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 have a look at the Merry & Shiny overlay of Residing with the Land.
Let’s begin with fundamentals. Residing with the Land: Merry & Shiny is the EPCOT Pageant of the Holidays overlay of the long-lasting greenhouse tour. It started a number of years in the past and has gotten greater and higher with every passing yr, leading to ‘spinoffs’ of types for the opposite festivals. It’s to the purpose that the additions to Residing with the Land for Meals & Wine nearly qualify as an overlay. Not fairly, however shut.
Residing with the Land: Merry & Shiny is a particular, glowing boat trip throughout which you’ll get pleasure from a peaceable cruise and think about 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 night time after they’re illuminated with Christmas lights.
We completely love Residing with the Land. It’s one of many Walt Disney World points of interest we do essentially the most. We additionally completely love Christmas lights. Put these two issues collectively, and we’re squarely the audience for Residing with the Land: Merry and Shiny Nights.
Unsurprisingly, we completely love this overlay. I might go on and on about this, gushing concerning the calming ambiance, thoroughness, and understated simplicity of all of it. Suffice to say, don’t miss Residing with the Land: Merry and Shiny Nights! It’s the very best vacation trip 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 incredible 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 strategies 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 price is $45 per Individual (tax not included); no low cost info has been launched but.
The Behind the Seeds tour continues to be obtainable in the course of the day. Advance reservations are extremely really helpful, as availability is restricted. Make reservations on-line or by way of the My Disney Expertise app. Similar-day reservations and walk-ins may be made on a restricted foundation and are topic to availability.
Right here’s vital details about Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour:
- Legitimate admission required. A theme park reservation could also be required based mostly on admission kind.
- You’ll be in your toes for the entire hour of this strolling tour. With that in thoughts, ensure you put on snug sneakers.
- Using Residing with the Land previous to the tour offers you a preview of what to anticipate. Please remember that the tour highlights listed above are topic to alter.
- Please examine in quarter-hour previous to the beginning of your tour on the decrease stage of The Land Pavilion close to the attraction exit.
- There’s a 24-hour cancellation coverage. Full value might be charged/forfeited if the Visitor cancels inside sooner or later or fails to point out up for the reservation.
- Friends should be a minimum of 3 years of age to take part on this tour.
- Friends underneath 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.
When you just like the Residing with the Land attraction at EPCOT, then you definitely’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 friends concerning the newest plant-growing strategies, 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 fruit and veggies and strange crops from world wide.
Throughout Behind the Seeds, you’ll take within the sights and smells of surprising crops from world wide whereas exploring the way forward for agriculture. Your educated information will allow you to uncover a number of the newest plant-growing strategies in use at The Land, together with hydroponics, and supply concepts you may attempt at dwelling in your individual backyard.
We completely love Behind the Seeds at EPCOT, and it’s really the first Walt Disney World tour we suggest. And remember 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 audience for Behind the Seeds!
Learn and see extra in our Behind the Seeds at EPCOT Tour Assessment.
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 greater and higher annually, I’d love to see Walt Disney World provide nighttime Behind the Seeds excursions at Christmas-time.”
Provided that, I really feel obligated to e book the Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour. It’s both my civic responsibility or mandatory for the sake of essential analysis–maybe each. And I assume 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 Might Repair the Visitor Expertise by Bettering These Issues. Clearly that’s an unconventional request given that almost all of visitor complaints revolve round pricing.
Nonetheless, as pointed on the market, spiraling prices are removed from the one difficulty. Loads of friends have complaints about paying extra whereas getting much less, and there are two methods to resolve that–solely one in every of which is sensible. Different followers need upcharge alternatives that provide commensurate worth for the additional cash. These notions usually are not in battle–it’s doable 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 loads within the Enchanting Extras Assortment (and related add-ons) that offers Walt Disney World an amazing quantity of repeatability for regulars. Issues like sure behind the scenes or VIP excursions, eating or dessert events, early or late park entry, and way more. The large one which involves thoughts for us is the EPCOT pageant seminars and experiences–which is a giant 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 Residing with the Land greenhouses at night time all decked out and aglow for the vacation season is exactly the form of new-to-us expertise that sounds particular and retains us coming again.
Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses is actually not going to be for all Walt Disney World followers and it’s expensive at $45 per particular person (particularly contrasted with what Behind the Seeds used to price), however that is tailored for our pursuits. I already comprehend it’ll be an superior expertise that’s 100% price it to us, and one of many highlights of our vacation season. (I might say #1, however Sarah is basically trying 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 searching for a option to enhance Christmas 2025 bookings in ‘response’ to Epic Universe…I’ve a considerably related thought.
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