Orlando Marine Centers/Parks

SeaWorld Orlando
From Orlando: Take Exit 72 off of Interstate 4.
From Tampa: Take Exit 71 off of Interstate 4.
Tel information: 800 327 2424.

Florida’s premier marine adventure park! There’s 200 acres of fun, sun and sheer adventure. There's no place on earth quite like SeaWorld Orlando. Where else can you enjoy thrilling, world beating rides one minute and feed the dolphins the next? Where you can count the teeth on a shark before taking a simulated jet helicopter ride to the Wild Arctic. And just try to stay dry once you meet the irrepressible Shamu - the world famous killer whale and star of the show.

Kraken - Be afraid! Be very afraid! This monster ride is the highest, fastest, longest and only floorless roller coaster in the whole of Orlando.

The Waterfront at SeaWorld Orlando is a celebration incited by the sights, sounds, flavour and festivity of the most vibrant cities by the sea. Dine on a gourmet pizza alfresco as the citizens of The Waterfront entertain you or enjoy a drink under the stars at the SandBar.

One minute you are boarding a virtual reality 'jet-copter', the next you are arriving at a remote research station - called 'Base Station Wild Arctic'. Here you enter a frozen wonderland where you will come face-to-face with real animals - such as walruses, beluga whales and two famous polar bears called Klondike and Snow.

Discovery Cove
From the North (Downtown Orlando, Universal, Sanford): Take I-4 West to exit 72 (Beeline Expressway). Once on the Beeline, take the first exit (International Drive). At lights, turn left. (You will be on International Drive.) At the second light, turn right onto Central Florida Parkway. The entrance is on the left.

Nothing can quite prepare you for the sheer sense of adventure and excitement that you'll experience at Discovery Cove Orlando.

Swimming with dolphins provides the centrepiece of this daylong adventure. You'll be able to play with bottlenose dolphins in this tropical oasis, snorkel through colourful reefs simply teeming with thousands of tropical fish, explore underwater shipwrecks, swim lazily down a tropical river, past waterfalls and a freshwater lagoon. You'll also be able to swim amongst stingrays - with a 'wingspan' of up to 4 feet, swim next to barracuda and sharks, play with more than 200 tropical birds - in the free flight aviary.