About Orlando

Once upon a time, Orlando was a small town surrounded by cow pastures and citrus fields. With the development of Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida, SeaWorld Orlando and a host of smaller attractions, those cow pastures turned into planned communities that house a wide range of residents, from Disney's 55,000 cast members to sports celebrities and millionaires.

Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World is so large that it can be considered its own district. You will find everything from hotels to shopping, restaurants, sports and nightlife within this huge park. Pebbles Restaurant and Fulton's Crab House are among the many fabulous restaurants. There are also thousands of hotel...

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Interesting Facts About Orlando:

1. There are so many awesome attractions in Orlando that it is estimated that it would take the average traveler 67 full days to experience every one.

2. Each year, 150,000 gallons of slime and 10,000 cream pies are dumped on guests at The Nickelodeon Family Suites.

3. Orlando is home to the first water park ever... Wet 'n Wild opened in 1977 and it's still one of the only water parks that stays open 365 days a year.

4. You'll find the biggest collection of Tiffany glass anywhere in the world at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park.

5. Walt Disney World Resort is so huge that you could fit two Manhattans or one San Francisco in it.

6.. Trainers at SeaWorld Orlando feed Shamu 230 lbs of food every day... wow, what a whale!

7. If you ate breakfast, lunch and dinner at a different Orlando restaurant every day, it would still take you five years to eat at all 5,300 of them.

8. The famous lines "I am not a crook" were spoken by Richard Nixon on Nov. 17, 1973 at the Disney's Contemporary Resort.

9. Marriott chose Orlando to be the city where they built the world's largest Marriott, a 2,000-room mega-resort called the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center.

10. The oldest and biggest bald cypress tree in the world grows in Central Florida - "The Senator" is more than 138 ft tall.

11. Lots of famous faces started off in Orlando... Rob Thomas and Mandy Moore grew up in Orlando;  JC Chasez and Joey Fatone used to work at Universal Orlando; and Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys was born in Orlando.

12. Blue Man Group uses the equivalent of 56,000 rolls of paper during the show each night. Don't worry... they recycle.
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Frommer's

...'s theme parks try their darnedest to best each other, adding new attractions both big and small, and tweaking old ones to make them new and exciting again. Restaurants come and go in what seems like the blink of an eye, though fierce competition ensures a constant infusion of chic and trendy entries -- the best of which remain year after year. And resorts continue to spring up at every turn, each bigger and better than the last. After the nightmare hurricane season of 2004, Orlando has recovered and is once again growing rapidly -- 2008 was no exception.

New rides, redesigned attractions, and accommodations in almost every category are being added to bring travelers back for more -- often at...

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Orlando weather

Updated: May 20 07:22 AM UTC

5 day forecast

    • MAY 22

    • chance of a thunderstorm
    • 84°F
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    • MAY 23

    • chance of a thunderstorm
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    • MAY 24

    • chance of a thunderstorm
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    • MAY 25

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    • 90°F
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    • MAY 26

    • chance of a thunderstorm
    • 90°F
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