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Florida Keys...?

My family wants to go to the Florida Keys for winter break so I have a few questions about the Florida Keys... 1. What is the weather there at that time (end of December)? 2. What website(s) are the best to get cheap airline tickets? 3. What are some nice hotels there that arent very expensive? any links to good websites would be awesome. thanks. o yeah...one more question 4. What is the difference in the Florida Keys and Key West? Are they the same places with different names, or are they actually different places? thanks again...please provide links

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1. Wx is good in December - 70-80 , remember there are no beaches of significance in the Keys. Use Yahoo Travel or Travelocity for air & hotel Florida Keys are a chain of road connected islands starting in Key Largo - not far from Miami and going to the furthest island(Key) Key West.
2. key west is the name of the island at the end of the chain the 1st island is key largo, they all have names the weather in dec is around 70 degrees ,prices for hotels and airline tickets is something i dont know,use google to serach out thatpart of your questions
3. i just got back from 8 says in the keys (anniversary trip) we had a great time, went kayaking, biking, snorkeling, swimming. water is great but not great beaches. we stayed on marathon, which is in the middle of the keys. we had so much to do we never even made it down to key west. we rented a house from http://vrbo.com ended up being about $80 a night with full kitchen and right on the water. cant beat that. also, if you have a car while down there, i recommend theatre of the sea for great dolphin shows
4. Kitkat gave good advice. I have been to the keys several times. I prefer the middle keys and usually stay in the Marathon area. There is a nice beach in Marathon on the ocean side about MM50 and also one at Bihia Honda state park, about MM35. MM1 is the beginning (or end) of the highway in Key West. If you don't stay in Key West, by all means go see it. There is a lot to see and do there, including sunset at Mallory Square (a pretty sunset and a lot of unusual people). Also just west of Bihia Honda state park on Big Pine key be sure to see the Key deer; a full grown deer is the size of a fawn. Below is a web site with some info on the keys.