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AntarcticOrlando Seaworld Orlando opens exhibit with penguins and more
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lorida’s big ticket opening of the season took place last month. Mary McKenna of Tour America was among the guests when SeaWorld Orlando opened Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, which features a room with below-freezing temperatures and hundreds of birds. Visitors queued for more than four hours to experience the four-minute signature ride, which follows the Southern hemisphere adventures of young Puck the penguin, guided by a new trackless ride system that helps imitate movements of the birds. More than 250 birds from four species are on open-air display at the end of the ride. They show off their swimming skills in a room built for underwater viewing. The attraction's exterior is designed to look like tall walls of ice and snowcapped granite on all sides of the four-acre area. It is another boost to Central Florida’s $32bn tourism industry.A
ers: The Ride — 3D and Springfield (an extension of The Simpsons experience) are both opening this summer. Earlier this month, the Orlando theme park opened Fast Food Boulevard, a line of Springfield eateries including Krusty Burger, Luigi's Pizza, the Flying Dutchman and Cletus Chicken Shack Moe's Tavern serves Duff Beer and Duff Light, both specially made for Universal Orlando, are on draft.. Flam-
DISNEY are to join Universal Orlando in charging more than $90 for a single-day, single-park ticket. Admission to the Magic Kingdom has increased by $6 to $95 (or $89 ages 3-9) and one day admission to its other Florida parks, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom, is s$90 ($84 ages 3-9) Disneyland California is to charge $92 and a one-day park hopper ticket goes from $125 to $137. Most Europeans pay for longer term tickets. DUBLIN was one of the cheapest cities in Europe for a club sandwich according to the Hotels.com poll of in 840 hotels across 28 countries. Geneva was most expensive.
Mary McKenna at the opening of Antarctica in Florida whole generation of Americans have grown up thinking the Serengeti is in Orlando. Now a new generation will
ing Moe's, a non-alcoholic drink that's made without cough syrup, ("Simpsons" fans get that one), are also available. A ride based on the show's space aliens called the Kang & Kodos Twirl 'n' Hurl, according to Universal will open later this year.
think that Antarctica is in Orlando as well.
Smithsonian in Virginia and Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, as well as the prototype orbiter Enterprise at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City — Atlantis is being displayed in "flight."
KENNEDY pace Centre Vis- LEGOLAND itor Complex: the retired Space Shuttle Atlantisand the new $10 m exhibit that bears its name will open to the public on June 29. Unlike the other shuttles — Discovery at the
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FALCON Holidays has added two new destinations to its holiday programme for summer 2014, Ibiza and Rhodes, both with weekly flights from Dublin Airport. Accommodation options including Holiday Villages, SplashWorld Resort, kids’ club property, the family friendly resorts on Ibiza of Port des Torrent and Santa Eulalia, and a selection of self-catering and all inclusive properties and hotels. They will launch a Find the Falcon Family competition. Holidays go on sale from June 27th 2013. MATCHMYGAS has launched an app that it says prevents rental car customers and car salesman
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World of Chima opens July 3rd, an adaptation of the Legends of Chima TV series on Cartoon Network.
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CO CLARE launched a walk that is said to be targeted “at the more experienced walker,” a 400,000 12km long coastal path from Hags Head outside Liscannor by the Cliffs Of Moher to Doolin. EURTUNNEL English and French authorities have granted German train operator Deutsche Bahn the right to run passenger services through the Channel Tunnel. PORTUGAL Rota Vicentina path reached full completion this month, a 350kms walking and cycling trail in the Alentejo and Algarve regions. Fishermen’s Trail consists of 4 sections in the Alentejo region and also 5 complementary circuits going through the Algarve covering 120kms. Historical Way takes you through 12 sections of the South West of Portugal amounting to 230kms whilst enjoying the main towns and villages of SW Portugal.
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