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The Epcot International Festival of Arts is a must-do at Walt Disney World! Admission to the Epcot Art Festival is included in your ticket to Epcot; the food, drink, and artwork are not included, but worth it!
Sometimes, people ask us- “why you love Disney so much? Isn’t it just for kids?” You don’t need children to enjoy the wonders of Walt Disney World- especially with festivals, food, and drinks like this. Adulting at Disney is our favorite kind of adulting- and one of our favorite times to go is during the Epcot International Festival of Arts! It’s one of our top favorites of the Epcot festivals!
The Epcot International Festival of Arts was from Jan. 14 through Feb. 21, 2022 – similar dates each year– and the Festival features visual, culinary, and performing arts from across the globe. 100% eye candy everywhere you look!
Have you ever heard of people drinking (and eating) around the world at Disney? That’s at the World Showcase! Epcot’s World Showcase has eleven permanent countries centered around a beautiful lagoon. During festivals such as the Festival of Arts, they add dozens of food and drink stands throughout the showcase.
What are the eleven countries represented in Epcot?
Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, United States, Japan, Morocco, France, United Kingdom, and Canada are the permanent countries represented in Epcot at Walt Disney World.
How does the Epcot Art Festival work?
Upon entering Epcot for any Festival, you want to grab a “passport” and look through the menus. Once you know the items you’d like to try, start walking! The Epcot loop is about 1.2 miles, and we usually walk around it at least twice to see all the options and work off some of the calories. We always start in Mexico – yes, we are those people! (Unless we come in the back entrance, it’s France!)
All around the World Showcase, you can immerse yourself in fantastic art- visual arts with galleries and artists from all over the world, culinary arts with delicious items almost too pretty to eat and drink, performing arts where you can watch the artists create the art right in front of your eyes- meet, chat, and have your art signed by the artists, shop for keepsakes you won’t find anywhere else, and take super fun photo ops around the festival that aren’t there any other time of the year! And again… look at that food and drink. Yum!
Hot Tip: Go into the Port of Entry gift shops or the official Festival gift shops, buy a wristband gift card, and load it up with funds. Most items are $5-15 at the stands, and it’s super easy to order and scan your wristband gift card instead of pulling out cash or swiping a credit card dozens of times – plus, you can set a budget much easier!
Each stand will also have a menu to show you the items and pricing with ingredients. Plus, there are some photos of the food and drinks. Next, you stand in line to place your order, get your receipt, then hand it to a lovely cast member, and they give you the food when it’s ready. Your next step is to find a table (or a trash can- IYKYK) and enjoy it! Don’t forget to snap a photo, as the food and drink are usually worthy of an image. Then, at the night’s end, it helps you remember what you tried. Plus, you can mark it off on your passport!
Flashback to our first visit in January 2020 before the world shuts down. We didn’t even know this festival existed until we saw it with good luck, and now we are hooked. It’s one of the Epcot Festivals we plan to attend every year that we can. Just look at this artwork. WOW.
Most of the stands are smaller portions or very shareable. Two or more people can sample dozens of different culinary creations. Flashback to 2021 & 2020 menu 😋
This was the best thing that happened to us right before quarantine and lockdown 2020. We went again in 2021 as things were just starting to open again, and we worried it would never be the same, but thankfully, 2021 – 2022 was better than ever, and we can’t wait for next year! Another plus side to this Epcot festival versus the others is that the weather in Florida in Jan and Feb is MUCH cooler!!! So worth it!
p.s. All of the custom Minnie Ears and Disney shirts you see in our photos were either purchased on Amazon, Etsy, Hot Topic, Target, or at the official Disney stores! Find our affiliate links on our SHOP!
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