Planning a vacation to Orlando in the winter provides several activities for visitors. The area’s theme parks and attractions are once again opening new rides and shows for you to experience. While some of the attractions are familiar favorites that have recently expanded, others are fresh faces. Ch...
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Make Shopping a Part of your Orlando Holiday Experience
In Orlando, shopping is part of the holiday fun. The region’s nine malls, three outlet centers and a variety of other centers and stores—encompassing 52 million square feet of total retail space—make finding a gift for even the hardest-to-please on your list a snap. With special seasonal events, app...
Grinchmas Returns to Universal Orlando Resort
The 2007 "Grinchmas" holiday show at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure returns this year after a one-year absence and will feature a new musical, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Dr. Seuss book, resort officials announced Monday. Grinchmas began as...
Cinderella Castle Transformed into Ice Palace for Holidays
Walt Disney World is giving its Cinderella Castle a new nighttime, ice-palace look for the holiday season, completely aglow since the November 12 lighting ceremony.
Disney has created the new look for the Magic Kingdom's centerpiece structure by attaching 200,000 LED lights to 32,000 square fee...
New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Orlando, Florida
Say a farewell to the old and welcome in the new with a number of festivities throughout Orlando on Dec. 31.
Here are just some of this year's highlights:
New Year's Eve Extravaganzas in Orlando – Orlando has festivities galore including the Pleasure Island Pirates Party at Downtown Disney on...
Christmas Celebrations in Orlando’s Theme Parks
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Orlando, Florida theme parks with towering trees, poinsettias, millions of lights, even snow flurries filling every available nook and cranny.This is the "magical" Florida kind for which you don't need to pack a coat, gloves and boots.
Each year, the...
ICE! at Gaylord Palms Resort a Holiday Treat
The coldest spot in the United States this holiday season will likely be Central Florida, where temperatures are predicted to be 9 degrees Farenheit, Nov. 19 - Jan. 3. This "cold front" of winter weather is part of a flurry of holiday fun at Gaylord Palms® Resort, located five minutes from Walt Disn...
Orlando Celebrates Holiday with Shows, Shopping and Seasonal Spectacles
From festive events to a variety of themed holiday shows and unique shopping experiences, Orlando offers one of the most elaborate and diverse holiday celebrations of any destination in the world. In addition to the well-known theme park activities, visitors can enjoy breathtaking light displays; ch...
Pirate’s Dinner Adventure presents a Swashbuckling Christmas Dinner Show
Pirate’s Dinner Adventure is celebrating the season with an all-new holiday version of its popular nighttime theatrical experience, renowned as the “World’s Most Interactive Dinner Show.” After 10 years of pillaging, pirating, and plundering, this infamous band of buccaneers, cast, and crew will set...
Christmas Comes to life at Arabian Nights
The 2007 edition of the fantastic Arabian Nights Holiday Show finds Princess Scheherazade in need of a distraction while her husband, Prince Khalid, is off searching the globe for the perfect holiday gift for his wife. The always-faithful genie Hocus Pocus invites a new friend, Santa Claus, to come ...