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It’s shaping up to be an exciting year at EPCOT!
Spaceship Earth
If you’re considering an EPCOT trip this year, knowing when to go is half the battle. 2026 is shaping up to be a BIG year for the Disney World park — between festival seasons, ride updates, and more fun events, there are several dates EPCOT pros are gearing up for.
Festival season is about to kick off in EPCOT, and we’ve got some new rules for you!
2024 Food and Wine Festival
The International Food & Wine Festival starts in August, and once it wraps, the Festival of the Holidays kicks off shortly after. In 2026, the Festival of the Arts typically takes place in January and February, with the Flower & Garden Festival coming up in March. So basically, we’re looking at a steady stream of festivals until next summer. Here’s what you need to know before you plan your visit.
Drinking Around the World in Disney World can feel SO right, yet so wrong.
EPCOT’s World Showcase
There are so many things we WISH we knew before our first time Drinking Around the World at EPCOT. What to prioritize and what to avoid when partaking in this EPCOT pastime are the kind of tips that can really elevate your journey when Drinking Around the World. For this tip, we want to warn you about a drinking pitfall that could totally derail your day and make it miserable.
EPCOT is BIG. It’s so big, you’ll be halfway through the World Showcase saying, “How long does this keep on going?”
EPCOT
To help you navigate EPCOT, we compiled our favorite shortcuts, which will help you get from point A to point B much faster.
Few things are as daunting as staring down EPCOT’s World Showcase and deciding where to go.
EPCOT
If you plan to make your way around the 11 pavilions, you’ll find yourself visiting Canada and taking in everything this country’s pavilion has to offer. One of the quieter and less-talked-about pavilions, Canada is still very charming and is packed with things to do. While you can read all about those activities and offerings via our guide and the Disney World website, we’re letting you in on a few tips that could really elevate your visit.
EPCOT can be a tricky park to maneuver.
EPCOT
Yes, part of it is because of those massive walls that are still up (but they’re coming down soon! …hopefully), but we’ve said for years that while the park may open at 9AM or 10AM, that doesn’t always mean that’s the best time to EPCOT. We’ve stood by that advice for YEARS but now things are changing in the parks, which means we need to change too.
Did you know that there are TWO ways to get into EPCOT?
Mickey Head art in EPCOT
There’s the main entrance where the buses, monorails, and parking your cars will bring you, but over at the back of the park, near World Showcase, there’s a second entrance. And if you can enter through this International Gateway, you’ll get into EPCOT a LOT faster.
We’ve learned a LOT about Genie+ since it first launched at Disney World in 2021.
Genie+
We’ve used it countless times and learned the ins and outs, the little secrets, and all the tips that you need to know in order to get your money’s worth out of the system. (Because if we’re going to pay for it, we certainly want to get the value!) So today, we’re sharing our recommendations for the FIRST Genie+ Lightning Lanes that you should book during a visit to EPCOT.
Listen, even the Disney experts still learn new things when we venture into the parks.
EPCOT
From discovering new holy grail snacks that have been there all along to finally witnessing some behind-the-scenes details of the Disney Parks to discovering the methods behind Disney’s madness — it seems like we learn something new every day! Today, we definitely noticed something that we’d never noticed before at Disney World, and it’s in plain sight at EPCOT.
One of our favorite things to do at EPCOT is to eat, and chances are if you’re reading this it’s probably your favorite thing to do as well!
EPCOT
One of the best times to visit this park is during one of their seasonal festivals, when booths pop up around World Showcase offering a variety of interesting small plates featuring cuisines from around the world!
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