The food and wine festival just isn't high priority for us. Well actually it's kind of an afterthought. But we do have occasion to go into world showcase and this is what we observed. Food and Wine was very crowded the first week in October, but more so during the evening hours. The Day hours weren't all that bad but it was so hot and dry dehydration was an issue. That cut down on participation. I'd estimate 5-10 minute lines at the booths during the day. They were walk up at some of the less popular ones. We went on a Thursday for Le Cellier dinner. We could see it was crowded at the booths. We went on Saturday, it was very crowded. We went on Sunday (last year not so crowded but this year very crowded. The lines are not very efficient at the booths. I'd estimate people were waiting 20 minutes and more for a taste and a snack on thursday and 30 in the evening over the weekend. World Showcase itself got rather jambed on both weekend evenigns but was easily navigated during the day. We waited about 30 minutes at Crystal Palace and about 20 minutes for Crush and 20 minutes for the Grotto. Other than that, we barely waited over 10 minutes for anything all week. We used fastpass very aggressively when needed, arrived early, and had a great park rotation. Yeah. I know. We're spoiled. So it really didn't look worth that kind of wait to partake in the festival booths this year for us. Plus it was so dry and hot that first week that hydration was a serious issue. That really put an end to the decision. We couldn't do it in the daytime when it was less crowded, and at night it wasn't worth waiting for. So we did other things instead and had a great time doing them.
Epcot last Saturday- Like this all around the lake. 
We arrive in a couple weeks - middle of the week and hoping it doesn't look quite like this!!! ARG!
