Gatorland

This is an affordable, very fun, and incredibly unique experience for tourists, locals, and anyone who likes to just simply have fun and/or enjoy a nice change of pace in a day. Gatorland has done a fantastic job of curating a great experience from facilities to park layout to offerings (shows/attractions/things to do/see).

For the price, it's probably the best value park in all of Orlando. Pound for pound you get free parking that is very close to the front gate, we walked less than 100 yards from car to gate and we weren't there until two hours after it opened. I loved that we didn't have to bump in to others all day long like the mega theme parks all have. I also liked that I could take advantage of things like not worry about cost of eating in the park (sodas and food and souvenirs are all so expensive at the mega theme parks you just can't enjoy the day without cringing at the cost and hassle of the whole day).

At Gatorland, we tried a couple of treats like AMAZING fresh hot mini donuts made in front of us to sodas/popcorn as well as our daughter wanted to feed the animals from gators to goats to turtles and the price was affordable for a family to do that. We also took the train and got a take home remembrance item (photo with a gator and sweatshirt).

Again, it's the best value for a park, no crazy lines, no stalking your cellphone to book the next "ride pass" or pay a ton of money to ride different rides like the mega parks have with their passes and experience to try and enjoy the day without lines, lines, lines. We had none of that at Gatorland. The people were awesome, we had space to roam and enjoy so many different offerings. We got done and back for dinner after the day and felt energized and so thankful for the family time together. We avoid the big parks now as locals because of the cost and hassle of parking to price of everything and then paying insane prices to have some shorter lines.......as locals, we just exchanged our daily visit cost towards and annual pass for Gatorland after our visit today as we were so impressed. We look forward to several more visits this year, we had a wonderful day and will be bringing family as they visit us this year from out of state, to Gatorland.