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FLORIDA · THINGS TO DO · 27.7° N Most Florida budgets start from one number: the price of a day at an Orlando gate. Keep it. Then look at what the rest of the state charges. Eleven National Park Service units. Springs where manatees spend the winter. A Spanish fort in St. Augustine at $15 … Read more
FLORIDA · WHAT IT COSTS · PER NIGHT · PER VEHICLE The number you were quoted for a Florida hotel room is not the number that leaves your account. Three layers stack onto a nightly rate before anyone mentions a resort fee: the state sales tax of 7% on most goods and meals, a county … Read more
FLORIDA · GETTING AROUND · TOLLS · TRAINS · PARKING The rental counter will talk to you about fuel policies and insurance. It will not mention that long stretches of Florida’s toll roads have no cash booth at all, that a camera reads your plate at highway speed, or that the company then gets to … Read more
FLORIDA · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT · TWO SEASONS Ask when to visit Florida and you get one answer for a state that needs two. The dry season runs November through April, the wet one May through October, and the gap between them is not a few degrees. It decides whether the afternoon belongs to you … Read more
KEY WEST · THE CITY GUIDE · MILE MARKER 0 The road runs out here. After 113 miles of bridges and mangrove islands, US-1 lands on a flat, hot, cheerfully loud island of tin roofs and gingerbread porches, where roosters cross the street with the confidence of ratepayers and the sun going down is a … Read more
MIAMI · THE CITY GUIDE · 25.8° N Say “Miami” out loud and you may be naming more than one city government. The pastel hotels along Ocean Drive and the sand in front of them belong to Miami Beach, built on natural and man-made barrier islands. The murals of Wynwood, the coffee windows of Little … Read more
