Getting there and getting around
Every major commercial airline and many charter aircraft fly into
burgeoning Orlando International Airport or the much smaller Sanford International
Airport. Amtrak trains connect the city with cities along the U.S. east coast
with stops in Kissimmee, Winter Park and Orlando, while Amtrak's Auto Train boards
both passengers and their cars for the trip between Lorton, Virginia near Washington
D.C. to Sanford, a small town just north of Orlando. Greyhound buses bring people
here from every corner of the nation.
An automobile is the best way to get around this sprawling area.
You will also need to allow more travel time than the distance would suggest.
Even central Florida's main interstate artery, I-4, is slow at peak traffic hours
from 7-9am and from 4-6pm, and very busy at almost any other time.
Every national rental car chain operates here, along with some
smaller ones. Local rental agencies are accustomed to tourists renting a car in
one Florida City and dropping it off here or vice versa, although they charge
an additional fee to do so. Get as current a map as you can find. Roads are being
built even as you read this, and highway signs often assume you know much more
than you do. Because Central Florida was once sparsely populated and there are
vast amounts of acreage up this way, there was plenty of room to build roads,
so even the most remote routes are four- or six-lane highways, easy to negotiate.
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