More Seating Added to CommuniCore Hall for 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival

More seating has been added to CommuniCore Hall, giving parkgoers more places to eat during the 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival.

CommuniCore Hall Seating

A spacious room with people seated along walls, flags hanging from the ceiling, and a merchandise display in the center. The floor is speckled, and natural light enters through large windows.

If you’ve visited CommuniCore Hall since it reopened on August 29 for the 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival, you’ve surely noticed a lack of seats and tables available for diners. We expected some seating to disappear since the space is home to the new Global Marketplace, Macatizers, for the duration of the festival. However, the air-conditioned space reopened with less seating than we expected.

With the Macatizers queue taking up a large amount of space and festival merchandise taking up space on the other side of the building, guests have been left with nowhere to sit to enjoy their food. Diners picking up food from Macatizers have been forced to fight for tables with diners from the permanent Festival Favorites location just outside and other booths around the park.

Thankfully, more tables and chairs have popped up inside the location, even though the seating arrangements are still sparse.

The spacious CommuniCore Hall features modern seating arrangements, tables, and colorful banners hanging from the ceiling. Circular blue lighting adorns the ceiling, while large windows flood the area with natural light.

The above photo shows how much seating was available before the location closed to prepare for Food & Wine. Tables were spread out around the space, rather than pushed against the wall. There were even couches along the walls. They are nowhere to be found at the moment.

When we reviewed CommuniCore Hall after it opened in June, we discussed how the space was “functionality over form.” While it wasn’t pretty to look at, it would at least provide a nice air-conditioned space for guests to relax and enjoy food and drinks during festivals. However, if guests can’t find seating during one of the biggest festivals of the year, then the functionality of the space certainly comes into question.

The additional seating recently added to CommuniCore Hall is a step in the right direction, though Disney should probably add a little more.

Have you had success finding tables at CommuniCore Hall during the 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival? Are you happy to see more seating added? Let us know in the comments.

Check out our review of CommuniCore Hall, which we shared during Episode 37 of The WDWNT Podcast:

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