Food and Wine Crowds

[JiminyandTink]

Has anyone ever gone to the opening night of the Food and Wine Festival?

Is it super crowded?

Do they do anything special the first night?

 

[deanaandrich]

Food and wine festival is always crowded. Crowds get worse every year for it. So do the drunks.

 

[luv]

Ditto the above. Especially at night...and even more especially on weekend nights...F&W is crowded.

It does seem to get more crowded each year. And the drunks are a big turn-off for me. I don't like them, but I'm an adult and have witnessed young, drunk people before.

It pains me to say this - it really does - but I wouldn't take kids to it. It might be fine, but you never know what you're going to see and hear from the drunkards at F&W. unless you're fine with kids seeing and hearing whatever the drunks can throw out, which is a valid and not to be criticized parenting choice!!!

But if you wouldn't walk your kids through a bar area in a college town, don't take them to F&W in the evenings.

 

[worldtraveler]

I was there last year on the last weekend, wine and dine half marathon weekend. It was extremely crowded. My mom was walking next to me and kept saying, I can't believe there are still kids here. That was about 6-7 pm on a Friday night. It was not very wdw like, very nightclubish. Almost a turnoff to me who doesn't want to be around that atmosphere at Disney. If that type of event was here in stl, that would be completely different.

 

[jaklgreen]

It is usually only bad when the locals come on the weekends. I go for a week every Oct. just for the F&WF so I spend most of my time there. During the day on weekdays is a good time to go. I imagine opening week is crazy busy.