I just got done a 2-day vacation in Orlando, where I stayed at Stella Nova Resort, and got to do a full day at Epic Universe, and then the following day, spent the morning and afternoon at SeaWorld Orlando, and then the night at Fun Spot America.

**Epic Universe Ride Count**:  
•Hiccup's Wing Gliders × 1  
•Stardust Racers x 9  
•Monster's Unchained x 2  
•Curse of the Werewolf x 1  
• Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge × 1  
•Yoshi's Adventure x 1  
•Dragon Racers Rally × 1  
•Harry Potter: Battle at the Ministry x 1

**Restaurants I ate at**:  
•Café L'air De La Sirène  
•Toadstool Cafe

Mine-Cart Madness was closed for the day, so didn't get to do that one yet. Stardust Racers is a phenomenal coaster, I love the first half's airtime and first launch (two gears?!), the rest of the ride is great too. Hiccup's is a good family coaster, Curse of the Werewolf is decent. Monster's Unchained was phenomenal, even without fully understanding the story: the set pieces and animatronics are on another level!

Battle at the Ministry...now I have to preface this by saying I'm not a huge Harry Potter person. The queue was very neat and definitely had a lot of effort put into it. But that ride experience did not live up to what I was expecting unfortunately. The queue length is devastating for this one.

Mario Kart was fun, but it's a bit messy with the VR goggles, doesn't always sync nicely and you have to push the glasses up. Yoshi’s Adventure was cute and gave some great views of Super Nintendo World.

The food was good, but honestly, it's just a notch above other theme park food. It wasn't super luxurious like I saw a lot of comments say, maybe l just didn't try the right spots. But, don't get me wrong, the food was good!

Overall I think Epic Universe is great, there isn't much shade and the areas don't really "gel" together, it really is like a bunch of portals from the center area (which I felt didn't have a cohesive theme even tho it was "Celestial Park").  
It's a great park. I think I prefer loA still, but it's too early for me to be sure.

Thanks for reading! 🫡 

My trip report to Universal’s [Epic Universe]!