The wife and I drove the 11 hours to surprise some friends from Tampa and did a quick three day round trip thingie. EPCOT on Sunday and MK on Monday. Anywho, I don't think we'll be doing MK for New Year's again.

We walked out of the Carousel of Progress at 4pm to hear a cacophany of geese. Except it wasn't geese at all. The cast-members started handing out horns and hats for the celebration later in the evening.

It was the most annoying thing ever. For the next three hours people blew on those stupid horns. We were miserable. In fact, we got in line to see Philharmagic and a group of non-English speakers decided to trumpet in unison over and over again. The whole line was mortified. They were blowing the horns right in the group behind us ears'. Finally the woman complained to a cast-member and he told them to stop.

They refused.

Then as they were walking in line they would lean over and arbitrarily blow their horns in the poor woman's ear because she had asked the cast member to make them stop. Finally my wife got in between them and stared them down.

Anywho--I asked a cast-member why they passed them out so early and he said that last year they waited until before the fireworks and it was chaos.

There were a LOT of annoyed people. You couldn't hear yourself think with all the kids blowing their horns. But it wasn't just kids--it was idiot adults too. You couldn't walk five feet without having someone blow a horn in your ear.

Freakin' ridiculous.

Was anyone else there that night? Any thoughts?

I wasn't there, but I remember years ago encountering the same thing at MGM or Epcot. I wanted to snatch those noisy things away and stomp them into the ground, lol! I don't mind festive, but those things are obnoxious.

Hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip!

I wasn't there, but I remember years ago encountering the same thing at MGM or Epcot. I wanted to snatch those noisy things away and stomp them into the ground, lol! I don't mind festive, but those things are obnoxious.

Hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip!

Yes, we did have a great time, otherwise. EPCOT was wonderful on Sunday and the weather was absolutely perfect! EPCOT is my happy place. It rained off and on during our stay at MK on Monday, but we still had a great time. The friends we met had no idea that we were coming, as they changed their cell numbers. They actually parked right behind us in the lot, and were staying at the same resort! We were at the park for about two hours when they spotted us! It was fantastic! 80,000 people and we found each other. What are the chances? So we stayed until 9:30 and decided that we didn't want to deal with the crowds at countdown, so we left. Went back to ASMusic and relaxed and could see fireworks perfectly from the pool. Also, it was dead quiet as everyone was at the parks! We had the bar to ourselves! HA!

We did MK on the 29th and 30th and them Epcot on the 31st.

The hats and horns were to be given out from 6pm to 9pm. To be honest we loved all the fun with them and watching people get into the spirit of the event.

We will never do NYE week at Disney again just because when we go it matters to us what and how many rides we do.... rides just didn't happen for the most part the entire visit.

Great shows at MK and Epcot like I have never seen there or anywhere else before!

I was at MK on the 30th and Epcot on the 31st. They showed the NYE fireworks at MK on the 30th, so I got to see them without the massive and noisy crowds. I agree those horns are annoying, but I was prepared having done NYE at Epcot the past two years. It's really bad at first, but after awhile it dies down. It gets a lot better after the first fireworks showing at Epcot because a lot of the families with kids leave then. And I guess you also just get used to it. A kid did blow one right behind me and I turned and said, PLEASE don't blow that in my ear!

We did Epcot on the 31st, did not get there until 5ish and had a mad dash to China for dinner to get out of the rain. We liked Epcot better that MK (which we did last year), horns were annoying but nothing like what Steamboat had.