Food and wine expands to 62 days in 2016.
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...-2016-epcot-international-food-wine-festival/
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...-2016-epcot-international-food-wine-festival/
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Food and Wine dates announced
- Thread starter Rteetz
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danlb_2000
Premium Member
Cool, I have been waiting for this. My wife wants to go for the festival this year so I have been waiting for the dates to be released. Let the planning begin!
asianway
Well-Known Member
Counting holidays around the world?
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
Nope. I always go back and forth on that one. It has a lot of features of the festivals, but it doesn't really get advertised as a festival event like the others do. For making the statistics look bad I love to count it. I don't feel it's 100% correct though.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Bad? The festivals are about the only thing Epcot has going for it! It's becoming downright gorgeous in Future World this week.
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
I agree that the festivals are the only good thing left in Epcot. I call them "bad" because the money and people they bring in have allowed Disney to ignore that park and let it slide into the state it is today.
asianway
Well-Known Member
Needs a dozen food booths to put it over the edge
JasonDeyoung
Well-Known Member
Love me some food & wine festival 
can't wait
can't wait
hopemax
Well-Known Member
Whoops, posted without actually typing.
Holidays Around the World gets its own passport book with stamps that need collecting! Complete with a list of holiday food items. No, they don't drag out all the booths, they just add them to the existing food service locations with signs indicating they are for Holidays Around the World.
BuddyThomas
Well-Known Member
If I win the lottery, I know where I am spending 62 days very soon. Impossible, obviously, but...a dream is a wish your heart makes. Or something.
FigmentForver96
Well-Known Member
So excited! Now if the menus could hurry and come out....
First time we'll have ever been able to go! Has always started after we've left in the past!
Luckily, it is right at the end of our holiday, and we won't be there at the weekend, so we will get normal Epcot for most of the holiday, and it should give us something new to experience without it potentially negatively affecting too much of the holiday.
Luckily, it is right at the end of our holiday, and we won't be there at the weekend, so we will get normal Epcot for most of the holiday, and it should give us something new to experience without it potentially negatively affecting too much of the holiday.
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Next Big Thing
Well-Known Member
So by my math, 169 days out of 366 this year are devoted to either festivals or holiday celebrations at Epcot, coming out to 46% of the year.
Epcot is beyond broken at this point.
Epcot is beyond broken at this point.
Lirael
Well-Known Member
Putting in character driven rides is bad because "that's not what Epcot is about"...but adding more and more festivals that are completly intune with the park is also bad because it "makes higher ups not care about the deterioration". No matter what, when it comes to epcot, disney cant win.
I wish they'd started the F&W even earlier so I could check it out ;_;
I wish they'd started the F&W even earlier so I could check it out ;_;
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
So let's drink!
Rides would be good, but they do not have to be character driven. Events like F&W were much better years ago when it lasted half as long and was 1/3 less crowded and the actual food and wine was half the price it is now. It gets a bad wrap now because the crowds are just insane
My wife and I did F&W for the first time in 2004. It was actually very enjoyable and the prices were not insane. If I recall, a beer was around $4. Now its $7-9. Food samples were $2-3. Now theyre around $5-8. We went to Food and Wine last year and both agreed that we wont plan a trip around it again. We still enjoyed ourselves, but the crowds were crazy and the prices are not worth it, in our opinions of course.
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
I'll clarify. Putting characters in rides poorly, with no thought towards what Epcot was built to be was bad.
Adding more festivals, which at least ties to World Showcase, but letting the rest of the park fall into disrepair is bad. Epcot is now at the point where it cannot even break in financially without having 41-46% of the year filled with additional food and beverage guest spending. Epcot is a park where most guests pay admission to go into a park for the privilege of paying loads extra for food and drink.
So it's not true that Disney can't do right here, it's that for more than 2 decades, they haven't.
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