Year 5, Day 94, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 8/02/2025 DAY 17 of 29 day Florida, Caribbean, SeaWorld and Disney World trip. – Day 2 of 2 at SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida. The Hilton Garden Inn Orlando at SeaWorld has been refurbished. It is much nicer than the last time we were here. The room is nice and clean. The bed and pillow were not as comfortable as the cruise ships we just got off of. The bed on Adventure of the Seas and both rooms on Jewel of the Seas had more comfortable beds. I love that this hotel has signs in the hallways that show you where the elevators are. I have a real problem with going in the wrong direction to find an elevator.
The Breakfast buffet was excellent in the hotel. The cost was $16.99 a person.
After breakfast we headed off to SeaWorld. We walked over because we did not have to pay for additional parking. We paid $15.00 a night to park at the hotel.
We had bought our park tickets online a few months ago. It was $99.00 for two days for each of us.
It is sweaty hot here. Within an hour this morning we have been approached by sales people for vacations and vacation timeshares. One was in the Hotel and one in SeaWorld. When we got through the park gates the star spangled banner played to announce the opening of the park. Not one person stopped what they were doing to face the flag. We stopped and an employer said to us “Hi guys the flag is over there”. They did stop letting people into the park while it played though. The park is very quiet this morning.
An hour later with the sweat dripping off of us we head to the penguin exhibit to get cool. We will be in the Antarctica in January 2027.
Here they have changed the ride from a simulation to a family coaster. Okay, I usually watch everyone else ride the coasters. Well we get up to the ride and an employee is down on the ground. The park EMT’s are called and they stop the ride.
As we are standing there, we see the news about the amusement park ride in Saudi Arabia. It collapsed on Wednesday. The “360 Big Pendulum” ride snapped in two, sending the part carrying people crashing to the ground. https://www.cnn.com/…/saudi-arabia-amusement-park-ride…. We decided to just leave the ride. But it was nice and cool in there. SeaWorld is considered the roller coaster capital of Orlando. Here you will find eight coasters. If you ride them all you will travel 4.5 miles.
A 20 ounce bottle of Dasani water is $5.26 and they ask if you want to leave a tip. See why we go on cruises.
The park is very clean and educational about sea life. The employees we spoke with near the animal exhibits were working towards being marine biologists or were already one.
In the afternoon the park swelled with visitors and we decided to leave and head to the outlets.
Oh my the outlets are packed. It is absolutely packed everywhere you go in this touristy area.
Then back to the Hilton Garden Inn Orlando at SeaWorld for a video tour of our room 708.
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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