Sending your family to the moon has never been more down-to-earth: As the
closest beaches to Orlando`s castles, crowds and…
Sending your family to the moon has never been more down-to-earth: As the
closest beaches to Orlando`s castles, crowds and climbing rates, Florida`s
Space Coast is the ideal blast-off point for budget-minded vacations
including theme park side-trips, moonlit sea turtle nesting tours, NASA
Kennedy Space Center excursions and three- and five-day cruises to the
Caribbean. Summer stays start as low as US $69 per night. Space Coast –
primarily comprised of Titusville, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Palm Bay –
covers 72 miles of sun-bronzed Atlantic shore where endless beaches tempt
vacationers with warm southern waters and average daytime temperatures of 73
F.
Affordable family accommodations, just 45 minutes from Orlando, include:
A just step from Cocoa Beach Pier, Best Western Oceanfront is just US $69
per night through Dec. 31.
The newest beachfront property, Courtyard by Marriott of Cocoa Beach, is
US $109 per night through Aug. 15.
Ramada Inn Kennedy Space Center offers a three-day/two-night family
package with passes to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, U.S. Astronaut
Hall of Fame and Space Camp Florida for US $189-US $209.
The Inn at Cocoa Beach offers a beachfront bed and breakfast from US
$135-US $250 per night through September.
The Beach Island Resort Condo offers discount Saturday-to-Saturday rentals
oceanfront condos start at US $715 per week.
For an out-of-this-world experience, the technology of tomorrow awaits at Kennedy Space Center where visitors view actual launch pads, astronaut training centers, a rocket garden and spin-offs from space. Nearby, The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame showcases America`s first galactic explorers.
Kids treasure the thrills of simulated space travel and exploration as
Participants at U.S. Space Camp Florida. In sweeping contrast and absolutely free, surrounding the Space Center is the vast Merritt Island National Wildlife
Refuge which hosts more federally endangered species than any other.
Florida`s Space Coast also is home to the second largest sea turtle nesting area in the world. Moonlit-guided tours of the beach each night from May to October steal glimpses of endangered loggerheads and leatherbacks laying eggs or hatchlings headed for the sea.
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