Other activities in Central Florida
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Van's Skatepark
Adrenaline junkies will love Van’s Skatepark inside Festival Bay Mall. You can rent a board ($5) and all the necessary safety equipment, right after you (or your legal guardian if you’re under 18) sign a comprehensive waiver. An all-day pass, including gear rental, is $35 and sessions begin every two hours on the hour.
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World Bowling Center at Dowdy Pavilion
With floating spacemen and surreal murals adorning the walls, the World Bowling Center at Dowdy Pavilion makes a fun place to hang out on hot or rainy days. On Friday and Saturday nights the lights go down and music cranks up for Moonlight Bowling.
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Fun 2 Dive Scuba and Snorkeling
You can snorkel with the manatee with Fun 2 Dive Scuba and Snorkeling in Sanford, just north of Orlando.
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Specialty Fireworks Cruise
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Outdoor Travels
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Keys to the Kingdom
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Katie's Landing
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Golfpac Orlando
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Nature Adventures
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Winter Summerland
A miniature golf course just outside Blizzard Beach.
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Richard Petty Driving Experience
This is where you’ll find the Richard Petty Driving Experience, where NASCAR wannabes can race Winston Cup–style cars around a real track. The Ride Along Program ($105) puts you shotgun in a stock car (riders must be at least 16) and three other options allow you to drive on your own.
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Fantasia Gardens
This is a welcome change from the bright, loud and over-the-top miniature golf endemic to Orlando. It sits across from the Walt Disney World Dolphin.
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DisneyQuest
With five dizzying floors of exhibits designed to indulge video-game addicts, DisneyQuest makes the perfect place to while away a rainy or hot afternoon. Virtual-reality rides, arcades, alien invasions, flight simulators and other technological delights (including designing your own roller coaster) will satisfy folks with even the most limited attention spans.
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Blizzard Beach
Though the newer of Disney’s two water parks, Blizzard Beach is the 1980s Vegas Strip hotel to Typhoon Lagoon’s Bellagio. At its center sits the snowcapped Mt Gushmore, from which the waterslides burst forth. You can choose several options for your descent, but because the wooden-bench chairlift that transports riders to the top rarely works you’ll have to huff it up before you can zoom down. But don’t worry – the lines are usually so long you’ll have plenty of time to relax on the way up! The fastest and craziest ride down is Summit Plummet, where you sit on the slide itself (no tube or toboggan) and fly more than 55mph down more than 360ft. Alternatively,…
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