Bill Frederick Park & Universal Studios

We spent a week at Bill Frederick Park, maintained by the City of Orlando.  We picked this park partially because it was available (it's crazy hard to find spots to park the RV in Florida unless you're planning a year in advance) and partially because it was very well rated on Campendium.  I have to say that this is the first park we've been to that didn't meet our expectations.  It was a nice park, nicer than many we've stayed at, but it wasn't as good as we expected based on the reviews.  Most of the sites were extremely unlevel (we would have had to put our rear tires on 6 inch blocks to actually level the RV), and the road through the campground itself was narrow and windy (our tires were off the road around every curve).  There was a nice walking trail but they had blocked access to it from the RV campground.

Example Leveling Problems from a Neighboring RV

On the plus side, most of the sites did have a view of Turkey Lake, and once you did escape from the campground to access the walking path, the path was very nice.  We also met a sweet cat near the children's zoo on site.  The major focus of this park was frisbee golf - every spare square foot of the park not involved in another use was dedicated to it, with 3 different courses.

How many frisbees have been lost in the lake on this hole??

Bill Frederick also had the benefit of being relatively close to Universal Studios.  We had grand plans to 'rope drop' the parks and make it into the Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure without waiting 2+ hours, but two days it was near freezing in the morning, and the day that we did make it at opening time the ride was closed until mid afternoon with mechanical problems.  Still, we made it to the park a couple days and enjoyed the rest of the two parts of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  We'll try for Hagrid's again soon.

Triwizard Spirit Rally

We also made a trip to our favorite restaurant on Universal's CityWalk - Toothsome Chocolate Emporium.  Toothsome has AMAZING milkshakes - each with a separate dessert on top (think cake slice, cupcake, piece of pie), but this time we opted for one of the other massive desserts - a banana cream sundae - which consisted of basically a banana split with a piece of banana cream pie.  Amazing!