New entertainment venue in works at Icon Park
Icon Park has filed plans for a potential new entertainment venue.
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Icon Park has filed plans for a potential new entertainment venue.
The Wheel at ICON Park is The Orlando Eye once again after the 400-foot-tall Ferris wheel sold Monday to Merlin Entertainments, the British group that owns Legoland. The sale puts the wheel on Orlando’s International Drive back in the hands of the company that first operated it from 2015 to 2018. It also unites it with two other Merlin properties at ICON Park, Madame Tussauds Orlando and Sea ...
Merlin Entertainments announced on Monday it has purchased The Wheel at ICON Park and renamed it The Orlando Eye, its original name when it first opened in 2015.
Merlin Entertainments announced on Monday it has purchased The Wheel at ICON Park and renamed it The Orlando Eye, its original name when it first opened in 2015.
Orange County commissioners reached consensus Tuesday that Visit Orlando’s $100 million, hotel-tax-funded budget should get a “haircut” but they didn’t decide on a trim or a buzz for the region’s tourism-marketing agency. That will come later after staff discussions, Orange County Administrator Byron W. Brooks said. Commissioners said some of Visit Orlando’s 30% share of every tourist-tax ...