Living With the Land’s Glimmering Greenhouses Extended Into 2027 at EPCOT
Glimmering Greenhouses, the holiday version of Living with the Land at EPCOT, will stay open a week longer than Disney first listed this season. The festive boat ride now continues into the first week of 2027, after the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays ends. Guests waiting on the standard version of the ride will have to wait a bit longer, too. Here’s the latest.
Living with the Land Glimmering Greenhouses Extended to January 2027
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- The new final day for Glimmering Greenhouses and when standard Living with the Land returns.
- How the extension lines up with the Festival of the Holidays and the Behind the Seeds tour.
- A recap of every schedule change by date.
Glimmering Greenhouses fills The Land Pavilion’s greenhouses with sparkling lights for the Living with the Land boat ride. Disney had listed the overlay with the same dates as the Festival of the Holidays, November 27th through December 30th. When we looked in the My Disney Experience app on Friday afternoon, the overlay’s final day had moved to Wednesday, January 6th.
Seven new dates start on New Year’s Eve. The app now shows Glimmering Greenhouses open from 9:00am to 1:00am on Thursday, December 31st. From Friday, January 1st through Wednesday, January 6th, it’s open from 9:00am to 9:00pm each day. All seven days had previously shown the overlay as being closed.
The reopening of the standard version of the Living with the Land attraction moves back to make room for the extended dates of the holiday version. The regular ride had been scheduled to return on December 31st with the same hours. It now shows as closed through January 6th and returns Thursday, January 7th, opening at 10:00am.
Glimmering Greenhouses Outlasts the Festival of the Holidays
The extension keeps the overlay open a full week after the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays ends. Disney still lists the festival through Wednesday, December 30th, as it did when it announced the 2026 festival dates in June. The Glimmering Greenhouses page on Disney’s website also still showed the original December 30th end date in text when we checked, so the operating hours are ahead of the website notice for now. We’ve reached out to Disney World for clarification, but we hadn’t heard back before publishing.
Disney hasn’t announced a matching change for the separate walking tour. We reported in September that Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses was set for November 27th through December 30th, with 6:00pm, 7:00pm and 8:00pm tours at $59 per person.
Select Disney Resort hotel guests also get extra time to enjoy the overlay. The app lists Glimmering Greenhouses during EPCOT’s Extended Evening Hours from 9:00pm to 11:00pm on Mondays, November 30th and December 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th, and none of those evenings changed with this update.
Glimmering Greenhouses Schedule Changes at a Glance
Here is every change the Walt Disney World website showed for the boat ride in The Land Pavilion.
- Glimmering Greenhouses | Now open December 31st (9:00am to 1:00am) and January 1st through 6th (9:00am to 9:00pm)
- Living with the Land (regular version) | Now closed December 31st through January 6th, returns January 7th at 10:00am
The overlay’s November 27th opening day and its Monday Extended Evening Hours stayed the same.
Story So Far
- November 2024: Living with the Land’s Glimmering Greenhouses overlay debuted early at EPCOT, and we shared more than 170 photos.
- June 2026: Disney announced the 2026 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays dates, November 27 through December 30, including the return of Glimmering Greenhouses.
- September 2026: Disney set the 2026 Behind the Seeds: Glimmering Greenhouses tour for the same dates, at $59 per person.
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