There are several restaurants in Orlando that we had been wanting to try while we were there. It is safe to say that some of the dining establishments cannot really be referred to as dining “choices,” as there is not much choice about them. Once you are within particular parks, you are a captive audience. Even though you have an all day pass with unlimited entry, anything that would be something you actually “chose” would be so far back out on the interstate that you might as well forfeit the rest of your day. Maybe it would be worth it, as you wouldn’t be getting rained on, nor would a child of a stranger be screaming in your ear. I hate to be discriminatory against children, but you have to admit that the area has more family resorts, than, say things like the Metropolitan museum of art.
We have had two culinary adventures in Orlando. There seems to be so many things to do in Orlando, you wondered why we would go there just to eat. The first time, we had almost went to the Boston Lobster Feast. We were not sure if we should have high hopes over the promise of New England food, or we should have trepidation over that New England food being in the middle of Florida. We were gluttons for punishment, I guess. Apparently, the individual who answered the phone at said establishment told us to turn off at the wrong International Drive Exit, and to go in the opposite direction from Sea World that we were suppsed to go. We ended up going around on I-Drive an entire hour amid ever changing scenary before a kindhearted local made us wise to the errors of that receptionist’s ways. Apparently, the individual who answered the phone was only working in Orlando for a short time and had no clue what we were talking about, direction-wise. How did that qualify them for the direction giver position? Was the atitude “we have so many people here that if we lose a few, oh well, its a numbers game?”
Anyway, our second trip found us meeting up with a relative who was staying at one of the resorts. Did you know how impossible it is to find your way out of the maze? We saw the giant, several story cup at least four times as we were driving around. Any second, we thought we would enter the Twilight Zone.
So that was two half stories about how we tried to grab a bite to eat in Orlando and did not succeed. At a later date, I may actually have a restaurant review. However, you have to actually arrive at the restaurant. It is no fair writing a critique when the closest you get to a restaurant is seeing a glimpse of it in the distance, and not seeing how you could possibly get to it.
I think that the situation would have called for a GPS system that we did not have. I just found out that trusted tours is running a contest where the winner will receive a GPS system. They are the folks that have a bunch of different online travel guides. All you have to do is sign up for their newsletter. The winner will be chosen from the list of subscribers.
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