Looking Forward to Mardi Gras 2026 at Universal Orlando Resort
Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning
Dan and Leslie Lowry
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re looking forward to one of the best times of the year over at Universal Orlando Resort – Mardi Gras! Running from February 7 – April 4, 2026, this event brings amazing food, concerts, an incredible parade (yes, there are LOTS of beads to be caught) and more! We absolutely can’t wait to get back to Universal Studios Florida to celebrate this year. What’s your favorite thing about Universal’s Mardi Gras celebration?
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are talking about the other park across town. |
| 0:02.9 | Hello and welcome to a tick to the mouse. |
| 0:04.2 | Today is Wednesday, January 21st. |
| 0:05.8 | You're listening to episode number 765, and this is all about Universal Mardi Gras. |
| 0:11.0 | Music Hey everybody, Dana Leslie here. Thanks for joining us today. Now I can sing the song, right? Feet, don't fail me now. Feet, don't fail me now. |
| 0:33.3 | I mean, why torture our listeners? |
| 0:36.4 | Oh, rude. |
| 0:39.5 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:40.0 | All right. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, I am so excited for Mardi Gras coming up. |
| 0:48.1 | It's one of my, it's my second favorite thing over at Universal Orlando because my first favorite thing, I think if you don't already know, is Halloween Horanites. |
| 0:51.2 | I mean, obvi. |
| 0:52.9 | So, but I will say I just, I love how they lean into |
| 0:57.9 | Mardi Gras and it's just a really fun environment and very family friendly during the course of, |
| 1:04.2 | you know, the spring months. So we're going to get all into that, but we do have a couple of things |
| 1:08.0 | before we get there. Would you say you like Mardi Gras better than Christmas over there? Ooh. Well, the problem is that we just get so busy during Christmas and it's such a short period of time that I think I've probably experienced Marty Gras now and I think it's just fun. So I don't know. That's really hard. All right. See, now you're stumping me. I know. Well, I mean, |
| 1:30.7 | do you like it? Do you like it more than Christmas? Um, I like them probably both equally. Um, that's cheating. |
| 1:37.1 | I, well, this is you how you do you. I will do me over here. I, I like a a thing so they both have an amazing parade so that's |
| 1:46.6 | pretty much equal um I like the food booths obviously at marty gras um I like the grinch stuff on |
| 1:52.5 | christmas so I don't know I think pretty much kind of equal they do have some really cool |
| 1:57.5 | um uh performances but those aren't every day with Marty girls. |
| 2:01.1 | We'll talk about that. We'll get there. All right. Okay. So, uh, first I have a review and then I |
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