Travel Reference
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Orlando International Fringe Festival
CULTURAL
(
www.orlandofringe.org
; May)
Fourteen-day festival 'offering 100% unjuried, 100% uncensored, 100% accessible theater,
music, dance and art.'
Gay Days
GAY & LESBIAN
(
www.gaydays.com
; Jun)
More than 160,000 folks descend upon the city for a week of events in the theme parks
and venues throughout town in the first week of June.
Orlando Film Festival
FILM
(
www.orlandofilmfest.com
;
Oct)
Indie films screen at the downtown Orlando cineplex.
Capital One Bowl
SPORTS
Church St; New Year's Day)
Footfall fans decked out in their university's colors flock to Orlando for the New Year's
Day parade and football game.
Sleeping
You'll find every conceivable motel and hotel chain in every nook and cranny of greater
Orlando, plenty of cheap independent motels, particularly along Hwy 192 east of I-4, and a
dizzying number of resorts ranging from family-friendly mayhem to a lakeside nudist
hideaway. Most hotels offer complimentary shuttles to the theme parks, but always ask
about details as many require advance reservations, fill up easily and only run a couple of
times a day. They can be miserably inconvenient. Walt Disney World and Universal Or-
lando both offer on-site resort hotels with all kinds of enticing perks.
Rack rates vary dramatically according to demand, change within the course of a week
or even a day and can plummet for no apparent reason. Rates outside theme-park hubs are
