UPDATED on September 11, 2025

The dates for the 2025 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival is NOW RUNNING from August 22nd through November 22nd!

For novices to the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival, readers that haven’t ventured into EPCOT, or anyone just needing a refresher, we’re providing some starter tidbits. This info will get you to EPCOT, in the gate, and on your way to global eats!

Directions to EPCOT

On-site guests
On-site guests can utilize their own transportation (rental car or your vehicle driven from home) or Walt Disney World transportation. It’s possible to get to EPCOT via monorail, Disney Skyliner, boat, and bus.

If you are staying at BoardWalk Inn, Beach Club, Yacht Club, or the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels, you’ll also be within walking distance to the International Gateway entrance into EPCOT.

The Disney Skyliner is a gondola system which connects EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios with four Disney Resorts: Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort (which is also home to the Skyliner hub), Disney’s Rivera Resort, and Disney’s Pop Century and Art of Animation Resorts. 

Which method you arrive EPCOT will depend on where you are staying on property. Ask a Cast Member at your hotel for assistance.

Off-site guests
If you are not staying at a hotel on Walt Disney World property, then you will need to arrange your own transportation to EPCOT in Walt Disney World. If you are driving, you’ll find directions here. Take I-4 Exit 67 for EPCOT and follow signs for EPCOT.

Parking

Parking is available at a lot near the World Celebration entrance to EPCOT. Follow signs to EPCOT once you are on Walt Disney World property. Currently, standard parking is $30 per day. Guests staying at a Disney World Resort Hotel and Annual Passholders enjoy complimentary parking.

Parking Trams are offered for your convenience at all the WDW theme park parking lots to transport guests from their parking spot directly to the park entrance. Once you are parked, note your parking lot section and aisle. Many guests like to take a picture so they don’t forget! Or utilize the Car Locator tool in the My Disney Experience app. Then, walk directly to the nearest tram pick up area for your ride to the front gate.

Opening Hours

The Marketplace Festival food booths typically open at 11AM along with World Showcase.

Admission

The EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival has complimentary offerings that are included with your EPCOT admission. These include Eat to the Beat Concerts, exhibits, and meet and greets with celebrity chefs. There may also be extra-cost events to further enhance your experience. These are found under our low-cost and special events pages. In addition, you can purchase food items from the Global Marketplace Food Booths.

Your EPCOT admission cost will depend on whether you are purchasing a one day ticket or a multi-day pass to Walt Disney World. For 2025, prices for adult start at $119 and $169. However, ticket prices vary by date AND park. Dates that are expected to be more in demand will generally be priced higher, while dates during Disney’s “slower” seasons will be less expensive. Prices do not include tax. Click HERE for our complete guide to Walt Disney World Theme Park Tickets.

What’s Included?

With your EPCOT admission fee, you’ll receive access to all shows, attractions, and rides at EPCOT. In addition, you can visit select complimentary EPCOT Food and Wine Festival offerings including the Eat to the Beat Concert Series.

And a dedicated Festival area opened on June 10th, 2024 in Disney World’s EPCOT to serve as the new “home base” for EPCOT’s seasonal Festivals and live events! CommuniCore Hall and CommuniCore Plaza is housed in EPCOT’s World Celebration. 

CommuniCore Plaza provides an outdoor space where guests can come to relax and experience all that the Festivals have to offer. CommuniCore Hall is housed within the plaza, and is the first fully-purpose built structure in Festival programming! Designed with flexibility in mind, this hall is able to host a wide variety of experiences with food, art, live music, and more. We will keep you posted on how this new space may be incorporated into the 2025 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival!

The Global Marketplace Food Booths serve enhanced menu items throughout the Festival, and all Festival items are available for an extra price (or, where designated, for a Disney Dining Plan snack credit).

Festival Location

The festival is held throughout EPCOT.

The majority of the Global Marketplace Booths surround the World Showcase Lagoon. However, additional booths expand into World Celebration, World Nature, and World Discovery (these neighborhoods make up the area previously known as Future World). Your festival map will provide additional details. 

Additionally, the America Gardens Theatre in The American Adventure Pavilion plays host to the Eat to the Beat Concert Series.

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