WOW !!! What a place.

That was my 6th trip to Florida (last one was March 2000 on honeymoon). It was somewhat different this time as we took along our 23 month old daughter !

Flights :

Despite my fears, overall our daughter was absolutely great on both flights (although she did have her moments!). We flew My Travel from Glasgow straight into Sanford and I can't praise the airline staff enough. We didn't pay for a seat for our daughter and so she sat on my lap going out, however on the return flight, there were spare seats and so they offered us three seats together and she got a meal as well ! Flights were great and on time.

Villa :

Wonderful. We stayed at Hampton Lakes in a 4 bed villa (we went with another couple and their 3 year old son). First time in a villa and won't do it any other way in the future ! Excellent value for money and home from home comforts! I want that house !

General :

Only managed 3 parks (Magic Kingdom, MGM Studios and Sea World), mainly due to the heat. The kids were wiped out walking round the parks and just wanted to sit in their buggies after half an hour or so ! MGM was most enjoyable as we got some respite from the heat in the various shows. Kids were looking forward to the PlayHouse Disney show but we soon realised that you needed to queue for at least an hour before a showing to have any chance of getting in. We got into the last show and it was worth the wait just to see the kids faces ! The Little Mermaid show was also a success with the kids, as was the muppets show. We loved the Aerosmith rollercoaster and the tower of terror, first time I'd been on those.

The Magic Kingdom was fab as well. I just love the atmosphere and always find it hard to leave ! Depsite being only 2, our daughter was dancing and clapping at the parades but as expected, she ran a mile when we tried to introduce her to Mickey at his house and did the same with Pluto and Tigger !

Sea World was great but we went on the Sunday after arriving and it was close to 100 degrees that day so we found it a bit of an effort to do anything ! Shamu was a big hit with the kids though.

The food and the shopping was fab as usual, there's just so much more of everything and bigger and better. The men took in a few rounds of golf and lost a few clubs into a lake....but that's another story !

Wish we'd been there a bit longer so we could have taken in more of the parks but we'll be back ! We actually found ourselves checking out the house prices and dreaming about buying out there - it just seemed to make perfect sense ! Wouldn't know where to start though.

Until next time............