Orlando
Orlando
is located in central Florida 75 miles northeast of Tampa, St. Petersburg
and Clearwater Beach. It is 50 miles due west of Cape Canaveral, the
Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach. Best known as the home of Disney
World, this city is also the center of the largest concentration of
family entertainment attractions in the world. The climate in central
Florida is semi-tropical. Two major airports serve the Orlando area.
Orlando International Airport and Orlando Sanford Airport I, plus the
Tampa St. - Petersburg airport is less than two-hour drive and the Melbourne
airport is a bit over an hour .
Most of the major attractions in the Orlando area are located along
a ten-mile stretch of route 4 southwest of the city. They are Disney
Resort Complex,Universal Studios,Sea World & Wet and Wild, plus
many other attractions, numerous hotels, hundreds of restaurants and
several shopping malls. Check our Orlando Attraction Map to view the
locations. The Disney Resort Complex is immense. With over 40 square
miles (100 square km.) of land, it is the size of a small country or
at least a province. It contains four major theme parks. Each of them
is equivalent in size to the Disney parks located in California, France
or Japan. The complex also contains three water parks, eight golf courses,
twenty-five themed hotels, hundreds of restaurants, several shopping
centers and a wide variety of additional entertainment .
