Orlando tours and excursions
Orlando tours
City Sightseeing Orlando
City Sightseeing Orlando offers fantastic day tours within the Orlando, Lake Buena Vista, and International Drive areas. From trips to the Kennedy Space Center to Clearwater Beach, this tour company will make sure that you get the most out of money.
Tel: +1 407 352 4646Website: http://www.floridadolphintours.com
American Ghost Adventures
American Ghost Adventures runs nightly walking tours of Downtown Orlando, uncovering the city's murky history and taking in several spooky sights. The second half of the two-hour tour takes place in a haunted building, where guests are equipped with electromagnetic field readers and encouraged to record any eerie happenings on their phones or video cameras.
Tel: +1 407 256 6225Website: http://www.americanghostadventures.com
Tour Beaver
Orlando Tours offers a wide range of tours, from nature-based excursions such as swimming with the manatees to trips to the Kennedy Space Center and Gatorland. It offers airboat rides in Kissimmee as well as dolphin swims in the Florida Keys.
Tel: +1 212 852 4822Website: http://www.orlando-tours.com
Orlando excursions
Homosassa Springs
An increasingly popular excursion takes guests to this fabulous state park to swim with manatees, which are amazingly gentle creatures. Many tours also include an airboat ride. Visitors can see the Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park and take a leisurely boat ride down Pepper Creek. Entering the park afterwards, you can see a number of animals native to Florida, as well as manatees in the special tanks. This is about a 90-minute drive (160km/100 miles) from Orlando.
Tel: +1 352 628 5343Website: http://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/ellie-schiller-homosassa-springs-wildlife-state-park
Florida Everglades
A (very) long day trip takes guests all the way south–bear in mind this is around a four-hour drive though (320km/200 miles). For most, it is worth it to go see this magnificent natural wonder and have the chance to explore this amazing water system. As the third-largest national park in the US, the Everglades contains the country’s biggest mangrove swamp, housing more than 350 species of birds, 300 species of fresh and saltwater fish and 40 species of mammals.
Tel: +1 305 242 7700Website: http://www.nps.gov/ever
St Petersburg and Clearwater
About a 90-minute drive (160km/100miles) from Orlando on the Gulf Coast are these popular resort towns, with long, wide, family-friendly beaches, fishing excursions, dolphin-watching cruises and speedboat rides. The resort towns to visit include St. Pete Beach and Treasure Island, all with colourful gift shops and miles of undeveloped coastline. St. Pete Beach also has the Gulf Beaches Historical Museum. Madeira Beach and Indian Rocks are two other popular resort towns.
Tel: +1 727 464 7200Website: http://www.visitstpeteclearwater.com
