Florida Hotel Guide

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A Florida Hotel is a full service property, usually a high rise establishment, offering a wide range of services and on premise food and beverage outlets, shops, conference facilities, and recreational activities.

In 1513, explorer Juan Ponce De Leon discovered and named Florida (Spanish, for the land of flowers), claiming it for Spain. Florida changed hands several times between Spain, France, and England until Spain finally sold it to the United States in 1821.

Florida's early history as a U.S. territory was influenced by future president Andrew Jackson, who founded Tallahassee as the state capital and organized the territorial government. Florida endured two wars with the Seminole Indians, that ended in 1842. Florida was accepted as the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, 1845. The state joined the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

Oil magnate Henry M. Flagler adopted Florida as his new home in the late 19th Century. Flagler had a vision for Florida to become a tourism haven. He built the Florida East Coast Railway to connect the cities on Florida's Atlantic Coast, eventually reaching Key West in 1912. Flagler encouraged fruit farming and settlement along his railway line and made many gifts to build hospitals, churches and schools in Florida. Scores of hotels and tourists followed the establishment of the railroad line. Flagler College in St. Augustine, Flagler County, and the town of Flagler Beach are named after him.

One of the nation's fastest growing states, Florida's population has grown from 2.8 million in 1950, to 15.9 million in 2000. Florida's economy is based on agriculture (citrus fruit, vegetables, nursery stock, cattle, sugarcane, dairy products) and main industries are tourism, food processing, printing and publishing, manufacturing (electric equipment, transportation equipment, machinery), and international trade.

Hotels in Florida by City or Area:

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Altamonte Springs Amelia Island hotels Apalachicola hotels Apopka hotels Atlantic Beach hotels Atmore hotels Aventura hotels Avon Park hotels Bal Harbour hotels Boca Raton hotels Bonita Springs hotels Bowling Green hotels Bradenton hotels Bradenton Beach Brandon hotels Brooksville hotels Cape Canaveral hotels Cape Coral hotels Captiva hotels Chiefland hotels Chipley hotels Clearwater hotels Clearwater Beach Clermont hotels Cocoa hotels Cocoa Beach hotels Coconut Grove hotels Coral Gables hotels Coral Springs hotels Crestview hotels Crystal River hotels Cutler Ridge hotels Dania hotels Davenport hotels Davie hotels Daytona hotels Daytona Beach hotels

Daytona Beach Shores Deerfield Beach hotels Defuniak Springs Deland hotels Delray Beach hotels Destin hotels Duck Key hotels Dundee hotels Dunedin hotels Ellenton hotels Fairvilla hotels Fernandina Beach Fisher Island hotels Florida City hotels Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers hotels Fort Myers Beach Fort Pierce hotels Fort Walton Beach Gainesville hotels Haines City hotels Hallandale Beach Hernando hotels Hollywood hotels Indian Shores Islamorada hotels Jacksonville hotels Jacksonville Beach Jupiter hotels Kendall hotels Key Biscayne hotels Key Largo hotels Key West hotels Kissimmee hotels Lady Lake hotels Lake Buena Vista Lake City hotels

Lakeland hotels Lake Mary hotels Lake Wales hotels Lantana hotels Leesburg hotels Live Oak hotels Longboat Key hotels Macclenny hotels Madison hotels Maitland hotels Manalapan hotels Marathon hotels Marco Island hotels Marianna hotels Melbourne hotels Merritt Island hotels Mexico Beach hotels Miami hotels Miami Beach hotels Miami Lakes hotels Miami Springs hotels Micanopy hotels Midway hotels Milton hotels Miramar hotels Monticello hotels Mount Dora hotels Mulberry hotels Naples hotels Navarre hotels New Port Richey New Smyrna Beach Niceville hotels North Bay Village North Palm Beach Oakland Park hotels Ocala hotels

Ocoee hotels Okeechobee hotels Orange City hotels Orange Park hotels Orlando hotels Orlando-Pine Castle Orlando-Sand Lake Orlando-Union Park Ormond Beach hotels Osprey hotels Palm Bay hotels Palm Beach hotels Palm Beach Gardens Palm Coast hotels Palm Harbor hotels Panama City hotels Panama City Beach Pensacola hotels Pensacola Beach Perdido Key hotels Plantation hotels Plant City hotels Poinciana hotels Pompano Beach Ponte Vedra Beach Port Richey hotels Port Saint Lucie Punta Gorda hotels River Ranch hotels Riviera Beach hotels Safety Harbor hotels Saint Augustine hotels Saint Petersburg Sanford hotels Sanibel hotels Santa Rosa Beach Sarasota hotels

Satellite Beach hotels Sebastian hotels Sebring hotels Seffner hotels Siesta Key hotels Silver Springs hotels South Miami Beach Starke hotels St Augustine Beach St Petersburg Beach Stuart hotels Sun City Center Sunny Isles Beach Sunrise hotels Tallahassee hotels Tamarac hotels Tampa hotels Tarpon Springs hotels Tavares hotels Tavernier hotels Temple Terrace hotels The Villages hotels Titusville hotels Treasure Island hotels Valrico hotels Venice hotels Ventura hotels Vero Beach hotels Weeki Wachee hotels Wesley Chapel hotels West Melbourne hotels Weston hotels West Palm Beach Winter Garden hotels Winter Haven hotels Winter Park hotels Zephyrhills hotels

The Sunshine State's major tourist destinations are Miami, the Palm Beaches, St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, and Fort Lauderdale on the East Coast. West Coast resorts include Sarasota, Fort Myers, Tampa, and St. Petersburg. Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, and Panama City are major points of migration along the Panhandle area. Key West and the other Florida Keys also are a very popular destination for fishing, boating, sailing, and diving.

Water sports attract the largest number of participants in a state where recreation is a way of life. Ocean and Gulf waters, thousands of lakes and hundreds of miles of rivers and canals accommodate all kinds of craft and activities. The prevalance of boat ramps and the impressive facilities of municipal marinas testify to the popularity of recreational boating.

The Orlando area, with attractions such as Disney World, Universal Studios, and Seaworld, is Florida's most popular tourist destination. Also drawing many visitors are the NASA Kennedy Space Center's Spaceport USA in the Cocoa Beach area, and the Everglades National Park in South Florida.

Florida has a large population of senior citizens, who are content with the laid back atmosphere and enjoy the state's many golf courses and tennis courts. There are public and semiprivate golf courses available throughout the state. Spectator sports draw crowds for dog racing, jai alai and polo matches. Major and minor league baseball and professional football and soccer round out the sports calendar.

Warm sunshine and blue skies are almost always a fact of life in Florida. The state is, however, split into two climate zones: subtropical in the south and warm temperate in the north. Orlando and points south have very mild winters (October to April), with warm temperatures and low humidity. This is the peak tourist season, when prices are at their highest. The southern summer (May to September), on the other hand, brings high humidity and afternoon storms - the rewards for braving the mugginess are lower prices and fewer tourists.

Winter is the off-peak period north of Orlando; while snow has been known to fall in the Panhandle, daytime temperatures are generally comfortably warm. During the northern Florida summer, the crowds arrive, and the days - and the nights - get hot and sticky.

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