Walt Disney World has introduced 2025 Candlelight Processional Eating Packages throughout EPCOT’s Competition of the Holidays, providing a meal and peace of thoughts through assured seating at this extremely common Christmas occasion. Right here’s a full listing of taking part eating places, pricing, whether or not these dinner plans are value it, in addition to solutions to frequent questions. (Up to date September 18, 2025.)
Let’s begin with the fundamentals. Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World is the telling of the Christmas story by a celeb narrator with music sung by a mass choir and carried out by a 50-piece stay orchestra. It’s one element of the EPCOT Worldwide Competition of the Holidays, which additionally consists of the World Showcase Storytellers and Vacation Kitchen meals cubicles.
Candlelight Processional performances are held within the America Gardens Theatre in World Showcase thrice per night time from November 28 via December 30, 2025. There’s a cause it’s some of the high-demand occasions of the Christmas season: Candlelight Processional is a gorgeous present that many friends discover to be a shifting and religious expertise. Calling this some of the common occasions at Walt Disney World isn’t any exaggeration, both–some superstar narrators draw multi-hour standby traces, which is exactly why the Candlelight Processional Eating Packages are so common…
Right here’s the total listing of taking part eating places for the 2025 Candlelight Processional Eating Packages:
- Biergarten Restaurant – Germany Pavilion
- Cooks de France – France Pavilion
- La Crêperie de Paris – France Pavilion
- Coral Reef Restaurant – The Dwelling Seas
- Backyard Grill Restaurant – The Land Pavilion
- La Hacienda de San Angel – Mexico Pavilion
- Le Cellier Steakhouse – Canada Pavilion
- 9 Dragons Restaurant – China Pavilion
- Regal Eagle Smokehouse: Craft Drafts & Barbecue (same-day solely) – American Journey
- Rose & Crown Eating Room – United Kingdom Pavilion
- Spice Street Desk – Morocco Pavilion
- Shiki-Sai: Sushi Izakaya – Japan Pavilion
- Teppan Edo – Japan Pavilion
- Tutto Italia Ristorante – Italy Pavilion
- Through Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria – Italy Pavilion
Select from a wide range of EPCOT eateries that provide Candlelight Processional Eating Packages. Right here’s what’s included together with your meal:
- At Spice Street Desk: 2 small plates, a shared tagine, a shared dessert platter and a nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Visitors 21 and older)
- At Different Taking part Eating places: An entrée and dessert, or a full buffet (the place relevant)—in addition to a nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Visitors 21 and older)
Plus, you’ll get one (1) assured seat per particular person to 1 Candlelight Processional efficiency on the identical day.
What are costs for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
Listed here are taking part eating places and eating bundle costs, which exclude tax and gratuity:
| Taking part Eating places | Grownup (ages 10+) | Little one (ages 3-9) | Eating Plan |
| Biergarten Restaurant Germany Pavilion |
$70 | $38 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Cooks de France France Pavilion |
$86 | $35 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Coral Reef Restaurant The Dwelling Seas |
$78 | $32 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Backyard Grill Restaurant (Breakfast) The Land Pavilion |
$71 | $43 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Backyard Grill Restaurant (Lunch/Dinner) The Land Pavilion |
$84 | $52 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| La Crêperie de Paris France Pavilion |
$57 | $30 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| La Hacienda de San Angel Mexico Pavilion |
$86 | $37 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Le Cellier Steakhouse Canada Pavilion |
$104 | $42 | 2 Desk-Service Meal |
| 9 Dragons Restaurant China Pavilion |
$68 | $28 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Regal Eagle Smokehouse (Similar-Day Eating Packages Solely) American Journey Pavilion |
$41 | $24 | 1 Fast-Service Meal |
| Rose & Crown Eating Room United Kingdom Pavilion |
$66 | $29 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Shiki-Sai: Sushi Izakaya Japan Pavilion |
$99 | $50 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Spice Street Desk Morocco Pavilion |
$60 | $24 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Teppan Edo Japan Pavilion |
$110 | $60 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Tutto Italia Ristorante Italy Pavilion |
$77 | $29 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
| Through Napoli Italy Pavilion |
$65 | $28 | 1 Desk-Service Meal |
What date do Advance Eating Reservations open for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
Candlelight Processional Eating Packages will be booked on-line beginning October 14, 2025. Advance Eating Reservations (ADRs) are extremely really helpful and will be made as much as 60 days previous to your go to. Which means that on October 14, ADRs can be found for Candlelight Processional up till December 13, 2025.
Though Walt Disney World has not acknowledged as a lot, this needs to be topic to the 60+10 rule for on-site friends, which signifies that on ADR drop day, on-site friends with will have the ability to e-book for the subsequent 10 days of Candlelight Processional and off-site friends gained’t.
Candlelight Processional Eating Packages will proceed to be launched on a rolling foundation every day after October 14th. Understand that that is nonetheless topic to the 60+10 rule for on-site friends, so if you happen to’re staying off-site, you very properly would possibly get shut out even on the 60 day mark for these later dates throughout the peak weeks of Christmas and New Yr’s Eve.
Everybody will have the ability to e-book 60 days upfront on October 14th, although. Which means that everybody is competing for Black Friday via mid-December , with no on-site benefit. (It’s additionally potential that Walt Disney World will open the floodgates and everybody will have the ability to e-book via the top of the occasion from the soar, and there gained’t be any on-site benefit, interval.)
What time do ADRs open for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
Right here’s the official ‘get together line’ from Walt Disney World on ADR timing: “At roughly 6:00 AM every day, new reservation reserving home windows turn out to be obtainable for choose Walt Disney World eating places.”
Beforehand, it was a bit extra difficult: reservations repeatedly went stay at 5:45 a.m. (or, extra precisely, between then and 6 a.m.). Moreover, there was this: “All newly launched eating occasions—resembling particular eating experiences and dessert events—can usually be booked starting at 7:00 AM on the day their gives turn out to be obtainable.” This line has been faraway from the Walt Disney World web site.
Why am I sharing this now (supposedly) outdated info? As a result of I give all of those occasions side-eye. At the least, in relation to newly-introduced occasions, just like the 2025 Candlelight Processional Eating Packages. The true rule for these needs to be: “they occur once they occur.” Anybody who participated within the chaos of Beak & Barrel ADR drop day(s) needs to be all too conscious of this!
Whereas it’s potential that the 2025 Candlelight Processional ADR availability will go stay at 7:00:00 a.m. on the dot, you would possibly miss out if you happen to wait till then. If scoring an ADR is of paramount significance to you–particularly in case you have a bigger get together, need a common restaurant or superstar narrator–you’ll wish to be on-line by 5:45 a.m. for brand spanking new releases–and generally even that’s too late.
Different occasions, it’s far too early and ADRs aren’t loaded till 8:14 a.m. or some random time. Level being: ADR launch days are very hit and miss! I do know it is a irritating non-answer, however don’t shoot the messenger. I’ve been doing this for years, and have skilled many of those frustrations firsthand. About 75% of the time, issues go flawlessly; however the 25% of the time that they don’t stands proud in your reminiscence way more.
Are there modifications to the 2025 Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
It doesn’t seem so, however main modifications did happen final 12 months that also is perhaps new-to-you.
Beginning final 12 months, Candlelight Processional Eating Packages now embody an entrée and dessert, in addition to a nonalcoholic beverage or alcoholic beverage for friends ages 21 and older. Previous to that, they included an appetizer, entrée and dessert, in addition to a nonalcoholic beverage. (Emphasis added.)
Some adults is perhaps completely effective with this, because the packages beforehand provided “an excessive amount of meals” and a few friends would like to get pleasure from an alcoholic drink. Nonetheless, we’ve seen this “trick” prior to now with the Disney Eating Plan, and it’s a intelligent transfer on Walt Disney World’s half as a result of alcohol is decrease price and friends between the ages of 10 and 20 pay the grownup worth however can’t order booze. To not point out all of those that merely select to abstain from alcohol.
What about worth will increase?
For essentially the most half, Disney didn’t actually enhance costs with the 2025 Candlelight Processional Eating Packages. A number of eating places are completely unchanged, a pair decreased by a number of {dollars}, and some went up by a number of {dollars}. Share-wise, we’re speaking at across the fee of inflation, so nothing notable given the circumstances.
The lone exception to that is Cooks de France, which jumped from $66 to $86. I needed to triple-check this whereas doing this replace, questioning whether or not the brand new quantity (or my quantity final 12 months) was inaccurate. There’s no signal that’s the case. Nonetheless, Cooks de France was arguably underpriced final 12 months relative to its counterparts.
One other wrinkle I discover fascinating is that Le Cellier has now been handed by Teppan Edo and some different eating places are in placing distance on worth. That is amusing as a result of it’s a two-credit Signature Restaurant, however one which hasn’t elevated in dollar-cost shortly. So there’s this awkward scenario the place third get together eating places that solely require 1 credit score on the Disney Eating Plan are passing or coming near it on price.
Is the Disney Eating Plan accepted?
Sure, as mirrored within the above chart. The Disney Eating Plan (DDP) might be used for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages, because it was handled as a “Eating Occasion” or expertise.
One change for final 12 months’s Candlelight Processional Eating Packages was that every restaurant is its regular quantity of credit on the Disney Eating Plan. That is not like prior to now, when all eating places required 2 desk service credit on the DDP.
That is enormous and makes the Candlelight Processional Eating Packages a implausible use of DDP desk service credit (besides at Le Cellier, clearly).
What’s the cancellation coverage?
Walt Disney World’s official coverage: Eating places providing Advance Eating Reservations don’t permit modifications inside 2 hours of the reservation time, and most cost a $10 per-person charge to cancel inside 2 hours of the reservation time, or if you happen to don’t present up in your reservation. Every restaurant’s insurance policies are offered if you make your reservation. In the event you’ve already booked, the insurance policies will be present in your affirmation electronic mail.
We might emphasize that final line–test your electronic mail to substantiate it’s the 2-hour rule. It was final 12 months, however another eating packages require cancellation at the least a day upfront (which actually means midnight the day earlier than, not a full 24 hours).
Is there a standby line for Candlelight Processional?
Sure. Visitors who haven’t reserved a Candlelight Processional Eating Bundle will likely be seated on the Candlelight Processional on a first-come, first-served foundation. Seating relies on availability attributable to restricted capability. Visitors within the standby line will not be assured seats. Beneath is a photograph of the road final 12 months backed as much as Morocco for Brendan Fraser’s final exhibiting.
Are Candlelight Processional Eating Packages value it?
We hate to say it, however sure. And we normally don’t suggest the eating packages for the EPCOT concert events, so we’re not precisely making an attempt to present you FOMO. Candlelight Processional is the lone exception, which is completely value doing the eating bundle.
America Gardens Theater the place Candlelight Processional is held can seat over 1,000 friends per efficiency, however over half of those seats are reserved for friends who buy dinner packages. All of those dinner bundle friends are assured seats in one of many three nightly Candlelight Processional performances.
The upper the share allotted to eating packages, the extra “aggressive” the standby line for Candlelight Processional performances–and this 12 months there are practically double the variety of eating places as final 12 months. We’ve seen the standby line get ridiculously lengthy. Again in 2019–when there have been 16 eating places doing eating packages–we heard reviews of individuals within the standby line being shut out fully, even those that had waited an hour.
In the event you’re a vacationer or visiting on trip, it’s best to get a lunch or dinner bundle for the Candlelight Processional, particularly when a well-liked narrator is presenting. One time when Neil Patrick Harris narrated, we noticed individuals lining up for the 5 p.m. efficiency of Candlelight Processional round midday!
Your time on trip is unquestionably definitely worth the worth. The 90 minutes to three hours of ready in line that we’ve saved by buying the eating bundle has been properly value it–to us at the least. Consider it this fashion: the surcharge on the Candlelight Processional Eating Bundle works out to be about the identical price as a Lightning Lane Single Cross. This can prevent extra time ready in line and supply higher certainty.
Which superstar narrators are hottest?
The next narrators are prone to be essentially the most in-demand for the 2025 Candlelight Processional: Gary Sinise, Constance Wu, Jordan Fisher, Jennifer Garner, Henry Winkler, Ralph Macchio, Brendan Fraser, and Brie Larson. Nonetheless, a number of of these are newcomers, so a whole lot of that’s merely our expectation of recognition, not previous precedent.
Moreover and on the threat of stating the plain, demand is increased when crowds are increased. It doesn’t monitor completely, nevertheless it’s typically true. A number of weeks in November and December make each lists on our rankings of the 10 Finest and 10 Worst Weeks to Go to Walt Disney World in 2025 to 2027. Anticipate these to be the simplest and most troublesome (because the case could also be) Candlelight Processionals to see consequently.
How lengthy does the standby line get?
Movie star tradition is loopy, so followers for explicit narrators typically queue up hours upfront. Seeing these traces, common vacationers additionally soar into line. It turns into one thing of a self-fulfilling prophecy–the standby line for performances can get longer as a result of it’s lengthy.
Consequently, there’s no easy reply to this. You’ll see a line in mid-afternoon, hours upfront of the primary efficiency. Nonetheless, stepping into line then–or perhaps a full hour forward of time–isn’t at all times essential. Not like points of interest, which you’re basically assured to journey (exceptions for breakdowns) if you happen to get in line and wait nonetheless lengthy the road is, there’s no such assure with Candlelight Processional.
This uncertainty and potential for wasted time (each by stepping into line “too early” or too late) is another excuse we merely suggest the Candlelight Processional Eating Packages. They take away the stress and unpredictability from the equation.
Are there some other choices for seeing Candlelight Processional with out breaking the financial institution or ready hours in line?
In the event you elect to not do the dinner bundle and don’t wish to wait hours in line, you’ve got a few choices. First, present as much as the standby line ~quarter-hour earlier than the final present of the night time begins. Relying upon the recognition of the narrator and the way busy EPCOT is that night, generally this final exhibiting will nonetheless have seating.
We’ve discovered that this technique will normally work simply effective throughout slower weeks (see the above listing). It’s possible you’ll not have the most effective seats, however you’ll nonetheless have the ability to see the present and have a seat. If it doesn’t, at the least you didn’t waste a ton of time standing in line!
Alternatively, you’ll be able to watch from the walkway behind the America Gardens Theatre. That is an possibility if seating is already full otherwise you strive the above technique and get rejected. Forged Members handle crowd circulate again right here within the walkway, however you’ll be able to merely stand behind the theater (not within the walkway) and watch the present. That is truly a great view for Candlelight Processional, as long as you’re within the entrance row of the standing part.
Whereas we extremely suggest the eating bundle for these wanting good, assured seats, if you happen to’re on a good finances or Candlelight Processional isn’t as a lot of a “must-do,” these methods are good alternate options to save lots of a bit of cash. We usually watch Candlelight Processional a number of occasions every Christmas, however solely purchase the eating bundle as soon as. One 12 months, we noticed it over a dozen occasions, all through these methods. (We don’t mess with the standby line far upfront–not definitely worth the stress and sunk time. To every their very own on that, although.)
Will extra eating places imply much less aggressive ADRs?
Final 12 months, the variety of desk service eating places nearly doubled, from 8 the earlier 12 months to fifteen. In principle, that ought to’ve helped take in extra of the demand. It would’ve helped a bit, with packages promoting out in hours as an alternative of minutes.
The previous couple of years, Candlelight Processional Eating Packages have bought out quick. To the purpose that some friends puzzled whether or not there was a glitch, or if all the packages had truly gone on sale throughout ADR launch day.
We might hazard a guess that Walt Disney World may’ve bought double the variety of Candlelight Processional Eating Packages final 12 months when all was mentioned and achieved. There was that a lot unsatiated demand. Which signifies that ADRs nonetheless would’ve been aggressive–and presumably will likely be in 2025–even when there have been 20+ eating places.
It’s additionally value stating that 15 eating places is not a traditionally excessive quantity. That’s nonetheless fewer than 2019 or prior years, when there have been 16 taking part desk service eating places in EPCOT and the Crescent Lake Resorts. Even then, ADRs booked up–finally (not on day one).
Can we simply e-book a traditional ADR now for eating places and convert these to Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
No. In order for you a Candlelight Processional Eating Packages, you’ll want to e-book that particularly. You can not merely e-book an Advance Eating Reservation (ADR) proper now for one of many taking part eating places and add the eating bundle upon arrival. (That would possibly find yourself being potential, nevertheless it’s not usually how this works.)
You could wait and e-book the devoted eating bundle. You’ll know you’ve got the best factor as a result of it’ll be listed as “Candlelight Processional Eating Packages” within the My Disney Expertise app, on disneyworld.com, and in your confirmed ADR.
Are there any suggestions & tips for scoring ADRs?
For starters, if you happen to can’t discover something in your desired dates, strive refreshing or adjusting your parameters within the My Disney Expertise app. There are alternatives, they simply don’t at all times seem at first. In the event you’re not having success, strive some methods from our High 10 Ideas for Laborious to Guide Advance Eating Reservations at Walt Disney World (numbers 7-10, particularly).
Whereas not related to reserving at this level, tip #2 can be value mentioning. We’ve seen same-day availability for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages pop-up on occasion. This is because of ADR cancellations and added capability, so be looking out for reservations beginning the day upfront of your EPCOT go to.
What are the finest eating places for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
We extremely suggest Biergarten Restaurant. That is at all times our prime choose because of its jovial Christmas ambiance, music, and worth for cash. Learn Our Christmas Feast at Biergarten Restaurant for what the vacation time expertise is like there.
Biergarten is much and away our favourite possibility, to the purpose that I don’t actually have a good runner-up choose. Our most up-to-date experiences at Le Cellier have been optimistic, nevertheless it’s robust to get previous that triple-digit worth–particularly with the appetizer gone this 12 months. We at all times get pleasure from Through Napoli, and Cooks de France has a great vibe at Christmas.
What are the most cost-effective choices for Candlelight Processional Eating Packages?
Frankly, if we will’t rating a Biergarten ADR, we’ll go for the cheaper eating places–probably the same-day bundle. Whereas the uncertainty is perhaps disagreeable, the choices are good. We’re followers of Regal Eagle, nevertheless it’s not our ideally suited method to eat round World Showcase throughout the holidays.
Spice Street Desk is our sleeper choose. It gives extra bang-for-buck, with a menu that’s extra approachable than you would possibly suppose. In reality, Spice Street Desk is perhaps EPCOT’s finest Candlelight Processional Eating Bundle spot. It’s definitely some of the cost-effective!
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Your Ideas
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