Walt Disney World's EPCOT to be festival-free for summer 2024

Posted: Tuesday April 23, 2024 10:37am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT will be festival-free this summer as Disney adjusts the timelines of its seasonal offerings for 2024.

2023 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival overview

This year, the EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival will come to a close on May 27, 2024, with the 2024 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival not beginning until August 29.

The event date adjustments mean that EPCOT will be free of festivals for the bulk of the summer from May 28 through August 28, 2024.

Coco Topiary at 2024 EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival

In 2023, the Flower and Garden Festival ended on July 5 and was followed quickly by the Food and Wine Festival, which began on July 27.

Disney may have been thinking that EPCOT in recent years has become over-saturated with festivals and will be hoping that by pulling back on the dates, the festivals will feel more special and connected to each season.

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TrainsOfDisneyJul 22, 2024

Is that going to be next to the AA booth?

monothingieJul 22, 2024

Based on the dreadful crowd levels at EPCOT, I'd say a lot of people already know.

MagicHappens1971Jul 22, 2024

Since sometimes we forget this forum is an echo-chamber, I would say most guests/people I interact with want to know why there isn't a festival going on. Disney has conditioned their guests to hear Epcot and think Festivals.

TiggerishJul 22, 2024

I.spent the weekend cleaning up.my basement flood including getting rid of all my "paperwork" from my 1998-2005 WDW vacations, including parkmaps/timetables, festival.guides, and Birnbaum books...stunning how "brief" the festivals were back in the day. Next box tackled.will.be 2006-2011.

MisterPenguinJul 22, 2024

If you want a Summer festival, here are ideas posted earlier in this thread originally from an Armchair Imagineering contest... https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/epcot-to-be-festival-free-for-summer-2024.983612/post-10907671

Epcot82GuyJul 22, 2024

The new Advent Health insulin booth will be the longest line in the park...

vikescaperJul 21, 2024

Forget the drinking around the world shirts. We need eating ice cream around the world shirts!

TrainsOfDisneyJul 21, 2024

At least have a punch card for the gelato in Italy, ice cream in France, and Snow cones in Japan! And open up that dole whip stand!

ToTBellHopJul 21, 2024

Sell Mickey Premium Bars in CommuniCore Hall and we’re there.

vikescaperJul 21, 2024

That would instantly become my favorite festival!

easyrowrdwJul 21, 2024

I agree. Last year between festivals I overheard people complaining about how many things were closed (in reference to the shuttered booths). That was with only a few weeks between F&G and F&W. This is three months.

BrianJul 21, 2024

I could go for the EPCOT International Air Conditioning & Ice Cream Festival.

TrainsOfDisneyJul 21, 2024

If everyday is a festival then is any day a festival? How much do they use the millennium pavilion during the summer- a festival inside there could be nice for the summer.