Orlando – Did You Know?
Orlando has been consistently chosen as the top Family Spring Break destination for American families.
It would take you nearly five years to eat in Orlando’s 5,390 restaurants if you ate in three each day.
Walt Disney World Resort is home to Florida’s three highest “mountains”: Expedition Everest at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park; Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain both at the Magic Kingdom.
Seuss Landing at Universal’s Islands of Adventure is so true to the works of the famed children’s author that you won’t find a single straight line – even the trees are crooked.
The dolphin lagoons at Discovery Cove hold 2 million gallons (7.6 million liters) of water – enough water to fill three Olympic-size swimming pools.
Since service began in 1997, the International Drive Trolley Service – also known as the I-Ride Trolley – has completed 11.5 million trips.
Wet n’ Wild Orlando was the world’s first water park, opening in 1977. It remains one of America’s only water parks to be open year-round.
There are enough of the famous Mickey Mouse ears sold each year at Walt Disney World Resort to cover the head of every man, woman and child in Pittsburgh.
Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” is performed 10 times each week in a custom-built theater at Downtown Disney’s West Side. There are 1,730 audio cables running through the theatre. If placed end-to-end, they would stretch 164 miles or roughly the distance from Orlando to Tampa and back again.
It would take 902 American football fields laid side-by-side and end-to-end to completely fill the 52 million square feet of retail shopping space in Orlando.
