Orlando & Florida - Questions & Answers (Part 1) *CLOSED*

skr80ab

janeymates wrote:

Hi, we've just reserved a car with dollar.com online, you get a res. no and don't have to pay until you arrive. We were quoted appx £213 for 2 weeks compact car (you nearly always get upgraded, especially if you get to the back of the queue!). Be careful to use the U.S site, when i clicked on the U.K site, the same vehicle was coming out at £330! and the $ is good at the moment. hope that helps

does that include all the insurances (cdw / sli / etc)? if so a very good price - if not perhaps this may work out to be fairly expensive...

Mads13

Hi All

Just a quickie!!

From October 2004 everyone entering the USA will be digitally finger printed and their photo taken. This enables the US goverment to find out any criminals that should not be entering the USA without a Visa. If you as a british citizen have ever been arrested(even if you were never charged) or have a criminal record, you are not able to enter the USA without a visa. A visa can take upto 6 months to sort out and there is still no guarentee that the USA will allow you entrance.

Thought this would make interesting reading!
Mads13
xx

Busybee_2

jnd: I have just read the post you left yesterday for Elljay.

I just wanted to say that I found it very useful too. You are a wealth of information. Thank you.

jnd

Busybee wrote:

jnd: I have just read the post you left yesterday for Elljay.

I just wanted to say that I found it very useful too. You are a wealth of information. Thank you.

No problem, glad I was some help.

I mentioned before about there being more to Fl. than the parks etc. For a bit of relaxation and education, and a break from Mickey and his friends, there is the Disney Wilderness Preserve. It's not far and is the only Disney park I know where a family of 4 can visit for $10!

To offset the amount of wetlands Disney destroyed building their parks they purchased this land and help turned it into a wilderness preserve. You can see wild animals in their natural habitat. On Sundays (not during the summer months unfortunately) you can pay a bit extra for a 2 hour buggy ride through the preserve. The kids loved it.

http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/florida/preserves/art5523.html

Busybee_2

Thanks again jnd

Busybee_2

Sorry if this is a silly question to those of you that have been to Orlando many times before but could someone please answer a question I have:-

Can we go to, for example, Magic Kingdom in the morning, go back to our villa for lunch and a swim midday and then return to Magic Kingdom for the fireworks in the evening, all on the same day's ticket?

or would this be regarded as 'park-hopping' even if we are returning to the same park?

jnd

Busybee,

No problem, you are allowed to re-enter the park. You just need to get your hand stamped on the way out.

Keep your car park ticket as well as it is valid for the whole day.

Poppy9

jnd wrote:

Busybee,

No problem, you are allowed to re-enter the park. You just need to get your hand stamped on the way out.

Keep your car park ticket as well as it is valid for the whole day.

The car park ticket is valid for any Disney park too. Not just the one you originally bought in. Same applies to Universal studios

jnd

Poppy9 wrote:

The car park ticket is valid for any Disney park too.

and just incase anyone asks...........

............as long as you can park-hop, otherwise it's pointless.

Busybee_2

Thanks again jnd and of course Poppy9 too.

Sorry I'm so thick but organising this holiday is doing my head in!

Are you saying this re-entry, with the hand stamp, is permitted even if we do not buy tickets with the added park hopping option?

I really do appreciate all the help and advise you are all giving. Thank You.