Orlando And The Attractions

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Rafikiwise
Orlandowise is more than Theme Parks, and Disney, it's about all of the major Orlando attractions in general.
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Sometimes my daughter and I drove to Orlando 3 week-ends each month. We had been to Orlando more than 200 times from 1989 until before I moved here in 2003!

Orlando has grown since Disney built The Magic Kingdom, the first theme park here in the early 1970's. More and more Orlando restaurants, attractions, shows, bars, dinner shows and etc. have been showing up since then. All of these cannot be experienced in one vacation.

We live here and we cannot experience all of Orlando!

The seemingly simple task of eating at all of the Disney restaurants is to much (not to mention all of the Orlando restaurants). Disney changes the ever growing number of Disney restaurants as one begins to under perform.

The attractions, sites, Orlando restaurants, nightlife here in Orlando, we know! I don't mean that we know about them, we visit them!

How do you explore?

Fireworkswise at the Magic Kingdom

Do you see a group of people, join them and follow along? Or do you take the road less traveled and explore, on you own?

I have been an explorer since I could afford to do so on my own. I love finding the very interesting things the crowd doesn't know or care about!

What about when the crowd does know about it and they are here too? We find another way at these Orlando attractions, as well!

I've been in each of the theme parks in Orlando, at the busiest times of the year, at "my" favorite spot - and only a few theme park guest walk by every few minutes!

One Ocean has now replaced Believe....

We've been in the largest crowds at the theme parks and got the seat at the show that we wanted, too.

I've walked into the Contemporary Resort near the Magic Kingdom, too tired to go to the car, and without a reservation we've gotten a room for $39.95/night. (May not be able to do that one again - it was before the Internet!

Yes, we believe that the Internet RAISED prices at the major, if not most, of the Orlando attractions.

How did we do these things? There is no special intelligence needed. No school or special skills required. I cannot do these things in your home town. Yet, I believe that you can do these similar things! You know your home town, especially if you have lived there a long time. Most places have something that visitors would love to see or do. And you know what these thing are.

Article-wise, these experiences are written by natives, theme park employees (er, ah, former employees), current or former employees of that attraction, and frequent visitors and others that KNOW and LOVE this area of Central Florida!

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Why?
It could be because:

• Maybe when we rode the Dueling Dragons Roller Coster (now a part of the Harry Potter attraction - Some expensive Orlando Real Estate) 4 times without getting off and my legs didn't work after that.
• Maybe it was just sitting and holding my daughter so that she could rest and sleep and celebrities that were soon to be performing decided to come from backstage and talk to us when she woke up. It could be that the actors got to know US.
• Or just sitting and watching the fountain (near the center of EPCOT) "dance" to the Orlando attractions theme park music, that 50,000+ people walked by us never noticing!
• Or once, while my daughter and I were sitting and talking about the clouds in the sky and their shapes that someone recognize us came over and reacquainted themselves with us, from Australia - we met them 5 years earlier and they remembered us - we had shown them how to ride in the FRONT CAR with the driver on the monorail to the Magic Kingdom!
  or the driver, knowing that I was a bass fisherman slowed to show us the bass bed (nesting place)
  The information on how to do that at this Orlando attraction, will NOT be revealed on this web site!
• Maybe it was after a show at the "House Of Blues", Orlando, the one that we drove 450 miles to see a group (that I'd never heard of) My daughter wanted to meet the performers and I showed her what to do (I said they won't come out to see you here - just outside of that Orlando attraction).

  We need to go _____ [I showed her where to go - near that Orlando attraction]) so that they would, THEY stopped their motor home/bus and came over to meet my daughter and her new acquaintance!

In a way Orlandowise.com is just "Street Smarts" "Streetwise" about the Orlando attractions.

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