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Each weekend until March 4th, 2012, Sea World delivers you Bands, Brew, and BBQ! This season you can appreciate two complete days of excellent meals, amazing beers, and awesome songs. For four Saturdays and Sundays this year you will have the chance to savor meals from the best regional dining establishments in the area.

What better way to conquer that feeling of winter boredom than to depart your Disney hotel and bring your spouse and kids out for a day of delightful BBQ and great concerts? You will get to try some awesome ale, discover new dining choices, and maybe even discover a new preferred band! You will get to listen to awesome songs from excellent live performers like Foreigner, Kenny Rogers, and Sarah Evans! Take your children and give them a good schooling on real music!

If you end up leaving the children at home and having a grown-up day, then you can visit the beer garden and sample more than 80 types of artful beers from local and worldwide breweries. After having your share of drinks in the garden, you will definitely be looking for some food to fill your hunger. SeaWorld has joined with top local restaurants, so check out the spread and discover a delightfully wide range of tasty BBQ and other prepared dishes.

Get in and start having fun at 11:30 a.m. and keep the fun going all day! You will discover the shows are placed at Bayside Arena beginning at 4 p.m. And do not get worried if rain happens, we have you all covered! If there should be bad weather, shows will move to the Nautilus Theatre. The beer celebration will begin at 12:00 p.m. and will end at 5:30 p.m., but do not worry! Beer will still be available on Gwazi field during the awesome concerts on Sunday!

You have the option of a “Bands, Brew & BBQ” VIP pass which is available for those who would rather savor the experience up close and personal in the priority reserved area. Take pleasure in the shows while sampling excellent food at our fabulous Busch Gardens Restaurant!

Whether you are a song lover, beer expert, or BBQ enthusiast, you’ll discover many attractive activities at Sea World’s Bands, Brew, and BBQ! BB&B is provided with park entrance, so after you are exhausted from a fun-filled day at our adventurous park, come rest and nourish the family with excellent meals and excellent music! So, make yourself a note to add this awesome event to your points of interest list when you decided on your next Disney World hotel!

When you think about Disney World, you typically imagine children running around and meeting their favorite Disney Characters and riding rides. It is always children on commercials who are given the great news of an impending trip to the most magical place on Earth, screeching with excitement and jumping up and down in fits of pure joy. But what about the adults who stay at hotels inside Disney world? What about the grown-ups who also enjoy spending their vacation surrounded by Disney magic? Are you trying to figure out how to make your Valentine’s Day special, but are not quite sure what is available for a couple in love at a Disney park? Well, we have some ideas for you!

The best and guaranteed to be the easiest choice for a Valentine’s outing is a special, romantic dinner for two in one of Disney World’s many charming restaurants. California Grill is a top pick for a nice, quiet dinner. It is a Signature Dining restaurant and is located on the top floor of Disney’s classy Contemporary Resort which is a Disney hotel in Orlando. The amazing view of Disney’s Magic Kingdom while dining comes in a close second to the delicious fare offered at the restaurant. End your date by making a toast to your sweetie over a decadent dessert while watching the breathtaking Magic Kingdom fireworks.

Next up on the list is Victoria and Albert’s. This is a fantastic choice as it is an adults-only Walt Disney World restaurant. You can be sure your evening will be filled with love and quality time and not with screaming children as guest only 10 years of age and older are allowed to dine in the restaurant. You are guaranteed exceptional service and top notch cuisine as they have received the AAA Five Diamond Award 10 years in a row.

If your date has an adventurous side, another exciting dining experience is Sanna, which offers African cuisine mixed with the aromatic flavors of India. If you choose to dine during the lunch time hours you will have the choice of being seated near the great picture windows where you will be able to watch the animals of the savannah as you enjoy your meal.

Lastly, if you have an inner artist that needs some nourishment you can dine at the Artist Point restaurant. The ambiance is said to be romantic and relaxing, the best environment for a lovely Valentine’s Day date. Make it extra special with a boat ride to dinner from the Magic Kingdom. With good food, enchanting atmosphere, and an exceptional wine list, you can’t go wrong with this restaurant.

The options for couples are endless at Disney World, but food feeds the soul and certain foods speak volumes of love. Finish your night off with champagne and chocolate and your date will be sure to cherish the memories of this Valentine’s night forever.

Have you noticed that the stock market is swinging up and down like a yo-yo? There is definitely a lot of uneasiness in the market place right now. We have high unemployment, fear of a double dip recession, fears from the Middle East, and the financial mess of the European nations. While! I getting scared just typing this right now.

I thought it would be a great idea to see how the swinging in the stock market has effected people’s ideas about going on vacation. The fortunate thing is that we can look at really two major cities in the United States (Orlando and Las Vegas) to gauge if people are still willing to travel, or if they have decided to cut back. Looking at the Orlando market, it is about the same as it was last year, and last year was huge improvement over 2009.

I think as long as we do not go into a deep recession, the rest of 2011 and first part of 2012 will look pretty good or at least on par with end of the 2010 and beginning of 2011. However, I do expect that 2012 will be a better year than 2011. I feel that the stock market will calm down a little bit, and hopefully some of these companies that are sitting on a pile of cash will start to spend it again and hire people.

I recently read an article that Orlando hotel packages are up about 7% over 2010 numbers; however, since most hotels have cut their rates so dramatically to entice guests to stay with the that their profits were not much higher. Now, we all know this cannot go on much longer, heck some area hotels are barely keeping their doors open. We do expect rates to go up in 2012 but nothing drastic maybe 5% to 6%.

Well, it looks like we have dodged another hurricane here in the Orlando area. It looks like Irene might just slip by to the East of us and head up to North and South Carolina. Take it from someone who has been through 3 hurricanes, they are no fun. Not only is it nerve racking to get prepared for, but it is almost a given that you will lose power for a couple of days and possibly drinking water. YUCK!

I thought I would take this moment and give you, our readers, Orlandovacationhotels.com Hurricane Policy. Our policy is to put our guests first, and trust me we do not want you to risk life and limb getting to Florida if a hurricane is coming. If a hurricane disrupts your travel or if your flight is cancelled we will either move your hotel arrival to a latter date, or we will simply cancel your reservation and refund your money in full. If you need to alter your Orlando hotel plans please feel free to give us a call and we will do our best to assist you.

Please note, we do need you to call us if you wish to cancel your reservation. If you do not call us prior to your arrival date we will keep your room reserved for you.

This is always a fun time of the year. The busy season is starting to wind down and now we can breath a little easier and start looking forward to 2012. The first thing we do when preparing for a new year is talk to all of our current hotel partners about rates. There is some good news heading into next and some bad news:

1) The hotels are expecting the travel business to stay relatively hot for the next couple of years, and they do expect hotel rates to rise a little bit. Now when I say a little bit, we are talking about $5 to $6 per night…nothing drastic. That is the good news.

2) Extra fees…almost every Orlando hotel is adding a resort fee and some are adding parking fees. Now, some of these fees are valid as to run a shuttle bus to Disney 3 or 4 times a day is not cheap, and to offer free internet and business services are not free either. However, you do need to watch yourself because many hotels are using the resort fees as a way to make a lot of money. Some hotels have even suggested that they might even go to a resort fee of $15 a night…now that is ridiculous. This is the bad news.

All in all, a Disney World vacation is going to cost about the same in 2012 as it did in 2011, with maybe a slight increase of 1% possibly 2%. Our promise to you is that we are going to fight as hard a we can to offer you the cheapest rates possible on Orlando hotels and Disney World tickets.