Information to 2022 EPCOT Worldwide Competition of the Holidays

BAY LAKE, Fla. – Walt Disney World has now welcomed again certainly one of its fashionable occasions, the 2022 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays.

The occasion kicked off Friday morning at EPCOT and runs by Dec. 30.

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The pageant permits friends to find a handful of vacation choices equivalent to seeing dazzling décor, consuming scrumptious meals and drinks, driving sights with vacation twists and dwell leisure, together with the favored Disney custom, the “Candlelight Processional.”

See all of the highlights of this 12 months’s pageant under.

Savory Vacation Kitchens

In the course of the occasion, friends can attempt scrumptious meals and drinks from greater than a dozen Vacation Kitchens round World Showcase Lagoon.

New this 12 months, friends can uncover a brand new Vacation Kitchen, Nochebuena Cocina, which is serving up dishes just like the Inconceivable Chorizo Tamale, a plant-based Cotija cheese and spicy crimson Chile sauce, or Alfajores, a vanilla shortbread cookie with dulce de leche and coconut. Returning guest-favorites embrace the Maple Bûche de Noël, discovered at Vacation Fireside Vacation Kitchen within the Odyssey Pavilion.

Click here for all of the menus and the place to seek out them.

Visitors can discover all of the menus by selecting up a free Competition passport at an out of doors kitchen or on the entrance of the theme park. Top-of-the-line methods to buy dishes throughout the pageant is through the use of a Disney gift card. Vacation Kitchens are open every day from 11 a.m. to park shut, in keeping with Disney.

Additionally returning is the foodie favourite, the Holiday Cookie Stroll.

Visitors who buy 5 spotlighted cookies from any of the official cookie stroll areas featured of their Competition Passport will probably be eligible to obtain a specialty deal with. Visitors should have their passports stamped by a forged member at every Vacation Kitchen earlier than the prize will be redeemed.

Festive leisure

This 12 months’s pageant additionally features a lineup of pleasant vacation favorites together with the return of “JOYFUL! A Celebration of the Season,” and performances round World Showcase together with the Canadian Vacation Voyageurs, Las Posadas with Mariachi Cobre, the Chinese language Lion Dance and vacation storytellers.

“JOYFUL! A Celebration of the Season” runs throughout choose occasions at World Showcase Plaza. Storytellers and bands additionally run throughout select times all through World Showcase.

Throughout choose occasions of the day, households may meet Santa Claus and take images with him within the Odyssey Pavilion.

Amongst all of the dwell leisure, followers will probably be flocking to the pageant to get the prospect to see the famed EPCOT “Candlelight Processional.”

The manufacturing takes place nightly at America Gardens Theatre and options superstar narrators retelling the Christmas story accompanied by the Voices of Liberty a cappella ensemble, a 50-piece dwell orchestra and choirs comprised of Disney forged members and Central Florida neighborhood teams.

This year’s lineup of award-winning actors, singers and TV personalities consists of Josh Gad, Daymond John, Neil Patrick Harris, Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Estefan and Angela Bassett.

It’s extremely advisable to reach early or e-book a Candlelight Processional dining package to ensure a seat.

See the listing of narrators and dates under.

• 11/25 – 11/26: Simu Liu

• 11/27 – 11/29: Chita Rivera

• 11/30 – 12/1: Raul Esparza

• 12/2 – 12/3: Whoopi Goldberg

• 12/4 – 12/6: Isabella Rossellini

• 12/7 – 12/9: Daymond John

• 12/10 – 12/12: Josh Gad

• 12/13 – 12/14: Gloria Estefan

• 12/15 – 12/18: Neil Patrick Harris

• 12/19 – 12/20: Mariska Hargitay

• 12/21 – 12/23: Cal Ripken Jr.

• 12/24 – 12/26: Marie Osmond

• 12/27 – 12/28: Courtney Vance

• 12/29 – 12/30: Angela Bassett

Household enjoyable

Whereas having fun with the dwell leisure and Vacation Kitchens, households may participate in a separate exercise whereas strolling by World Showcase.

In Olaf’s Vacation Custom Expedition Scavenger Hunt, households can buy a map and seek for statuettes of the favored snowman and his vacation traditions all through World Showcase. As soon as a visitor finds all of them, they will deliver a accomplished map to the Creations Store or World Traveler at International Gateway for a particular vacation shock.

Maps will be bought for $9.99 plus tax. Redemption legitimate by Dec. 31, or whereas provides final.

Attraction vacation touches

A few of EPCOT’s sights are additionally getting in on the vacation spirit, together with the newly-opened Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.

As friends twist and switch across the galaxy, they are going to be rocking to the tune of an superior new holiday single. The limited-time tune will probably be taking part in on the all-new attraction by Dec. 30. A reminder, friends could solely expertise “Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind” by using the virtual queue option or by buying an Individual Lightning Lane Selection.

Over at “Dwelling with the Land,” within the Land Pavilion, friends can have fun probably the most bountiful time of the 12 months on a particular voyage by Glimmering Greenhouses. The slow-moving boat experience options vacation touches and yuletide cheer all through.

When the solar units, friends can see a particular “Frozen” impressed vacation present at Spaceship Earth. Disney stated the sunshine show will invoke a number of the sights of winter, together with snowflakes, northern lights and heat candles.

Vacation merchandise

Rounding out the must-see listing this vacation season is a cease to Creations Shop.

Visitors will discover a huge quantity of Vacation merchandise this season, together with holiday-themed Spirit Jerseys, a Mickey Mouse plaid ear headband, Vacation Treats Loungefly Mini Backpack, reversible table runner, Mickey Mouse-shaped wreath, snowflake tree topper and even Mickey Mouse holiday stockings.

Choose gadgets will even be accessible for purchase online.

Click here for extra particulars on this 12 months’s pageant.

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