2025 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays Dates, Shows, and More

Begin making your checklist (and checking it twice) to plan for which leisure, eats, and experiences beneath you need to get pleasure from this vacation season.  

As typical, the pageant kicks off the day after Thanksgiving, so you possibly can commerce the turkey for Christmas bushes, vacation treats, and cheerful traditions! Mark your calendar to attend Pageant of the Holidays from November 28-December 30, 2025.  

Planning forward is the easiest way to start out your trip! Walt Disney World theme park tickets and lodging reservations are already accessible to ebook through the vacation season. Lots of our resort resorts embrace the spirit of the season with traditional vacation lights, music, and decor, all with magical Disney aptitude, so that you can absorb throughout your go to.  

There’s loads of thrilling leisure to get pleasure from throughout Pageant of the Holidays – jam with JOYFUL!, study vacation traditions round World Showcase, and expertise the magic of the Candlelight Processional.  

Every night through the pageant, the America Gardens Theatre will come alive with the stirring Candlelight Processional, a retelling of the nativity story that includes vacation hymns. This beloved efficiency boasts a big reside orchestra, herald trumpets, and vocal ensembles together with the Voices of Liberty, Disney Solid Choir, and local people teams, who carry out Christmas carols and conventional tunes for all to get pleasure from. 

A spotlight of the Candlelight Processional are the movie star narrators who convey the story of Christmas to life onstage, with earlier visitors of honor together with Josh Gad, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jodi Benson. This yr’s line-up shall be introduced at a later date, so you’ll want to preserve checking the Disney Parks Weblog for updates. 

Performances are held nightly at 5 p.m., 6:45 p.m., and eight:15 p.m., with a runtime of roughly 50 minutes. Seating is first-come, first-served and infrequently fills up quick, so we propose planning forward if you wish to expertise this beautiful present. Eating packages with reserved seating are one other nice choice for visitors – extra particulars shall be accessible quickly.

When you’re exploring the World Showcase pavilions all through the day, you possibly can cease to see performances from Vacation Storytellers as they share festive traditions and produce vacation tales to life of their respective nations. EPCOT is the proper place to study how completely different cultures rejoice this particular season. 

Every nation will highlight distinctive tales and performers, together with: 

Performances occur regularly, however showtimes might be confirmed every day within the My Disney Expertise app.  

JOYFUL! A Celebration of the Season is a live performance sequence that celebrates the spirit of Christmas and Kwanzaa. Vacation hits are carried out by Central Florida group D’Vine Voices in an upbeat mixture of music kinds together with gospel, jazz, and R&B. Test the My Disney Expertise app for showtimes. 

The mix of traditional songs and up to date preparations with powerhouse vocalists will certainly ignite heat vacation reminiscences for each visitor.  

The vacations should not full and not using a seasonal collection of snacks and sips, and naturally EPCOT is thought for its distinctive culinary choices. 

Meals and drinks are a staple ingredient of EPCOT festivals, and this yr’s Vacation Kitchens shall be serving up a tremendous assortment of bites and drinks. These standalone cubicles will spotlight heartwarming vacation recipes and festive flavors from world wide – we are able to’t wait to attempt all of them. 

The ultimate checklist of distributors remains to be being cooked up in our kitchens, however we’re thrilled to share that there shall be a mix of latest choices and returning favorites. For loyal followers of our Foodie Guides, you possibly can sit up for a full Pageant of the Holidays-focused information coming at a later date.  

One other can’t-miss exercise for foodies is the Vacation Cookie Stroll, returning this yr. All of us have magical reminiscences of being within the kitchen studying how one can bake and embellish the tastiest treats, and at Pageant of the Holidays you possibly can take a chunk of cookies made in our Walt Disney World kitchens. 

The entire checklist of things for this cheerful cookie crawl remains to be within the works, however we are able to inform you at present that the stroll will once more function the Espresso-Mocha Cookie topped with Espresso-infused Buttercream, Cocoa Nibs, and Chocolate-covered Espresso Beans.  

Whenever you buy any 5 cookies from the official areas and acquire the corresponding stamps in  your Pageant Passport, you possibly can redeem a particular shock at Vacation Sweets and Treats. This journey is the proper technique to fulfill your candy tooth through the vacation season.

Get wrapped up within the array of seasonal actions to get pleasure from all through EPCOT, and don’t miss out on an iconic attraction with a festive twist.  

Santa is at all times touring world wide, and the identical is true at World Showcase. Friends can see Père Noël (Father Christmas) seem within the France Pavilion the place he tells the story of Babette and her Christmas letter, and Barn Santa shall be as much as his previous tips within the Norway Pavilion. 

Olaf’s Vacation Custom Expedition Scavenger Hunt returns this yr, which sends visitors on a jolly journey to find Olaf in 13 completely different spots all through EPCOT.  

Friends should purchase a map and stickers, accessible at choose pageant merchandise areas. Your quest is to search out vacation traditions that Olaf has found in each pavilion. After getting all of them, you possibly can go to Creations Store or World Traveler at Worldwide Gateway to redeem a present that’s value melting for.

Throughout Pageant of the Holidays, the traditional attraction Residing with the Land transforms right into a glittering greenhouse tour, that includes glowing Christmas lights and dazzling decor, certain to fill visitors of all ages with childlike surprise and awe.   

The peaceable boat journey nonetheless chronicles the unimaginable work of Walt Disney World plant scientists and their revolutionary rising methods and applied sciences, with a little bit of frosty aptitude. A vacation-themed narration may also be heard to information you in your cruise.

The Disney Parks Weblog is the reward that retains on giving – examine again for extra particulars concerning the vacation season at Walt Disney World and past as we unwrap them!