• After researching how far visitors would walk with a sweet wrapper, Disney decided you should never be more than 27 yards from a bin
• The tarmac colour near attractions is set to help make the grass look greener and the sky look bluer
• Disney is the same size as Greater Manchester
• Disney employs more than 50,000 cast members to make Florida have the magic
• In epcot more than 30 tons of fruit and veg are harvested in their Pavilion Greenhouses. They are then served in the park
• The epcot Spaceship Earth is estimated to way the same as approx 158 million real golf balls
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is the tallest Disney ride at 199 feet
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was meant to be taller but that would require a light for aircraft on the top, so it was made shorter
• Covering 47 square miles, Walt Disney World is as big as Greater Manchester. Of the more than 30,000 acres total resort size, less than one-fourth has been developed. One quarter has been designated as a wilderness preserve
• At the Rose and Crown Dining Room and Pub in World Showcase (United Kingdom), a specially designed ale warmer can heat your Guinness to 55 degrees, the temperature favoured by the Irish
• More than 26,000 feet (7925 metres) of lights outqueues the World Showcase pavilions - a string long enough to stretch across San Franciscos Golden Gate Bridge more than six times
• Fascinating facts about Fantasmic! Nighttime extravaganza. To create a surface on which animation can be projected, water screens pump 2,400 gallons (9,085 litres) of water into the air every minute...and if called upon, could fill the 500,000 gallon (1,892 cubic metres) Earffel Tower in less than 3 hours
• Each "limo" at Rock 'n Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith launches from 0-60 mph in 2.8 blurring seconds - similar to the feeling of sitting on top of a supersonic F-14 Tomcat as it blasts off the deck of an aircraft carrier
• There are over 200 species of animals - mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects - representing 1,000 animals; and more than 4 million trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grasses and ferns at Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park
• Over 325 animals are carved on the Tree of Life and over 100,000 leaves were individually placed on the branches
• Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park exhibits the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found
• Florida covers a total area of 58,560 square miles
• Every day and estimates 1,000 people move to the sunshine state of Florida
• Florida currently has in excess of 1,250 golf courses and has more than any other state in the US
• Clearwater in Florida is the city in the US with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita
• The American based power drink called Gaterade is called Gaterade because the Florida Gators football team were the drink was developed
• Florida has over 30 lighthouses along its shoreline
• The Florida Keys is made up of 882 islands (or keys)
• A snowbird is a retired North American who moves South for the winter and returns home in the spring. Like migratory birds, they follow the warm weather
• Spring breakers are college students who come to Florida to party during spring break. Their parties have a reputation for over-the-top antics like Jell-O fights, and usually last late into the night
• The word "key" comes from the Spanish word "cayo" meaning little island
• Go here, go there, but no matter where you are in Florida, you've never more than 60 miles from the ocean
• Key West's coral reef is the third largest in the world
• Florida has an estimated 1100 miles of sandy beach
• The deepest natural spring in the world is Wakulla Springs in the Florida Panhandle
• The longest fishing pier in the world is in Tampa Bay. It is a portion of the old collapsed Sunshine Skyway bridge

About Us - Florida Premier Villas

Florida Premier Villas was first created in March 2000 and is a family affair run by the Nickson family, a family of total Florida nuts that believe that Florida holidays are the best in the world. We enjoy our holidays so much that when we cannot be there we wanted to help other people make the most of their time in the Sunshine state. With so many things to do such as Disney parks, the water parks, sea world and of the newer items such as Harry Potter land and Discovery Cove the options are almost endless. in our Florida News and Information section though we try and help with suggestions and ideas that we hope will help to make your holiday a much better one.

Going to Florida has a number of great benefits but one thing that we always make the point of telling people is the difference that having a good villa makes to the holiday experience. We went as far as to write a Top 10 Reasons For A Villa In Florida to try and help explain all the benefits that there are.

The Nickson family now consists of the 4 of us, me Mike (Daddy) and I have been to Florida 4 times and cannot get enough, give me half a chance and I would move there. I love the difference in pace of life and I am a person that feel so much better when there is some sunshine out there! I could happily go to Florida and just enjoy the experience without necessary go to all the parks BUT and this is a big but, why would you?? There are so many cool attractions and great things to do over there, the Americans do many of the same things as the UK but propoerly. If you have not been to Florida you are not sure what I mean but if you go to a major theme park in the UK and then to one in the US you will then know what I mean. I have been to Florida as a couple twice, a last ditch holiday with my family of 3 brothers, 1 sister, 2 parents and a girlfriend (we even met a friend out there that was going round the world), and most recently we have been as a family of 3 and half with my parents as well (we wrote about that one as it was a 3 generation Florida Holiday). This last one I think was our best as we took our son who got totally immersed in the experience, having been there and done most of the big things we were happy to watch the experience through their eyes and it was fantastic.

Mel, (Mummy) has been to Florida 5 times over the years, the same holidays as I was able to go on, with the addition of going with her parents at the age of 14. That holiday was a group of 4 families going together, the families hired 2 villas next to each other allowing for 1 for the parents and 1 for the children (teenagers really). This holiday was her first in Florida and so holds some great memories and still quite dear to her.

Our eldest son has been to Florida at the ripe old age of 3 and it was fantastic to see how much he loved the experience. He is an all or nothing child and so ran all day long and as soon as he go to the car to come back to the villa he was asleep in 2 minutes. This is one of the reasons for this site to help others with ideas, suggestions and a great selection of villas to help you to have the greatest holiday you can have, as we have. At the end of a full day of attractions we could come home to our villa, put him in his bed in his room and then make dinner, have a drink or 2 or even a swim and prepare for another magical day!

Our family have now just started a new hobby as all 4 of us have now taken up TaeKwon Do and so now we have a new website where you can read about our TaeKwon Do Training diary about what it is like to start training from the ages of 36, 32, 6 and 3 by training in all the different training age categories with people of different sexes and ages and sizes. We are all looking forward to it, maybe we will all compete in Florida one day! Think that may be a little while off though.

We hope you enjoy this site, and if you have any problems, questions or comments then please feel free to contact us by emailing us.