Will Disney Finally FIX This Festival of the Arts Problem in EPCOT?!

Don’t get us wrong — we’re BEYOND excited to see what Festival of the Arts in EPCOT brings to the table this year, but we have to admit there’s one problem we’re really hoping to see fixed.

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Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with the incredible entertainment or art offerings around the park in honor of the festival, but it does have something to do with the food. It’s not the food’s taste or presentation, necessarily. We’re talking about the menu boards.

Now during the day, the menus are perfectly fine! We can read them with no issues and understand everything they’re telling us. However, once that sun goes down, which happens VERY early during the winter, we can’t see a thing.

Refreshment Outpost Menu (2024)

As soon as the sun goes down and we can’t see things as well any more, the menus are near impossible to read. Now, if you want to pull your phone out and use your flashlight to see what’s written there (we’ve been there, trust us), you do what you gotta do, but we really do think there’s an easy way to solve this issue.

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We suggest just putting lights INSIDE the paneling of the menus to make sure they’re bright at night! Whether that be a literal small spotlight shining on it from the ground, putting lights in the sides of the holders to shine on the menu when it gets dark, or building something onto the top of the menu board, lights SOMEWHERE would certainly help everyone out.

2024 EPCOT Festival of the Arts

We want to be sure we know what we’re grabbing and trying so we can tell our readers exactly what to grab when they experience the festival themselves, and that gets much harder when we can’t read the menu. Now, this isn’t much of an issue during the Flower and Garden and Food and Wine Festivals since it doesn’t get dark until much later, but for these fall/winter festivals, we feel like we need headlamps once the sun goes down.

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We can’t wait to experience all this year’s festival has to offer, so be sure to stay tuned to DFB for all the latest news and for live coverage during the opening day!

Learn everything we know about the 2025 Festival of the Arts right here!

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It includes all the must-have information for navigating this colorful festival at Disney World, including:

🍭 Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB's exclusive recommendations!
🖌 The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don't have to go hunting for all the dates!)
🎨 All the details on special events, artist meet-n-greets, festival-exclusive merchandise, and more!