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Our new luxury townhome with 5 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms (2x Masters with en-suites) will sleep 10 people in superb comfort. There is a well-equipped kitchen located adjacent to the dining area, with seating for 10. Flat screen TVs in every room, a multi-region DVD player and an Xbox are provided for your home entertainment. Free WiFi is also available. The property has its own private heated pool and patio area with a covered Lanai.

Located in one of Florida’s premier resorts, Paradise Palms is a gated community offering all the amenities you’d expect in a 5-star facility, including a pool, game room, fitness room and movie theatre. The grounds are beautifully landscaped and there is a poolside Tiki Bar and shop. The resort also offers a shuttle service to many of Orlando’s attractions at an additional fee.

Paradise Palms resort is just minutes away from Orlando’s main attractions. Walt Disney World is just a 10 minute drive and Universal Studios, Seaworld, Wet ‘n Wild, Legoland and other attractions are easily accessible. Highway 192 is just a couple of minutes away and here you will find an amazing range of grocery stores, other retailers, restaurants and bars.

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Florida Villas - Old Town

The second of a series of features looking at some of the less well known attractions in Central Florida, close to Kissimmee.

Old Town originally started out, when constructed in the 1980s, as a specialist shopping complex and later morphed into an all round entertainment complex with an amusement park featuring multiple rides, being added.

The shopping zone is made up of nearly a dozen dedicated shopping buildings each with a number of different types of shop sharing the space. The shops run across the full range from electronic goods such as cameras and Ipads to luxury goods such as designer handbags. Each of the shopping buildings also boast a number of restaurants, again representing all categories from formal restaurant to multiple fast food establishments.

The amusement park rides are spread over the site, although predominantly to be found at the front and back. For those wanting to take part there are a number of different rides some catering to the thrill-seeker, while some are aimed at younger children. Tea Cups, Merry-go-round, Super Shot, Happy Days Family Go-Kart Track and the Windstorm Roller Coaster are just a few of the rides on offer.

Old Town’s particular appeal is to car enthusiasts, especially those with a liking for classic cars. There is a Saturday Night cruise of classic pre-1975 cars, open to anyone with a car and a valid driving license. To get you in the mood there is also music of the classic Rock and Roll variety. Friday night features another cruise, this time focusing on American muscle cars from before 1988.

Florida Villas – Water Parks

The fifth of a series of features looking at some of the alternatives to Disney in Central Florida, easily accessible from Kissimmee.

While most visitors to Central Florida have come to enjoy the wonders of Disney and the other major theme parks, you need an alternative to these if you are to entertain the family for two weeks. One possible alternative is to visit a water park and there are several in the Kissimmee region. Water parks can be a great day out for the family and usually feature a full range of rides and attractions suitable for all members of a family group, from some very scary rides for the thrill seeker to the more gentle for small children. The other advantage of going to a water park, particular during the hotter summer months, is the opportunity to cool down a little. The following are just a few of the major water parks, but there are several more.

Aquatica is the water park operated by Sea World. As well as a large number of rides there is the opportunity to interact with wildlife, with Commerson’s Dolphins making up part of the fun on the Dolphin Plunge. Other rides you might like to try are Omaka Rocka, Tassie’s Twisters and the Taumata Racer.

Although I started this article by suggesting that a water park was an alternative option to an unrestricted diet of Disney, in fact Walt Disney World themselves offer a couple of Water based theme parks. The focal point for Blizzard Beach is a 100 foot peak called Mount Gushmore. Typhoon Lagoon is very much a family centric attraction with six foot waves in the Surf Pool bringing the coast to Central Florida.

Wet ‘n Wild Orlando is probably the largest of the water Parks in the area and features a full range of rides from the thrilling such as Disco H2O, The Surge and Black Hole: Next Generation, to the more sedate such as Surf Lagoon or the Kiddies play area. If you want to enjoy a relaxing 10 minutes or so why not try the Lazy River, a slow moving stream that circumnavigates the park moving at a gentle pace. For a piece of luxury living you could hire a personal Cabana which offers personal waitress service and somewhere to retreat to away from the buzz of the rest of the park. A point to note about Wet ‘n Wild is that once you have paid to get in you can enter the park again at no extra cost as many times as you like during the next 14 days, a great way to cut the cost of a day out.

5 Things to do in Kissimmee

If you have come to Florida and intend to spend at least some time in the main theme parks (and that is what most first time visitors to Florida want to do) then the city of Kissimmee and the surrounding area is the perfect location. Ideally located right in the midst of the main parks Kissimmee is also a good base for other activities, being within easy driving distance of either the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico coasts, with Kennedy Space Center only an hour or so drive away. Orlando is also close by and there are a large number of excellent golf courses in the immediate vicinity.

Kissimmee is a relatively small city (population circa 50,000) in its own right, but the surrounding metropolitan area is home to around 2m people, not including the vast number of tourists who visit each year. Located in Osceola County, Florida, the main industry in the area is, not surprisingly, tourism although there is still many cattle ranches and orange plantations harking back to pre-Walt Disney days.

There are myriad entertainment activities in Kissimmee and the surrounding area, and here are just a few of them;

#1 Theme Parks – you are very close to all of the major theme parks with the largest being Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. Non-Disney parks include Universal’s Studios and their Islands of Adventure park which includes the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. There is also SeaWorld, with its recently opened penguin based exhibition, Antartica.

#2 Water Parks – there are a large number of water parks in the area, the largest of which is Wet ‘n Wild. This features a number of water-based rides ranging from the sedate (Lazy River) to a number of very exciting rides (Surge). A tip to remember is that once you have paid to get in once, you can get in free anytime in the next two weeks, a great saving if you have a young family and intend to visit more than once.

#3 Gatorland – an easy drive from Kissimmee, this American alligator themed park and nature reserve is a great way to spend a few hours, and is quite a bit cheaper than the main theme parks. There are literally hundreds of alligators of all sizes and ages in the park and there are a number of entertaining shows involving the gators and their keepers to keep you amused. For the more adventurous there is a zip-line covering several hundred feet, allowing a birds-eye view of the park and part of the breeding marshes.

#4 Airboat Rides – there are a number of places offering Airboat rides, based in the wetter, marshy parts of the state, and Florida Wild is an easy drive from Kissimmee. This is a fantastic experience, with the boat ride lasting about an hour, giving a close up of much of the wildlife in the park, although the alligators were a little shy when I was there! You also get the opportunity to hold an adolescent gator, which is probably not for the squeamish!

#5 Shopping and Dining – Highway 192 runs straight through the centre of Kissimmee and has mile upon mile of shops, restaurants and entertainment venues on either side. All the big supermarkets are represented (Walmart, Publix), as well as literally hundreds of bars and restaurants.

If you are looking for other suggestions for things to do in Florida try our article What is there to do in Florida?

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