Things to Do in Miami in Summer 2017 – Attractions, Activities & More
Everyone thinks of Miami when they think of summer fun – after all, where could you find better sand and surf than South Beach?
Of course, there’s more to Miami than just getting a tan – there are also plenty of fun festivals, events, cruises, and more to get you and the whole family set for summer.
If you’re planning a visit and looking for things to do in Miami in the summer 2017, check out our list of the top attractions and activities going on this year, including…
- Key West Day Trip from Miami
- Key Largo Glass Bottom Boat Cruise
- Biscayne Bay Sightseeing Boat Cruise
- Gator Park Airboat Tour & Florida Everglades
- and more…
Duck Tours South Beach
Experience South Beach by land and sea on a 90 minute narrated Duck Tour packed with entertainment and exclusive insight to all that the city has to offer.
This tour covers the most popular spots in Miami including, South Beach, Art Deco District, Fisher Island, Millionaire’s Row, Star Island, and many more.
Each tour guide has a professional background in comedy and acting and will provide insider knowledge of Miami’s history and all the city has to offer.
Key West Day Trip
Looking for a tropical getaway in the middle of your Miami vacation?
This day long trip to Key West from Miami is an excellent option. Cruise down to the southernmost city in the Continental U.S., and then spend the day biking, strolling, exploring, or shopping in Key West.
Here you will find a beautiful Caribbean atmosphere, street artists, outdoor cafes, restaurants, and much more. You can also visit the Ernest Hemingway House, a botanical garden, several state parks, and much more.
Be sure to stop by Mallory Square at sunset for some unbeatable photos.
Biscayne Bay Sightseeing Boat Cruise
Enjoy this peaceful, 80-minute tour of Biscayne Bay and the Venetian Islands with the whole family.
Soak up the natural beauty of the waters around Miami and take a few moments to scope out the homes of the rich and famous.
You’ll also find food and beverages available on board, so it’s a pretty sweet little cruise.
Before or after your tour, take advantage of where the Sightseeing Cruise departs from and do some shopping or even more sightseeing at Bayside Marketplace. The waterfront Marketplace also offers a variety of entertainment choices and myriad dining options for you to choose from.
Key Largo Glass Bottom Boat Cruise
If you’re looking for a unique cruise excursion among the many wonderful options that abound in Miami, you should consider the Key Largo Glass Bottom Boat Cruise.
This unique vessel actually boasts a see-through glass portion of the bottom of the boat, making it perfect to peering into the bright blue waters below.
The cruise will escort you out to the Pennekamp Coral Reef, which is an amazing natural site and the only underwater National Park in the United States.
You’ll also get a great view of the Florida Keys from the Key Largo Princess Cruise, making it the perfect sightseeing excursion and fun thing to do in the Miami area.
Gator Park Airboat Tour & Florida Everglades
Explore the wild and wonderful Florida Everglades on this famous sightseeing cruise.
Some of the highlights of the Gator Park Airboat Tour include a replica of a Native American fishing camp, some fascinating natural sights like a chickee, and lush, tall sawgrass.
Of course, the real highlight is the wildlife: expect to see soft-shelled turtles, wading birds, fish, deer, and the iconic alligators themselves.
You’ll also get to enjoy an alligator wrestling show, too!
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens: Bloom
The Vizcaya Museum & Gardens is simply an amazing place to visit any time of year. In the summer, with the greenery all around you and the perfume of the flowers heavy in the air, the gardens are particularly magical.
The architecture, of course, is fantastic as always. Explore this luxe European-inspired estate and scope out their extensive collections of historic furniture and artwork.
For 2017, in honor of their centennial year, you can take advantage of a number of special events, including the performance of Bloom: A Caretaker’s Diary on June 17, 2017 (performance begins at 8:30 pm).
Zoo Miami & Zoo Miami Summer Camp
Spanning 340 acres right in the heart of Miami, Zoo Miami is home to more than 3,000 animals and 1,200 plants from around the world.
This zoo is also a tremendously interactive experience: feed rhinos, ride a camel, meet keepers, and much more. Perfect for family trips!
Zoo Miami also offers a special summer camp for young kids, should you be in the area for a while.
Jungle Island & Jungle Ed-Venture Summer Camps
A totally immersive jungle experience awaits at Jungle Island. Tour exhibits featuring some of the most exotic and rare species from around the globe, including the famed liger!
You’ll also have the option to interact with select animals, watch animal performances, listen to informative lectures from keepers, and even go on guided, behind-the-scenes tours.
If you’re in the area, then check out their Jungle Ed-Venture Summer Camps, which offer educational experiences for children that help them learn all about ecology and conservation with plenty of hands-on animal encounters built in.
Miami Seaquarium
The Miami Seaquarium is a marvelous destination filled with stunning animal shows, fascinating exhibits, intriguing demonstrations, and informative presentations.
Spread across 38 acres on a tropical island, the Seaquarium really feels like a destination unto itself.
Their particular focus on conservation makes this a truly special marine park, too, because you know that their efforts are really making a difference in the animal kingdom.
They also offer summer programming for kids of all ages, Girl Scouts, home-schoolers, and more. Consult their website for further details and pricing.
By: smartdestinations
“Tips” de expertos en cruceros para pasarla bien a bordo
Son muchas las actividades que puedes llevar a cabo para garantizar tu pleno disfrute en altamar
Empleados de diversas líneas de crucero, ofrecieron recientemente sus recomendaciones para disfrutar de los viajes en barcos.
Entre sus recomendaciones están:
1- Disfruta del amanecer y de la caída del sol. No solo es un momento relajado por completo, sino también ideal para avistamiento de animales marinos. No te olvides, lleva binoculares para que disfrutes la vista al máximo y aprovecha para hacer de ese primer café del día, uno inolvidable.
2- Pregunta y ¡mucho! No seas tímido por preguntar al personal del barco, están para contestar todas tus preguntas y, si no saben, te referirán a otro que te pueda ayudar. De hecho, es increíble cómo muchos pasajeros se pierden ciertas experiencias a bordo, porque no sabían que las ofrecían, o que son gratis o el proceso para disfrutar de ellas.
3- Lee el programa diario. Es una recomendación que hemos hecho anteriormente porque allí están todas las actividades y horarios, pero, además, la información de los restaurantes y tiendas a bordo y hasta el tipo de vestimenta sugerido por día.
4- Si tú o algún acompañante tienen necesidades especiales, notifícalo antes de viajar. Esto aplica a cualquier tipo de restricción de movimiento, problemas de salud, alergias o necesidades dietéticas.
5- Atrévete a experimentar cosas nuevas. Parte de lo divertido de las vacaciones es explorar y hacer cosas que no haces en tu vida cotidiana. Puede ser desde algo tan simple como cantar en un karaoke o coger clases de baile, o tan especial como hacer una excursión de parasailing (siempre tomando en cuenta la seguridad).
6- Investiga los destinos que vas a visitar. Antes de viajar, debes tener claro, qué quieres hacer en esos lugares. Decide si vas o no en tour, si este es o no del barco, o si quieres conocerlo por tu cuenta. Te ayudará saber qué tipo de transportación necesitas, moneda que se usa y costo; además, verifica la distancia de las atracciones y los lugares cercanos al puerto.
7- Planifica bien tu tiempo en puerto. “Que no se te vaya el barco”, esa es una de las grandes recomendaciones de estos expertos que recuerdan historias de horror de pasajeros “quedados”. Para eso, asegúrate de saber exactamente no solo la hora límite de abordar, sino también coordinar tu paseo en el puerto para llegar con bastante tiempo de anticipación a la salida del barco.
8- Llega al destino de embarque uno o varios días antes del viaje. De todas maneras, vas a viajar, entonces, ¿por qué no estirar un poco más el presupuesto y llegar un par de días antes? Esto, con la ventaja de que te evitas contratiempos con tus vuelos el día del viaje y, además, conoces el destino o descubres más de él si lo habías visitado antes. También te evita llegar extra agotado al barco lo que hace casi perder el primer día de viaje.
9- Reserva todo lo que puedas antes de viajar. Desde excursiones hasta tratamientos de spa, restaurantes y espectáculos a bordo, no seas tímido reservando. Si tienes que hacer cambios, solo deberás hacerlo antes de la fecha límite para cancelar o cambiar.
Fuente: elnuevodia
Technology elevates new theme park experiences in Orlando
ORLANDO — For more than a moment, you feel the way “Avatar” hero Jake Sully felt plunging down the side of a floating mountain and coming just close enough to a giant wave to feel the mist on your face — all while on the back of a flying banshee that then swoons and soars high above the land of Pandora.
Flight of Passage, the new signature ride of Disney World’s $500 million Pandora-World of Avatar experience, has been designed to make riders feel like they are in an alien land. And it delivers.
Not to be outdone, however, all of the major theme parks in Orlando are using technology this year to give park-goers that immersive feel of a simulated reality. Guests can speed through the streets chasing “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon at Universal Orlando on the new Race Through New York attraction. Young theme park visitors can karate-chop their way to victory at Legoland’s Ninjago World. And next month SeaWorld will unleash its first virtual reality roller coaster when Kraken reopens.
“Technology is really playing a key role,” said Arthur Levine, a theme park expert for About.com. “All of these things are really incorporating technology to be able to tell stories in very unique ways.”
Easily the most powerful and immersive experience is Disney’s Flight of Passage, where riders are thrust into the land of gigantic Na’vi aliens with the use of state of the art 3-D simulated technology. Sure, you are strapped onto a motorcycle-shaped seat in front of a blue screen, wearing 3-D glasses, but you feel like you are there in Pandora experiencing a Na’vi rite of passage.
“It creates a new sense of immersion for guests where they really have a sense of place,” said Jon Landau, executive producer of the movie “Avatar,” which inspired Disney’s Pandora land, located at Animal Kingdom. “You are literally going to another world, figuratively and literally.”
Levine says without question Disney has raised the technology bar with Flight of Passage.
“Like all motion simulations, you really don’t move more than a couple of inches in any direction, but the experience is so convincing,” he said. “This is the ultimate to this point.”
But the technology revolution isn’t just on the rides. Visitors to Universal’s new water park Volcano Bay will get an experience they’ve never had in a packed amusement park: No lines! There are no areas to stand in line because park-goers will be in line virtually, thanks to new wearable technology, TapuTapu, that will allow them to enjoy the rest of the park until it’s their turn. The Jimmy Fallon ride will also have virtual line capability.
WALT DISNEY WORLD
Pandora-World of Avatar
Walt Disney World’s 12-acre land inspired by the “Avatar” movie opens in Florida in late May at the Animal Kingdom park. The marquee attraction at the half-billion-dollar land is Flight of Passage, where a 3-D simulator plunges riders into a cinematic world. You feel like you’re riding on the back of a banshee, a bluish, gigantic, winged predator that resembles something out of the Jurassic era. At night, Pandora transforms into a sea of color with glowing lights on artificial plants and even in the pavement. The enormous blue Na’vi aliens from the “Avatar” movie appear sparingly, really just on Flight of Passage and a second attraction called Na’vi River Journey.
UNIVERSAL ORLANDO
Volcano Bay
Volcano Bay is Universal Orlando’s new water-themed park with a huge, exploding volcano as its centerpiece. The resort is calling Volcano Park its “third park,” after Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Universal closed the nearly-40-year-old Wet ’n Wild water park to make way for the more intensely-themed Volcano Bay, whose story line is that visitors are entering a Pacific island belonging to the Waturi people. The opening of the water park in May marks the debut of the TapuTapu wearable wristband which can pay for food, open lockers, trigger special effects, set spending limits on the kids and eliminate waiting in lines by sending alerts when it’s your turn for a ride.
Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon
At the Jimmy Fallon attraction, which opened in April, visitors enter an area made to look like the lobby of a Rockefeller Center building. On display are photos, videos and memorabilia from decades of past “The Tonight Show” shows. The ride is pioneering the use of virtual lines, which allows visitors to watch live entertainment or hang out in a lounge instead of waiting in line. When it’s their turn to go on the ride, visitors are alerted. The 3-D simulator ride gives visitors the experience of drag-racing through the streets and in the clouds above New York City.
SEAWORLD ORLANDO
Kraken
Virtual reality is coming to a roller coaster at SeaWorld’s Orlando’s Kraken 17-year-old ride. Visitors wanting the virtual reality experience can choose to wear a virtual-reality headset that make them think they’re going on a deep-sea mission alongside sea creatures. It is SeaWorld’s first digitally-enhanced ride experience and is set to debut June 16.
By TERRANCE HARRIS / Associated Press
Ahora puedes usar las coronas de las princesas de Disney (en los dedos)
Si bien no hay edad para ser fanático o fanática de Disney, si hay un límite para usar los disfraces a menos que sea Halloween. Por suerte para quienes quieran sentirse como princesas a diario, hay diseñadores de joyería que se inspiraron en las coronas más reconocibles para crear anillos.
Rapunzel
Se consigue en la tienda Disney de Japón y es una copia perfecta de la de la película.
Blancanieves
Las piedras brillantes y la manzana icónica no faltan en esta pieza
Elsa
La princesa del hielo de Frozen tiene su corona miniatura en una tienda online
Aurora
Minimalista e ideal para combinar con la vida adulta.
Fuente: lanacion
Information for Pregnant Women Visiting Disney World
Wondering if you will be able to enjoy anyrides at Disney World while pregnant? Here’s some great news…expectant mothers can expect to have a lot of fun on a Disney vacation. You’ll have to skip the roller coasters and thrill rides but Walt Disney’s original vision for his theme parks were for a place where families experienced things together so there are lots and lots of great attractions that you will be able to enjoy. Rides all have signs posted near the entrance warning of any exclusions or limitations for physical considerations; these attractions will have a red triangle next to them on the Disney theme park map. The park maps are your friend for another reason –that’s the fastest way to find the location of the nearest restroom.
Important! The tips below should apply most healthy pregnancies but you should consult with your doctor about specific cautions relating to visiting the Disney theme parks during your pregnancy. Heat, humidity and exertion may affect you differently during pregnancy so make sure you pay attention to swelling, fatigue, dizziness or any unusual symptoms. Each of the Disney theme parks has a First Aid Center – do not hesitate to stop by if you start to feel any unusual symptoms.
Magic Kingdom Rides & Attractions Suitable During Pregnancy:
- Walt Disney World Railroad
- Swiss Family Tree House
- The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- Enchanted Tiki room
- Jungle Cruise
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Tom Sawyers Island
- Country Bear Jamboree
- Hall of Presidents
- Liberty Square Riverboat
- Haunted Mansion
- It’s a small world
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Mickey’s Philharmagic 3D Movie
- Enchanted Tales with Belle
- Under the Sea – Journey of the Little Mermaid
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- Astro Orbiter
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover
- Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
- Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor
- Parades
- Shows & Live entertainment
Disney Advises Against Riding These Magic Kingdom Attractions During Pregnancy:
- Splash mountain
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Space Mountain
- The Barnstormer
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Tomorrowland Speedway
Epcot Rides & Attractions Suitable During Pregnancy:
- Spaceship Earth
- Ellen’s Energy Adventure
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends
- Turtle Talk with Crush
- Soarin’
- Living with the Land
- Innoventions – StormStruck & Colortopia
- The Circle of Life (film with seats – not so great)
- Journey into Imagination with Figment
- Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival (film with seats)
- Advanced Training Lab area of Mission Space
- Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros
- Phineas & Ferb: Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure
- Reflections of China (Circle-Vision movie – standing)
- The American Adventure
- Impressions de France (Movie with seats)
- O Canada! (Circle-Vision movie – standing)
- World Showcase galleries and exhibits
- IllumiNations Fireworks
- Epcot has some great live entertainment in the World Showcase including the Jewelled Dragon Acrobats (China pavilion) and Serveur Amusant (balancing act / France pavilion). See the Epcot Times Guide for show times during your visit.
Disney Advises Against Riding These Epcot Attractions During Pregnancy:
- Test Track
- Mission Space (Experience the Training Lab while the family rides)
Disney’s Hollywood Studios Rides & Attractions Suitable During Pregnancy:
- Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage
- The Great Movie Ride
- Toy Story Midway Mania
- Voyage of the Little Mermaid
- Disney Jr. Live on Stage
- Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular
- Muppet Vision 3D
- Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream
- Fantasmic!
Disney Advises Against Riding These Disney Hollywood Studios Attractions During Pregnancy:
- Tower of Terror
- Rock ‘n Roller Coaster
- Star Tours
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Rides & Attractions Suitable During Pregnancy:
- Festival of the Lion King
- Flights of Wonder bird show
- Finding Nemo the Musical
- Triceratop Spin
- Kilimanjaro Safari
- Animal viewing trails
- Train ride to the Conservation Station
- It’s Tough to be a Bug 3D.
Disney Advises Against Riding These Animal Kingdom Attractions During Pregnancy:
- Kilimanjaro Safari
- Dinosaur
- Expedition Everest
- Primeval whirl
- Kali River Rapids
A Few More Tips:
- Wear comfortable shoes. If you’re having any trouble with your feet and ankles swelling, be sure to wear socks that will not bind.
- Snacks – You will be allowed to bring snack items into the parks but be aware that Disney does not allow glass containers or hard-sided coolers.
- Disney Dining Plan – Are you having a lot of nausea? The dining plan might not make sense if you’re not eating much. Do certain types of food seem to affect you badly during pregnancy? Your travel agent can recommend restaurants to try and ones to avoid based on your dietary needs.
- Get Some Photos – This is a special time and your baby’s first trip to Disney World so you should be sure to have some photos of you at Disney World.
By: buildabettermousetrip
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