Beaches closest Orlando for day trips?
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Beaches closest Orlando for day trips?
My husband and I are spending a week in Orlando and due to a shortage of funds this year due to a home project, we will only be visiting Epcot and possibly Animal Kingdom...Now that I have to change my WDW itinerary, can you recommend any day trips??? I was thinking about Cocoa Beach, and how far is Key West and Tampa from Orlando??
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Louise, it will take about 8 hours to drive to Key West from the Orlando area...Tampa is about 70 miles west of Orlando, so it will take a little over an hour to drive there...Cocoa Beach is okay...the area around it is loaded with strip malls, restaurants, hotels, etc....there's a huge Ron Jon surf shop to browse through.
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Hello we are frequent visitors from the UK and have visited both coasts.
Clearwater gets my vote, a little bit further than Cocoa beach but much better.
Not much else to do but sit on the beach though!
If you do go to this coast you have to go over the Sunshine Skyway bridge near St. Petersburg, it is awesome.
Clearwater gets my vote, a little bit further than Cocoa beach but much better.
Not much else to do but sit on the beach though!
If you do go to this coast you have to go over the Sunshine Skyway bridge near St. Petersburg, it is awesome.
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Key West is way too far for a day trip. Tampa (Busch Gardens) is about 1-1/2 hours drive. The Gulf beaches will take longer. From Orlando you can take a day trip to Cape Canaveral and/or to Cocoa Beach. Or you can go to New Smyrna Beach or Daytona Beach, but don't try Daytona during Spring Break season unless you are of college age. You could also do St Augustine which is quaint and historic town with a nice beach on the outskirts.
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DRIVING on the beach makes it a great area to visit?! Joke, right? That might be #1 on my list of reasons for *not* going there. What a sad state of affairs when the ability to take a vehicle on the beach becomes something positive. lt;
I live as far west in Tampa as you can go and not fall in the water, but it only takes us an hour to get to the Disney area. My vote goes to the Gulf beaches as well--far more beautiful, and you don't have to tell your kids to look both ways before they cross the beach!
I live as far west in Tampa as you can go and not fall in the water, but it only takes us an hour to get to the Disney area. My vote goes to the Gulf beaches as well--far more beautiful, and you don't have to tell your kids to look both ways before they cross the beach!
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We like Ormand Beach best. Its just North of Daytona. Friendly, Family oriented and easy on the budget. We went to Clearwater last year and we were so disapointed we packed up and drove back to the Atlantic coast... Clearwater Beach-too many people-too much traffic-too expensive..