Busch gardens/Seaworld

[Princess Alison]

Originally Posted by mintybadger

Thank you all. We’ve been to florida 3 times but have always had disney as a part of our trip. We’ve done lego land, Kennedy, St Augustine, boggy creek, celebration. The biggest issue with going in august is the heat. All day beach days and bike rides don’t appeal.
I think we’ll be ok. just spend more time at the pool and water parks and visit a few more of the springs.

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Another place to visit, if you've not been, is Crystal river. We went in august and it was a real highlight of the trip, swimming with the manatees. There's a really sweet cake shop nearby too!

[Princess Alison]

Also ... sorry for another post(!) if you're kids like escape rooms, there are some great ones out there and a good change from the hot sun! We did escapology

[duchy]

We approached it as Disney being “somewhere else” . I’m not a fan of DS so didn’t feel the need to go there for a Disney fix. We had the brilliantly priced DC with SW, BG and Aquatica add on with free parking (we did non swim as we hate cold water and the water is dolphin temp not human temp unlike the rest of DC) .
Depending on when you go SW and BG do their versions of food festivals and concerts too .
It made us realise that Florida doesn’t have to mean Disney *every* trip and we saw and did so much more and best of all could be more spontaneous with plans.

[mintybadger]

Thanks guys for all your tips and input. much appreciated.

[mintybadger]

Originally Posted by Princess Alison

Also ... sorry for another post(!) if you're kids like escape rooms, there are some great ones out there and a good change from the hot sun! We did escapology

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We’ve never done one but might give it a go!

[Ninnybobs]

When we go in November, DW and myself will only do Seaworld and Busch Gardens. We will do both parks at least twice and possibly three times depending on the weather. This is despite having already been to the parks in excess of 40 times.
The rest of the time we will spend on day trips to the Gulf Coast.