ICE ICE BABY! at Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee
The 2010 ICE exhibit returns to Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee.
This year the 8 wintry scenes depict the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' rhyme. The amazing sculptures and scenes are made almost entirely of ice.
It runs from Nov 20 - Jan 2

Continental Airways UK fares

Continental.com
Fares from the United Kingdom starting at 344 GBP return.
Warm up with these great Christmas holiday fares. Visit your friends and family or catch some sun on your favorite beach. Give yourself the gift of travel.

Gaming at Downtown Disney

For a limited time only, The Wonderful World of Gaming comes to Once Upon a Toy store at Downtown Disney from 1 to 6 p.m. on a Saturday.

There are seven Nintendo DS game systems set up for kids to try out.  Games include The Princess and The Frog, G-Force, Stitch Jam, Club Penguin, Tinker Bell and The Great Fairy Rescue, Phineas and Ferb, and Toy Story 3.

Fans of the Wii console can play Toy Story Mania, Disney Guilty Party and Disney Sing It 2.

Disney World's Pleasure Island lodges permits for change

It was two years ago that Walt Disney World signalled change at Pleasure Island when they announced that the nightclubs of the district would be replaced with more family friendly venues.

At long last Disney has got into gear and lodged permits to signal the start of new construction at Pleasure Island.

The current set up at Downtown Disney with family friendly attractions and restaurants at either end, but joined together by an adult entertainment zone has never really made much sense and anything to put this right is a bonus.

Since the announcement two years ago, very little has happened so far, but Disney has said in the past that it expects to complete its redevelopment of Pleasure Island by 2012.

God Speed

http://www.visitkissimmee.com/leisure/travel_guide/enewsletter/eNewsletter_Article_Detail?id=105&page=enewsletter

Motorcycles Biker Backyard

Motorcycles Biker Backyard this Sunday in Kissimmee.
sell your extra motorcycle parts, do a burnout, see custom bike builds in progress, see who wins the airbrush art contest & more!
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LPGA to visit Orlando

The LPGA Tour Championship is coming to the Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando from Dec 2nd - 5th. This is the first Orlando event since 2008.
Around 120 tour professionals will be competing for a $1.5 million purse in the last event of the current season.

"We were committed to finding a premier golf course that would challenge the players and attract fans and media, and we're thrilled to be back playing in Florida," said LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan.

Busch Gardens new attraction

Cryptic clues about a new attraction at Busch Gardens

Star alongside Hannah Montana

The first 10,000 fans who pre-order the new Hannah Montana music CD will be forever immortalised by having their photo appear in a photo mosaic that will accompany the CD.

For details, follow the link:-

http://disney.go.com/disneymusic/hannahfanwall/index.html?cmp=dcom_han_mosaic_press_extl

Disney prices on the up!

Disney World is raising its ticket prices once again with changes going into effect on Thursday 5th August.

Disney announced Tuesday that it will raise the price of a one-day, one-park adult ticket to $82, this is a 3.8 percent increase from the current $79 charge.

Multiday tickets will also rise in price too.

Disney World spokesman Bryan Malenius said,
“We continuously monitor the marketplace to ensure pricing that reflects a strong entertainment value. Our guests continue to agree that a day at a Disney theme park is great entertainment value.”

New Disney costs are as follows:-

1-day: $79 to $82 (+3.8%)
2-day: $156 to $162 (+3.8%)
3-day: $219 to $224 (+2.3%)
4-day: $225 to $232 (+3.1%)
5-day: $228 to $237 (+3.9%)
6-day: $231 to $242 (+4.8%)
7-day: $234 to $247 (+5.6%)

To add “park hopper” or water-park admission to base ticket: $52 to $54 (+3.8%)

Annual pass increases:

Premium (incl. water parks, etc.), non-resident: $619 to $629 (+1.6%)
Regular, non-resident: $489 to $499 (+2%)
Premium, Florida resident: $489 to $499 (+2%)
Regular, Florida resident: $369 to $379 (+2.7%)
Seasonal, Florida resident: $249 to $259 (+4%)

Star Tours 2 in 3D confirmed for 2011

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Watch the video for Star Tours 2 in 3D - confirmed for 2011

Disney goes all pink

Disney's newest cruise liner, Disney Dream has come over all pink and bubbly...

Designers are installing a cocktail bar, aptly named Pink, which is apparently inspired by French champagne. Pink’s decor is to feature glass “bubbles” that are back lit and inset into the walls throughout the room. The light fittings and shades are designed to look like champagne flutes and the bar feature wall includes a display made to resemble a popping effervescent bottle of pink bubbly!

Designed with adults in mind, Pink is the romantic bolt-hole for Moms and Dads lucky enough to get rid of the kids for a while.

Disney Dream is earmarked to set sail in January 2011.

Cast Your Vote

The Miss Florida 2010 competition is open. Check out the entrants and cast your vote!
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/070910MissFloridaUSA/indexGallery.htm

911 panic call

The new Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride encountered a glitch last night which caused it to stop midway through the journey. As most theme park goers will know, this is not an uncommon occurence aboard any ride.
However, one guest aboard the Potter ride last night decided that this was an emergency worthy of a 911 call!
The lunatic called out the police and fire brigade to attend which they duly did. C'mon you fool! 911 for a stuck simulator ride? The glitch turned out to be nothing serious and all riders made it off - not before the police and fire brigade had been called away from other duties.
My message to the 911 caller - stay off the rides if you are going to panic every time they encounter a glitch!

Tower of Terror

Disney World annual passholders have been told they may start registering on Friday July 23rd for a special Tower of Terror event that will be held on Friday the 13th of August.

The after-hours event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios will showcase A new drop has been added to the ride and this is when Disney plan to show it off to guests at a special spooky night time event.

Advance registration at www.disneyworld.com is required for the event, which will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. but passholders must check in from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the day of the event.

www.iseekissimmee.com

Check out www.iseekissimmee.com
This is an excellent blog run by the Kissimmee Convention & Visitors Bureau. All the blogs are posted by guest bloggers who sign up for a week to write about everything they get up to whilst on vacation in Kissimmee and central Florida.
See Florida through the eyes of others!
There is a good mix lof locals, US visitors and international holiday makers as well.

Harry Potter

Fancy visiting the new Harry Potter land at Universal in Orlando? Good luck! The lines are massive and stretch all the way back to City Walk! I've heard from people standing in line for 8 hours to get in!
Think I'll wait a bit...