Our Trip to Dinosaur World

Recently, Noland and I had a friend (Anaclaudia) visit and wanted to do something fun and affordable. The forecast for the entire weekend was RAIN…RAIN… RAIN. We woke up Saturday morning to find that it wasn't raining yet so we should do something fun before the rain began.

We decided to head towards Dinosaur World. We've driven by it on I-4 plenty of times and have always wanted to check it out. We went in the morning time. The park opens through a large gift shop, where you purchase your tickets for the day.  You can purchase your tickets on their website here.  Adult admission is $16.95. Child admission is $11.95. Kids under 3 are FREE.

I was truly shocked by the amount of things to do. As I stated earlier, we've passed Dinosaur World several times before and I always thought it was just a park full of giant dinosaur statues. It was very large with trails all through out the statues. My son is 23 months (almost 2) and loved running and looking at each of the dinosaurs! He would yell, "Rawrrrr!"

Besides viewing the life-size dinosaurs, the park had:

• bone yard (where the kids could pretend to be archaeologists and excavate dinosaur bones)
• cave show
• fossil dig (dig for real fossils, and they even tell you what each fossil is, you get to keep 3)
• giant dinosaur puzzle
• large gift shop with all kinds of goodies (many are very affordable).
• museum (with lots of fossils and artifacts)
• playground
• plenty of picnic tables (for parties or packed lunch)
• station where children could mine for gems

Check out some of our pictures from the day ( I don't have a professional camera, all of these were taken on my i-phone.)

I really loved Dinosaur World. They had a deal when we purchased our tickets in August, and we got a free pass to come back in December. I know that Noland Jr. will definitely want to go back and I'm excited to spend more time there. You can call them and ask about deals and they also have some more information on their website.

If you live in Florida, or are vacationing in the Tampa or Orlando area, I'd say that Dinosaur World is definitely worth checking out... especially if you have a little boy or little girl who loves dinosaurs! Most of the dinosaurs, you are not allowed to touch but, as you can see above, they do have a few woolly mammoths that you are allowed to touch. There are plenty of great picture opportunities. All in all, it's a very affordable and fun family outing! Here are some more pictures:

This post was NOT sponsored or paid for by Dinosaur World. We went as a family for fun. All opinions found in this post are my personal opinions and information that I've gathered from our visit and the website found here.

Have you been to Dinosaur World? Is it a place that you are interested in? I'd love to know your thoughts in the comments!