EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

Event Overview

EPCOT's holiday festival blends its long-running Holidays Around the World traditions with modern seasonal entertainment, decorating World Showcase pavilions to reflect how different cultures and countries celebrate the season and adding holiday-themed food kiosks throughout the park.

Its centerpiece is the Candlelight Processional, a nightly retelling of the Christmas story featuring a celebrity narrator, a mass choir, and a full orchestra at America Gardens Theatre — a Disney holiday tradition dating back decades.

Highlights

• Candlelight Processional with rotating celebrity narrators, mass choir, and orchestra (multiple nightly shows)
• Holiday Storytellers stationed throughout World Showcase sharing country-specific traditions
• JOYFUL! A Celebration of the Season entertainment
• Holiday overlay of the Living with the Land attraction
• Holiday Kitchens offering festive food and drink, including a Holiday Cookie Stroll
• Olaf's Holiday Scavenger Hunt

Planning Tips

• Candlelight Processional dining packages guarantee a reserved seat — this is the single most in-demand ticketed extra of the festival and books up early.
• Without a dining package, arrive at America Gardens Theatre 45–60+ minutes before showtime for standby seating.
• The full narrator lineup and Holiday Kitchens menu are typically announced only 1–2 months out — check closer to your travel dates.
• Visit World Showcase in the evening when holiday lighting and pavilion decor are most striking.