Cypress Gardens Adventure Park
Following 2003 closure after falling on hard times, one of the state's most venerable attractions has reopened as Cypress Gardens Adventure Park. Some $50 million in upgrades and additions include a 38-ride midway with four roller coasters, an amphitheater for country-music concerts and a quaint Main Street.

6000 Cypress Gardens Boulevard, Winter Haven.
(863) 324-2111

Disney MGM Studios
A theme park within a motion picture and television studio, attractions include Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!, Playhouse Disney - Live on Stage!, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Epcot-Downtown Disney Exit (exit 26) from Interstate 4.
(407) 824-4321

DisneyQuest Indoor Interactive Theme Park
The five-story DisneyQuest Indoor Interactive Theme Park combines Disney's magic with cutting-edge technologies. Guests board a river raft on Virtual Jungle Cruise, ride a roller coaster of their own design on Cyber Space Mountain, and become part of a human pinball game in Mighty Ducks Pinball Slam. Some events require a separate admission charge.

Downtown Disney, 1486 Lake Buena Vista Boulevard, Lake Buena Vista.
(407) 939-7429

Disney's Magic Kingdom Park
Magic Kingdom's seven magical lands are filled with attractions, restaurants and shops based on favorite Disney themes of fantasy, yesterday and tomorrow. Popular attractions include The Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Haunted House, and Space Mountain.

Main entrance, U.S. 192, Interstate 4, Exit 25.
(407) W-DISNEY

Epcot Theme Park
Fascinating cultures and numerous wonders of the world are celebrated through dazzling shows, interactive experiences and attractions. Epcot showcases the power of human imagination with The Circle Of Life, Ellen's Energy Adventure and the Making of Me. Kids' favorites include Cranium Command and Food Rocks! By night, IllumiNations is a kaleidoscope of sky artistry with more than 1,100 pyrotechnic bursts, accompanied by music.

Walt Disney World Resort. Interstate 4, Exit 25.
(407) W-DISNEY

Fun Spot Action Park
Fun Sport Action Park, with free admission, free parking and free rides for children with a paying adult, lets guests "Drive the Ride" on multi-level go kart tracks. Fun Spot has 17 hands-on action rides and more than 100 games in a 10,000 square-foot arcade.

5551 Del Verde Way.
(407) 363-3867

Magical Midway
Magical Midway features International Drive's only elevated go-kart tracks for extreme action with corkscrew turns and high-speed jolts, along with classic midway rides like bumper boats and bumper cars. The snack shop features fresh hand-tossed pizza.

7001 International Drive, Orlando, FL
(407) 370-5353

SeaWorld Adventure Park
SeaWorld Adventure Park features 200 acres of sea-themed rides, including Kraken, Orlando's longest, tallest, fastest floorless roller coaster. Visitors find themselves face-to-face with a shark in Sharks Deep Dive at Shark Encounter. Shows and animal exhibits include polar bears, killer and beluga whales, manatees, sea lions, penguins, dolphins and more.

7007 Sea World Drive, Orlando, FL
(407) 351-3600

SkyVenture
SkyVenture, Orlando's high-energy vertical wind tunnel, offers indoor skydiving as adventurers float on a column of air. No parachute, no jumping and no experience is necessary. The tunnel creates the exact sensation of free falling during a skydive, giving participants 120 m.p.h thrills.

6805 Visitors Circle, Orlando, FL
(407) 903-1150

Universal Studios
Universal Studios takes guests beyond the screen and into the world of television and film to "ride the movies," with Men in Black, Alien Attack, Jaws, Twister, Back to the Future, and Shrek 4-D. Experience an 'Earthquake', Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast and many other attractions. The 444-acre park also has a maze of stage sets with reproductions of New York and San Francisco street scenes, and there's even an opportunity to get slimed at Nickelodeon Studios.

1000 Universal Studios Plaza, Orlando, FL
(407) 363-8000

Universal's Islands of Adventure
Universal's Islands of Adventure invites guests to "live the adventure" with technologically advanced thrill rides and attractions, including The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Jurassic Park River Adventure, The Incredible Hulk and the Dueling Dragons coasters. Cat in the Hat provides a journey through Dr. Seuss's popular book. Also hot Shrek 4-D, with that charming green ogre.

From Interstate 4 and Florida's Turnpike, take Exit 30 to Kirkman Road.
(407) 363-8000

Walt Disney World Resort
World-renowned Walt Disney World Resort sets ever higher standards for theme parks, encompassing the Magic Kingdom Park, Epcot Theme Park, Disney MGM Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Blizzard Beach, River Country, Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort, Pleasure Island Jazz Company, Downtown Disney's West Side, Downtown Disney's Marketplace, Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex, The Disney Oak Trail Course, and five championship golf courses.

Exit 25 off Interstate 4, on US. 192.
(407) 824-4321

Disney's Blizzard Beach
Disney's Blizzard Beach water park features one of the world's tallest, fastest free-fall speed slides, smack in the middle of sunny Florida. As the largest of Disney's water parks, it has 22 water slides and fast "icy" bobsled runs that stay comfortably warm.

1801 West Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista
(407) 560-9283

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park
Big among locals, Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, open year around, offers twisting tides, roaring rapids and relaxing rivers. Whether navigating the nine water slides, swimming with sharks and tropical fish or conquering waves in the nation's largest wave pool, this exotic paradise promises maximum adventure in water heated to a pleasant 75-80 degrees year around.

Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista.
(407) 560-9283

Water Mania
Water Mania, with more than 36 acres of thrill slides, flumes, and pools, also has dry-land activities. Water Mania has locker and tube rentals, and personal flotation devices are subject to lifeguard approval. Picnics are welcome.

6073 West Irlo Bronson Highway (U.S. 192), Kissimmee.
(407) 396-2626

Wet 'n Wild
Wet 'n Wild features a wide variety of waterslides, a wave pool, water playground, child-size versions of the most popular rides, and mini-golf. Among attractions are The Storm, The Bomb Bay, Blue Niagara, Knee Ski and Wild One.

6200 International Drive, Orlando
(407) 351-1800

Fantasy of Flight
Fantasy of Flight invites exploration of flight nostalgia in self-guided "immersion" experiences zooming through early aviation history. The North Hanger displays part of the world's largest private collection of vintage aircraft. Also on tap are flight simulators and daily tours, including the Back-Lot Restoration Shop Tour. Weather permitting, rare aircraft take to the skies for Aircraft of the Day demonstrations.

1400 Broadway Boulevard, Polk City
(863) 984-3500

Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum
Exhibits of engines, armaments, American warplanes, military memorabilia and views of the restoration process. WACO open cockpit bi-plane air tours are available. Visitors can monitor the restoration process, watching metamorphosis of these nearly forgotten chunks of history returned to days of glory.

231 North Hoagland Boulevard, Kissimmee
(407) 933-1942

International Trolley and Train Museum
The museum features 14 model railroad trains with sound and lighting traveling through an indoor garden with 12-foot high mountains, waterfalls, and more than 30 trestles and tunnels. Also on display are toy trains from the 1920s to the present. Catch a ride in a California Victorian Style half open/half closed trolley or the 5/8 replica of an 1880 locomotive (a Mason Bogey) with its passenger cars.

8990 International Drive, Orlando
(407) 363-9002.

Orange County Regional History Center
The History Center in downtown Orlando features 12,000 years of Central Florida history, spanning from the Seminole Indians to the present. Four floors of exhibits are in the renovated 1927 courthouse building.

65 East Central Boulevard
(407) 836-8500

Orlando Fire Museum
Housed in the circa 1926 Orlando Fire Station #3, the Orlando Fire Museum contains artifacts dating to 1885, including a 1919 motorized ladder truck and a 1911 horse-driven steam engine. Admission and parking are free.

Loch Haven Park, Orlando
(407) 898-3138

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Orlando Odditorium
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Orlando Odditorium looks as if it fell victim to one of Florida's infamous sinkholes, since it's housed in a building that appears decidedly whopper-jawed and on the slide. Explore artifacts, collections, weird art/hobbies and interactive exhibits in 16 odd galleries. For more than 40 years, Robert Ripley traveled the globe collecting the unbelievable, inexplicable, and one-of-a-kind. His collections are housed in 27 museums in 10 countries.

8201 International Drive, orlando, FL
(407) 363-4418

Discovery Cove
Across from SeaWorld Adventure Park, this tropical paradise provides for discovering tropical fish in a coral reef, snorkeling with stingrays, and interacting with birds in an aviary, as well as swimming and playing with dolphins during a half-hour dolphin encounter. Reservations are required.

6000 Discovery Cove Way
(407) 370-1280

Gatorland
Gatorland is home to thousands of alligators and crocodiles, a few wangling appearances in movies, television shows and commercial spots. The 54-year-old park combines a petting zoo, bird sanctuary, mini-water park, eco-tour and action-packed outdoor entertainment, including daily alligator wrestling.

14501 South Orange Blossom Trail, between Orlando and Kissimmee
(407) 855-5496

Green Meadows Petting Farm
Green Meadows Petting Farm provides a two-hour guided tour of 300 farm animals, allowing opportunity to pet animals, milk a cow, take train and hay rides, and ride a pony. Picnic grounds are available.

1368 South Poinciana Boulevard, Kissimeee
(407) 846-0770

Jungleland
Featuring 300 animals, including a pair of Himalayan bears born in 2002, plus leopards, tigers, lions, and more, Jungleland has gator wrestling and a petting zoo. The seven-acre zoo also has a nearly mile-long path winding around a natural lagoon with black swans and white ibis.

4580 West Highway 192, Kissimmee
(407) 396-1012

Congo River Golf & Exploration Co.
Guests are invited to explore two 18-hole courses set in a tropical environment with caves, waterfalls, and 25 live alligators.

4777 West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee
(407) 396-6900

Disney's Miniature Golf Courses
Disney's Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Course, a 36-hole adventure featuring Fantasia Gardens, has 18-holes with a theme from Disney's classic film "Fantasia," and Fantasia Fairways, and an 18-hole challenge course with strategic bunkers and hazards. Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature Golf Course is an interactive experience with two 18-hole elf-sized courses. One course has a snow-clad Florida look reminiscent of Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park, while the other goes tropical with holiday ornaments hanging from palms.

Fantasia Gardens, across from Disney MGM Studios.
(407) WDW-GOLF

Summerland, next to Blizzard Beach.
(407) WDW-GOLF

Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf
Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf has two locations for fine-tuning skills in a setting of lush landscaping and swashbuckling pirate themes. Putt through mountain caves, over footbridges and under waterfalls. At each site, all ages choose from three courses: Blackbeard's Challenge, Captain's Course, or the 36-Hole Adventure Course.

Crossroads at Lake Buena Vista, 12521 S.R. 535, Lake Buena Vista
(407) 827-1242

8501 International Drive
(407) 352-7378

Holy Land Experience
The $16 million, 15-acre Holy Land Experience re-creates the city of Jerusalem and its religious importance between the years 1450 B.C. and A.D. 66 through themed costume characters, dramatic enactments and high-tech presentations. Biblical home to the Scriptorium, the museum has a collection of antiquities dating to 2200 B.C.

4655 Vineland Road, Orlando, FL
(407) 367-2065

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
On Florida's Space Coast about 45 minutes from Orlando and south of Daytona Beach, it's possible to tour launch areas, see giant rockets, train in spaceflight simulators, and much more. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is open every day except Christmas and certain launch days. Apart from the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Space Center bus tours run every 15 minutes with stops at an observation gantry and the Apollo / Saturn V Center. Other guided tours include NASA Up Close, Cape Canaveral: Then and Now, and Lunch With An Astronaut. Combo tickets offer maximum access admission, plus one guided tour.

Follow signs from State Road 405 and State Road 3, east of Titusville.
(321) 452-2121

Old Town
Eight affordable restaurants, 15 amusement park rides and 75 shops make Old Town's brick-lined streets a retail and entertainment destination with family fun. Classic car shows every Friday and Saturday feature hundreds of vintage automobiles. Admission and parking are free.

5770 West U.S. Highway 192, Kissimmee
(407) 396-4888

Orlando Hauntings
Orlando Hauntings Ghost Tours tantalize with ghoulish stories as guides in period costumes carrying lanterns spin tales. The 90-minute walking tour features "true" ghost stories tied to local history. Tours depart from Guinevere's Cafe on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.

37 South Magnolia AVenue, Orlando, FL
(407) 992-1200

Skull Kingdom
Skull Kingdom, a two-story haunted castle full of fright, subjects those brave enough to enter with robotics, strobe, fog and other special effects, along with sudden encounters with live monsters. Ghouls lurk in dark places around every turn, and management makes no promises on odds of surviving this twisted world.

5933 American Way, Orlando, FL
(407) 354-1564

WonderWorks
WonderWorks, within an eye-catching three-story house that appears to have landed, upside down, atop a 1930s-era brick warehouse, has more than 100 hands-on interactive exhibits utilizing sophisticated audio and graphic techniques. Guests can design their own roller coaster and then ride it, go hang gliding in the Grand Canyon, or play in the world's largest laser tag arcade. Visitors experience the trembling of earthquakes and hurricane-force winds.

9067 International Drive, Orlando, FL
(407) 351-8800

Hot Air Balloon Flights
Hot air balloon flights around Orlando's Disney World start at sunrise every day. The three-hour adventure includes a pre-flight briefing before heading to any of 30 launch sites, depending on wind, for balloon inflation. Flights last an hour, followed by a champagne toast upon landing, and a buffet breakfast at the Black Angus Steak House. Reservations are a must.

Black Angus Steak House on Hwy. 92
(407) 421-9322

Stallion 51 Corporation
Stallion 51 Corporation provides the opportunity to sign up for an orientation flight that lets guest pilots fly the TF-51 Mustang fighter plane. Guest pilots are invited to take over controls for most of the flight for an authentic experience.

3951 Merlin Drive, Orlando, FL
(407) 846-4400

World of Orchids
Featuring thousands of blooms in an enclosed tropical rainforest, World of Orchids is actually a working greenhouse shipping orchids and other plants nationwide. A greenhouse covers nearly an acre, and in this controlled warm, humid air some 1,000 orchids are displayed in a natural jungle setting, with streams, waterfalls, and squawking parrots. World of Orchids also has a 1,000-foot-long boardwalk meandering off into nearby wetlands. Admission is free.

250 Old Lake Wilson Road, Kissimmee
(407) 396-1887

Fun World at Flea World
Fun World at Flea World in Sanford has more than 50 amusement rides and attractions, mini-golf, midway games, batting cages, go-kart tracks and a 350-game arcade.

U.S. Highway 17-19, Sanford, Orlando, FL
(407) 330-1792

Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights brings a fairy tale to life on horseback as more than 60 of the world's most beautiful Arabian horses combine with special effects and incredible stunts in a spectacular Broadway-style production that includes a three-course dinner with unlimited beverages. Guests choose from prime rib of beef, grilled chicken breast, chicken tenders or vegetable lasagna, and all entrees are served with a fresh garden salad, garlic mashed potatoes, fresh vegetables, roll and butter, and dessert, with house beer, wine, or Coca-Cola products.

6225 West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Orlando, FL
(800) 553-6161

Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil, in Downtown Disney West Side, features its renowned blend of acrobatics and special effects with more than 70 artists from around the globe performing in a custom-designed, 1671-seat theater.

Downtown Disney West Side, Buena Vista Drive
(407) 934-9200

Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex
Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex annually hosts more than 100 Amateur Athletic Union events, Atlanta Braves spring training, Orlando Rays minor league baseball and the Pop Warner Super Bowl. Spectator fun awaits with 200 acres of courts and fields for more than 30 sports.

From Interstate 4, take Exit 65, old 26D onto Victory Way.
(407) 363-6262

Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede
Debuting the ultimate dinner-show cattle call in 2003, Dolly Parton's $28 million Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show-Orlando is the fourth (and largest) of her stampede attractions, also near Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., plus Branson, Mo., and Myrtle Beach, S.C. With 32 horses, dozens of cast members and seating for 1,200 around a huge arena, the show blends fast-paced acrobatic horsemanship, pyrotechnics, and music written by Parton. Dolly tells folks to come hungry, since a four-course feast as big as the show includes biscuits, vegetable soup, rotisserie chicken and barbecued pork loin, corn-on-the-cob, potato, and dessert.

8251 Vineland Avenue, Orlando, FL
(407) 238-2777

Pleasure Island Entertainment Complex
With eight theme night clubs and more in the works, Pleasure Island Entertainment Complex includes Pleasure Island Jazz Company, with live vocal and instrumentals. PI's two main dance clubs are 8Trax Downtown Disney, with its huge revolving disco ball amid '70s décor, and Mannequins, a tri-level enclave with a rotating dance floor on the bottom, in a warehouse/rave atmosphere. Rock 'N Roll Beach Club Downtown Disney has live music from '50 and '60s hits to current chart-toppers. Comedy Warehouse delivers laughs, while Adventurers Club has four rooms of live stage shows, also heavy on comedy. Wildhorse Saloon has a barbecue restaurant and a country dance club. BET Soundstage Club has multiple levels of dance space and live hip-hp, R&B, reggae and jazz along with urban dance hits. The PI complex is restricted to patrons 18 and older unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Patrons must be at least age 21 to enter Mannequins.

Downtown Disney, Lake Buena Vista.
(407) 828-3058