Orlando Informer Blog

I’ve never gotten overly excited about Epcot’s Flower & Garden Festival, but this year offers something new to dig into: food and wine booths called … Read more

OI Universal Center updates: March 17 – 23, 2013 Greetings, vacation planners! Prepare to UPGRADE YOUR ADVENTURE to Universal Orlando with our Weekly Dispatch. This … Read more

Late last week Rich Bilbao of the Orlando Business Journal approached me to request an interview about Universal Orlando’s new hotel, Cabana Bay Beach Resort. … Read more

OI Universal Center updates: March 11 – 16, 2013 Greetings, vacation planners! Prepare to UPGRADE YOUR ADVENTURE to Universal Orlando with our Weekly Dispatch. This … Read more

We are very proud to announce the partnership between DoubleTree and Orlando Informer. As many guests visiting Universal Orlando already know, staying on-site is not … Read more

The Florida Strawberry Festival draws a crowd of thousands and seems to get bigger every year. It’s good ol’ Southern fun, filled with hundreds of … Read more

Starting the week of March 4, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee have begun daily appearances for guest meet and greets inside Universal Studios Florida. Although as … Read more

OI Universal Center updates: March 3 – 10, 2013 Greetings, vacation planners! Prepare to UPGRADE YOUR ADVENTURE to Universal Orlando with our Weekly Dispatch. This … Read more

According to the Orbitz, Spring Break travelers should move quickly to finalize plans and take advantage of lower airfares in many major markets, coupled with … Read more

MegaCon, the largest comic book, anime, gaming and multimedia event in the South, is pleased to make its initial announcement of guests. MegaCon will take … Read more

My family recently took a cruise with Royal Caribbean on their ship Independence of the Seas out of Ft. Lauderdale. Because I now have a … Read more

This is our fourth Special Needs Are Universal article. The purpose of this OI Blog series is to answer your theme park disability questions and … Read more

A blooming bounty of festival firsts will welcome Disney guests to the 20th Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival presented by HGTV March 6 – … Read more

Today I am very excited to share with you many more details about Universal’s newest on-site hotel, Cabana Bay Beach Resort. For those who have … Read more

Yesterday afternoon we heard several reports online that Supply Vault, the gift shop tucked into a corner of the new Transformers building, was open to … Read more

  OI Universal Center updates: February 24 – March 2, 2013 Welcome, Vacation Heroes, to your weekly dispatch from headquarters. Please note that the updates … Read more

Disney’s board of directors formally approved the company’s NextGen initiative in February 2011. With a price tag of roughly $1 billion, the project encompasses several … Read more

Every January for the past nine years we’ve had the tradition of vacationing to Orlando. But this year we stepped away from our usual winter … Read more

We are avid theme park fans but my family also loves to cruise.  Since we are still relatively new to cruising, we like to choose … Read more

  OI Universal Center updates: February 17 – 23, 2013 Welcome, Vacation Heroes, to your weekly dispatch from headquarters. Please note that the updates are … Read more

This is our third Special Needs Are Universal article. The purpose of this OI Blog series is to answer your theme park disability questions and … Read more

  OI Universal Center updates: February 10 – 16, 2013 Welcome, Vacation Heroes, to your weekly dispatch from headquarters. Please note that the updates are … Read more

Bridge to nowhere except Universal Orlando This week the Orlando Sentinel published an article explaining how taxpayers are funding the construction a bridge at Universal … Read more

Recently I spent a Friday evening with some friends of mine at Rocco’s Tacos on Sand Lake Road, also known as Orlando’s Restaurant Row. I … Read more

Many of Orlando’s attractions, resorts, and theme parks offer various fun-filled activities outside of the traditional shows and rides. Nowhere is this more apparent than … Read more

When I was on my first trip to Orlando, I recall begging my mother for pizza. We did the traditional asking around, and we happily … Read more

  OI Universal Center updates: February 3 – 9, 2013 Welcome, Vacation Heroes, to your weekly dispatch from headquarters. Please note that the updates are … Read more

On Saturday February 9, “The City Beautiful” will host the 4th Annual Orlando Chili Cook-off, produced by Events for Change, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that … Read more

Spring is definitely in the air as Orlando’s theme parks prepare for their first major events of 2013…   Bands, Brew & BBQ 2013 at … Read more

This is our second Special Needs Are Universal article, which we have designed to answer your questions and address your concerns about theme park disability … Read more

For one Grand Prize winner, the chance to discover a Decade of Kissimmee Memories with ten vacations to Central Florida’s premier vacation destination now awaits … Read more

  OI Universal Center updates: Jan 26 – Feb 2, 2013 Welcome, Vacation Heroes, to your weekly dispatch from headquarters. Please note that the updates … Read more