19 Unique Indoor Activities In Orlando To Try When It Rains (2024)
- Date: March 14, 2024
- Topic: Events
- Contributors: Written by Nina Gunther-Segal
Source: Peerspace
To outsiders, Orlando might be best known as the home of Disney World and Universal—although those are undeniably exciting destinations, there’s a lot more to discover in this city. Even if it’s raining buckets (or too unbearably hot to spend time outside!) and you can’t enjoy your usual outdoor activities, there are tons of indoor activities in Orlando to keep you occupied!
We at Peerspace have assembled a list of 19 of the best options to ensure that no matter what the weather’s like outside, you have plenty of ways to keep yourself busy. Just keep reading for our favorite unique indoor activities in Orlando!
1. Take a cooking class from the Edible Education Experience
Edible Education Experience calls its offerings “seed to table experiences” because of the culinary garden where they grow many of the ingredients featured in their classes. Check out a list of their programs—such as a monthly Chef Night led by a different talented local chef—to see if any of them might interest you!
2. Throw a party for any reason (or even for no reason at all!) at a Peerspace Orlando venue
If it’s a weekend and you know your friends are going to be around, how about throwing a spontaneous party? You can go for a rainy day party, a party to celebrate any of these weird national holidays, or a party just for its own sake.
As the largest online marketplace for event venue rentals, Peerspace is the best platform to help you discover incredible venues in Orlando.
Here are some of our favorite examples of indoor Peerspace venues based in Orlando:
- This swanky and unique reception venue, which is ideal for gatherings of up to 50 people. It has an array of amenities: Sonos surround sound, a TV monitor, 300 square feet of space for dancing, a kitchen, his and hers luxury bedrooms, and more!
- This beautiful dance space with 1,600 square feet of wooden bamboo dance floor and mirrors surrounding the space, not to mention color changing DJ up-lighting to help you set the right mood and an audio system that offers wireless connectivity. What better location could there be for a dance party?
- This downtown café and event space, which offers a more casual daytime vibe than the previous two examples. Known as Bynx Orlando, this coffee shop can offer your guests food, including toasted sandwiches and cheese boards, and can even serve buffet-style meals. There’s also a stage with a full in-house PA system and floor lights, in case you’d like to include a live performance in your party!
- This spacious lakefront house, which offers a gorgeous view of the sunset over the lake. If the rain clears up during your rental, you and your guests also have the options to swim in the pool, relax in the hot tub, or even practice on the putting green.
Anyone planning a last-minute party on a rainy day will need to hear back about their venue reservation as soon as possible. So when you search Peerspace for yourself, make sure to filter your search so that you only see spaces that are available to be booked instantly. You can do so by clicking on “More filters” at the top of your search results page, scrolling down to “Instant Book,” and checking off the box next to it.
3. Go rock climbing (indoors!) at Blue Swan Boulders
Blue Swan Boulders doesn’t just offer any old rock climbing experience. Instead, they’re focused on bouldering: a form of rock climbing where climbers stay at a relatively low height and don’t need ropes or harnesses (often with safety mats below them), but challenge themselves at least as much as they might with more conventional rock climbing. If you’ve never done it before, bouldering is definitely worth a try, not only because it’s a blast but also because it’s an extremely effective full-body workout!
4. Go golfing without getting wet at Topgolf Orlando
Across three massive floors, Topgolf Orlando offers more than one hundred covered, climate-controlled hitting bays as well as a sports bar and restaurant for when you need a break from practicing your swing.
5. Visit the Orlando Cat Café
Orlando is lucky enough to be home to Florida’s first cat café! If you’ve never heard of this concept, a cat café is a coffee shop where you can pay to hang out with a group of adorable cats who are up for adoption. If you’re looking for a cat friend to bring home with you, a cat café is a great way to get to know cats that are available for adoption and perhaps even meet your future companion.
6. Meet your favorite celebrities at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Orlando
Well… not your favorite celebrities, exactly, but extremely lifelike wax figures of your favorite celebrities! This is a great destination for taking hilarious pictures, potentially convincing your friends and family that you actually met the celebrities whose wax figures you’re posing with.
Looking for ideas better suited for groups? Then explore our favorite group activities for adults, too!
7. Play video games at Arcade Monsters International Drive
Here’s a truly fun indoor activity in Orlando! Arcade Monsters is known for having an enormous selection of games to choose from, and you can pay $25 to stay all day and play as many games as you want (or they’ll cut the all-day price down to $19 if you decide to show up in a cosplay outfit)!
8. Enjoy the Tiffany collection at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum
The Morse Museum offers the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by famous artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, who is probably best known for his stunning Tiffany lamps. Check out some of the collection’s highlights to get a sense of whether it’s worth a visit!
9. See fascinating and weird artifacts at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
There’s a whole lot to discover at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Orlando: a 3,000+ pound meteorite, a piece of Mars, a shrunken torso owned by Ernest Hemingway, a (supposed) Sasquatch footprint, and lots more! You definitely won’t be bored if you decide to spend your rainy day enjoying this indoor activity in Orlando.
10. Take a quick trip outside Orlando to visit the Kennedy Space Center
Located about 45 miles from downtown Orlando, the Kennedy Space Center is well worth the trip, especially if you’re excited about space and interested in the history of NASA.
11. Laugh your head off at the Funny Bone Comedy Club
Are you a fan of stand-up comedy? Visit the Funny Bone Comedy Club to see talented comics and enjoy a comfortable, upbeat atmosphere.
12. Explore the world of science at the Orlando Science Center
This is an especially ideal indoor activity in Orlando if you’re trying to keep a kid or group of kids entertained! The Orlando Science Center is a hands-on science museum that focuses on experiential teaching, helping visitors gain an understanding of scientific concepts and phenomena through fun and engaging, interactive experiences.
13. Or visit the Orlando Museum of Art
Perhaps science isn’t really your cup of tea, but you’re a big fan of visual art! In that case, consider spending a few hours of your rainy day at the Orlando Museum of Art, which offers a combination of photography, folk art, contemporary art, and more!
Looking for fun activities to enjoy with your partner? Then you need to see these creative date ideas in Orlando next!
14. Escape from one of the puzzle rooms at American Escape Rooms
Starting at only $24 per player, American Escape Rooms is the top-rated escape room in Orlando because it’s both affordable and high quality. Choose from four themed rooms: “Bomb!” (a Cold War crisis), “Madness!” (a mad professor’s asylum), “Twisted!” (a straightforward puzzle room), and “Virus!” (a zombie apocalypse).
15. Go ice skating at the Orlando Ice Den
Here’s an activity you can never do outside in Orlando, not just on a rainy day! With daily public skating sessions, the Orlando Ice Den is an unbeatable destination for anyone looking to spend a few hours at an ice rink. You can even take skating lessons here to improve your skills.
16. Enjoy delectable treats at the World of Chocolate Museum and Café
Are you a serious chocolate lover? Take a tour of this chocolate museum and café to learn about the origins and history of chocolate, see 25 impressive chocolate sculptures, and learn about antique machinery that was used to make chocolate. At the end, you’ll enter the tasting room to sample some of the world’s best chocolate.
17. Unwind at Allora Day Spa
In addition to skillful massages, Allora Day Spa offers facials, body treatments, couples services, hair removal, eyelash extensions, and more! It also happens to be the highest-rated spa in Orlando, so it’s an unbeatable destination for your most relaxing rainy day ever.
18. Meet underwater life at the SeaLife Orlando Aquarium
One of the cool features that sets SeaLife apart is its 360-degree ocean tunnel, where visitors are fully surrounded by sharks, sea turtles, stingrays, and other wondrous creatures, but there’s lots to see here on a rainy day.
19. Go on a shopping spree at the Florida Mall
The Florida Mall is the largest shopping venue in Central Florida, so if you’re looking to shop till you drop, there’s no better place in Orlando to do it!
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