Food and Wine Festival. Is it all that?

[gjdjud]

Thank you for the views.

[Moorlandman]

Originally Posted by sha9

It’s great when you have free dining but we would tend to do it instead of lunch. I wouldn’t do it more than one or two days in place of a meal.

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Agree, it’s great with free dining but a rip-off without. I’m talking £25 for 1 snack for 4 people so it soon adds up!

[Yorkie2021]

I’ve found you can easily replace a lunchtime or an evening meal with festival items, but the location of each booth can cause issues if you have fussy eaters or wanted something specific.

A good example is The Morocco pavilion area. Both Belgium and Brazil booths are right next door so you can easily make an excellent meal from a combination of those booths (Brazilian cheese bread being one of THE standout items in the whole festival!) for the price of a QS meal.

Previously, I’ve had Braised beef in beer from Belgium with Brazilian Cheese bread and a Belgian waffle with topping for dessert, all for $14.25 (less than the price of a QS entree and dessert).

But it does not help if someone in your party wants Mexican and another French…

[TINKERBELL44]

When does “food and wine” start? Do the dates change each year? Thanks

[loldis]

Originally Posted by TINKERBELL44

When does “food and wine” start? Do the dates change each year? Thanks

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It's always the same time of year. The exact dates change, although it's also been getting longer every year. Usually it was late August to mid November but this year is running July 15-November 20.

Not sure if it was extended this year just to try and space out the crowds a bit due to the 50th, or if they're just trying to run festivals pretty much year round now to draw in more people since they're good money makers. I suspect the latter.

[Mrs sun]

Originally Posted by Mazascouser

DD and myself love it. DD is now 21 and was looking forward to drinking around the world ( well some of it). We don’t hit every booth but get the F & W booklet on the way in and pick our favourites. We go before 6 pm when it’s not too busy and head out at about 9pm mid week.
It is wise not to do the weekends as there is some antisocial behaviour from the drinkers.

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Same for us too, DS is now 21 and can’t wait to join DH and myself , last time we ended the evening at France sipping Champagne watching the fireworks whilst poor son had to make do with coke🤣🤣🤣

[Mindy_H]

Its a fab way to sample lots of dishes, although some of them can be overpriced for what they are! It does get really busy and I would def avoid weekends!

[BaconAndAvocado]

Originally Posted by Mazascouser

DD and myself love it. DD is now 21 and was looking forward to drinking around the world ( well some of it). We don’t hit every booth but get the F & W booklet on the way in and pick our favourites. We go before 6 pm when it’s not too busy and head out at about 9pm mid week.
It is wise not to do the weekends as there is some antisocial behaviour from the drinkers.

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Do you mean the Friday and Saturday nights?
We’ll be staying at the Beach Club on a Thursday to Tuesday next August and was looking forward to wandering over to the World Showcase for our evening meal.

The idea of there being loads of stage and hens/antisocial behaviour is really putting me off 😕
Is it that bad?

[Yorkie2021]

Originally Posted by loldis

It's always the same time of year. The exact dates change, although it's also been getting longer every year. Usually it was late August to mid November but this year is running July 15-November 20.

Not sure if it was extended this year just to try and space out the crowds a bit due to the 50th, or if they're just trying to run festivals pretty much year round now to draw in more people since they're good money makers. I suspect the latter.

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I think the idea now is barring the brief setup time, to have festivals all year round. Flower and Garden, Festival of the Arts, Food & Wine and Festival of the Holidays.

[loldis]

Originally Posted by Yorkie2021

I think the idea now is barring the brief setup time, to have festivals all year round. Flower and Garden, Festival of the Arts, Food & Wine and Festival of the Holidays.

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That was my thinking. Although I wish they'd introduced a separate summer themed festival instead of just extending F&W for so long. Having half the booths closed for half the festival so you have something new later on isn't a good look IMO.