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We love the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays! We love the cookies, the lights, the entertainment- well, gosh, I think we love everything about it. Well, one thing we don’t love is the crowds.

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Candlelight Processional!

With the festival only running from November 27th to December 30th, it’s one of the shortest festivals, and that means it can be one of the busiest, especially once you factor in that the holidays are the busiest time at Disney World. While you can’t avoid all crowds, you can avoid some, and one way to bypass the big ones is to book a dining package.

Click for EXCLUSIVE Festival of the Holidays Map and Menus

Candlelight Processional is one of the most popular parts of the festival, where a celebrity narrator takes the stage with a 51-piece orchestra and choir to tell the story of Christmas. While there are three shows a night, it feels like there’s always a massive line to get seats.

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It’s a beautiful show!

If you grab a Candlelight Processional Dining Package, you get guaranteed seating plus an included meal. Now, that doesn’t sound bad! You even get seating in the front half of the theater, so you’ll be even closer to your favorite narrators.

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Josh Gad narrating the 2024 Candlelight Processional

These dining packages can go fast, so be ready to grab them. They open on October 14th. You’ll get one guaranteed seat per person on the same-day Candlelight Processional show plus:

  • At Most Restaurants: An entrée and dessert, or a full buffet (if applicable)—plus a nonalcoholic drink (or an alcoholic drink for Guests ages 21+)
  • At Spice Road Table: 2 small plates, a shared tagine, a shared dessert platter, and a nonalcoholic drink (or an alcoholic drink for Guests ages 21+)
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Candlelight Processional

Disney recently released the prices, too. You can grab the dining package for Adults (ages 10+) and Children (ages 3 to 9). The prices are:

FULL GUIDE TO CANDLELIGHT PROCESSIONAL DINING PACKAGES

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2025 Candlelight Processional sign

These require advance reservations, but you can also try to get a Same-Day Dining Package at Regal Eagle Smokehouse. It costs $43 for adults and $26 for children, and these sell out fast. Make sure you’re lined up and ready to go. Depending on the day, same-day packages might not be available, so if someone can’t live without it, you’ll want to grab a sit-down dining package.

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Regal Eagle

The narrators have been announced for 2026, and these might be the best narrators yet!

  • Nov. 27 & 28 – Auli‘i Cravalho
  • Nov. 29 – Dec. 1 – Gary Sinise
  • Dec. 2 & 3 – To Be Announced
  • Dec. 4 & 5 – Whoopi Goldberg
  • Dec. 6 & 7 – Robin Roberts (NEW)
  • Dec. 8 & 9 – Jason Kelce (NEW)
  • Dec. 10 – 12 – Neil Patrick Harris
  • Dec. 13 & 14 – To Be Announced
  • Dec. 15 & 16 – Lauren Daigle
  • Dec. 17 – 19 – Ralph Macchio
  • Dec. 20 & 21 – Henry Winkler
  • Dec. 22 & 23 – Lacey Chabert (NEW)
  • Dec. 24 & 25 – Jodi Benson
  • Dec. 26 & 27 – Simu Liu
  • Dec. 28 – 30 – Eva Longoria
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Candlelight Processional

We can’t wait for the EPCOT Festival of Holidays to start and to catch all the fun entertainment and meals. In the meantime, make sure you keep following Disney Food Blog for more news.

FULL LIST OF EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE AND DO AT THE 2026 EPCOT FESTIVAL OF THE HOLIDAYS

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