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Florida Experience the Best of Florida Discover Florida Experience the best of Florida This edition written and researched by Adam Karlin, Jennifer Rasin Denniston, Paula Hardy, Benedict Walker 000-toc-dc-flo2.indd0-toc-dc-flo2.indd 1 221/11/20141/11/2014 33:45:09:45:09 PPMM PPalmalm BBeacheach & tthehe GGoldold CCoastoast Highlights .............................. 136 Fort Lauderdale Walt Disney World® Universal Hollywood Beach & Resort & Orlando Orlando #p109 Resort Broadwalk #p51 Flagler Museum Morikami Museum & #p255 Japanese Gardens Palm Beach & Gumbo Limbo Nature Tampa Bay & the Gold Coast Center the Gulf Coast #p133 MMiamiiami & tthehe KKeyseys The Everglades #p233 #p169 Highlights .............................. 172 Miami Art Deco Historic Miami & District the Keys Key West Hemingway House Little Havana Overseas Highway Cycling WWaltalt DDisneyisney UUniversalniversal TThehe EEvergladesverglades WWorld®orld® RResortesort & OOrlandorlando ResortResort Highlights ............................ 236 OOrlandorlando Highlights .............................. 112 Everglades National Park Highlights ............................... 54 Wizarding World of Harry Big Cypress National Potter Preserve Disney’s Parades & Light Shows Islands of Adventure Hell’s Bay Chickee Camping Epcot Universal Studios Everglades International Fantasyland Production Central Hostel Sunset Boulevard Springfi eld Animal Kingdom 000-toc-dc-flo2.indd0-toc-dc-flo2.indd 2 221/11/20141/11/2014 33:45:13:45:13 PPMM CContentsontents PPlanlan YYourour TTriprip DDiscoveriscover TTampaampa BayBay & This Is Florida .................6 tthehe GGulfulf CCoastoast Florida Map .....................8 Highlights ............................258 WWaltalt DisneyDisney Florida’s Top 25 Sanibel & Captiva Islands Highlights ......................10 WWorld®orld® RResortesort & Weeki Wachee Springs OOrlandorlando 5511 Florida’s Top Mote Marine Laboratory Itineraries ......................32 Highlights ..................... 54 Fort DeSoto Park & Beach Salvador Dalí Museum Florida Best ............................... 56 Month by Month ......... 42 Itineraries ......................58 What’s New .................. 46 Walt Disney World® Get Inspired ..................47 Resort............................ 60 Need to Know .............. 48 Magic Kingdom ........... 60 Epcot ............................ 65 Animal Kingdom ...........67 Hollywood Studios .......70 Typhoon Lagoon & Blizzard Beach .......... 71 Disney’s Boardwalk ......72 Downtown Disney ........72 Orlando & Around ........89 Downtown Orlando ..... 89 Loch Haven Park ......... 89 Greater Orlando ........... 91 Cocoa Beach & the Space Coast ........99 UUniversalniversal OOrlandorlando RResortesort 110909 Highlights .....................112 Best .............................. 114 Itineraries .................... 116 Universal Orlando Resort........................... 118 000-toc-dc-flo2.indd0-toc-dc-flo2.indd 3 221/11/20141/11/2014 33:45:13:45:13 PPMM CContentsontents DDiscoveriscover FFloridalorida In Focus Survival Guide Islands of South Beach ...............179 Adventure.................... 118 Northern Miami Universal Studios ....... 121 Beach ...........................185 TTampaampa BBayay & tthehe CityWalk ....................... 129 Downtown Miami ........187 GGulfulf CCoastoast 225555 Wynwood, Design District & Little Haiti .. 191 Highlights ................... 258 Key Biscayne .............. 191 Best .............................260 PPalmalm BBeacheach & thethe Little Havana...............195 Itineraries ................... 262 Coconut Grove ...........196 GGoldold CCoastoast 113333 Tampa Bay ..................264 Coral Gables ............... 197 Highlights ....................136 St Petersburg .............274 Greater Miami – Best ..............................138 South ...........................198 St Pete Beach & Barrier Island Beaches ..........280 Itineraries ................... 140 Turkish Delight ............ 202 South of Tampa ......... 283 Gold Coast ..................142 North Biscayne Boulevard ..................... 209 Sarasota ..................... 283 Palm Beach .................142 Fort Myers ..................286 Florida Keys ................218 West Palm Beach .......146 Sanibel & Captiva Kayaking the Upper Keys .................218 Islands ........................ 289 Loxahatchee River .......150 Middle Keys ............... 220 Cabbage Key ................292 Lake Worth ..................152 Lower Keys ..................221 Corkscrew Swamp Lion Country Safari ..... 153 Key West .................... 223 Sanctuary .................. 293 Delray Beach ..............154 Dry Tortugas National North of Tampa ......... 293 Park ............................. 229 Boca Raton .................155 Homosassa Springs ...293 Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Crystal River ..............294 & Deerfield Beach ..... 157 Busch Gardens Fort Lauderdale ..........159 & Adventure Island ..... 294 Hollywood TThehe & Dania Beach ............166 EEvergladesverglades 223333 Highlights ................... 236 BBestest ooff Best ............................. 238 tthehe RestRest 295295 MMiamiiami & Itineraries ...................240 Daytona & Around .... 296 tthehe KKeyseys 116969 The Everglades National Park .............242 St Augustine & Highlights .................... 172 Amelia Island ............. 297 Big Cypress National Best .............................. 174 Preserve .......................247 Tallahassee & Apalachicola .............. 299 Itineraries .................... 176 Biscayne National Park..............................251 Destin ..........................301 Miami ........................... 178 000-toc-dc-flo2.indd0-toc-dc-flo2.indd 4 221/11/20141/11/2014 33:45:13:45:13 PPMM IInn FFocusocus SSurvivalurvival GGuideuide Florida Today .............304 Directory .................... 338 History ........................306 Accommodations ...... 338 Activities .................... 339 Family Travel ...............314 Climate .......................340 Culture & Arts ............318 Discount Cards ...........341 Floridian Food ............ 322 Electricity ....................341 The Outdoors............. 326 Food .............................341 Gay & Lesbian Wildlife ........................330 Travelers......................341 Beaches ...................... 334 Health ......................... 342 Insurance ................... 343 Internet Access .........343 Legal Matters............. 343 Money .........................344 Opening Hours ..........344 Public Holidays ..........344 Safe Travel ................. 345 Telephone .................. 345 Tourist Information ...345 Travelers with Disabilities.................. 345 Work ........................... 346 Transportation ..........346 Getting There & Away ........................346 Getting Around ..........348 Behind the Scenes ................. 354 Index ............................ 355 How to Use This Book ....................367 Our Writers ................. 368 000-toc-dc-flo2.indd0-toc-dc-flo2.indd 5 221/11/20141/11/2014 33:45:13:45:13 PPMM TThishis IIss FFloridalorida Florida is the USA’s playground. Florida is bracken wetlands that melt under soul-searing sunsets. Florida is blue lakes, teal oceans and green rivers cutting a tropical plain into parcels of romantic beauty. Florida is sand like snow. Florida is cities that have dedicated themselves to giving you food, shopping, nightlife and enjoyment. Florida is waiting. This state exudes a powerful attrac- tion. Generation after generation of travelers keeps coming back. Our grandparents had retirement cot- tages here. Our parents can recall childhood visions of mermaids and manatees and Mickey that their children remember with a similar warm-hearted nostalgia, and want to pass on to the next generation and the next. These recollections encapsulate what many deem ‘Old Florida.’ But Old Florida sits alongside the new here as the state is constantly pushing itself to reinvent the best in tourism. If you want it, Florida has it, in every color, size and shape. There are malls near Fort Myers where you can live out your most lurid consumer fantasies. Thanks to demand for the local, organic and indigenous, those malls are a few miles from neighborly farmer's markets. There are theme parks galore in Orlando, while in the Everglades to the south and Apalachicola to the north, there are state and national parks where a unique subtropical environ- ment is protected by dedicated citizens settling new frontiers in conservation and environmentalism. Florida is the USA’s There are miles of beach in Miami. And beyond sun and sun, a world class, daring arts dis- playground trict. There are the latest toys and trends of the wealthy in Palm Beach, and a few hours south, simple pleasures and parades dedicated to flights of fantasy in Key West. And everywhere you go there is the backbone of Florida: visitors. They can find anything here, and often, more than what they ex- pected. Get ready to join their satisfied ranks. 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