Things to do in Orlando, FL?

With only 3-4 days, you need to focus on one thing or you'll wear yourself out.

If you've never been to Disney World, then that's what you should see this trip. You can explore the Magic Kingdom, the Animal Kingdom, MGM, and Epcot. Downtown Disney has the House of Blues for good food and music, you can catch the Cirque de Soli show, it's pricey - but worth it! All four parks have something exciting and different. I LOVE the Soarin' ride at Epcot and the Rockin' Rollercoaster at MGM is the best roller coaster by far. Don't forget to check out the shows. You can upgrade to a park hopper ticket, so you can "hop" between parks each day. Mid November is a great time to come - it's not so stinking hot.

Universal is also fun, I love SeaWorld, in addition to the animals, they also have rides. Some people spend a whole day just going up and down International Drive and discovering WonderWorks, Ripley's, Pirate's Cove Golf, Wet & Wild and many other things.

Have fun!

After many trips, I believe Disney World is the premier attraction in Orlando. It has FOUR separate theme parks plus lots of hotels and other activities on-property (golf courses, water parks). You can easily get picked up at the airport, taken to your Disney hotel, and never leave property for a couple of weeks.

So for 3-4 days: well, you could visit one park each day. To me, Animal Kingdom is a half-day park. Possibly Disney-MGM Studios could be done half-day, also. I really like this park and do a lot of stuff twice, so I always allow a full day here.

Then there is Epcot and the Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom is what most people think of when they think Disney - big Cinderella's castle, lots of rides that appeal to kids or "big kids!" It's the original, classic Disney park. So I would suggest you try to go to it one day.

Lots of info about what rides/attractions are at each park here: http://www.allearsnet.com/

For Disney tickets, you will save money buying multi-day passes. Then you can decide what you want to "add-on" to your pass. If you choose to add the park hopper option, you can go to as many parks as you want in one day, using only one day of your ticket. If you don't have the hopper option, you can only go to one park a day. But you could leave for an afternoon break and come back later to that same park, if you wanted. If it were me, I would just buy a basic three (or four) day pass with no add-ons. There's so much to do in Disney, I don't think you'll use the add-ons.

Universal is made up of two parks, Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Not a big fan of Studios. Islands is pretty good and has a lot of thrill rides (big coasters, etc). However, after several trips I can easily do BOTH parks in just one day. For your first trip, you probably would want to allocate one full day to each park. Again, though, I think Disney is far superior to Universal. You can buy two-park, multi-day tickets to Universal, too.

If it interests you, there is also a Sea World in Orlando.

Disney World is the best! There are 4 main theme parks at the resort. Magic Kingdom is the one with all the classic disney rides like Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Carribean, Jungle Cruise, Splash Mountain and countless others. Epcot is my favorite of the 4 main parks. It has the large golf ball (spaceship earth ride) which is lots of fun and a very relaxing dark ride. It also has the world's showcase which is awesome. You walk around to all the different countries. They have shows for all the countries, restaurants, shops and a few of the countries have their own ride. Definitly ride Maelstrom in Norway. Its awesome. Also ride Figment, the seas with Nemo, Soarin, living with the land and test track.

MGM is the smaller of the 4 parks. If you like thrill rides I suggest rock and roller coaster as well as twilight tower of terror. Great movie ride is a lot of fun. It takes you throughout famous scenes of movies. Animal Kingdom is lots of fun. I recommend the Kilamanjaro safari's, Dinosaur, its tough to be a bug, and Expedition Everest.

Personally Univeral is just so so to me. They got rid of a Back to the future a few months ago and I thought thatw as the best ride there. ET is a fun bicycle ride with lots of neat effects and animatronics.

Also if you have time checkout Sea World. The shark encounter, stingray tank and killer whale shows are great.

I suggest buying a Disney Park Hopper ticket. You can go to several disney parks in a day with that. Also if you like going to different restaurants buy the Dining package. it will save you a bundle on meals.

Best wishes and have fun!

go to universal

city walk (clubs.. get a part pass)

downtown disney (pleasure island) = clubs, restaurant, shops

i like going to florida mall on OBT and Orlando fashion mall on colonial and there is always something going on.. some event. i luv it