As a fan of history and architecture I was delighted to spot the Munn Park Historic District while…read moreexploring downtown Lakeland. The City of Lakeland has seven local historic districts with a combined area of 1.42 square miles. The districts protect more than 1,600 historic buildings and 13 individual landmarks. The Munn Park Historic District was designated a U.S. historic district on November 3, 1997 in Lakeland, Florida. It is named in honor of the city's founder, Louisville, Kentucky businessman Abraham Munn. Munn purchased 80 acres of land that now comprises the Lakeland downtown business district. The Munn Park Historic District is bounded by Bay Street to the north, Lemon Street to the South, Florida Avenue to the west, and extends around Lake Mirror to the East. The grand entrance to the district is the Lake Mirror Promenade designed by noted landscape architect Charles W. Leavitt. This historic district covers the main business area of Lakeland and includes many original buildings dating from as early as 1902. It contains 48 historic buildings and Munn Park which was the first open space in the city. Dedicated in 1884, it is the town square in the city. The Munn Historic District is an almost exclusively commercial district. Today you can enjoy historic buildings, dining, shopping, parks, and public art in this beautiful historic district It is very pedestrian friendly. Fun fact, Lakeland is the largest city in Polk County. Last year more people moved to Polk County than any other county in the United States. The future is looking bright for this stately, historic city.

This is downtown Lakeland. It's lovely!!!…read more There are nice restaurants, a lovely walk around Lake Mirror with some landscape architecture, Hollis Gardens and the newish and fun architecturally inviting Lakeland Brewery as well as the Amtrak Station. Closer in around Munn Park there are great public art works, lots of fun and fine restaurants including Harry's, Black and Brew and Delivicious coffee spots, a Mexican place, Palace Pizza, and Fresco's bar and cafe place next to Palace Pizza. Lots to explore and enjoy. Architecture. Natahan's clothing store. Old school Gaines Geo Jeweler with retro signage. This is the all-American downtown you've been searching for. Art. Food. Architecture. Banks. It's alive. Come take a look and enjoy. Walkable.

Ok it's been 12 months later! And has it gotten any better, NO! Worse as a matter of fact! First of…read moreall a second check disappears for two weeks! I new something went terribly wrong. Ok then even worse than I had thought 2.5 weeks later I received a check back from sender with a note attached! Saying that the check had been returned to sender! Ok that tells me one of two things one it got dropped at mailbox and blew away. Or second it was placed in the wrong mailbox! Most likely that was it! Ok now this week once again it hasn't arrived! And of course when I could use it the worst! So once again I have a very bad feeling about it! Know for years up until the last couple years I could set my clock on when it would be here, Mondays! Now there are times it does arrive on Mondays... But getting fewer and fewer! Am I just Happy as the time of year it is No.

I just went online to google the post office hours and saw they had 1 star and HAD to leave a…read morereview. I hope someone else does this too because these workers do not deserve that. They've been getting their butts kicked with COVID. Less staff, more business and more procedures that slow things down. These very essential workers get from me! I sell stuff on EBay all the time and they are always polite and fast! Yes, if you go at the wrong time you might wait behind 20 people but they are up there taking care of each person just how you would want to be taken care of and moving as fast as they can! Learn how to use the self service machine if you can't wait. This Post Office is great and mistakes happen. Get tracking numbers & get informed delivery, things happen. I've never had an issue and visit weekly.

Our trip to Israel was scheduled for the first week of November 2023 and was canceled due to the…read moreOctober 2023 attack. We requested a refund but still haven't received the refund more than 3 months later.

When I checked in at the airport, I learned my credit card was charged for the luggage of the other…read moreperson traveling on the tour. When we arrived at NY, we booked our seats. I was told by Noseworthy I could book the seats upon receiving the airline tickets from them but this was not true. In Germany, we were once again told by the person at the ticket counter the only person allowed to book seats before the trip was the tour agent and that could have been done at the time of purchase.. Therefore, we were spread out all over the plane because other passengers had already chosen their seats. The airport was cold and it was also closed because we arrived in the early morning hours. There was de-icing of the plane before we could take off. We were delayed for hours from leaving because they were waiting for security to arrive to escort passengers off the plane we were to board. My suggestion is to book your own flight because we arrived in Israel over 24 hours later and exhausted. Our tour group consisted of 8 buses which is far too many to have the best tour experience. Our tour guide would leave when the bus was partially unloaded and we constantly had to search for him in the huge crowds. He did not hold up the sign for our group which is customary. He also sat on the bus for long periods of times in silence without telling us anything about the country. The President of Noseworthy was approached by others who had concerns only to be brushed off. His only concern was to stay with Perry Stone and the others traveling with him. After paying in full covid hit and we could not go. Two years later after Noseworthy held the money they invoiced us for additional funds.

The emergency animal sheltering classes are chock full of great information! Even if you can't…read morevolunteer in a disaster, the classes will give you a lot of insight to how disasters and disaster response work! I highly recommend them!

What an amazing group! The classes are the best I have ever taken and I love the fact that they are…read morean all volunteer organization! If there is a class near you, please take it! You won't be sorry!!

Had to cancel our Greece trip due to unforseen circumstances. Was able to work things out with the…read morecompany.

Do not, under any circumstance, give money to this travel agency. We forked over nearly $10k for…read moreour dream trip to Greece and Turkey. Based on the brochure, we were told it'll be an overnight trip to get there. This company feels that it's appropriate to book a 5 legged (28 hours travel time) trip to and a 4 legged trip home. When we complained, they said the tickets where already booked and this final. This company does not care about its customers. They just care about their bottom line. The answer we received was there were flight cancellations and that is the reason for the 5 stops. A quick search shows we've could've gotten to Greece with 1 layover. Again, buyer beware! We are now stuck with a miserable experience getting to Greece where we are going to be exhausted when we get there.

No cookies or small snacks allowed, but people can paint and sand cosplay materials in the middle…read moreof the library unrelated to any library hosted event. Good for cosplaying prep I suppose, poor if you need a snack while studying and don't want to leave to do so.

The employees at this library are incredibly friendly and helpful. When we asked Nickie where a…read moresection of books could be found she not only walked back there with us, and helped us find the section, but then looked up a couple of books from that section, and told us what their status was, and when they were expected back, after which she showed us another section we were interested in. And when we went to the counter to have some photos from our phone printed, the lady there thoroughly explained how to use the phone app to get our photos print. Very pleased with the employees at this library.

I'm very sad to rate this business so low. My take on it is a lack of integrity. My mother (who…read moredoesn't do tech) chose to get her own business class flight and apparently for Noseworthy this is a problem. They gave her misinformation about the airport to leave from and the date over the phone and so she booked her flight which then would have kept us in Ammon, Jordan (2 women alone) with no hotel and no way to get back to Tel Aviv. There was no offer to compensate and no admission of wrong doing. Somehow it was left to my mother to prove that it was Noseworthy's fault. Buyer beware...there is no integrity with this company if anything goes wrong, and if you talk to them on the phone, make sure you ask them to send you what was discussed in writing. My mother ended up having to spend $1800 on a new flight. Noseworthy also encouraged her to buy travel insurance and failed to tell her that it only covered ground transportation and wouldn't cover her flight because she was getting her own flight...another $600 wasted. The other thing is that they make you pay for the whole tour up front even though you are getting your own flight and they say that they will pay back the flight portion of the tour after you get home...waiting to see that money. There was another incident with her trying to cancel a hotel room 2 weeks ahead of time and they told her she couldn't do that so that was another $200 down the drain. We all know that there is no problem canceling hotel rooms 2 weeks ahead of time. That is a total of $2600 plus waiting to see if they actually reimburse for the tour flight. To be clear, my mother goes on tours regularly and makes her own flight reservations and has never had a problem. Their lack of willingness to take responsibility is mind boggling. Every person on our tour who made their own reservations had a problem and even some who didn't. I heard over and over again from people that they felt that they were speaking with 18 year olds.