Though you'll probably be so exhausted from a long day at the parks that boozing and boogying with thousands of others will be the last thing on your mind, the Orlando area is just bursting with themed nightspots of every persuasion, from medieval banquets to piano bars and country and western clubs. It's all relentless good, clean fun, sanitized to the hilt.


From around 9pm, each Walt Disney World park holds some kind of closing-time bash, usually involving fireworks and fountains. There's also Pleasure Island , exit 26B off I-4 (in the Disney Village Marketplace), a remake of an abandoned island, whose pseudo-warehouses are the setting for shops, themed bars and nightclubs (daily 10am-7pm; after 7pm $21 gains access to all bars and clubs). The most enjoyable are the Comedy Warehouse and the Adventurers' Club , loosely based on a 1930s gentlemen's club. Take ID and a fat wallet.
In a similar vein, in downtown Orlando at 129 W Church St, the restored Victorian buildings of Church Street Station enclose a mall-like cluster of restaurants, bars, clubs and shows with a vaguely Old South theme (daily 11am-2am; after 6pm $19 gains access to all bars and clubs).

The international airport is nine miles south of downtown Orlando; collect brochures and discount coupons at the official information booth (daily 7am-11pm). Shuttle buses (24hr; best prices offered by Mears or Transtar) run to any hotel in the Orlando area for around $15, while a taxi to downtown, International Drive or the motels on Hwy-192 costs around $30. Buses and trains arrive downtown at the Greyhound terminal, 555 N John Young Parkway, and the Amtrak station, 1400 Sligh Blvd.

Pick up discount coupons and promotional offers at the efficient Visitor Information Center , 8723 International Drive (daily 8am-7pm; tel 407/363-5872 or 1-800/643-9492, ).

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