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Show Sunday, May 13. 1984 THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. - Page 31 Tourism Week May 27 Travel Disney's Kingdom in Florida Give Magic Land New Meaning Disney World also advertises two "must" attractions I'd also liked to By CECELIA FIELDING Herald Correspondent High at the top of everybody's "Places I'd Most Like to Visit" list should be Orlando, Fla., certainly one of the country's most booming business and pleasure spots. I must admit Orlando never even made my vacation dream list's top 20 until my husband Eric's professional organization chose to convention there. Oh, I'd read articles about Disney World, Cypress Gardens and the recently opened EPCOT Center, but I wasn't even certain if they were situated up in the Florida Panhandle or down somewhere by Key West. Besides, I wasn't born yesterday. I'd heard about all those bogus Florida real estate deals. Florida, I was convinced, was just one big J have visited. Discovery Island is a sanctuary for all the wildlife uncovered during the property's development, and River Country offers all sorts of water fun, includ- ing multi-facete- Wyatt said The Provo Excelsior Hotel is proud to join the rest of the industry in this salute aimed at increasing public awareness of the importance of travel and to insure that it remains ... the perfect freedom." WrW CD TRAVELEXPRESS aLJ speedboats, rafting and swimming. Even if you didn't want to do Disney World as heavily as we did, there's still plenty to take up your time. My son and I took a half-da- y trip to Cypress Gardens, with its beautiful vistas and stunning wat-ersdisplay. Circus World, Busch Wet and Gardens and Wild waterslide park are nearby. We also watched the Space Shuttle launch from our hotel, and debated about making the hour-or-s- o drive to either coast to hit the beaches, but just ran out of time. Recurring signs offering "Free tickets" coax tourswamp. Guess again, Fielding. Disney-EPCOCentral Florida is really one ter- ists into Orlando's booming condos-har- e business, probably a good way rific place. While the city of Orlando itself shows some unfortun- to go if you can afford it. Top accommodations are at the ate signs of urbancommercial Orlando Greater Village, with accompanying Disney appears sprawl, to be thoughtfully zoned and develprices, but Quality Johnsons and RV Howard balance a Inns, with surprising oped, between vacation enterprises and parks abound further down Interstate 4. business and manufacturing. Because of the size of the area The heart, commercially and and number of attractions, you of area the entire philosophically, is of course the Disney property, almost have to have a car, either situated on hundreds and hundreds your own or a rental. Rental agen- of acres of reclaimed forests, complete with its own freeway system. The Magic Kingdom, open for more than a decade, has most everything California's Disneyland has to offer. The only thing we missed was the Matterhorn, and we didn't miss that much. The keywords here are bigger and better, and you could easily spend a couple of days there. Now, I love the Magic Kingdom as much as any middle-age- d child, but the EPCOT Center simply capI tivated me. I only had the vaguest of notions about what it involved, I with its but the special White House ceremony. the The theme is Travel Freedom. Perfect The Provo Excelsior Hotel is participating, along with other members of the American Bus 2 Association, in the May observance of National Tourism Week, Jeanine M. Wyatt, Director of Sales, said. The first-tim- e salute to the tourism industry was recently authorized by Congress and signed into law hv Prfxjirlunt Rpaoan in (Semises SCANDINAVIA & RUSSIA June 7 June 20 - August 8, June 2 - June 9 - uly WniW d LJ T 20 NORTH CAPE & NORWEGIAN FJORDS i July 28- - August 11 NORWEGIAN FJORDS 18, August 1 August 25-Se- 1 (TRANSATLANTIC July 18 July 26 -- ALSO ASK ABOUT OUR MEXICO AND CARIBBEAN CRUISES THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER top-draw- , park's entrance, huge geodesic dome, AT&T's Spaceship Earth, lets you know Af ffS. fqy ml T I1 V 0aL7D(&in) airfare from Salt Roundtrip Lake City to London. Departure ! s viE h Cf dates from June I iiiniM MwJS 0 ''SS aWSESLN )) 8 through or cal September 30. Come for full detai I I TOUR WEST TOUR WEST TRAVEL EXPRESS TRAVEL EXPRESS 270 South State Orem Telephone: 225-760- 0 ImeHcJnork you're in for something unusual. l ' G short s The first half of EPCOT Telephone: 756-527- 5 for Experimental Prototype ComI I f ti '' ft O Pricsubjtct to availability, bawd on deublt occupancy and ubjct to thong is a series munity of Tomorrow 1 I 1 of Futureworld exhibitions sponsored by several major corporations. Kraft's "The Land" was just so-sunless you're heavy into gardening, but the others were splendid, full of fanciful animated displays and unusual film and video clips. Kodak's "Imagination" pavilion, I with its hands-o- n play area was TRAVEL CONCEPTS X W worth going to again, as was 'iiii INCORPORATED II 111 Exxon's "Energy" exhibit, with its life-siz- e incredibly real dinosaurs. The displays generally traced the historv of the corporation's partic X ular cause, such as GM's "Trans- - 1L LU nnriatinn " and then made some rTthe future for exciting projections all entertainingly educational. All Inclusive . Futureworld then opens up to a FROM SALT LAKE NIGHTS! NON-STO- P O UMIO Walt Disney Productions Photos person quad per e several of man-madlagoon, one in the Disney parks, rimmed by Epcot Center is perfect blending of old world architecture and new world styling. As part of world showcase, French the World Showcase pavilions. mimes share Disney magic. Here the cultures, crafts and cuisines of nine nations are spotLUXURY DREAM CRUISE lighted. We particularly liked cies proliferate downto there like to Hertz from from FLYING OR rabbits, Budget DRIVING China's and Canada's AT A REALISTIC PRICE film presentations, and our dinners Seedy Sam's. Many offer courtesy 4 and 5 Night 2, 3, transportation to and from Orlando and the British Pub and the German Bierhaus. But the American International, so shop around. Packages from Unless you enjoy living out of a per person per person Experience will make you proud to tent or you can borrow Grandma's have your roots here. Winnebago, the most economical The World Showcase is particuthe with way to go would be a package deal, at beautiful PASSPORT night, larly Tower Eiffel W8LT DISnESJ TR3UEL GO. IflC, glowing with airfare, accommodations and replica of the CRUISES PHOTOS k charter in the distance and the thousands auto rental. Our A SUBSIDIARY OF WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS 3 for from Minute Service waters. the package off flight Chicago, of lights glittering No Appointment Besides its sensory delights, the example, was about $350-$50- 0 for kids. place is a technological wonder. apiece, slightly lessweek-long We ended our tour stay Eric took a to with a the 3 to of EPCOT (from midnight "Empress trip a permanently moored showa.m.) that demonstrated the parks' boat restaurant at the Disney Vilnetwork. 835 North 700 East, Provo extensive computer 2 A four-da- y lage lor a "character breakfast": Somewhat. Expensive? 1 East Cantor, and bacon and from visits and son eggs pass for my husband, Suit 100, Provo me was in excess of $150, but keep some of the more famous Disney in mind we spent four very full characters, minus one. "Mickey Mouse," the waitress days shuttling between the two told my disappointed little boy, parks on the Monorail. The best times to visit, we were "has the day off." 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