Food & Wine dates announced!

[slp87]

August 29-November 23!!

 

[scrappinginontario]

Thanks! Wow! Much later this year!! We will completely miss it this year.

 

[sponica]

The dates are more in line with where they were pre-COVID.

 

[rockpiece]

Basically 3 months with Diet Epcot? What are we doing here Disney?

 

[gharter]

Hoping they bring back the food and wine pairing meals. Those were so much fun! Now that they will have the pavilion, hoping they will bring back the wine tastings and seminars.

 

[lovin'fl]

Basically 3 months with Diet Epcot? What are we doing here Disney?

Any chance they are adding a new festival....a summer one?

 

[gharter]

Any chance they are adding a new festival....a summer one?

That would make sense since they have F&W starting later. Not sure what a summer festival would look like except very hot.

 

[han22735]

Test track closed and no festival...It will be interesting to see how crowds are.

 

[msmayor]

Test track closed and no festival...It will be interesting to see how crowds are.

We arrive on Jun 18, the day after Test Track closes...and no festival. If the crowds are lower, I'll take it....

 

[slp87]

Hoping they bring back the food and wine pairing meals. Those were so much fun! Now that they will have the pavilion, hoping they will bring back the wine tastings and seminars.

And Party for the Senses!

 

[HopperFan]

I remember when it started in October. We would book last week of FREE DINING in September that rolled over to beginning so we could use all our snack credits at F&W.

I imagine the longer season and more work didn't equal out to the amount of profits they wanted. We went several times in the summer during F&W and it really was so hot we had no interest in the food. The lines were quite short compared to later in the festival season.

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

Well that makes me a bit sad.
I've gone a number of times Labor Day weekend but then since C when it started so early I chose to switch it up and go a bit earlier.
I'll be there the week of August 18th.
Going to miss putting a meal together with samples. Oh well maybe it will be even less busy without that being a draw.

 

[lovin'fl]

Only problem is the QS places in Epcot will be uber busy. We went a week between festivals recently and had visitors with us (we live local) who wanted to have lunch and all the QS had LONG LONG lines and chaos. We ate funnel cake and waited for our dinner ADR, starving.

 

[ellataylor]

Any chance they are adding a new festival....a summer one?

I would have thought that they would have announced that before Food and Wine though? Sad times we go end of July and was excited for F&W

 

[pschro1]

With this announcement, F&W starts during our vacation. How bad is it actually to go during the opening day? I'm not that concerned about ride times, just more wondering about the crowds in general. I have some time planned in epcot before F&W starts but we were hoping it would have started already and the crowds would have died down. I now only have two days to enjoy F&W before we leave.

 

[Just_another_figment]

Darn. I have an end of July trip and hoped to catch at least a day or two of the festival.

 

[sponica]

With this announcement, F&W starts during our vacation. How bad is it actually to go during the opening day? I'm not that concerned about ride times, just more wondering about the crowds in general. I have some time planned in epcot before F&W starts but we were hoping it would have started already and the crowds would have died down. I now only have two days to enjoy F&W before we leave.

The first day is usually a zoo with all the bloggers. I've been in Epcot for the first day of flower and garden and it's a little hectic.

 

[FeliciaB23]

Does anyone know why they shortened the dates? Now I’m nervous about festival of the arts dates ((I based my trip around past dates of FArts))

 

[SkyGuy]

Only problem is the QS places in Epcot will be uber busy. We went a week between festivals recently and had visitors with us (we live local) who wanted to have lunch and all the QS had LONG LONG lines and chaos. We ate funnel cake and waited for our dinner ADR, starving.

Exactly! We were kind of excited once to be going to Diet Epcot and eat at some of the places we skip for festival food. The lines were crazy since there weren’t 30 festival booths to spread people out. We went out to the BW and ate at Ale and Compass.

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

Anyone think people with a vacation set to start before F&W will change their dates?
Just wondering if maybe Poly will open up for my BB haha.