EPCOT Archive
This ultimate guide to the 2018 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival provides tips, recommendations, and our thoughts about the annual Walt Disney World foodie event! This year, Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival will run August 30 until November 12, 2018, ending right before the start of the popular Christmas season. (Last updated August 1, 2018.)
Brazil pavilion in World Showcase at Epcot? Artist Point at Wilderness Lodge becoming a character meal? A reinvention of Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom? V.I.Passholder Nights at Walt Disney World…for free?! We’re back covering these news and rumors from Walt Disney World in this update. We’ll start with Artist Point, the underrated Signature Restaurant at Wilderness Lodge.
Over the course of our Walt Disney World trip, we took Skyliner gondola station construction photos at Hollywood Studios and Epcot that will connect the parks to four different resort hotels. In this post, we’ll offer a lot of my commentary on the gondola’s impact on sightlines and whether we should care, plus a brief
Continuing updates from our Walt Disney World trip, Epcot is our next stop. There are currently several projects under construction: Guardians of the Galaxy and Ratatouille attractions, the Space Restaurant, and Skyliner gondola transportation. Despite this, it doesn’t feel intrusive to the guest experience. This visit to Epcot was our first in a while outside
The 2018 Epcot Food & Wine Festival runs Aug 30 – Nov 12, 2018 at Walt Disney World. We have menus for the booths, along with hundreds of food photos and reviews for each Global Marketplace booth. This is a useful resource for choosing what to order and how to use Disney Dining Plan snack credits (Free Dining
We’re back with another Walt Disney World rumor; this time, an update on the IllumiNations: Windows on the World nighttime spectacular coming to Epcot. We shared vague rumors about this a few months ago, which focused on the possibility of a new show in 2020 with an interim fireworks show prior to then due to
The EPCOT Center of the mid-1980s through mid-1990s is my favorite theme park of all-time. As much as I praise Tokyo DisneySea (and consider it the modern analogue), I would take the EPCOT of my youth any day if I could choose. Part of that is the prospect of revisiting childhood nostalgia. Another part is
Fountain View is a Starbucks coffee shop and bakery in Epcot at Walt Disney World. Near the front entrance to the park just behind Spaceship Earth, it features some typical Disney desserts like cupcakes, along with the standard (lengthy) Starbucks menu with a view of Fountain of Nations (hence the name). Given the ubiquity of Starbucks, you’re
Summer 2018 is the calm before the storm at Walt Disney World in terms of new attractions and entertainment. Sure, there’s Toy Story Land, and new shows coming to Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot. However, nothing on the scale of next year’s opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, or even last year’s debut of
Our Epcot touring plan details our itinerary for a perfect day in the park, with strategy to minimize time waiting in lines as well as enjoying the ambiance–the whole shebang. Avoiding crowds at Walt Disney World is important, but so is soaking up the atmosphere, so we focus on both. Anyway–this 1-day Epcot itinerary covers
Mexico is an Epcot World Showcase pavilion at Walt Disney World featuring the Gran Fiesta Tour boat ride, several restaurants and a tequila bar, and gift shops. In this post, we’ll share tips and info on shopping, dining, and attractions in the Mexico pavilion. We’ll mainly focus on the Mexico pavilion’s shopping and architecture, since
