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Save room for a special taste of Disney World fun - the annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival!

The popular annual event at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando is set to run Oct. 1 through Nov. 14, 2010. The Food and Wine Festival turns Epcot theme park into a true food and wine lover’s paradise with specialty foods, culinary events, parties and the rocking, ”Eat to the Beat Concert Series” featuring a lineup of celebrated musical guests.

What’s on the menu? You can taste delicious regional foods and sample wines and beers from around the world throughout Epcot’s World Showcase Promenade. You can get tips from renowned chefs and winemakers at special programs and demonstrations. And you can sample the finest cuisines from around the globe at a variety of culinary events. While some events require an additional ticket fee, most activities are included in your regular Epcot Park admission.

To plan your day, be sure to visit the Festival Welcome Center when you arrive at Epcot. And for convenience, you can pick up a Food & Wine themed mini Disney Gift Card that offers a fast, easy and secure way to carry your money on your wrist.

Just load or reload the card with any amount from $5 to $1,500. Then simply swipe the card any time you want to pay for food, merchandise or other Epcot expenses. The gift cards are available throughout Epcot at ticket booths, Guest Relations, the Festival Welcome Center and other locations where food and merchandise is sold.

For more information on Epcot or any of the other Disney World theme parks and attractions, visit www.Orlandothemeparkvacations.com or go to www.WestgateReservations.com.

Turn back the clock while you groove and rock at the Flower Power Concert Series. It’s all part of the 2010 International Flower and Garden Festival at Disney’s Epcot theme park. The festival and concerts are all part of your daily Epcot admission.

Feel the vibes of some of the biggest names in music from the 60’s and 70’s under the skies of the open-air American Gardens Theatre at Epcot theme park. This weekend’s special musical guest for April 23-25, is Atlanta Rhythm Section. The group will perform Flower Power Concerts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 5:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m. & 7:45 p.m.

For details, visit www.OrlandoThemeParkVacations or http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/epcot/special-events/epcot-international-flower-and-garden-festival/schedule/          

Spring is in the air as the annual Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival kicks off at Disney World on March 3 and runs thru May 16, 2010,

This year’s event features more than 100 colorful and fun topiaries ranging from a 14-foot tall Goofy fishing to Lion King characters and, of course, Mickey and Minnie. Enjoy millions of blooms, hundreds of butterflies in the butterfly garden, and more. There’s also experts ready to provide gardening tips and demonstrations, and on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the festival, you can also enjoy the Flower Power Concert Series featuring music from the 1960s and 1970s.

For more information about Disney World, Epcot and other Orlando theme parks, visit www.OrlandoThemeParkVacations.com. You’ll find discount tickets, discount Orlando vacation packages and discount Orlando hotel and resort accommodations.

Each spring Florida bursts into bloom with a variety of eye-pleasing garden festivals — from butterfly celebrations to one of the nation’s most ambitious flower and garden fests.

A short drive from Orlando, you’ll find beautiful Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales. The Gardens present Butterflies at Bok from March 3-31, 2010. Special areas of the gardens feature plantings specifically designed to attract the beautiful wings of a variety of butterflies.

For information, you can visit www.boktowergardens.com.

Meanwhile, Disney’s Epcot also opens its annual flower festival on March 3. The 17^th Annual Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival remains one of the largest such events in the world, with more than 30 million blooms spread across 300 acres of Epcot’s World Showcase.

The event runs thru May 16 and visitors will experience themed gardens, floral floating islands, gardening seminars, planting demonstrations, exhibits, hands-on activities and a wonder series of Flower Power concerts. The concerts feature music from the ‘60s and ‘70s at the American Gardens Theatre each Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the Festival.

Concerts and most festival activities are included in regular park admission. Visit www.disneyworld.com/flower for additional details. For information on Orlando Disney theme park discounts or savings on Orlando vacation packages and Orlando hotels near Disney, visit www.OrlandoThemeParkVacations.com.

The New Year is just around the corner and there’s plenty of New Years Eve excitement brewing in Orlando, FL!

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and all of Disney’s favorite characters are set to help ring in 2010 throughout Walt Disney World® Resort. The Disney parks are decked out in all their holiday glory as we reach one of the resort’s busiest and merriest times of the year.

The Disney parks will offer extended hours on New Years Eve and there will be plenty of year end fireworks to light up the night sky throughout Orlando.

At Disney’s Epcot, the park will remain open til 1:00 am while featuring a special version of the Illuminations at 11:40 pm.

Magic Kingdom Theme Park will also remain open til 1:00 am with a special showing of the Fantasy in the Sky fireworks taking place at 11:50 pm. Meanwhile at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, New Years Eve guest can stick around until midnight and enjoy the Lights! Cameras! Fireworks show starting at 11:50 pm.

Across town at Universal Orlando Resort, there’s also plenty of New Years activity on the horizon. Islands of Adventure theme park will offer extended hours til 10:00 pm while its sister park, Universal Studios Florida remains open for late night fun til 1:00 am. Best of all, Universal CityWalk will help rock in 2010 with a separate ticket event that offers live entertainment in every club, gourmet cuisine and a fabulous concert featuring the legendary music of The Temptations and The Four Tops and a midnight champagne toast!

Not to be outdone, SeaWorld® Orlando offers up its own special New Years Eve memories by staying open til 1:00 am. From 9:00 pm til 12:30 am, SeaWorld will offer continuous entertainment, music and an amazing midnight fireworks display.

Of course, the fun in Orlando rolls right on thru to New Years Day where the parks will again be filled with thrills and adventure. And sports fans will be delighted with a trip to Orlando’s nearby Citrus Bowl stadium where Penn State University is set to battle Louisiana State University in the annual Capital One Bowl. This high profile football game pits two of the most prominent and storied collegiate programs in a battle of highly ranked teams.

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September 25 — November 8, 2009

Your taste buds will be more than tempted at the 2009 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Disney’s annual event returns Sept. 25 thru Nov. 8, 2009, bringing with it many of the world’s tastiest regional foods and drinks. Of course, that’s only the beginning as guests will also enjoy rockin’ concerts, fabulous shopping, fun-filled seminars and demonstrations, taste-testing other special programs.

Tantalizing new additions to this year’s menus include the robust and exotic flavors of Rio de Janeiro and Bangkok as well as world-class performers like Richard Marx, Billy Ocean and Vanessa Carlton, who will all take the stage at the Festival for the very first time.

A convenient Disney Gift Card offers a fast, easy and secure way to carry your money on your wrist while enjoying the Festival. Just load or reload the card with any amount you desire, swipe — and you’re spared the trouble of getting out your credit card or cash any time you want to pay for food or merchandise at the Festival.

This year’s marketplace and promenade includes 25 international kiosks are serving up delicious, tapas-sized portions from countries on 6 continents.

Eat to the Beat! Concert Series
Musical entertainment includes the Eat to the Beat Concert Series which offers up an equally tempting variety of classic rock, soul, R&B, jazz and funk with artists ranging from Boyz II Men to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

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Epcot International Food & Wine Festival
September 25 — November 8, 2009

Be sure to book your discount Orlando vacation package with us!  Your taste buds will be more than tempted at the 2009 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Disney’s annual event returns Sept. 25 thru Nov. 8, 2009, bringing with it many of the world’s tastiest regional foods and drinks. Of course, that’s only the beginning as guests will also enjoy rockin’ concerts, fabulous shopping, fun-filled seminars and demonstrations, taste-testing other special programs.

Tantalizing new additions to this year’s menus include the robust and exotic flavors of Rio de Janeiro and Bangkok as well as world-class performers like Richard Marx, Billy Ocean and Vanessa Carlton, who will all take the stage at the Festival for the very first time.

A convenient Disney Gift Card offers a fast, easy and secure way to carry your money on your wrist while enjoying the Festival. Just load or reload the card with any amount you desire, swipe — and you’re spared the trouble of getting out your credit card or cash any time you want to pay for food or merchandise at the Festival.

This year’s marketplace and promenade includes 25 international kiosks are serving up delicious, tapas-sized portions from countries on 6 continents.

Eat to the Beat! Concert Series
Musical entertainment includes the Eat to the Beat Concert Series which offers up an equally tempting variety of classic rock, soul, R&B, jazz and funk with artists ranging from Boyz II Men to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

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