I am an American who spends alot of vacation time in Florida and I frequent this site and have rented a villa through this site also. On our trip at Christmas, I drove to Florida from Virginia w/my daughter and my son and husband flew down a few days later. My daughter and I were to pick them up at the airport. The night we were to pick them up, we were shopping at the Premium Outlet sotres, and when it was time to leave for the airport we got in our SUV and I entered 'airport' into the Navigation system. Several airports came up, and I picked 'Sanford' without thinking much about it. As we drove out to the airport, I had a few thoughts of 'this doesn't look too familiar' but it was dark and I figured I just had never seen the airport area at night. When we drove up to the airport, I realized something was wrong, as it was 9 p.m. and no one was at the airport, there were like 10 cars there, and the airport was really small. It was then I realized that I had gone to the wrong airport. I reentered 'airport' in the navigation system and saw 'Orlando International' and realized that what I had done.
The funny thing is that I never had even heard of Sanford airport til I started frequenting this site. But so many of you come into Sanford when you come to Florida, and I see it mentioned so much here that I actually thought that was the main airport when I had to go to the airport (even though I have flown into Orlando Internatl. myself before).
My daughter and I got a good laugh out of this episode. As she said, 'Well Mommy, you are always talking about OrlandoVillas.com and how that forum site helps us find so many fun things to do in Florida, and now they helped us discover a new airport!'