This is Magical, this is Horrific, and this is Epic! TR 8/27-9/7/25

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My name is Caroline and I love traveling to central Florida to visit WDW and USO! I am a Disney and Universal AP holder. I have made many trips since 2009! I have traveled with family, friends, and most recently solo! I love all my trips!

This will be a trip with my daughter Andi. Andi and I have made many mother and daughter trips over the years! We started doing yearly trips in 2009. Andi was 9 years old when we started. She is now 25 Time sure does fly!

We both love the theme parks and Halloween! This trip will focus on WDW, HHN, USO, and the new theme park Epic!

The first part of the trip is 7 nights at WDW onsite at the YC resort. We also did a HHN event on 8/28 during our Disney portion. I will review that and the Universal/Epic portion of our stay in this report!

For those of you new to my TRs, I love the Dinosaur ride at Disney and so does Andi! I do see the closing date for the ride has been set for 2/2/26, very sad I will miss it!

Keep reading if you want to learn about new to us experiences, 3 different hotel stays, visiting a brand new theme park, and our thoughts on the HHN this year! Plus many rides on Dinosaur and our daily step count, which when added up for the whole vacation is crazy It is no wonder why I have been tired this first week back from our trip!



Let’s get started, shall we?

Our trip started on Wednesday 8/27, our flight was scheduled to leave at 4:20pm. The flight was on time and soon we were in the Minneapolis airport waiting for our flight to Orlando. We had enough time to get some snacks before we boarded the flight. We had comfort plus seats with free drinks We each had a drink and watched a movie. I watched Jaws (a favorite of mine), Andi watched Wicked. The flight was uneventful and we landed at 10:45pm. Picked up our luggage and ordered a Lyft. We were on our way to the YC. I didn’t get the room assignment until we landed. The room number was 4240. I had requested 4151 on TP.

We arrived around midnight, went to the room and unfortunately it was a king bed room, why? It was a nice corner room but nothing I requested. Down to the lobby we went and explained we needed 2 queen beds and that is the type of room I requested. The CM did see my request for 4151 but this was not available. He was able to give us room 4237. It was the opposite side I requested but it was fine. We had a pool and peek a boo view of Crescent Lake.

It was a nice room and we were happy it didn’t take long to get the new room.

Here are room pictures. I didn’t realize YC had a room refurbishment since my last stay in April 2024.




I love the wallpaper!

The balcony view!

New rug in the room now, I wonder if people complained of slipping?

Cute art work

The bed was comfy and the room was clean and quiet! This room was far from the ice machine and elevator which was a little bit of a negative.

It was time to turn in for the night.

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We had a good night We did try to sleep in some. We got up around 9am. My plan was to order Mickey Waffles for breakfast. We did a mobile order and enjoyed our breakfast on our balcony. It was a great start to our trip!


I placed a grocery order with Shipt to be delivered in the afternoon. I ordered the staples we like, breakfast bars, bananas, chips, dip, iced coffee, creamer, blueberry muffins and a 12 pack of beer.

Today we planned on spending some time in Epcot on the first day of F&W. We walked to Epcot, such a nice perk staying at YC.

We started in France at Remy’s ride, we had FP$ so a minimal wait. It was fun to be touring with Andi again, it had been a year!

I was able to make a Frozen FP$ for 1pm, this was perfect since we planned to leave the park by 2pm.

We went into the land and rode LwtL, Soarin, Nemo, Figment and the updated TT in the single rider line. It was okay but nothing much changed. The queue is different and you no longer build a car. We didn’t miss this part.

Seinfeld fans always see Puddy, haha

Fabio haha Silly Dory

We did GotG next with our fancy FP$. Our song was one way or another. We still have not had the song September.

Did I tell you it was hot and for the first time I felt overheated after the ride. My face was really red and I didn’t feel very good. We cooled off in the Connection’s Cafe. I drank several cups of water and started to feel better. The heat is no joke and Disney’s air conditioning is not like it used to be in attractions. Andi told me she read this summer at Disney heat related problems was the highest it has ever been. Universal Studios did not have as many heat related problems and honestly the air conditioning at Universal was way better than Disney. Once I cooled down some, we headed out and the F&W booths were very busy so we did the Mexico QS. We shared the kids empanadas with chips and guacamole. We sat in the restaurant Hacienda. I made sure I drank more water before heading out. The CMs at the QS window were awesome.

We also had to ride a favorite of ours The Gran Fiesta

We rode Frozen before leaving for the day. We didn’t get our Frozen or TT pictures today

It was time to rest before our Premium Scream night.

Our room was nice and cool and we chilled out for a couple hours. We also got our groceries delivered around 3pm.
We worried the pool noise would be loud in the afternoon but not bad at all! It was fun checking out all the people in the pool each afternoon. People soup, haha

The next post will be about the HHN event at Universal Studios. See you soon.

 

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