UPDATE: EPCOT Will Stay Open LATER During Its Next Festival!

While the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays doesn’t kick off until the end of November, we spotted something exciting about this year’s festival!

EPCOT Festival of the Holidays

The 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is well underway with some delicious food and drinks. We are still enjoying everything the festival has to offer (including our favorite dishes of the festival), but we also can’t help but plan for EPCOT’s next festival.

The 2024 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays will run from November 29th through December 30th. And it looks like we will again be getting some EXTRA time to enjoy the festivities.

EPCOT Festival of the Holidays

The EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays is a festival that celebrates holiday traditions from around the world. During the festival, you can enjoy Holiday Kitchens, a Holiday Cookie Stroll, the popular Candlelight Processional, and lots of festive entertainment.

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Based on the park hours on Disney World’s website and the My Disney Experience app, we will have 30 more minutes to celebrate the Festival of the Holidays each day. EPCOT is currently closing at 9PM, but beginning on November 29th, EPCOT will be open until 9:30PM. Currently, we can only see hours through December 2nd, so it is possible they could change after that.

2023 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays

However, we are thinking that we will likely see EPCOT staying open until 9:30PM throughout the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays. We have also seen this shift in park hours during previous years of Festival of the Holidays. There is so much to experience at the Festival of the Holidays, so an extra 30 minutes could help your group fit in that “one more thing.”

Festival of the Holidays Passport

If you want to learn even more about the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, we got you covered! We have a page with everything you need to know about the festival, and we also have an entire video dedicated to the food at EPCOT’s Festival of the Holidays:

Plus, we have a COMPLETE guide to the Holidays at Disney World, including lots of information about EPCOT’s Festival of the Holidays. This guide includes all the must-have information for the holiday season. We include ALL our tips and tricks to have the best holiday season from our years and years of experience. We want to make sure you have the best holiday season, and we have put it all into our guide!

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Check out our reviews of ALL the booths at the 2023 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays!

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