Epcot's Festival of the Holidays 2024 Opening Day! NEW Food, Gingerbread Display, Merch & More!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2025
- Epcot International Festival of the Holidays is unlike any other Holiday offering at Walt Disney World. This Festival utilizes Epcot's theme as a platform to display how different cultures from around the World celebrate the Holidays.
Cultural Storytellers share legends that are associated with their respected Nations around World Showcase. Over 15 different food booths offer up sweet and savory dishes that are enjoyed during the Holiday Season and the America Gardens Theatre hosts a nightly Candlelight Processional where differing celebrities take part in the retelling of the Christmas Story.
New for this year, Communicore Hall has a Spaceship Earth Gingerbread Display. This display lights up just like Epcot's icon and has a food booth to complement it called Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow.
This is one of our favorite Epcot Festivals and we decided to head out on opening day to check out all the new offerings. We go over the new Holiday eats, highlight our favorite storytellers, show the new Gingerbread Display and see how this International Festival of the Holidays compares to past years.
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My mom and I want to go to this festival next year 😍🎁✨
You'll LOVE it!
The cultural Santa's are fitting for Epcot a personal favorite 🎅. Spaceship earth show in the gingerbread &1300 tiles is awesome🍪. the donut looks interesting. Holy that noel log🥰
The Santas are what make this our favorite Festival. That log was the best thing we ate here. Definitely need to go back for that. That Spaceship Earth display was needed for that space and was a great edition 🙂
I like the way Jay gets the names of the foods wrong often & knows it!😂 Sam's always there to correct him...what a great team! Makes it fun to watch.
Jay definitely owns his mistakes haha Thank you :)
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❤ Sam... "you lost me at red beans" lol. Agreed!! I so hope someday we are able to make this festival. Croquettes looked great. Jay...you pronounce food items however you want to! The ham thing in France just looks bad. Sorry. You were very nice. Joffrey's pre-2022 was the best. No long lines... it was a "secret" lol. Going standard drinks worked better for us last trip...that and skyliner to Riviera lol. $10 for a cookie is a hard no! Once again....love the video. thank you for taking us along.
This is our favorite Festival. Hope you can make it here one day 🙂. The ham thing in France did taste better than it looked but not by much 😕. Agree with that Joeffrey's sentiment. It's been going down hill since about 2022. Although they're still great at Disneyland. Riviera coffee trips sound like a dream. So happy you enjoyed the video. Your support really means a lot to us ❤️. Hope you're having the best Holiday Season.
I will be there next week...looking forward to trying some new stuff too
Hope you have a blast and that all your dishes are delicious! 🙂
Also favorite line “you’re gonna have coffee while I edit”😂
He caught me off guard with that one lol
My family and I will be down there next Christmas 2025 and I am so excited for these holiday eats! We did Food and Wine in 2023 and loved trying all of those foods. Now learning that there is a Holiday version, I'm so excited! Especially trying those Reuben Croquettes. Hopefully they will come back for next year.
Ahhh so exciting!! Hope you have the best time ☺️
I'm gonna b there in 2025 for Food n Wine. Early Birthday celebration 🎂. Big 40!!!
Will definitely be getting that mocha cookie and the log as soon as we arrive!
Ahhh when will you be here ??
You are AMAZING! I can't believe how fast you are getting these videos out and uploaded! THANK YOU :)
Thank you so much for noticing! We put a lot of work into the videos on top of our full time jobs. We appreciate your support so much.
I love when Jay turns to you for names, descriptions of food etc.
You always know your stuff, down to a T and I just love how y’all communicate
it’s super cute!
Thank you so much :) We try to be as informative as we can and we talk to each other the same way we do off camera haha
The Mocha Cookie and the Buche De Noelle both looked amazing! Sorry about your coffee Sam! Thank you for another wonderful video!!! 🌲💕🙏
The desserts were on point this festival! Thank you so much for watching Cara, hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend.
Love your Slinky Dog shirt❤️❤️❤️
He reminds me of Frank!!
Love the Festival of the Holidays! The gingerbread Spaceship Earth is cute but they could still do more in that space. The grove of trees or whatever it's called looks a bit underwhelming - it's just trees set up off on the side? I adore all the storytellers, especially La Befana. I'm looking forward to your top ten. Definitely going to try those croquettes.
Communicore Hall continues to be underwhelming. The tree "grove" is so basic, local theme parks do a better job lol The storytellers continue to be the starts of the festival! Hope you have a great time :)
Bûche De Noël is a beautiful traditional cake. Pronounced bouche-day-noel. This one looks great! Yum. Thanks for another great video. And I agree, Epcot Christmas vibe is unbeatable. Happy weekend to all🏈
Happy Weekend to you as well
Nancy you are my idol! You are so knowledgeable on all things food, I wish you could be a guest star on the channel :) The cultural representatives really bring the holidays to life a Epcot!
@@ThemeParkFoodies lol. The only things that I actually pronounce correctly are baked goods. I'm usually the one saying all the words wrong. I hope you guys are having a nice week 💓
Great overview of the festival! When the coffee is bad, it's serious. Happy the mocha coffee was tasty. Gingerbread spaceship Earth is a great new addition ❤
I've had to throw out way too many Joffrey's :( The mocha cookie was fabulous though! The Gingerbread Spaceship Earth is really neat, but Communicore Hall still manages to look pretty dull.
Really appreciate the effort it must have took to get this edited and out so quickly. We are coming to the festival after Christmas and have been excited to see the new food. We will look forward to your top 10 to guide us further.
We appreciate that! We try to get the festival videos out as soon as we can, while still trying to keep the integrity of the video. We hope you enjoy your trip- there are definitely better items than the ones we tried on opening day!
Imagine if that new gingerbread spaceship earth display opened up and Mickey was in it. ?!!! 😂😅 That would be awesome.
It's what Communicore Hall needs to be honest lol
Hi Sam and Jay!
We knew we could count on you 👍🏻
Wishing you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day 🍁🌻🍂
We feel lucky to be counted on 🙂. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving too! We're thankful for you ❤
Epcot at Christmas is just extra special
We agree 🙂. Hope you had the great Thanksgiving too! ❤
woohoo surprise video!
So happy we were able to go! 🙂
I love Sam's nails and sweater!! I'm so excited for the festival, my trip is less than a week away :D thanks for your insight
I’m wishing you safe travels to Disney and have a wonderful vacay
Thank you so much! Hope you have an amazing time at the festival :)
Looking forward to finally getting to go to festival of the holidays in 2 weeks. And seeing NPH for candlelight processional
Hope you have the best time, that's awesome that you're going to see NPH!!!!
Ah nice
Indeed!
Thank you for your video! I'm going on the week of the 8th and interested in what's going on with Festival of Holidays while I'm there. Have you gone to the Candlelight processional and if so did you do the reserved dining plan for seating? 😊😊
Of course! Thank you for watching 🙂. Hope you have the best time. Unfortunately, we haven't done the dining package but we have done the Candlelight Processional. We've done the dining Package for other Festivals though and I'd imagine itd be structured the same way. In our opinion, the package is worth it if you're not dining at the booths. You still have to get there a little early for a decent reserved seat. If you don't have the dining package it's smart to line up an hour in advance or more depending on who the speaker is. Hope that helped somewhat!
I love your banter. Christina just said how much she misses you Guys. I really love the idea of this festival. I love Christmas!!
Thanks guys 🙂, we miss you both too ❤. This Festival truly is one of the best. Hope we can all experience it together one day.
Amazing, this is the world of imagination 💙 ✨️
Thank you! We agree 🙂
Great video! I just hope that the cookies on the stroll are better than last year. Looking forward to your next festival video with some more of the food.
We used to really like the Linzer but I think they changed it this year. I remember really disliking the black and white cookie, and I normally love those.
I have had Joffrey’s twice at Disney and both times I have taken two sips and thrown it away. I am a Dunkin girl but wanted to give it a try while there and will never again! 😂
Joffrey's has a cult following and sometimes I worry people are going to get mad at me for being negative about them, but for me to throw out a coffee- it's BAD! I love coffee.
@ThemeParkFoodies I love coffee too. Starbucks all the way for me. Being from New Orleans my absolute Favorite is CAFE AU LAIT
The mochi looks like you're cutting into a ghost 👻!
It totally does!
Thanks for the video guys! We get there Friday from PA so we were eagerly anticipating your video! Maybe we’ll run into you there, we’ll keep our eyes open lol. We watch lots of Disney TH-cam channels and you have become our go to for food videos.
Thank you for watching and supporting us 🙂. It means a lot to us that you were looking forward to this video and that we could provide it. We should be at Epcot next weekend filming the top 10 so we hope to run into you! There's so many talented creators in this space so we really appreciate reading what you wrote ❤. Hope you have the best time on your trip.
I wait 2 months until the merch goes to the character warehouse! Not paying those Disney prices😄
😆 smart move! We still haven't been. Definitely need to get there soon 🙂
I like when Sam corrects Jay and don't find it mean ... granted I am also usually the one correcting my friends when they mispronounce things lol
Hahaha thank you! I only do it to prevent someone else taking the time to comment and correct it lol
I have tried so hard to love jofferys but the iced drinks always taste like celery to me. Has anyone else had a celery weird cold brew? Just me?
😆 that's hilarious! Not celery but we've had inconsistent experiences. Most recently their lattes tasted watered down to us. Years ago we enjoyed them but recently they haven't been great 😕. I will say, their coffee does have a different flavor than most.
@ I usually go for black so maybe that’s why. Notes of celery. Get it together Joffrey. 😆
The halls still empty 😅
Even with the 8ft Gingerbread display lol That hall is cursed.
$10 for the tiniest gingerbread cookie?!
INSANITY
Oh no....$10.00 for the football piece where the strings fell off. Lol
😆 who approved that price?? Maybe the jokes on us though because the line for that thing was the longest I waited on all day.
That gingerbread tile was horrible..a $10 rip off…I give it a 2 to the number of teeth I chipped…
😬 definitely too expensive! Ours was soft, albeit dry. Hope you still had a fun time 😕.
Sam I love your sweater/jersey. Where did you get it? Great vlog as always folks.
I got it on the ShopDisney website, but it was years ago :( Thank you so much for watching!