Disney World Resort Day – Making the Most of Your Vacation
Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning
Dan and Leslie Lowry
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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On today’s Disney Podcast, we are talking about everything you can do on your Disney World Vacation on non-theme park days. From free resort activities to incredible options for dining and entertainment, this is everything you need to know if you’re looking for ways to maximize your next trip to Disney World outside of the parks. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Having just returned from Universal Orlando Resort where we did a staycation for a couple of nights, |
| 0:05.1 | we are excited to talk about how to make the most of a resort day at Disney World. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to a Dick to the Mouse. |
| 0:10.5 | Today is Sunday, April 20th. |
| 0:11.7 | We're listening to episode number 686, and this is making the most of your vacation with a Disney Resort Day. |
| 0:34.8 | Hey everybody, Dana and Leslie here. |
| 0:36.1 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:37.4 | Happy Easter. Happy Easter. |
| 0:38.6 | Happy Easter. To everyone out there who celebrates Easter. It was a lovely waking up over at Helios and to the views of Epic Universe on Easter morning. And just we've had, we had a really, really lovely family weekend. Staycation, so nice. It was great. We did a lot of |
| 0:57.1 | the things we're going to suggest doing at a Disney resort day, but it was really, really fun to |
| 1:02.8 | go to a brand new hotel, especially one attached to a theme park. We stayed in a celestial suite, |
| 1:09.7 | which is basically a one-bedroom suite, and it looked |
| 1:14.2 | out onto Epic Universe. We had two massive windows, just perfect view on the sixth floor of Helios |
| 1:20.4 | Grand Resort, looking out on Epic Universe, and we've seen it in the daytime, we've been in there |
| 1:24.7 | in the daytime, but we had never seen it at night, and just watching all the things, like the fountain shows with all the lights at night and just everything to include after they kicked everyone out of the park and the maintenance crews came out with their pressure washers and leaf blowers and all of the things. |
| 1:41.9 | Like it's so interesting to watch that from the room, |
| 1:45.4 | from Barheelios on the top floor, from the ground floor right off the lobby. It was just a |
| 1:50.2 | really, really fun time. It was really good. And I giggled while you were talking about it because, |
| 1:54.1 | I mean, I could only imagine what we looked like from the park if people were like looking up |
| 1:59.1 | at the hotel and like all the four of us are plastered |
| 2:01.9 | against the windows like staring out at the park. It was a really cool view. So by the way, |
| 2:09.1 | that is the video for today on our YouTube channels. If you go to YouTube and look up addicted |
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