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How Wonderful Jennifer & Dave Are--let's list the ways
We were going back and forth last week trying to figure out if we could manage a return to Disney again this year. I mean, REALLY! What WERE we thinking having been there a mere two months ago? You all know that feeling, I'm betting.
Finally, we concluded it would be mature, responsible and wise to plan for a "sometime" return but not one as soon as 2015, which is when we'd been considering.
So, this past Friday, I ordered the info pages-only refill for our Deluxe binder since we weren't talking about a near-future trip anymore but only considering less-expensive resorts than our much-loved GF for "someday."
Except, Disney addiction got us during the weekend, and we spent ALL of Sunday morning figuring out that we can go back THIS year.
Monday was a bank and government holiday, so I figured on Tuesday morning that my order might not have been processed yet. I hoped, hoped, hoped.
Fired off an email to the Marxes asking if my order might be upgraded to the full refill instead. And Jennifer replied that I'd caught it in time, and she'd simply throw in several pockets at no charge.
And that's why I say Jennifer is WONDERFUL!
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I didn't even know about PassPorter when we made our first trip ( No ADRs for us). Since then I have purchased several, won one and recommended PP to many...it's the first place/book I tell friends to visit.
And the community here is so friendly too!
A big thanks from me to Jennifer & Dave!
Coming home to PP. In many ways I credit Passporter as being one of my first, guides into the larger Disney community.
I went to WDW twice before I could read, I suppose I was reading Dick, Jane & Sally books. (Wow that makes me sound OLD) I remember having an officail DIney book when I went in 1988 as a senior in High School.
In 1993 I joined the Internet with a service called Delphi which had SIGs (Special Interest Groups) and the first one I joined was about Disney. Later I got into Yahoo Email groups. At some point in 1999 or so I remember hearing about Passporter and I bought the 2000 Passporter guide for my first trip with my Girlfriend.
I was working 3rd shift and had a lot of free time, so I read that book over and over. I still have it, and it looks like it was pulled from the wreakage of a major castastrophic event. I was buying them every other year, until 2007 or so.
I met Dave & Jennifer in 2006 at Mousefest, and 2007 & 2008. Having a baby, buying a house, having a wife who is a stay at home mom, make less money at work and having way more expences make trip planning hard. I was still spending lots of time consuming Dinsey media, I supscribed to the touringplans.com, watch lots of Disney Youtube channels, and listen to many podcasts.
Went to Disney in 2012 and didn't feel i needed I guidbook. I was able to do an RCI exchange for AKL, Kidani VIllage. Unfortunatly I had a very hard time paying for many things on the trip, though it was wonderful. It was dampened by the fact that my mom wasn't doing well in the hospital, and I was very aftraid of loosing her while I was on Vacation. She passed away 6 days after we got back.
All though 2013 people asked when my next trip was and I said "Hopefully Next year". I paid off a loan in December and for the first time in a log time I don't feel like 110% of my money is going to pay off loans. I had been seeing people on Facebook post photos of the dream and my 5 year old was asking me about going on a Mickey Boat.
Jennifer wrote an article about the Disney Vacation Account and I opened one. Shortly after I made a downpayment on a 4 night cruise on the Dream. (In December) I looked for my Deluxe Passporter and couldn't find it. I found the 2013 WDW deluxe PP on Amazon for a really good price and ordered it, along with buying the Cruise suplament on Passporter.com.
I've been reading the digistal copy of the cruise guide and love it. I've never been able to READ another travel guide. Sure I look at the others, read the tips. But none of the others ones have i read page by page. Somehow PP makes me want to read about things I don't care about like the port in Vancover. I'm not going to Vancover, no intention of going to Alaska but in the PP, I feel more like it's a story than an encyclopdia. (I also read MouseJunkies! but I don't think of it as a travel guide).
Then the 2013 Passporter came in and it's Beautiful. It's all color now! I'm finding myself using it like a "Wish Book". Back when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, Sears sent a catalog of just toys. I remeber looking at it all the time until Cristmas, dreaming getting certain (Usually Star Wars) Toys for Christmas.
My I'm finding myself actually reading a guide to a place I know like the back of my hand. I'll read reviews for places I've eaten. I read an Amazon review that didn't like that the guide had pictures of the authors. I love that fact. Pictures of staterooms have Dave in them, because it gives a sence of scale. I know how big Dave it, and even if I hadn't met him, there are enough photos to give you a good idea that Dave isn't short.
My only problem now is that I planned on taking the 2013 WDW guide out of the binder then my paper version of the cruise guide comes in, but now I want to keep the 2013 guide so I'll have too look trough my Disney Stuff box and find my one PP deluxt because I realized I need two.
ALso that bonus photo section in the back is amazing, I'm thinking I might build one guide just for me, with just the parts for my ship and ports from the cruise book and just my hotels and parks from the WDW book?? Not sure yet..
If a Color Cruise line edition comes out before december I will buy that one too.
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I think one of the reasons Passporter is so successful is because they remain so very involved with every part of it including here (online). Most business let other people tell them what's going on or being said but the Marx' reply themselves alot and quickly so you know that they are paying attention. That makes a big difference to me and love the detail of the guide, it's made our trips so much better!
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