Visitor's Guide: Orlando

Welcome to Orlando, a topsy-turvy, Mad Hatter world, where ducks quack jokes, whales kiss, mice are nice, and elephants fly! Here life is carefree, ceaseless childhood, a journey out of reality and into your imagination....a magic kingdom indeed.

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Read All About It: Orlando

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Local Business and Services Directory: Orlando

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Area Events

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Manta, an all new breed of mega-attraction, opens May 2009 at SeaWorld

Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival (14 miles E)

03/19/2010 to 03/21/2010

Festival of Trees (10 miles N)

11/13/2009 to 11/22/2009

Winter Park Festival - March (16 miles E)

UCF - Orlando Jazz Festival (10 miles N)

03/19/2010 to 03/20/2010

Labor Day Weekend Family Celebration

09/04/2009 to 09/06/2009

Labor Day Fireworks

09/06/2009 to 09/06/2009

Capital One Bowl - Flordia Cirtrus Bowl (10.4 miles W)

01/01/2010 to 01/01/2010

Houston Astros Spring Training (11.3 miles E)

02/01/2010 to 02/28/2010

Florida Film Festival (22.6 miles W)

04/09/2010 to 04/18/2010

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Area Tour Services

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Eco Tour

  • Shingle Creek
  • Grande Lake Eco Tours
  • 1 407 393 4980

Fly Fishing

  • Shingle Creek Lake
  • Grande Lakes Fly Fishing
  • 1 407 393 4980

Gator Tours

  • varies
  • Gator Tours
  • 1 407 522 5911

Kennedy Space Center Discovery Tour

  • Orlando
  • Orlando Tours

Orlando Ghost Tour

  • Downtown Orlando
  • Orlando Ghost Tour Inc.
  • 1 407 247 0452

Swim With the Manatees and Airboat Adventure Tour

  • Homosassa River
  • Viator Tours

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JW Marriott® Orlando, Grande Lakes

4040 Central Florida Parkway Orlando, Florida 32837 USA

  • Phone:  1-407-206-2300
  • Fax 1-407-206-2301
  • Sales:  1-407-393-4300
  • Toll-free:  1-800-576-5750

Reservations by Phone

To make reservations by phone, call 1-800-228-9290 in the USA and Canada (or any of our worldwide reservation telephone numbers ).

Orlando Weather:

  • November 21, 2009
  • AM Partly Cloudy / PM Mostly Cloudy
  • Hi:83F |28C
  • Low:65F |18C