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Hopefully in 2018 my boyfriend and I will be going during the Food and Wine Festival. Both of us have never been during that time and I know we both would really enjoy it. We already have our 2017 plans for Late June into July so 2018 just may be the next planning session for the Food and Wine festival. I loved reading all of your responses on making your Epcot F & W experiences the best.
i first want to echo what everyone else has said: avoid weekends. and fridays are weekends. so are sundays. just don't. i promise, it's awful.
so how i do it is: i show up around 10:30am on a monday, tuesday, wednesday or thursday. i've been to epcot so many times i do not care about future world; but i may still grab a FP for soarin for, say, 10am, if possible. at this point i'd also consider a frozen FP, as that ride is oddly delightful.
i'm at the first booth before 11am, typically the area back near the imagination pavillion. i'll have a few bites slowly, taking my time to explore the actual countries. i'll window shop or take photos or set a goal for myself (one year we did pics in funny hats) so that i'm not just going from food booth to food booth. because that's not possible, stomach-wise (and if you are drinking, which i am, it is definitely NOT advisable to move too quickly from booth to booth! that's for those crazy weekender people.)
i will get about halfway around and give up. this takes me until maybe 2:30.
and then i will come back another day and do the exact same thing, just in the other direction.
i first want to echo what everyone else has said: avoid weekends. and fridays are weekends. so are sundays. just don't. i promise, it's awful.
so how i do it is: i show up around 10:30am on a monday, tuesday, wednesday or thursday. i've been to epcot so many times i do not care about future world; but i may still grab a FP for soarin for, say, 10am, if possible. at this point i'd also consider a frozen FP, as that ride is oddly delightful.
i'm at the first booth before 11am, typically the area back near the imagination pavillion. i'll have a few bites slowly, taking my time to explore the actual countries. i'll window shop or take photos or set a goal for myself (one year we did pics in funny hats) so that i'm not just going from food booth to food booth. because that's not possible, stomach-wise (and if you are drinking, which i am, it is definitely NOT advisable to move too quickly from booth to booth! that's for those crazy weekender people.)
i will get about halfway around and give up. this takes me until maybe 2:30.
and then i will come back another day and do the exact same thing, just in the other direction.
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These are great ideas, by the way! We try to schedule 3 days at EPCOT, usually hitting F&WF mid-day-ish. Also, we tend to avoid F&WF on the weekends, because that's when the locals show up and it's way more crowded. It's also the only time we ever saw people "misbehave" due to a little bit of overindulging in the "W" portion of the F&WF.
This year is our 2nd time for F&WF - learn from our own past mistakes! If you're doing the DDP, or any ADRs for that matter, and you're going to partake in the F&WF kiosks - just don't.
what I mean is that if you snack at all the kiosks (and there are so many that it's hard to resist), by the time 5-6pm rolls around you too will be so full and then you'll feel compelled to eat a big ol' dinner on top. We were so stuffed! This time, we didn't schedule ANY formal dinners or big meals on EPCOT days. Worst case scenario, we just keep munching around the kiosks or hit up a counter service location.
This fall since I will be 21 and last year I was not yet 21 because my birthday isn't until December will be my first test at tackling the Food & Wine Festival while sampling several of the alcoholic beverages. Me being very petite I know I am going to have to take it very slow and limit myself as well as eat along the way. I definitely want to enjoy the experience and I want my boyfriend and whatever friends come along to enjoy it as well. I have been in college for several years and have never been a big one to party so this will be just something to taste what I feel I would enjoy and move on.
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This fall since I will be 21 and last year I was not yet 21 because my birthday isn't until December will be my first test at tackling the Food & Wine Festival while sampling several of the alcoholic beverages. Me being very petite I know I am going to have to take it very slow and limit myself as well as eat along the way. I definitely want to enjoy the experience and I want my boyfriend and whatever friends come along to enjoy it as well. I have been in college for several years and have never been a big one to party so this will be just something to taste what I feel I would enjoy and move on.
That is definitely the way to do it as it slips up on you.!
That is definitely the way to do it as it slips up on you.!
The thing also is that I hear from friends who have experienced it that there are so many different styles of drinks that you can try while going around the world and mixing them together can easily make you sick. It is not like just drinking beer or wine.
I definately try to stay with one type drink. All wine, all mixed etc. Mixing can be disastrous especially if you're not a huge drinker like ourselves.��
I definately try to stay with one type drink. All wine, all mixed etc. Mixing can be disastrous especially if you're not a huge drinker like ourselves.��
That definitely makes sense. I will probably stick to Wine and maybe a sip or two of my boyfriends Beer that he will most certainly get.
Thanks so much. Don't know exactly what days we will go. I attend the University of Central Florida which is about 30 minutes away from WDW so there are many road trips during the semester. The Food & Wine Festival will definitely be a few of them.
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Just try and stay away from Friday nights and Saturday nights. Gets insanely busy!
Yeah, being a local during the time I am in college I am well aware of the local crowd on Friday nights and Saturday nights. This is where the problem sets in for me though because this upcoming year is my Senior Year and I am an Early Childhood Education Major who will be doing placements during the week so the weekend it is for me. I also won't be out drinking on Sunday the day before a placement because that would not be a good idea at all.
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