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Fort Lauderdale Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fort Lauderdale, United States
Doing it Like Our Forefathers...but with amenities
This is a top pick! ... home from a trip, but an opportunity presented itself and we couldn't say no. Ellen and I are in Fort Lauderdale, waiting to board an ocean liner. The Solstice is over three-hundred metres long. It has thirteen or fourteen floors ...
Valentines day in the Everglades
This is a top pick! ... , San Salvador by plane cost around $500 still with a significant journey to Mexico, so we opted to take Aires direct flight to Fort Lauderdale for $69 and have Valentines day at the Everglades national park. The flights to Cancun are cheap from both Fort ...
Air Boat And Gaters.
This is a top pick! We are in the land of swamp buggies with giant tyres, air boats that zip over grass as easy as water and southern accents. The talk is of "Gators" and pythons and the biggest they have seen. My thoughts are it is like the fishing tale that ...
10 Things I Hate About U.S.A.
This is a top pick! ... and bad news that sells. 10. struggling to find a 10th because truth be told, we ABSOLUTELY LOVED our time in the States and could easily have spent a couple more months meeting its warm people and exploring its wide range of attractions. Specifically we ...
Cruisin'
... watch the waves go by. After an obligatory safety drill, we all gathered on the top deck for a party as we set sail. We crowded the rails, waiting and watching until we pulled out of Port Everglades and waved Fort Lauderdale goodbye. We're at ...
Welcome to America, have a nice day.
... retards? Let me tell you a story about a girl traveling through US customs. It all happened on the 3rd June 2012 at Ft Lauderdale Airport from 6pm onwards… When you enter a country the first impression you get is at customs, even before you have a ...
Day 1
... and left about an hour late. July 19, 2007 9:30 PM EDT We arrived in Fort Lauderdale to hot and humid weather. The little yarn balls made our luggage easy to ...
Final day in Florida
Here in Fort Lauderdale my roommate Patrick predicts the weather will turn for the worse in the next few days. He is a fisherman so I decide that he probably knows what he is talking about. Thankfully today is my last day here before I fly to southern ...
Travelling to Texas
At lunchtime I leave the Deauville Hostel and make my way via bus to the Fort Lauderdale airport. It all goes exactly as planned and after a painless check-in I am sitting comfortably in the departure lounge wondering what will happen in the next few ...
Sawgrass Mills Day - YEE HA
... our family beach bum launching himself into the waves and being thrown around by the surf. Then we walked along the shoreline to Lauderdale-By -The- Sea pier. This is an old style fishing pier, with bars, beach shops and restaurants all around it. ...
Crusin': Days 10-11
... were full of relaxing, and we arrived back in Fort Lauderdale in the morning on the 11th day. My 97-year-old grandfather lives in Fort Lauderdale, so we stayed an extra couple of days to spend some time with him. The hotel we were staying at is a popular ...
Fort lauderdaleF
Well dear readers I am going to start this entry in the middle of a sentence because I have left behind an essential bit of paper.......,so you could see an amazing array of street lights and all the car lights on the highways and right below us was ...
Lots of Water
... Intercoastal Waterway and into some of the canals. The ride was lovely and we saw some beautiful homes and yachts. It is a part of Fort Lauderdale that I would thin few tourists see. After our tour, it was 7:45 and we hadn't eaten. The first restaurant ...
Day 28, 29 & 30: Miami & Fort Lauderdale
... 3 was a trip north to Palm Beach which we enjoyed but for all the driving we wished we'd stayed put on the nicer Fort Lauderdale beach right near our hotel! Tomorrow we leave Florida, which is why we can now make comment about the bugs without fear ...
Cruise Day 1: Fort Lauderdale
... said. And he succeeded. Good man. And then he got the bunk down: As the ship left Fort Lauderdale, we were given a coastguard escort (and a lot of honking of air-horns from the ...
Beachside
... off but turned out to be the wrong crowd with couples scattered everywhere. We had missed the main springbreak weeks in For Lauderdale but we wernt to fussed because the nightlife turned out to be really good regardless. We went to Off the Hookah and ...
Study. Search. Plan.
... to 6 degree weather. Turns out we would be spending the next couple of weeks in well below average weather conditions in Fort Lauderdale. We were getting wind chill warnings to stay inside unless we had to go out. The temperature was dropping to below 0 ...
Day 2 - Embarkation Day
... sink his teeth into the pure white eggshell ( I can only presume sense of touch is totallu caput! )Then we set off for Fort Lauderdale, abpout 1/2 hour away for anyone else, but we did quite well here with it taking 1 hour and 1 detour. En route we ...
Homeland Security - Einreise ins Amiland
... abläuft, kann man damit nicht mehr entschuldigen. Unser Flieger aus Costa Rica kam pünktlich 7 Uhr früh in Fort Lauderdale in Florida an. Dort mussten wir umsteigen in den Flieger nach Orlando. Allerdings mußten alle Passagiere erstmal raus ...
Miami Rush Hour Traffic
... part this plan worked. We were stuck in Miami rush hour traffic for about an hour before we were able to continue to Fort Lauderdale airport. We returned the rental car, check in, and went through security with no problem. We had 2 hours ...
All aboard Celebrity Equinox
... to go for a drive to see Ft Lauderdale and then drop the car off at the airport and get a taxi to the pier. Ft Lauderdale reminded us a little of the Gold Coast in Australia with its canals and beaches. Although not raining it was very overcast so after ...
Day 3- Lounging About At Sea
The kids and Daphne and bob are in inside rooms while me n H lord it up in a balcony room. Pure luxury. I am writing this to copy up later, having justtaken breakfast on our balcony. Those who know me well will be very pleased for me because the ...
Team GB
... back in 2005 with my friend Tim Cornish. It was 2 weeks after hurricane Wilma had caused major damage to Florida, and half of Fort Lauderdale without power. The hotel we were staying at had insisted that all was ok, and we shouldn't change our plans, but ...
In transit
I'm writing this post from the food court at Fort Lauderdale Airport and it's a wonderful feeling. I can hardly think of a better place to be making new entries on a travel blog than an airport terminal. There are two things that always get me ...
Lazy Lazy Bones
... of cancellations) my flight back to Buenos Aires ended up bring brought forward to the 1st so I caught the Tri-rail down from Fort Lauderdale Airport to Miami Airport. I couldn't believe that it had been almost 3 months since I arrived to begin my tour ...
Take off!
The time is here! We have completed the last rehearsal in Florida and now it is time to head to the airport. It is only going to take a 3 hour 15 minute flight to chicago and a 14 hour 25 minute flight to Beijing and we will be in China! Hopefully ...
So Sad, end of the cruise!
Fri and Sat were both fun days at sea with no stops. Sunday morning we woke up in Fort Lauderdale and got on a southwest flight which was supposed to take us to Albuquerque, but shortly after takeoff, we heard a very loud hissing sound coming from ...