Welcome to Hawkes & Brown's Holiday

Knowing we needed to return to the hotel early to pack for our flight to Washington the next day, we had previously chatted about the last park we’d spend time at. Water parks were ruled out as we needed all … Read more

A tale of two parks. Blizzard beach was the remaining Disney water park that we hadn’t visited until today. Knowing we were on a mission to experience two water parks in one day we left early, arriving at Blizzard Beach … Read more

A day away from roller coasters and other theme park type rides, took us south to the wetlands area for a swamp boat ride. Those of you old enough to remember Gentle Ben (a TV show about a boy who … Read more

The Kennedy Space Centre is set on a vast section of Cape Canaveral, which is hardly surprising since everything here in USA seems to be vast. The one thing that surprised us though was the single carriageway leading to the … Read more

Hollywood Studios was the final Disney theme park we had on our list to visit, water parks aside. Having read the guidebook we bought back in the UK, we got up early and hurriedly breakfasted and left the hotel. As … Read more

SeaWorld was by far the closest theme park we’ve visited yet, only being 15 minutes away from our hotel which made Busch Gardens seem really far away. We began the day by riding manta a roller coaster where you lean … Read more

Epcot is best known for its iconic giant golf ball. As soon as he saw it, Matty immediately wanted to know what was inside the golf ball. We ignored his constant demands for answers and walked as quickly as possible … Read more

Today we visited Islands of Adventure, the last Universal park we had to visit. Unlike Disney which is quite spread out, the two Universal parks are cheek by jowl, allowing you to either walk out of one and into the … Read more

Today we visited our first water park of the holiday, Typhoon Lagoon. Typhoon Lagoon is a Disney water park and as you’d expect really large. Most water parks we’ve been to previously have had a wave machine pool, however they … Read more

We decided that after a lazy afternoon we should go to the Night Parade. We arrived in Main Street with the crowds and managed to get a good space to watch. The floats were really  good and had loads of … Read more