For a unique night of fun and facts, check out the Serengeti Night Safari at Busch Gardens. The tour isn’t offered year-round, so make plans soon if you’d like to experience it. One of the things that makes this tour is unique is that it’s for adults only. Because of the included Anheuser-Busch beverages, and [...]

Article, photos and video by Don Gworek Plans are in progress for a 220 mph high speed rail in Florida. The first segment from Orlando to Tampa is expected to be completed in 2014, with Miami to Orlando to follow. With proposed stops at the Orlando airport, the Orange County Convention Center and Walt Disney [...]

Column by Audrey Brown I went back to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay this month, for the first time in more than 20 years. One of my recent columns was dedicated to the patchwork quilt of memory that was my distant recollection of Busch Gardens. I remembered the pale pinks of stucco walls, the animal habitats [...]

Busch Gardens Howl-O-Scream fans know her as Sylvie, the female lead of the killer rock band MyX, who ripped her cheating boyfriend’s fingers off before killing him. While really a rocker, the real woman behind the Sylvie character is much more likable. Meet Kelly Riot. Howl-O-Scream usually features an different icon each year. Past Howl-O-Scream [...]

Fans of SeaWorld, Aquatica, Discovery Cove and Busch Gardens can now follow all their latest offical news via the new SeaWorldParksBlog.com. Redesigned with social media in mind, the blog features the company’s Tweets, Facebook posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos and more. “SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has a rapidly growing following of engaged, social media-savvy fans,” [...]

It’s always more fun to go through a haunted house with screaming girls. If you watch two big burly guys go through, you usually don’t get much reaction. So if you want some screams and fun, what’s the opposite of big burley guys? – Cheerleaders of course. Last weekend Busch Gardens invited some of the [...]

Busch Gardens has ended the speculation and stopped dropping hints. The new attraction coming in spring 2011 will feature a cheeta habitat called Cheetah Run and a roller coaster called Cheetah Hunt that will give riders three seconds of airtime and three boosts of speed along the track. Cheetah Hunt will be a Linear Synchronous [...]

Olivia Newton-John will be at Busch Gardens as she hosts her second Pink and Blue for Two (PB42) cancer awareness event. The ticketed event will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. on Oct. 27 in the Desert Grill. Olivia hosted the inaugural event in Miami last April, which launched a unique campaign dedicated to [...]

If you’re familiar with Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal, then you know how haunted houses work. Usually you wait in line, and then go through the haunted house with that line, single file, conga line-style. You may get a scare if the intended effect doesn’t happen to the person in [...]

Busch Gardens launched the 2010 version of Howl-O-Scream this past weekend. The event continues on select nights up to Halloween. We didn’t make it through all the haunted houses yet, but we were able to catch the scare zones and two of the shows. Here’s a look at the fun: Here’s our video of the [...]

Even though he put on a brave face and said he wouldn’t be scared, Orlando Attractions Magazine staff member Jimmy Strater didn’t know what he was in for. Again this Halloween season Busch Gardens offered to strap the ScreamCam onto one of us for a trip through a new haunted house. Jimmy was able to [...]

Amidst the latest round of rumors about the new attraction Busch Gardens is building for 2011, they’ve launched the next chapter. A teaser campaign that began early this summer now has fans searching for code words to unlock more information. This latest peek pretty much confirms the attraction will be a roller coaster. Anyone who [...]

I took the hour drive from Orlando to Tampa Bay on Saturday to see the KaTonga show before it ended (more on that later). But I was surprised to see how much of their PG-13 Halloween event, Howl-O-Scream, looked ready to go. As you can see above, the main sign for Howl-O-Scream is already greeting [...]

After a six-year run of more than 10,000 shows, the curtain is closing on KaTonga: Musical Tales from the Jungle at Busch Gardens. KaTonga’s last performance in the Moroccan Palace Theater will be Sept. 6. KaTonga is making way for a new show for the park, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, which will debut this winter. [...]

The musical group Survivor will be live in concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, in Gwazi Park at Busch Gardens. Survivor is best known for ‘80s hits including the Rocky theme, Eye of the Tiger, as well as High on You and The Search is Over. The concert is free to all park guests. [...]

Busch Gardens officially kicks off it’s 11th season of scares with more haunted houses than ever before, all new scare zones, a new idea in how to experience a haunted house and live concerts each night by the rock stars of horror – Sylvie and her killer band, My X. We love it when packages [...]

It’s your last chance to see all of the special summer shows, rides and events at SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the Magic Kingdom as they are all ending this weekend. Some or all of the summer shows may return next year, but there’s no guarantees. So see them now if you have [...]

Guests are able to get up-close and personal with animals indigenous to the Land Down Under in Busch Gardens’ new Walkabout Way. Park guests are able to hand-feed kangaroos and wallabies, and learn about kookaburra, magpie geese, Australian black swans and other Australian species. “Offering encounters with Australian animals fits into our park’s theme, which [...]

On a visit to Busch Gardens Tampa today, basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal fed giraffes on a Serengeti Safari experience and playfully encountered a pair of African elephants. Shaq and his kids were at the park to enjoy a fun day together during the off-season. After getting up close with several exotic animals, Shaq and family [...]

For several weeks now, guests entering Busch Gardens Tampa Bay have been met with construction walls in the southeastern corner of the park, and many have speculated as to what is coming. From what we know so far, it’ll allow you to “feel the spirit, feel the speed”. Other clues revealed in short videos on [...]