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Reserve a guaranteed spot on one of our spectacular Mardi Gras parade floats**. Plus, enjoy a 3-course meal from participating Universal Orlando restaurants. It’s the Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Experience †, an unforgettable night of food and bead tossing fun. Separate, same day theme park admission required. Float spots are limited. We have eight participating restaurants for Mardi Gras Float Ride; The Cowfish ® Sushi Burger Bar, NBC Sports Grill & Brew, Finnegan's Bar & Grill, Lombard's Seafood Grille, Confisco Grille (2-Park ticket required), Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food (Dinner only), Bob Marley A Tribute to Freedom TM (Dinner only) and Pat O'Brien's ® (Dinner only) Join us daily from Feb. 1-Mar. 30 for Mardi Gras 2025 at Universal Orlando Resort. Enjoy a parade and live concerts on select nights, beads, incredible food available for purchase and more. This year at Universal Mardi Gras the music’s louder, the celebration’s wilder, the food’s spicier and the party’s bigger than ever. Guests can now reserve a spot for Universal Orlando's popular Float Ride and Dine Experience for 2025's Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval, returning to Universal Studios Florida starting February 1 through March 30, 2025. The Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Experience includes an exclusi Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval, returning to Universal Studios Florida starting February 1 through March 30, 2025! The fan-favorite event offers fun for the entire family and features a nightly spectacular parade with colorful floats, hundreds of street performers and tons of beads; mouth-watering cuisine inspired by New Orleans favorites and international flavors; and – on Universal Orlando has announced that reservations are now open for the returning Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Experience for 2024's Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval, which returns to Universal Studios Florida from February 3 through April 7, 2024. The Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Before enjoying the live concerts, guests can dance along with dozens of energetic street performers and collect beads by the handful as the Mardi Gras parade winds through the streets of Universal Studios. The floats are made by Kern Studios, the same company that has created Mardi Gras floats for the event in New Orleans since 1947. The parade features several new floats along the streets of Universal Studios Florida in a show inspired by New Orleans and global Carnaval celebrations. You can even catch beads while you experience new floats. Check it out! Mardi Gras Parade. After the first float, the five new floats were featured at the beginning of the parade. The Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Experience ticket entitles one guest to one 3-course meal at a participating restaurant, and one Mardi Gras parade float rider reservation at Universal Studios Florida on the same day. Overview of Universal's Mardi Gras Parade. If you didn't know any better, you'd swear you're in New Orleans! Capturing the spirit and electricity of the Big Easy during Carnival season, the Universal Mardi Gras Parade is a family-friendly promenade through the streets of Universal Studios Florida featuring stilt walkers, brass-band musicians and, of course, world-class parade floats. WHAT is the Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Experience: Reserve a guaranteed spot on one of our spectacular Mardi Gras parade floats. Plus, enjoy a 3-course meal from participating Universal Orlando restaurants. It’s the Mardi Gras Float Ride and Dine Experience, an unforgettable night of food and bead tossing fun. Reply Digital Guest Communications February 3, 2025 at 12:53 pm. Hi Heather, while we’re happy to hear that you are excited for Universal Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval, we sincerely apologize for any discrepancies you may have experienced regarding reserving a UOAP Float Riding reservation. Universal Orlando lets the good times roll with Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval, happening now through March 30. Here's your guide. Universal’s Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval runs February 4 through April 16, 2023 at Universal Studios Florida – transforming the theme park into Florida’s biggest party complete with mouthwatering cuisine inspired by Carnaval celebrations from New Orleans to Brazil to Belgium and beyond, a spectacular parade filled with Join us daily from Feb 3 - Mar 30 for Mardi Gras 2025 at Universal Orlando Resort. Enjoy a parade and live concerts on select nights, beads, incredible food available for purchase and more. Straight from New Orleans is the Universal’s Mardi Gras Parade, featuring floats designed by the world-renowned Kern Studios of New Orleans, LA. This ain’t no Disney parade, this one starts with a full police motorcycle escort followed by dozens of dancers, stilt walkers, and decked-out floats full of guests. While there are six floats that return to the parade each season, this small but mighty team turns six additional blank-float skeletons into new works of mobile art that roll through the streets of Universal Studios Florida nightly during Mardi Gras — and they do it every single year! Universal Orlando Resort's Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval will let the good times roll from Feb. 1 through March 30, 2025. Kern Studios (the designer of actual Mardi Gras floats This option will allow you to reserve a guaranteed spot on one of Universal’s spectacular Mardi Gras parade floats and enjoy a 3-course meal from participating Universal Orlando restaurants (Separate, same day theme park admission required. Float spots are limited therefore reservations are highly encouraged.) Universal Studios’ Mardi Gras parade floats glide down the streets of the theme park so easily. But getting that look — complete with glitter, props, special effects and bunches of bead
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