Universal October 2025

We headed to Orlando to visit Universal Studios and Disney World. We had three days at Universal Studios, one day each in Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios Orlando and the final day in the new EPIC Universe.

We stayed at the new Stella Nova Hotel which was nice, and only a short walk to EPIC Universe.

The big rollercoaster trend continued with the boys hitting up Velocicoaster and the Hulk. Walking around Harry Potter World was magical.

EPIC Universe was great - Donkey Kong/Mario land was brilliant, we had lunch at the restaurant here, where we ordered the Luigi burger, a pizza pie in the shape of a mushroom - super cute. The two rides here were a lot of fun.

Many of the rides went down regularly throughout the day which was disappointing, and we didn’t make it onto the Harry Potter ride as the queue was approx 3 hours+ all day. We were able to look inside at the themeing of the Ministry of Magic which was fun.

Theme park - EPIC Universe