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Booking for EPCOT Candlelight Processional Dining Packages Is Open NOW

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🎶It’s tiiime🎶 for the Festival of the Holidays! From November 27th to December 30th, EPCOT will turn into a winter wonderland featuring great food, live entertainment, and TONS of cookies.

Candlelight Processional!

Candlelight Processional is one of the most popular entertainment offerings. A celebrity narrator takes the stage with a 51-piece orchestra and choir to tell the Christmas story. Even with three shows a night, there’s almost always a massive line for seats. If you want a guaranteed seat for the Candlelight Processional, now’s your chance. Candlelight Dinner Packages are open for booking!

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CONFIRMED: Candlelight Dinner Packages Actually Got CHEAPER at 2 EPCOT Restaurants

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It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year in EPCOT! The 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays will run from November 27th to December 30th, bringing Christmas cookies, live entertainment, and holiday cheer to the park.

Candlelight Processional

If the Candlelight Processional is on your must-do list, we recommend booking a dinner package for a guaranteed seat, even at popular showings. While the price of most dinner packages went up, two popular restaurants actually decreased in price!

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PRICES And Booking Details Revealed For 2026 EPCOT Candlelight Processional Dining Package

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We love the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays! We love the cookies, the lights, the entertainment- well, gosh, I think we love everything about it. Well, one thing we don’t love is the crowds.

Candlelight Processional!

With the festival only running from November 27th to December 30th, it’s one of the shortest festivals, and that means it can be one of the busiest, especially once you factor in that the holidays are the busiest time at Disney World. While you can’t avoid all crowds, you can avoid some, and one way to bypass the big ones is to book a dining package.

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ALERT! You Can Book 2025 EPCOT Candlelight Processional Dining Packages NOW

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It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year over in EPCOT!

2022 EPCOT Candlelight Processional

Well, any day in EPCOT is a great day in our opinion, but the holidays bring something special to the park — the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays! While this festival is full of great dishes to try from booths all around the world, one of our other favorite parts of the festival is the Candlelight Processional. If you’ve been looking forward to it as much as we have and want to be sure you’ve got the best seat, dining packages are now available to book!

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ALERT! You Can Book 2025 EPCOT Candlelight Processional Dining Packages SOON

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It’s almost time to book one of Disney World’s most popular offerings of the year!

EPCOT Candlelight Processional

The EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays returns on November 28th, and along with it, we’re getting the return of the iconic Candlelight Processional. This show is one of the most popular offerings of the festival, and if you want to get reserved seating for a performance, then you should know that dining packages open soon!

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How $64 Will Make Your Day at the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays EASIER

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The EPCOT Festival of the Holidays is here, and we are celebrating the holidays IN STYLE, by eating all the things.

Rose and Crown Pub and Dining Room

But we’re also spending time enjoying some fun activities and entertainment, including the Candlelight Processional. But here’s the thing — is it worth the extra cost to get the Candlelight Processional dining package, which includes guaranteed seating for the show? Let’s find out!

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50 Fun Disney World Upgrades Under $50!

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If you ask us, trips to Disney World are pretty great — but what if we could make them even better?

Magic Kingdom

You’ve probably heard us talk about how to upgrade your Disney trip (like with a fireworks dessert party!). BUT, many of these upgrades can be costly! A Disney trip is super expensive on its own, but you still might be able to fit a few surprisingly inexpensive upgrades into your budget.

We’ve got a super fun list of 50 Disney World upgrades for under $50 that could add a LOT of EXTRA to your next Disney trip for…not a lot extra. 😉

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NEWS: Two More Candlelight Processional Narrators Announced for the 2019 Epcot International Festival of the Holidays!

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Candlelight Processional

is one of Epcot’s most beloved holiday offerings, with celebrity narrators tapped to share the Christmas story before a chorus of singers. It’s truly spectacular, and today, Disney announced two more confirmed narrators — and they’re perennial favorites!

Epcot’s Candlelight Processional

Neil Patrick Harris (of How I Met Your Mother fame) and Gary Sinise (of Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, and Epcot’s own Mission: Space fame) have been added to the official Candlelight Processional narrator list. [Read more…]

Disney Food News This Week: ALL the News from the Disney Parks and Resorts

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Happy weekend! We’ve been hard at work in the parks scoping out all the latest news for you, which is compiled here! First, a few things to remember…

The 2019 Epcot Food and Wine Festival kicks off August 29 and we’re covering it all! Did you see the menus that are out now? See every single Food and Wine Festival MENU and some FOOD PHOTOS as well — here!

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is now OPEN at Disneyland and will open August 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios! Check out all our Disneyland Galaxy’s Edge coverage to start planning for Disney World (the two lands will be virtually identical!)!

Now — on to the news!

“Grub” Burger in Disney Springs

We have a lot to share with you this week, so let’s jump right in…

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List of Celebrity Narrators for Epcot’s Candlelight Processional Is Now Complete!

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We now have the complete list of Celebrity Narrators for Epcot’s Candlelight Processional!

Candlelight Processional

The Candlelight Processional is performed three times each night at the America Gardens Theater in the American Adventure Pavilion. During the event, the Christmas story is told by a celebrity narrator while a 50-piece orchestra and choir (composed of a Disney cast member choir along with an ever-changing group of guest choirs from around the country) accompany the re-telling. The 2018 Candlelight Processional runs November 22 – December 30. [Read more…]

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