You Have to See It to Believe It! The Shocking CROWDS at the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival

Visiting EPCOT before November 23rd? Get ready — it’s Food & Wine Festival season!

Naturally, people flock to the park to try food from over 30 booths and enjoy the exclusive entertainment. This year’s festival is shorter than the past few years, so people have been anticipating high crowd levels in 2024. Is that really true? Well, we found out on the first day of the festival!

We entered the park right when it opened and crowds weren’t too bad first thing in the morning. However, there WAS a line for merchandise at Creations Shop.

However, as we got back into the World Showcase, we noticed a distinct lack of people!

The food booths don’t open until 11AM, so we likely won’t see many people until lunchtime. For now, you can stroll through the countries without a care!

What a relaxing way to start our festival day!

However, around 1PM, things really started to pick up with the crowds. The WORST spot we encountered was Brew-Wing at the Odyssey Pavilion. This booth had a line out the door!

And finding a table inside the main area of the building was a definite challenge.

Other indoor booth spaces were pretty crowded as well. Macatizers at CommuniCore Hall had a rather full queue, and many of the tables inside that building were full as well.

In the afternoon, it started to get a bit cloudy, but we were still spotting heavy crowds in the World Showcase. Look at Mexico!

NOTE: Stay tuned to this article as we update it throughout the day with more crowd info.

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