Disney Orlando Field Trip

Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil, in Downtown Disney West Side, features its renowned blend of acrobatics and special effects with more than 70 artists from around the globe performing in a custom-designed, 1,671-seat theater.

Discovery Cove
Across from SeaWorld Adventure Park, this tropical paradise provides for discovering tropical fish in a coral reef, snorkeling with stingrays, and interacting with birds in an aviary, as well as swimming and playing with dolphins during a half-hour dolphin encounter.

Disney MGM Studios
A theme park within a motion picture and television studio, attractions include Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!, Playhouse Disney - Live on Stage!, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

DisneyQuest Indoor Interactive Theme Park
The five-story DisneyQuest Indoor Interactive Theme Park combines Disney's magic with cutting-edge technologies. Guests board a river raft on Virtual Jungle Cruise, ride a roller coaster of their own design on Cyber Space Mountain, and become part of a human pinball game in Mighty Ducks Pinball Slam. Some events require a separate admission charge.

Disney’s Blizzard Beach
Disney’s Blizzard Beach water park features one of the world’s tallest, fastest free-fall speed slides, smack in the middle of sunny Florida. As the largest of Disney’s water parks, it has 22 water slides and fast "icy" bobsled runs that stay comfortably warm.

Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park
Magic Kingdom’s seven magical lands are filled with attractions, restaurants and shops based on favorite Disney themes of fantasy, yesterday and tomorrow. Popular attractions include The Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Haunted House, and Space Mountain.

Disney’s Miniature Golf Courses
Disney’s Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Course, a 36-hole adventure featuring Fantasia Gardens, has 18-holes with a theme from Disney's classic film "Fantasia," and Fantasia Fairways, and an 18-hole challenge course with strategic bunkers and hazards. Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature Golf Course is an interactive experience with two 18-hole elf-sized courses. One course has a snow-clad Florida look reminiscent of Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park, while the other goes tropical with holiday ornaments hanging from palms.


Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park
Big among locals, Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, open year around, offers twisting tides, roaring rapids and relaxing rivers. Whether navigating the nine water slides, swimming with sharks and tropical fish or conquering waves in the nation’s largest wave pool, this exotic paradise promises maximum adventure in water heated to a pleasant 75-80 degrees year around.

Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex
Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex annually hosts more than 100 Amateur Athletic Union events, Atlanta Braves spring training, Orlando Rays minor league baseball and the Pop Warner Super Bowl. Spectator fun awaits with 200 acres of courts and fields for more than 30 sports.

Epcot Theme Park
Fascinating cultures and numerous wonders of the world are celebrated through dazzling shows, interactive experiences and attractions. Epcot showcases the power of human imagination with The Circle Of Life, Ellen’s Energy Adventure and the Making of Me. Kids’ favorites include Cranium Command and Food Rocks! By night, IllumiNations is a kaleidoscope of sky artistry with more than 1,100 pyrotechnic bursts, accompanied by music.

Fantasy of Flight
Fantasy of Flight invites exploration of flight nostalgia in self-guided "immersion" experiences zooming through early aviation history. The North Hanger displays part of the world’s largest private collection of vintage aircraft. Also on tap are flight simulators and daily tours, including the Back-Lot Restoration Shop Tour. Weather permitting, rare aircraft take to the skies for Aircraft of the Day demonstrations.

Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum
Exhibits of engines, armaments, American warplanes, military memorabilia and views of the restoration process. WACO open cockpit bi-plane air tours are available. Visitors can monitor the restoration process, watching metamorphosis of these nearly forgotten chunks of history returned to days of glory.

Fun Spot Action Park
Fun Sport Action Park, with free admission, free parking and free rides for children with a paying adult, lets guests "Drive the Ride" on multi-level go kart tracks. Fun Spot has 17 hands-on action rides and more than 100 games in a 10,000 square-foot arcade.

Fun World at Flea World
Fun World at Flea World in Sanford has more than 50 amusement rides and attractions, mini-golf, midway games, batting cages, go-kart tracks and a 350-game arcade.

Gatorland
Gatorland is home to thousands of alligators and crocodiles, a few wangling appearances in movies, television shows and commercial spots. The 54-year-old park combines a petting zoo, bird sanctuary, mini-water park, eco-tour and action-packed outdoor entertainment, including daily alligator wrestling.

Green Meadows Petting Farm
Green Meadows Petting Farm provides a two-hour guided tour of 300 farm animals, allowing opportunity to pet animals, milk a cow, take train and hay rides, and ride a pony. Picnic grounds are available.

Hard Rock Vault
At the Mercado Mediterranean Village, Hard Rock Vault offers fans a chance to get cozy with some of the world’s rock ‘n roll memorabilia including Jim Morrison’s leather pants, the wedding dress Madonna wore for her Like A Virgin album, and lots of guitars. Guides inquire about visitor preferences before starting each tour through interactive displays in five areas including Back Alley, Dressing Room and, finally, the King’s Chamber, which is all Elvis, including the Gibson guitar he used for his 1968 comeback TV special. Be aware the Vault is not a Hard Rock Café, so don’t expect the trip down memory lane to come with salad or fries.

Holy Land Experience
The $16 million, 15-acre Holy Land Experience re-creates the city of Jerusalem and its religious importance between the years 1450 B.C. and A.D. 66 through themed costume characters, dramatic enactments and high-tech presentations. Biblical home to the Scriptorium, the museum has a collection of antiquities dating to 2200 B.C.

International Trolley and Train Museum
The museum features 14 model railroad trains with sound and lighting traveling through an indoor garden with 12-foot high mountains, waterfalls, and more than 30 trestles and tunnels. Also on display are toy trains from the 1920s to the present. Catch a ride in a California Victorian Style half open/half closed trolley or the 5/8 replica of an 1880 locomotive (a Mason Bogey) with its passenger cars.

Jungleland
Featuring 300 animals, including a pair of Himalayan bears born in 2002, plus leopards, tigers, lions, and more, Jungleland has gator wrestling and a petting zoo. The seven-acre zoo also has a nearly mile-long path winding around a natural lagoon with black swans and white ibis.

Magical Midway
Magical Midway features International Drive’s only elevated go-kart tracks for extreme action with corkscrew turns and high-speed jolts, along with classic midway rides like bumper boats and bumper cars. The snack shop features fresh hand-tossed pizza.

Old Town
Eight affordable restaurants, 15 amusement park rides and 75 shops make Old Town’s brick-lined streets a retail and entertainment destination with family fun. Classic car shows every Friday and Saturday feature hundreds of vintage automobiles.

Orange County Regional History Center
The History Center in downtown Orlando features 12,000 years of Central Florida history, spanning from the Seminole Indians to the present. Four floors of exhibits are in the renovated 1927 courthouse building.

Orlando Hauntings
Orlando Hauntings Ghost Tours tantalize with ghoulish stories as guides in period costumes carrying lanterns spin tales. The 90-minute walking tour features "true" ghost stories tied to local history. Tours depart from Guinevere’s

Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf
Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf has two locations for fine-tuning skills in a setting of lush landscaping and swashbuckling pirate themes. Putt through mountain caves, over footbridges and under waterfalls. At each site, all ages choose from three courses: Blackbeard's Challenge, Captain's Course, or the 36-Hole Adventure Course.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Orlando Odditorium
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Orlando Odditorium looks as if it fell victim to one of Florida’s infamous sinkholes, since it’s housed in a building that appears decidedly whopper-jawed and on the slide. Explore artifacts, collections, weird art/hobbies and interactive exhibits in 16 odd galleries. For more than 40 years, Robert Ripley traveled the globe collecting the unbelievable, inexplicable, and one-of-a-kind. His collections are housed in 27 museums in 10 countries.

SeaWorld Adventure Park
SeaWorld Adventure Park features 200 acres of sea-themed rides, including Kraken, Orlando’s longest, tallest, fastest floorless roller coaster. Visitors find themselves face-to-face with a shark in Sharks Deep Dive at Shark Encounter. Shows and animal exhibits include polar bears, killer and beluga whales, manatees, sea lions, penguins, dolphins and more.

Skull Kingdom
Skull Kingdom, a two-story haunted castle full of fright, subjects those brave enough to enter with robotics, strobe, fog and other special effects, along with sudden encounters with live monsters. Ghouls lurk in dark places around every turn, and management makes no promises on odds of surviving this twisted world.

SkyVenture
SkyVenture, Orlando’s high-energy vertical wind tunnel, offers indoor skydiving as adventurers float on a column of air. No parachute, no jumping and no experience is necessary. The tunnel creates the exact sensation of free falling during a skydive, giving participants 120 m.p.h thrills.

Splendid China
This 76-acre theme park steeps visitors in Chinese culture, lifestyle and heritage. More than 60 miniature replicas of some China's most notable landmarks, include the Great Wall, Forbidden City and the Tomb of the Terra Cotta Warriors. The park, with daily live entertainment, also has a 90-minute evening show with dinner.

Stallion 51 Corporation
Stallion 51 Corporation provides opportunity to sign up for an orientation flight that lets guest pilots fly the TF-51 Mustang fighter plane. Guest pilots are invited to take over controls for most of the flight for an authentic experience.

Universal Studios
Universal Studios takes guests beyond the screen and into the world of television and film to "ride the movies," with Men in Black, Alien Attack, Jaws, Twister, Kongfrontation and Back to the Future. The 444-acre park also has a maze of stage sets with reproductions of New York and San Francisco street scenes, and at Nickelodeon Studios there’s opportunity to get slimed.

Universal’s Islands of Adventure
Universal’s Islands of Adventure invites guests to "live the adventure" with technologically advanced thrill rides and attractions, including The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Jurassic Park River Adventure, The Incredible Hulk and the Dueling Dragons coasters. Cat in the Hat provides a journey through Dr. Seuss’s popular book. Also hot Shrek 4-D, with that charming green ogre.

Water Mania
Water Mania, with more than 36 acres of thrill slides, flumes, and pools, also has dry-land activities. Water Mania has locker and tube rentals, and personal flotation devices are subject to lifeguard approval. Picnics are welcome.

Wet ‘n Wild
Wet ‘n Wild features a wide variety of waterslides, a wave pool, water playground, child-size versions of the most popular rides, and mini-golf. Among attractions are The Storm, The Bomb Bay, Blue Niagara, Knee Ski and Wild One.
WonderWorks, within an eye-catching three-story house that appears to have landed, upside down, atop a 1930s era brick warehouse, has more than 100 hands-on interactive exhibits utilizing sophisticated audio and graphic techniques. Guests can design their own roller coaster and then ride it, go hang gliding in the Grand Canyon, or play in the world’s largest laser tag arcade. Visitors experience the trembling of earthquakes and hurricane-force winds.

World of Orchids
Featuring thousands of blooms in an enclosed tropical rainforest, World of Orchids is actually a working greenhouse shipping orchids and other plants nationwide. A greenhouse covers nearly an acre, and in this controlled warm, humid air some 1,000 orchids are displayed in a natural jungle setting, with streams, waterfalls, and squawking parrots. World of Orchids also has a 1,000-foot-long boardwalk meandering off into nearby wetlands.