The effects of the booming Vacation Home industry are now being felt by the Hotel Industry. All the years of taking customers for granted, treating them like sardines and giving impersonal customer service are now taking a toll … not to say the overpriced rooms … read on from the Orlando Sentinel. Metro Orlando’s hotel-occupancy levels falter […]
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FX Show this weekend … Toy Collectors Don’t Miss It
January 25, 2008 Comments Off on FX Show this weekend … Toy Collectors Don’t Miss ItThe FX Show International is on this weekend January 26 and 27 at the Orange County Convention Center on I-Drive. Many celebrity guests and toys from every genre, there is even a tattoo convention and wrestling shows every day. Check out www.fxshow.com for more details.
Continue reading …America’s Got Talent … but has Orlando.
January 24, 2008 Comments Off on America’s Got Talent … but has Orlando.Are you a great singer? A skilled comedian? A superb ventriloquist? Take your gifts to the “America’s Got Talent” auditions this weekend in Orlando. You should go to www.nbc.com/Americas_Got_Talent/ and register. But the auditions are open to everyone, NBC says. The Orlando auditions will be Saturday at Royal Plaza Hotel, Walt Disney World Resort. The […]
Continue reading …Diana inquest: Despite my wife’s tears, the judicial steel of this court has done us all a service By DOMINIC LAWSON – Dominic Lawson: thought the Diana inquiry pointless and extravagant We are now well into the fourth month of the public inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed and […]
Continue reading …If I had to go back to the UK, I’d be miserable as well … He’s found fame in America playing a curmudgeonly doctor in the TV drama House. And on a rare trip home to Britain to see his wife and three children, Hugh Laurie seemed to be staying very much in character. The […]
Continue reading …If this photo doesn’t warm your heart … you don’t have one.
January 20, 2008 Comments Off on If this photo doesn’t warm your heart … you don’t have one.Got up this morning and Wallace and Elsa were comforting each other during the storm. He loves his “baby.”
Continue reading …I love surfing the Internet, especially to find stuff to do at the weekend. Here is a list I found on the web, that I am intend to visit as much as I can … I have already visited over 20 on the list. An ancient Spanish monastery, spiritualist camp, castle made entirely of coral, […]
Continue reading …The AKC site listed a Top 10 Dog list for Orlando. The bulldog may have been No.1 dog nationally but in the City Beautiful, the Yorkie reigns. “With the exception of the Chihuahua and the Maltese, Orlando’s favorite breeds closely mirror the national list,” says AKC spokesperson Lisa Peterson. “However, combining that fact with the […]
Continue reading …Universal’s revamped Earthquake ride is now open … thrills and spills galore. The Rock was present at the opening. Look for cameos from him and Christopher Walken in the show. Location: Universal Studios Florida® Category: Live Action Ride Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride…Starring YOU Learn the secrets of disaster films, experience special effects […]
Continue reading …I was driving along when I spotted the Great Wall of China, or maybe an Imperial Palace … nothing unusual there, if you are traveling through China, but very unusual in Orlando near Disney … unless you are looking for takeaway. So I stopped, got out and remembered that Orlando once had an attraction called Splendid […]
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