New Behind the Seeds Christmas Tour at EPCOT!

Walt Disney World has introduced the debut of the Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour for Christmas 2024 at EPCOT. This submit provides a rundown of this new addition to the Enchanting Extras Assortment, plus our commentary about why we’re so excited for this behind the scenes take a look at the Merry & Shiny overlay of Dwelling with the Land.

Let’s begin with fundamentals. Dwelling with the Land: Merry & Shiny is the EPCOT Competition of the Holidays overlay of the enduring greenhouse tour. It started a number of years in the past and has gotten larger and higher with every passing yr, leading to ‘spinoffs’ of kinds for the opposite festivals. It’s to the purpose that the additions to Dwelling with the Land for Meals & Wine virtually qualify as an overlay. Not fairly, however shut.

Dwelling with the Land: Merry & Shiny is a particular, glowing boat journey throughout which you’ll be able to get pleasure from a peaceable cruise and consider twinkling vacation gentle shows all through the greenhouses. There are daytime decorations, and little vignettes with presents and such, however the greenhouses actually shine at evening after they’re illuminated with Christmas lights.

We completely love Dwelling with the Land. It’s one of many Walt Disney World sights we do probably the most. We additionally completely love Christmas lights. Put these two issues collectively, and we’re squarely the target market for Dwelling with the Land: Merry and Shiny Nights.

Unsurprisingly, we completely love this overlay. I might go on and on about this, gushing in regards to the calming environment, thoroughness, and understated simplicity of all of it. Suffice to say, don’t miss Dwelling with the Land: Merry and Shiny Nights! It’s the very best vacation journey overlay at Walt Disney World…which isn’t actually saying a lot because the Florida parks don’t actually do seasonal overlays, but it surely’s nonetheless very unbelievable for what it’s.

Anyway, right here’s Walt Disney World’s description of the brand new Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses Tour:

Have fun the joyous season with a limited-time strolling tour of the Glimmering Greenhouses at The Land Pavilion. Throughout this one-hour expertise, you’ll:

• Find out about crops that convey festive flavors to lots of our vacation traditions.
• Get pleasure from good gentle shows.
• Discover hydroponic greenhouses and uncover sustainable rising methods used to convey the Glimmering Greenhouses to life!

The Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour is obtainable at 6:00 PM and seven:00 PM. Tour value is $45 per Individual (tax not included); no low cost info has been launched but.

The Behind the Seeds tour continues to be out there in the course of the day. Advance reservations are extremely advisable, as availability is proscribed. Make reservations on-line or by way of the My Disney Expertise app. Similar-day reservations and walk-ins could be made on a restricted foundation and are topic to availability.

Right here’s necessary details about Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour:

• Legitimate admission required. A theme park reservation could also be required primarily based on admission kind.
• You’ll be in your toes for the entire hour of this strolling tour. With that in thoughts, be sure you put on snug footwear.
• Driving Dwelling with the Land previous to the tour provides you with a preview of what to anticipate. Please bear in mind that the tour highlights listed above are topic to alter.
• Please verify in quarter-hour previous to the beginning of your tour on the decrease degree of The Land Pavilion close to the attraction exit.
• There’s a 24-hour cancellation coverage. Full value will probably be charged/forfeited if the Visitor cancels inside sooner or later or fails to indicate up for the reservation.
• Company should be at the very least 3 years of age to take part on this tour.
• Company below the age of 18 should be accompanied by a paying grownup.

Earlier than we dig into the commentary, right here’s a fast plug for the common Behind the Seeds tour, which we’d extremely suggest earlier than doing the Glimmering Greenhouses tour.

In the event you just like the Dwelling with the Land attraction at EPCOT, then you definately’ll love Behind the Seeds. This one-hour tour of the fish farm and 4 greenhouses that make up the Land Pavilion is ideal for anybody with an curiosity in gardening or pure sciences.

Behind the Seeds teaches visitors in regards to the newest plant-growing methods, together with hydroponics. It additionally showcases the hybrid striped bass, tilapia, catfish and freshwater shrimp in EPCOT’s fish farm. Alongside the way in which, you’ll behold gigantic vegatables and fruits and weird crops from around the globe.

Throughout Behind the Seeds, you’ll take within the sights and smells of surprising crops from around the globe whereas exploring the way forward for agriculture. Your educated information will assist you uncover a number of the newest plant-growing methods in use at The Land, together with hydroponics, and supply concepts you may attempt at house in your personal backyard.

We completely love Behind the Seeds at EPCOT, and it’s really the first Walt Disney World tour we suggest. And understand that I say this as somebody who hates horticulture of the participatory and am not allowed close to our backyard attributable to an unlucky lawnmower incident over a decade in the past. So it’s not like I’m precisely the target market for Behind the Seeds!

Learn and see extra in our Behind the Seeds at EPCOT Tour Overview.

Turning to commentary, I completely love the Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour for a few causes.

Again when EPCOT excursions returned in 2022, I particularly requested for precisely this: “Now that the Merry & Shiny overlay is an annual factor that appears to get larger and higher every year, I’d love to see Walt Disney World supply nighttime Behind the Seeds excursions at Christmas-time.”

On condition that, I really feel obligated to e-book the Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour. It’s both my civic responsibility or vital for the sake of essential analysis–maybe each. And I suppose it might most likely be fairly enjoyable and atmospheric, too. However a way of obligation is the principle purpose I’ll do it–not private enjoyment!

Joking apart, “restoring upcharges” was one of many issues we listed in Walt Disney World May Repair the Visitor Expertise by Enhancing These Issues. Clearly that’s an unconventional request given that almost all of visitor complaints revolve round pricing.

Nevertheless, as pointed on the market, spiraling prices are removed from the one situation. Loads of visitors have complaints about paying extra whereas getting much less, and there are two methods to resolve that–solely one in all which is reasonable. Different followers need upcharge alternatives that supply commensurate worth for the additional cash. These notions are usually not in battle–it’s potential to be upset about paying extra whereas getting much less, whereas additionally having a willingness to splurge on one thing particular that’s “price it.”

There’s really so much within the Enchanting Extras Assortment (and related add-ons) that offers Walt Disney World an incredible quantity of repeatability for regulars. Issues like sure behind the scenes or VIP excursions, eating or dessert events, early or late park entry, and far more. The large one which involves thoughts for us is the EPCOT pageant seminars and experiences–which is an enormous purpose why our evaluation of the 2024 EPCOT Meals & Wine lamented the occasion as “remicrowaved leftovers.”

Level being, the Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour is strictly what I had in thoughts when writing that. Attending to spend an hour strolling across the Dwelling with the Land greenhouses at evening all decked out and aglow for the vacation season is exactly the type of new-to-us expertise that sounds particular and retains us coming again.

Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses is definitely not going to be for all Walt Disney World followers and it’s expensive at $45 per individual (particularly contrasted with what Behind the Seeds used to value), however that is tailored for our pursuits. I already understand it’ll be an superior expertise that’s 100% price it to us, and one of many highlights of our vacation season. (I’d say #1, however Sarah is actually wanting ahead to Jollywood Nights since she didn’t get to do this this yr.)

That may sound excessive, however once more, we aren’t everybody–and that is the kind of factor that ‘speaks to us’ and retains us coming again. Oh, and if Walt Disney World is already on the lookout for a technique to enhance Christmas 2025 bookings in ‘response’ to Epic Universe…I’ve a considerably related concept.

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