Islands of Adventure

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

Typhoon Lagoon

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

Night Parade

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

Animal Kingdom

Animal kingdom provided a welcome break from the high powered, white knuckle roller coasters of previous days. Luke watched a YouTube video of Expedition Everest, a runaway mine train type ride with high speed forwards and backwards sections. Before leaving … Read more

Busch Gardens

We drove out towards Tampa to Busch Gardens, which was about 90 minutes away making it the furthest we’ve traveled to date. Journey pretty good, you just have to continually watch the three lanes of I4 (interstate 4) carefully, as … Read more

Universal Studios

Yesterday we visited Universal Studios, a great theme park which provided a totally different experience than Magic Kingdom disregarding the fact that it wasn’t Disney. The car park is a giant multistory which is a reasonable distance from the park … Read more

Magic Kingdom

We visited Magic Kingdom today, weather hot and very,very humid. When you arrive you’re instantly aware just how huge the park is as you have to take a reasonably long tram ride from the car parks, to the ticket office. … Read more

Not long now !!

I’m sitting in a brightly lit corner of an office in Hertfordshire early in the morning wondering where the previous evening went. During the week before the planning seemed to have proceeded really well, I had been sure things would progress really … Read more