EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays
runs from November 28th to December 30th, 2025

The Festival featured the always-popular Holiday Kitchens and more. The Candlelight Processional is a guest favorite (info below!), and the International Storytellers from around World Showcase are a truly unique experience.

Holiday Kitchens

Starting November 28th, the Festival of the Holidays will bring back Holiday Kitchens.

We had some reappearance of our favorites from previous festivals and some new spots to check out!

American Holiday Table
Bavaria Holiday Kitchen
Chestnuts & Good Cheer Holiday Kitchen
Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow
Favorites of Festivals Past
Holiday Hearth Desserts
Holiday Sweets & Treats
L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen
Las Posadas Holiday Kitchen
Le Marché de Noël Holiday Kitchen
Mele Kalikimaka Holiday Kitchen
Nochebuena Cocina
Shanghai Holiday Kitchen
Shi Wasu Holiday Kitchen
Swirled Showcase
Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina
Tuscany Holiday Kitchen
Yukon Holiday Kitchen

You’ll also find special, seasonal treats around EPCOT at other dining locations and snack kiosks.

Connections Café & Eatery
Refreshment Outpost
Funnel Cake Stand
Refreshment Port
Sunshine Seasons
Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company

Click HERE for Our Best Eats of the Festival

Cookie Stroll

Back in 2018, the Festival of the Holidays started offering a Cookie Stroll. This tasty survey of Holiday Kitchens’ cookies culminates in a celebratory final cookie — and we love it every year it returns!

The 2025 Cookie Stroll includes:

Salted Caramel Spaceship Earth Cookie at Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow
Prototype Cookie at Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow
Ginger-Molasses Cookie at Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow
Holiday Sugar Cookie at Connections Café
Cranberry-Oatmeal Cookie at Holiday Hearth Desserts
Hazelnut Linzer Cookie at Bavaria Holiday Kitchen
Chocolate Cookie featuring SNICKERS bar pieces and salted caramel at American Holiday Table
Mickey-shaped Almond Black and White Cookie at L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen
Rugelach at L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen
Maple Leaf Shortbread Cookie at Yukon Holiday Kitchen
Coffee Mocha Cookie at Mele Kalikimaka Holiday Kitchen
Cinnamon-Spiced Chocolate Crinkle Cookie at Nochebuena Cocina
Peanut Butter Cookie with M&M’s Minis at Sunshine Seasons

The prizes for 2025 included a special recipe and tools to make your own cookies at home!

All you need is water and you can make and decorate your own cookies at home. You also get festive sprinkles and M&M’s!

Click HERE for Our Cookie Stroll Experience

Olaf’s Holiday Tradition Expedition

This family-friendly holiday fun allows guests to purchase a map and stickers from select merchandise locations and travel around World Showcase looking for traditions the famous snowman has lost along the way.

Guests can return their completed maps to Creations Shop or World Traveler for a festive surprise. Maps cost $9.99 plus tax and can be purchased at select Festival merchandise locations, including Creations Shop, Port of Entry, and World Traveler.

Click HERE for Our Scavenger Hunt Experience

Festival of the Holidays Entertainment

Candlelight Processional

This retelling of the Christmas story, as told by a celebrity narrator accompanied by a large and incredibly impressive orchestra (typically a 50-piece orchestra) and a mass choir, will wow audiences starting November 28th!

2025 Candlelight Processional Celebrity Narrators

Showtimes: 5:00 p.m., 6:45 p.m., and 8:15 p.m. ET nightly at America Gardens Theatre

Nov. 28-29 – Constance Wu (NEW)
Nov. 30-Dec. 2 – Jordan Fisher
Dec. 3-4 – Susan Egan (NEW)
Dec. 5-6 – Ashley Eckstein
Dec. 7-8 – Ralph Macchio
Dec. 9-10 – Leslie Uggams (NEW)
Dec. 11-13 – Marlee Matlin
Dec. 14-15 – Henry Winkler (NEW)
Dec. 16-17 – Lauren Daigle (NEW)
Dec. 18-19 – Gary Sinise
Dec. 20-22 – Brendan Fraser
Dec. 23-24 – Luis Fonsi
Dec. 25-26 – Joel David Smallbone (NEW)
Dec. 27-28 – Brie Larson (NEW)
Dec. 29-30 – Sheryl Lee Ralph (NEW)

Standby entrance Dining packages are usually available to pair with your Candlelight Processional experience. These enable you to enjoy a meal at select restaurants in EPCOT and then get reserved seating for one of the Candlelight Processional shows for the day. There are usually dining packages you can reserve in advance, as well as some options available on the day of the event.

Dining packages go on sale beginning October 14, 2025

Choose from a variety of EPCOT dining locations that offer Candlelight Processional Dining Packages. Here’s what’s included with your meal:

At Spice Road Table: 2 small plates, a shared tagine, a shared dessert platter and a nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)
At Other Participating Restaurants: An entrée and dessert, or a full buffet (where applicable)—as well as a nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)

Plus, you’ll get one (1) guaranteed seat per person to one Candlelight Processional performance on the same day.

Participating restaurants include:

Biergarten Restaurant
Chefs de France
Coral Reef Restaurant
Garden Grill Restaurant
La Crêperie de Paris
La Hacienda de San Angel
Le Cellier Steakhouse
Nine Dragons Restaurant
Regal Eagle Smokehouse: Craft Drafts & Barbecue (same-day dining packages only)
Rose & Crown Dining Room
Shiki-Sai: Sushi Izakaya
Spice Road Table
Teppan Edo
Tutto Italia Ristorante
Via Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria

Advance reservations are highly recommended.

Click HERE for More Details on the Candlelight Procession

JOYFUL! A Celebration of the Season

This uplifting performance will be performing at CommuniCore Hall. JOYFUL! brings song traditions from both Christmas and Kwanzaa!

Daily Performance Times:

2:40PM, 3:45PM, 4:50PM, and 6:10PM

World Showcase Entertainment

Enjoy the sights and sounds of the nations of the World Showcase as each country’s holiday heritage comes to life amid joyful music and time-honored traditions. Live musical performances typically happen throughout World Showcase.

Holiday Storytellers in nearly every World Showcase country share tales from their own traditions, including (usually) a presentation in Norway to celebrate the Scandinavian Julenissen!

You can find Storytellers in the following locations:

Las Posadas Celebration (Mexico)
Mischievous Barn Santa and Sigrid (Norway)
Chinese Lion Dancer (China)
La Befana (Italy)
Santa Claus (The Odyssey Pavilion)
Daruma Storyteller (Japan)
Hanukkah Storyteller (Between France and Morocco)
Père Noël (France)
Father Christmas (United Kingdom)
Canadian Holiday Voyageurs (Canada)

Click HERE for Holiday Storytellers Details

Gingerbread Display

We also stopped by CommuniCore to check out the brand-new Spaceship Earth Gingerbread Display! It was gorgeous, and you can see a show every 15 minutes.

You can find a countdown timer on the display to see when the next show is. It is the same show every 15 minutes so once you see it once, it will be the same each time!

Meet Santa

Over in the Odyssey Pavilion, you can meet St. Nick himself!

Holiday Lights at Spaceship Earth

EPCOT always glows-up at night. You can expect a dazzling fireworks display over World Showcase Lagoon and some glimmer and shimmer on the illuminated Spaceship Earth.

If you’re looking for a special way to end your night with a bit of the holiday spirit, though, you’ll want to head to Spaceship Earth!

During the 2025 holiday season, Spaceship Earth added a special holiday section to its Beacon of Magic performance.

Click HERE to See Full Holiday Overlay

Festival of the Holidays Merchandise

You’ll be able to find Festival of the Holidays merch at Creations Shop, World Traveler gift shop, and at several kiosks around EPCOT’s World Showcase.

So, without further ado, let’s take a look at this year’s offerings!

We’ve got a look at all the NEW merchandise available for the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays! There’s a lot to see, so let’s take a look, starting with these new ears inspired by Figment’s holiday sweater! It’s available for $36.99.

But that’s not the only item paying homage to a Christmas sweater! There’s an adorable Figment Holiday Sweater Loungefly Bag for $44.99.

There’s also a Figment Festival of the Holidays Spirit Jersey this year. You can get it for $79.99.

Of course, you can also snag the Figment Holiday Sweater Plush. The kids (and adult Figment fans!) are going to love this one for $24.99.

There’s also a Mickey and friends Festival of the Holidays collection, including this festive mug for $27.99.

For Annual Passholders, this year, there’s an exclusive t-shirt with Figment. This is available for $44.99.

Of course, it’s cozy season, so one of the best items in this year’s merchandise lineup is the Festival of the Holidays plush throw. It’s also similar to the Figment sweater. Get it for $69.99.

It wouldn’t be a new merchandise collection without a series of collectible pins! There are several limited edition and limited release designs for this year’s festival.

We also found a few pins in the store — there’s an EPCOT gingerbread pin, a Stitch Candlelight Processional pin, and a Mickey and Minnie pin.

We’re exploring everything the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays has to offer, so keep checking back here for more.

Click HERE to See More Festival Merchandise

Festival of the Holidays Video

Every year, our AllEars Cast and reporters do everything at the festivals to help you discover your must-dos for your holiday vacation. Come along with us as we explore this year’s Festival of the Holidays!