Candlelight Processional ticketed? DVC discount?

[DeeCee735]

I've never been to WDW in December. This year will be a first. I have some questions, as I know nothing about the Candlelight Processional, but I see that it is going on for the dates we'll be there.

Is it a separate ticketed event? If so, how much and is there a DVC discount offered?

Is it something that has to be reserved?

Do we have to be staying on property?

Thank you!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

You can purchase a CP dining package and you will be given tickets to one of the CP performances which allow you in before any other guests who haven't bought the dining. There is no discount on the CP package and you do need to reserve it.

But you don't have to go that route. You could also try the standby line which is allowed in after the CP dining package guests. However you aren't guaranteed entry.

You do not need to be staying on site but you do have to have park admission to Epcot.

 

[vicki_c]

Anyone can buy a dinner package that includes tickets with reserved seating for the CP. If you don't book the reserved seating package, you may or may not be able to get a seat for the show, depending on the narrator and when you are going. You can always hear it and kind of watch it from outside the theatre (it's in the America Gardens theatre @ Epcot).

There are no discounts on the price and you cannot use the Tables in Wonderland card either (if you even have one).

It is similar to the Fantasmic dining packages.

Here are some articles on it:
http://www.wdwinfo.com/holidays/candlelight_processional.htm

http://allears.net/tp/h_cpfaq.htm

 

[DebbieB]

You can use the dining plan for the package but it's 2 credits per person.

 

[Chuck S]

You may book a Candlelight Dinner Package, which includes dinner and a guaranteed seat at one of the processional performances. Or, you may simply take your chances and wait in line for the open seating, after they've seated the reserved dinner package people. It is not a separate ticketed event, and there is no DVC discount on the dinner package. The dinner package people generally get better/closer seats, and the open seating is more in the back portion of the American Gardens Theater.

On the occasions that we wanted to see the processional, we did the dinner package...it was pricey, but better (for us) to know we had a seat at a particular performance. Many people do wait in line for the open seating, and they may have to wait through more than one performance to get a seat.

As you face the theater and the World Showcase Lagoon, the dinner package seating line is to the left side of the theater, open seating line is on the right side of the theater. If it is a popular guest speaker, the lines can be lengthy.

 

[MomofStitchandLewis]

The Candlelight Processional is at Epcot and anyone can view it as long as they are in the park and get there early enough to wait in line to get a seat. You do not have to be staying on property - you just have to have purchased your admission to Epcot.

OR you can purchase a dinner package which gives you reserved seats at the Processional. (You'd still have to have purchased your admission to Epcot though.)

I have done the dinner package twice - once at Norway & once in Germany & both times I would asy it was completely worth it! I do not know if there is a DVC discount for sure but I don't think so. Definitely worth asking!