Orlando in the Fall

Date:

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Time:

7:00am - 10:00pm

Location:

Orlando, FL

  Average price for this trip: $868

A full package of fun! You'll never be bored visiting Orlando in the Fall. So many things to do, so little...well, so many things to do and we'll give you plenty of time!

Holyland USA

It has been 2000 years since the world has seen anything like this! The Holy Land Experience is a living, biblical museum that takes you 7000 miles away and 2000 years back in time to the land of the Bible. Its unique sights, sounds and tastes stimulate your senses and blend together to create a spectacular, new experience.

 

Bok Tower Gardens

Sitting at 298 feet above sea level and spanning 250 acres, the Bok Tower Gardens are a National Historic Landmark that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The gardens began in 1921 when Edward W. Bok, editor of the popular women's magazine Ladies Home Journal and his wife, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who would found the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1924, were spending the winter beside Florida's Lake Wales Ridge and decided to create a bird sanctuary on its highest hill (298 feet above sea level, 91 meters).

Bok commissioned noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to transform what then was an arid sand hill into "a spot of beauty second to none in the country". The first year was spent digging trenches and laying pipes for irrigation, after which soil was brought to the site by thousands of truck loads and plantings began. The Olmsted plan included the planting of 1,000 large live oaks, 10,000 azaleas, 100 sabal palms, 300 magnolias, and 500 gordonias, as well as hundreds of fruit shrubs including blueberry and holly.

Attempts were made to introduce flamingos to the sanctuary several times, which is why early renderings of the tower show flamingos at the reflection pool rather than swans. These early efforts were unsuccessful, however, as the flamingos were not native to central Florida and could not survive the winters that were cooler than those of southern Florida where they may be found.

Under construction for over five years, Bok Tower Gardens was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge on February 1, 1929. Edward Bok died in 1930, and was interred at the base of the tower

 

Arabian Nights Dinner Show

Arabian Nights, the Most Honored Dinner Show in the World, is located in Orlando's tourist heartland and close to Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios® Resort and the Sea World Adventure Park.

At the exciting Arabian Nights Dinner Attraction, guests enter the magical world of Scheherazade, a young girl with a bigger-than-life dream of becoming a beautiful Princess. Two magical Genies take Scheherazade and her guests on a thrilling and romantic adventure filled with music, lights and daring acts where anything can happen, from a square dance on horseback to chariots racing and Gypsies leaping, flipping and dancing on moving horses' backs!

The large-scale theatrical production at Arabian Nights features riders and acrobats performing with more than 60 horses, including Walter Farley's Black Stallion. The nightly performances give guests the most incredible experience among Central Florida's dinner shows.

The entire Arabian Nights performance and dinner show is hosted inside the Palace of Horses, the world's largest indoor equestrian arena for a permanent show, where more than 14 different breeds of horses are trained and cared for by the dedicated staff of this amazing dinner theatre production

 

Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour

The boat tour departs from the end of Morse Ave on Lake Osceola just a few blocks off Park Ave. Tours leave on the hour from 10 AM until 4 PM every day except Christmas. The boats are 18 passenger pontoon boats.

The narrators on the tour really enhance the experience. They take you through much of the history of Winter Park Florida through their descriptions of the homes, who built them and where they came from. Many of the mansions were built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s

Morse Museum

The world's most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is housed at The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. The Museum's Tiffany collection includes jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows and lamps, and the chapel interior the artist designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Museum's holdings also include a major collection of American art pottery and representative collections of late 19th- and early 20th-century American painting, graphics, and decorative art.

 

 Top it all off with Downtown Disney and you've got memories that will last a lifetime. You will truly fall, for Orlando in the Fall.

This Trip Includes: A Deluxe Motorcoach, 6 Breakfasts, 4 Dinners, lodging, admissions to Holyland, Bok Tower Gardens, Arabian Nights Dinner Show, Winter Park Cruise, Morse Museum, all taxes and gratuities.

For more information please call (804) 612-0670