2009 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival

I’m getting really excited! We are heading to Disney World in just 8 days. We’ll be there the first week of the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival. We absolutely love the Food and Wine Fest. We focus on slowing down enjoying the beautiful scenery at EPCOT, and sampling all the wonderful foods and wines. We don’t worry about getting on every ride, we will ride a couple of the big ones at EPCOT, but we’ll spend most of our time strolling around the World Showcase Lagoon enjoying the day.

The Food and Wine Festival opens this Friday, 25 September and runs through 8 November. This will be our first time going so early in the festival’s run. We usually go in November around Veterans Day weekend. We’ll be arriving at Disney World on Sunday afternoon and won’t be going to the Festival till Monday. I imagine the opening weekend will be very busy but hope it will have slowed down by Monday.

We’ll be using our Disney Military Salute park tickets. Five days free for me and $124 for my wife. these tickets would normally run over $267 each so we’ll be saving more than $410!!! We’re just going to use three days this trip and will still have 2 days remaining to use before 23 December when the offer ends. We’ll probably go back late November or early December to see all the Christmas decorations in the parks and resorts.

We’re also taking advantage of the Military Salute Disney Hotel discount. I called my friend Amy at Ears of Experience and she took care of all the resort hotel research. She provided me several quotes on the different levels of hotels that Disney World offers. Amy found a fantastic price on a Disney moderate resort for us of only $301.74 for three nights. That’s a great deal it would regularly be over $490 for this time of year. Another great thing about Ears of Experience is that the price Amy quoted me is the same I’d pay straight to Disney if I did all the work myself. But I didn’t have too! Because Ears of Experience is a Fee Free Travel Agency, owned and operated by a military family, and they specialize in Disney vacations. If you’d like to try using Ears of Experience please let Amy know you heard about them here. Their toll-free number is 1-877-80MOUSE or check out their website