Destination: Orlando

The biggest city in central Florida, Orlando is dominated by Lake Eola in its northeastern downtown quadrant. Orlando is the fifth-ranking US destination of overseas travelers - after San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City - and it claims the second highest number of hotel rooms in the USA.

When to go
Orlando is popular year round. Weather-wise, early autumn is best. At the theme parks, weekends tend to be less crowded than the beginning of the week. As far as accommodations go, the cheapest time to visit is from early August to mid-December; the most expensive is during the Christmas and Easter holiday periods.

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Walt Disney World
In its first year, Disney World saw over 10 million visitors, and it remains one of the world's top tourist destinations, now attracting more than 20 million visitors a year. It's also the world's biggest amusement resort, covering an area twice the size of New York's Manhattan. It has its own transport system, emergency services, police force, energy plant and more than 20,000 employees.

Magic Kingdom Park, Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park are the three main parks within Walt's Disney World.

Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and its trademark silver geodesic dome is visible throughout Disney World. Epcot is divided into two main sections: Future World, a combination amusement and educational park, and World Showcase, a well-presented re-creation of 11 countries - Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, the UK and the USA.

Universal Studios Florida
Like Universal Studios in Hollywood, Orlando's Universal Studios is a combination working movie studio and theme park.

Kennedy Space Center
The Kennedy Space center draws 2 million people a year to its Gallery of Spaceflight, packed with real spacecraft and scale models. It was established in 1958, when the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) started Project Mercury to compete with the Soviets' successful launch of Sputnik. The US started launching its spaceships from Cape Canaveral, a stone's throw from the Kennedy Space Center, because of its weather, its proximity to the ocean (for splash landings) and the huge, unpopulated tracts of land available to the government for testing. Mercury was succeeded by Project Gemini, then Project Apollo, which landed a man on the moon. The Space Coast still maintains facilities for unmanned and space shuttle launches.