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EPCOT's Glimmering Greenhouses Tour Comes Back November 27 at the Same $59 It Charged Last Year, and Booking Opens September 24
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EPCOT's Glimmering Greenhouses Tour Comes Back November 27 at the Same $59 It Charged Last Year, and Booking Opens September 24

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The price did not move. Disney will start taking reservations for Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses on September 24, 2026, and WDWMagic reports the evening tour is holding at $59, the same as it charged last year.

The one hour walking tour is back in The Land Pavilion at EPCOT for the holiday season. It runs nightly from November 27 to December 30, 2026, with start times at 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

WDWMagic put the 2025 price at $59 plus tax, an increase over the $45 the tour charged in 2024. The 2026 price matches 2025.

An EPCOT greenhouse strung with warm string lights and hanging Christmas stockings, with bowls of fruit on a table, a wood burning stove and wrapped gifts on the sand floor, beside plant labels reading Passion Fruit and Lemon Grass.
Stockings, string lights and a spread of harvested fruit inside one of the greenhouses during a previous Glimmering Greenhouses season. Photo: WDWMagic

What the tour actually is: WDWMagic describes it as the daytime Behind the Seeds tour moved into the evening and given a holiday treatment. Guests spend the hour in the greenhouses while the growing areas are lit, hearing which crops turn up in holiday cooking and how EPCOT grows them, hydroponics included.

WDWMagic notes that Disney recommends riding Living with the Land first if you have never done it, because the boat ride previews the greenhouse areas the tour walks through. WDW News Today describes the tour as covering the seasonal overlay of that same attraction.

A greenhouse inside The Land at night, its glass dome lit deep blue and purple above the boat canal, with palms and planting beds edged by small colored path lights.
The boat canal running through a lit greenhouse dome in The Land, part of the seasonal overlay the tour is built around. Photo: WDWMagic

Good to know

  • Where: The Land Pavilion at EPCOT
  • How long: one hour
  • Start times: nightly at 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
  • Season: November 27 to December 30, 2026
  • Cost: $59
  • Booking opens: September 24, 2026
  • Check in: on the lower level by the Living with the Land exit, 15 minutes ahead of your start time
  • The tour price does not cover park admission, so you need a valid EPCOT ticket as well
  • Minimum age 3; anyone under 18 needs a paying adult with them
  • Cancel within 24 hours of your tour time and you are charged in full
The illuminated white leaf logo sculpture of The Land Pavilion glowing on a sand bed at night, with wrapped gift boxes stacked in front of it and banana plants lit blue behind.
The Land Pavilion logo sculpture lit up with wrapped gifts at its base during the holiday overlay. Photo: WDWMagic

The wider window: the tour dates line up exactly with the 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, which also runs November 27 through December 30. WDW News Today says the standard daytime Behind the Seeds tour is still on offer, so the evening version is an addition rather than a replacement.

Disney's own page has not caught up. As of this writing the official tour page still reads "The 2025 offering has concluded. Check back this summer for updates on the 2026 event," and still lists the experience as "currently unavailable," pointing guests to the daytime Behind the Seeds tour instead. The dates and the booking date are coming from the outlets, not from that page.

Bookings open September 24, 2026, just over two months before the first tour night.

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Image credits: all three photos WDWMagic.

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