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If you're looking for some good old fashioned hard rock, then don't miss Meatloaf at the Hard Rock Live. For that matter, Hard Rock Live showcases great artists year round.

Orlando has a large number of tourist attractions such as the Walt Disney World Resort, SeaWorld, and Universal Orlando Resort. It also has a Hard Rock Cafe and is the home of The Ripley's Believe It or Not! Orlando Odditorium, and Discovery Cove, a resort that is part of the SeaWorld Adventure Park complex. It's no suprise that Orlando and the surrounding area is one of the most popular vacation spots in the U.S.

There's plenty to do at Disney with its many facets such as the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, and Downtown Disney; which includes outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment area.

Let's not forget Sea World either. Sea World has a number of rides, many shows, and many aquatic animal attractions, you can even pet and feed the dolphins.

Aside from the vast array of tourist attractions, Orlando also offers up a rather impressive music scene, as well as a number of different shows like the Cirque Du Soleil - La Nouba tickets now showing at Downtown Disney and Wicked showing at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre.

If you're traveling into Orlando for the first time, check out this quick overview of tourism and transportation in the Windy Orlando.

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Some helpful information from the Wikipedia:

Orlando is the principal city of Greater Orlando. It is the home to the University of Central Florida, which is the second largest university in Florida and has the 6th largest campus in the nation. The city is best known for the many tourist attractions in the area, in particular the nearby Walt Disney World Resort, which is located in Lake Buena Vista about 20 miles south of Orlando city limits via Interstate 4. Other notable area attractions include SeaWorld and Universal Orlando Resort. The region sees an estimated 52 million tourists a year. Orlando is the second largest city in the country for number of hotel rooms and one of the busiest American cities for conferences and conventions, with the Orange County Convention Center the country's second largest in square footage. It is also known for its wide array of golf courses, with numerous courses available for any level of golfer. It is now official that Orlando will build a new performing arts center, Orlando Arena.

Orlando has been the home and capital of pop music, mainstream music and alternative rock music, including Anberlin, Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, as well as Sam Rivers, Creed, Trivium, From First to Last, Matchbox Twenty, Seven Mary Three, There For Tomorrow, Mark Fenlon, DJ Icey, DJ KJ of K5, DJ Baby Anne, DJ Jimmy Joslin and DJ Scotty B. The hip hop music scene, metal scene, rock music scene, Reggaeton and Latino scene, are all active within the city. Orlando has also been called Hollywood East because of numerous cinematic enterprises in the area. Until recently, Walt Disney Feature Animation operated a studio out of Disney/MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort. Feature Animation-Florida was primarily responsible for the films Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and the early stages of Brother Bear and contributed on various other projects. The Florida Film Festival in nearby Maitland is one of the most respected regional film festivals in the country and attracts budding filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the implosion of Orlando's previous City Hall was filmed for the movie Lethal Weapon 3. A Florida state film incentive has also helped increase the amount of films being produced in Orlando and the rest of the state.

If theatre is more your speed, then you're in luck. The Orlando Metropolitan Area is also home to a substantial theatre population. Several professional and semi-professional houses and many community theatres dot the area including Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Orlando Theatre Project, Starlight Dinner Theatre, Mad Cow Theatre, Theatre Downtown, The Osceola Center for the Arts, Winter Park Playhouse, Theatre Winter Haven, IceHouse Theatre, and Seaside Music Theatre. Disney also a cast theatre company known as S.T.A.G.E. as well as Encore, a cast choir and orchestra whose annual charity concerts have raised thousands of dollars. In addition, the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center brings national tours through town on a regular basis. Each spring, local theatres and downtown venues play host to the Orlando International Fringe Festival, which draws touring companies from all around the world as well as readings and fully staged productions of new and unknown plays by local artists. Also in the spring, Darden Restaurants sponsors a Festival of New Plays, hosted by Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival.

Orlando is also home to a wide variety of educational attractions. The Arboretum of the University of Central Florida is an arboretum and botanical garden. It contains more than 600 species of plants in cultivated gardens. Central Florida Zoological Park is located in Sanford, FL on Lake Monroe. The zoo is home to a butterfly garden, herpetarium, and numerous tropical animals. It is currently in the planning stages of expansion and renaming the facility to "Zoo Orlando at Sanford". Kennedy Space Center is 45 minutes from Orlando and south of Daytona Beach. Visitors can tour launch areas, see giant rockets, "train" in spaceflight simulators, and much more. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is open every day except Christmas Day and certain launch days. Apart from the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Space Center bus tours run every 15 minutes with stops at an observation gantry and the Apollo / Saturn V Center. Other guided tours include NASA Up Close, Cape Canaveral: Then and Now, and Lunch With An Astronaut. The Morse Museum of American Art, located in nearby Winter Park, houses the world's "most comprehensive" collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, among its permanent exhibits. It includes Tiffany art glass, jewelry, pottery, and the chapel interior designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. There is also an exhibit on the Tiffany home, and American paintings from the 19th century. The Orange County Regional History Center Features exhibits and artifacts from the earliest days of the region to the modern day. It includes information on everything from the time of the Seminole Indians to the founding of the city to the Civil Rights era to the Disney period to today. The Orlando Museum of Art, has ongoing exhibitions of American portraits and landscapes, American impressionist works, and art of the ancient Americas. The Orlando Science Center is a hands-on learning center with hundreds of interactive exhibits for visitors of all ages. Images surround visitors on the giant screen of the Dr. Phillips CineDome. Other attractions include the Body Zone, teaching health and fitness, as well as an observatory. The center has the largest refracting telescope in Florida.

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Orlando is served primarily by Orlando International Airport, though nearby Orlando Sanford International Airport also serves the area. Orlando Executive Airport is used for charter flights and General Aviation.

Its major freeway is Interstate 4, which crosses Florida's Turnpike southwest of Downtown Orlando. It is also served by the toll roads of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, particularly the East-West Expressway (SR 408), which crosses I-4 downtown, and Florida State Road 417, which serves east Orlando. The East West Expressway (SR 408) is undergoing major construction. Traffic congestion is a growing concern. The lack of east-west mobility in the area creates severe traffic issues every weekday and the lack of any free-to-travel (toll-less) freeways other than Interstate 4 (I-4). It is commonplace to encounter traffic jams on I-4, even late at night or on weekends.

The Orlando area is served by one through railroad, CSX Transportation's A line (formerly the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's main line), and some spurs, mostly operated by the Florida Central Railroad. Amtrak passenger service runs along the CSX A line. In 2005 Federal and state funding was granted for the establishment of the Central Florida Commuter Rail service to operate on the CSX A line tracks between Deltona and Poinciana, passing through the downtown area and surrounding urban neighborhoods along the way. The service is expected to substantially reduce traffic congestion along the I-4 corridor. The line is projected to begin operations in 2009. The following major railroad stations have existed in Orlando: Amtrak Orlando station (originally built by ACL to replace Church Street Station, the only one still in use) Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Orlando station (now Church Street Station, a tourist attraction) Seaboard Air Line Railroad Orlando station (Central Avenue Station).

Orlando is served by LYNX, offering local transit service which covers the five-county area (Osceola-Orange-Seminole-Lake-Volusia). Additionally, Greyhound Lines offers intercity bus service from Orlando to multiple locations across the country.