thrills. Yes, there's the savage...more
Universal Orlando emerged on Central Florida's theme-park scene back in 1990, but it's safe to say that the park's crowning moment came in June 2010 with the...more
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