Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
In the Vacation Home Capital of the World — 30,000-plus rental homes by the official count — the first decision isn’t which property, it’s which kind of stay. The honest trade-offs, and the four questions that settle it.
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People move to Lake Nona on purpose — for Medical City jobs, the Town Center and the airport run. The new resident’s orientation: what the anchors are, where everybody goes, and the commute to test before you sign.
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I-Drive is four hotel districts wearing one name — Universal’s end, the walkable center, the Convention Center zone and the SeaWorld south. Match the district to your trip and the hotel decision makes itself.
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The 53rd Winter Park Autumn Art Festival takes over Central Park today, Sunday, November 15 — free, Florida artists only, and Park Avenue is closed. The parking plan and the practical notes, checked against the Chamber’s own guidance.
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Downtown is the one part of Orlando where you can leave the car behind — two SunRail stations, a free LYMMO circulator and the region’s bus hub, all within a few blocks. How the pieces fit, and the Sunday catch.
Read MorePine Castle holds no ranked tables, so its evening runs five minutes north — SoDo’s bakery-born dining corridor and Delaney Park’s tavern, labelled with their home areas — and home to the old town’s quiet.
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Downtown five miles north on Orange Avenue, the Beachline and Greeneway minutes away, SunRail at the northern edge and MCO at the southeastern: Pine Castle’s connections are its modern inheritance.
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Warren Park and the Lake Conway shore in Belle Isle — labelled as the neighbouring city it is — a SunRail ride from the community’s own station, and home through the old town’s streets.
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Passenger trains bypassed Pine Castle for decades after the depot era ended. In 2014, SunRail’s Sand Lake Road station — at the community’s northern edge — put Pine Castle back on the railroad its town was built on.
Read MoreSeven years after the settlement began, Pine Castle founded its elementary school. Nearly 150 years later it is still the community’s oldest living institution — older than the town charter, older than the airport, older than Orlando’s fame.
Read MoreOrlando Citizen — a name first published in 1897