how do you tour the world showcase at Epcot?

[hooked4life]

We always have gone for 10 nights 11 days, I like to visit Epcot twice when we visit Disneyworld. 1 day future world with a early start hitting and FP the headliners. Visiting innovations making sure I set foot in ever building that's open. On the world showcase day we will sleep in and start at 11am going right or left exploring every pavilion stopping for a cocktail and or a snack. I love the shows, reflections of China, O Canada, lunch (TS) doing everything I can. Love taking pictures of all the neat things that are there.
Do you make a full day out of world showcase, or just your favorites then out ?

 

[bcrook]

We always have gone for 10 nights 11 days, I like to visit Epcot twice when we visit Disneyworld. 1 day future world with a early start hitting and FP the headliners. Visiting innovations making sure I set foot in ever building that's open. On the world showcase day we will sleep in and start at 11am going right or left exploring every pavilion stopping for a cocktail and or a snack. I love the shows, reflections of China, O Canada, lunch (TS) doing everything I can. Love taking pictures of all the neat things that are there.
Do you make a full day out of world showcase, or just your favorites then out ?

I usually enter through the International Gateway and head right to France and find food and drink. We run back and forth to "future" world.

We end up in Epcot on most nights, and we visit all the pavilions fairly equally with China, U.S. and Canada getting the least love. Morocco, Mexico, Germany, UK, and Italy getting the most.

After about a dozen fairly lengthy visits, I have not eaten at all the restaurants yet. Restaurant Marrakesh is my favorite "go to" place simply because it is friendly, cool, and easy to get a table.

 

[Alesia]

We had 2 full days for Epcot on our last trip - one for future world and one for the world showcase. We were rushing by the end of our world showcase day. This time we'll allow for one more day.

 

[AliceandAriel]

We always have gone for 10 nights 11 days, I like to visit Epcot twice when we visit Disneyworld. 1 day future world with a early start hitting and FP the headliners. Visiting innovations making sure I set foot in ever building that's open. On the world showcase day we will sleep in and start at 11am going right or left exploring every pavilion stopping for a cocktail and or a snack. I love the shows, reflections of China, O Canada, lunch (TS) doing everything I can. Love taking pictures of all the neat things that are there.
Do you make a full day out of world showcase, or just your favorites then out ?

We almost visit every day, and its a bit of a habit to start at the left and work our way around in a full circle. Favorite stops are France, Japan, Germany, Mexico, and now United Kingdom.

 

[1000HappyWishes]

I spend at least a day in Future World and a day in World Showcase. So, I always have two Epcot days. I can't do both in one day.

 

[Son of Gadsden]

We normally get there around 10 and do everything around future world we want to do. We may or may not get to do TT, depending on crowds and whether we want to use a FP or not. DW loves to shop. All and all, normally we shop, walk to TT, then head to Spaceship Earth if there is no line. We don't normally do the Figment ride, EO or any of that stuff. We do the aquarium, but for some reason we mostly do that at night.

Anyway, then we head to the World Showcase. We count on spending the rest of the day there. We normally start with Mexico so we can get margaritas. Last time, however, because of a deal I made with the wife to end a dispute, I promised I'd get a wheelchair for the world showcase. So this time, we started with Canada so we could get to the wheelchair rental place in the showcase. Needless to say, I prefer starting with Mexico. Margarita > wheelchair.

 

[kbelle8995]

If I am by myself, I usually head for the Mexico pavillion as soon as WS is open. Ride the boat ride, go around and hit all the rides and movies I like (China, France) and then I slowly peruse all the gift shops on my way around

If I am not alone. I go straight to Japan and hit the shop there, then we go to Morocco for Lunch. And beg to hit the Caramel shop in Germany which they (my family) are fine with.

 

[heybravo626]

We usually do 10-14 day trips. We will hit EPCOT maybe 4-5 days over that time. We will do one day that is only Future World. The rest of the days we will do a mix of FW and WS. We never do a full day of WS only but explore all countries over the whole trip. We usually eat dinner in WS around 2 times a trip (favorites are Tutto, Via Napoli, Chefs de France). If we are staying at BW or BC, our EPCOT touring is increased and we spend more evenings in WS. Our WS traditions are breakfast with Princesses in Norway, caramel in Germany, Norway bakery, 3 country wine flight tour, and the 2 boat rides. We rotate on the shows and movies (we go 2-3 times a year so it works out to around once a year). If we enter from FW, we almost always go Mexico first unless we are eating the other way. If we are coming in through International Gateway, we usually go the direction of France first.

 

[csmith041177]

We usually spend a day and a half. One full day experiencing FW and WS, then another half day just walking around WS.

 

[minnie mum]

Our trips are anywhere from 8-11 days. We will usually spend 2-3 full days at Epcot. But we never split our days with only FW or only WS. We spend the first morning at the FW attractions to the right of Spaceship Earth and then proceed into WS starting with the Canadian pavilion. The next Epcot day would see us spending the morning doing the other side of FW and then going into WS starting with Mexico. If we go for a 3rd day we will hit up our favourites in FW in the morning. Our route into WS will depend on where we want to have lunch that day. It might bypass both Canada and Mexico- sometimes we take the boat across the lagoon.

 

[AThrillingChase]

I try to eat in EP as much as possible! I almost always park hop. So we will either do another park in the morning and hop over to EP, or we will arrive at EP early and do the few things in FW we like and then head over to WS for the rest of the night!

 

[mjallemand]

10 Nights, 11, Days What on earth do you do for a living?

 

[tsme]

I like to send my DH & DD off to ride whatever they want so I can cruise through each country & just enjoy myself. We also all go back at night. It's beautiful at night.

 

[PSUGuy]

How do we tour Epcot? With drink in hand

Seriously, we hit Epcot nearly every day we're in WDW. We hit another park at ropedrop, tour until lines get to be longer than we'll take then we hop to Epcot. Before FP+ we'd have to hit Epcot at least once at ropedrop to get in Soarin' and TT, now we just schedule them for the afternoon and it works out fine. we usually have 8 park days but Oct '14 we'll do 9.

Bill From PA

 

[Hopefully]

We do 7 nights, 8 days, stay at our BCV and have Park Hoppers. Of the 7 nights, 4 or usually 5 we eat in a restaurant in WS. We visit Epcot almost every day. We usually have 2 full EC days, plus our arrival day. On the other days we do another park at Rope Drop or thereabouts and tour until we are "done". We then either head back to the BCV to relax and rest before heading into WS for dinner, or hop directly to EC in the late afternoon/early evening.
We mix up FW and WS on our full Epcot days, starting in FW at the attractions we enjoy and then drifting to WS as it opens.
Epcot is our favorite park and we never tire of it. As DVC members we are in the world at least yearly, often more. So we don't do anything commando anymore.

 

[Minnesota!]

We are typically there 10 - 12 days. Epcot gets at least 5 nods from us. It's our fave park. We just wander around and do whatever suits our mood

 

[summerskye]

Beer by Beer .... I mean country by country sometimes I add in a little popcorn to wash down the beer. or is it the other way around???

 

[heidibilotti]

We love epcot. To keep it interesting the kids usually do snack chocolate or hats around the world. We talk lots of cute photos to scrapbook later. Always do at least lunch or dinner at CIA Napoli

 

[redhotariel]

I usually do 2 days in MK and 1 day each for the other 3 parks. This time I will be limited to just 1 day for the MK, and a split day between EPCOT and animal kingdom . But when it comes to the world showcase I usually start in England, and move quickly to Canada. I do those when they are just opening as neither of them really interest me, then I head over to Future world for a few hours and come back mid-afternoon starting back in Mexico (my favorite- tell me you don't just love the Gran Fiesta Tour!!) and keep making the loop, making sure to stop for extended periods in Norway, France and Japan! I will eventually stop in each country but that's usually how I like to tackle them!

 

[disnut8]

How do we tour Epcot? With drink in hand

Seriously, we hit Epcot nearly every day we're in WDW. We hit another park at ropedrop, tour until lines get to be longer than we'll take then we hop to Epcot. Before FP+ we'd have to hit Epcot at least once at ropedrop to get in Soarin' and TT, now we just schedule them for the afternoon and it works out fine. we usually have 8 park days but Oct '14 we'll do 9.

Bill From PA

This is us. We end every day with at least one walk around World Showcase. We don't visit every county's shops but we might decide to do one country or another. We might do a show or a movie. We might do an attraction or two in Future World.

The thing for us is very simple. Epcot is relaxing. We can go there (two adults) and not do one single "attraction", not stop in one single shop but still have a good time. For us, just walking and enjoying each other and families at Disney World is enough. We've seen a small child walking around (and new experience from his parents' reactions), we've seen couples of all ages and lifestyles being together. We've seen rude behavior (in our minds) and exceptional behavior (in our minds). What we have seen in all of our trips is what Epcot, in my mind, is there for. Acceptance.