As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Destination: Walt Disney World
Date: August 26th - August 30th
Adventurers: Me, DH, DS12, DS6 and a friend of the family Dale. His first trip!
Resort/Hotel: Pop
Celebration: I couldn't wait until next year so I was able to talk DH into a short summer trip
Meetings: Always up for meeting PPs. Hope to catch up with Griffin and his family again this year
Destination: Walt Disney World
Date: Sunday, August 21-Sunday, August 28 (Travel August 20, 29
Adventurers: Me 50 at trip time; DH 51 at trip time;DD 12 at trip
Resort/Hotel: Pop Century (4 nights)/Beach Club (3 nights)
Celebration: DD turning 13 (a month early); me turning 50 (7 months later)
Meetings: Would love to meet with any Passporters there at the time.
We will be leaving New Jersey around 9 am on Sat. Aug. 21 to drive to Lorton VA to the Auto Train. The train will depart 4 PM and arrive in Sanford around 9:30 am Sunday. We will drive to WDW and check in to POP. On Thursday, we move resorts to Beach Club for the rest of our stay. On Sunday, August 28 we have to be in Sanford to catch the Auto Train home by 3. The train leaves Sanford at 4 PM and arrive in Lorton at 9:30 AM. We will then make the drive home and probably arrive mid afternoon.
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Trips to WDW: 1994 POFQ; 2004 POP and POFQ; 2011 POP and Beach Club
Destination:Walt Disney World Date: Wednesday, August 24-Saturday, September 3
Adventurers: Me (33 a week before the trip), DH (40), DS (5), DSis (30), DSis's BF (28), D Niece (7)
Resort/Hotel: AS Music Suite for our family and AS Music standard room for Sis & Fam
Celebration: My Bday and COMPLETING THE CPA EXAM! (Hopefully!!)
PassPorter's Free-Book to Walt Disney World It’s hard to believe anything is free at Walt Disney World; but there are actually a number of things you can get or do for little to no cost. This e-book documents over 200 free or cheap tips to do before you go and after you arrive. You could save a considerable amount of money following these tips. Perhaps more importantly; you can discover overlooked attractions and little-known details most people whiz by on their way to spend money. Click here to see free sample pages from the e-book! Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95.
Date: August 23, 2011 - August 28, 2011
Adventurers: Me (Priscilla), 33; DD (Isabella), 7; DD's BFF (Olivia), 7
Resort/Hotel: Pop Century
Celebration: We were supposed to be celebrating my daughter's 8th birthday but we had to move our vacation up by a week since school starts before her birthday not after like we hoped. So now we are just celebrating spending time together!
Meetings: I have ADR's most days and will be taking advantage of EMH at all parks. If anyone wants to meet, let me know! I will be the tired mom chasing after two crazy girls!!
Destination: DVC's Hilton Head Island, SC resort, followed by B2B sailings on the DREAM!
Date: August 12-25, 2011 (sailing August 16-21 & August 21-25)
Adventurers: Me (celebrating my 45th birthday on August 23 - on Castaway Cay!); DH (47), DS (14), DD (11). AND on the first of our 2 cruises, we'll be sailing with great friends & their 2 kiddos (and it's their first time on a Disney Cruise!)
Resort/Hotel: DVC's HHI August 13 & 14; Radisson Port Canaveral August 15; Dream August 16-24; Auto Train August 25
Celebration: My 45th birthday (celebrated my 40th on the Magic, so I think this is clearly a tradition now for denominations of 5 birthdays!), DS's middle school graduation, and checking out the newest ship in the Disney fleet!
Meetings: None planned at this point, but there are quite a few passporters on the Dream when we are (at least on the first sailing)
Destination: WDW
Date: August 13th-20th!!
Adventurers: Me (Trisha -44..well, will be 45 then. lol) , DH Ken - 46., DD23 Heather, DD19 Sara, DS17 Kenneth, DD9- Santina, Heather's fiance Dennis, DSis34 Adreanna, DB in law 34 Andy, DN7 Amanda , DNw4 Blaine, DB43 Damon, Dsis inlaw 41 Alma, DN 18 Micki, DN17 Tasha. For Amanda , Blaine, Micki , Tasha , Alma and Dennis , it will be their first time!.....
Resort/Hotel: CBR
Celebration: Family Celebration of LOVE!...also My 45th birthday, my sister's 34th birthday, and my niece Micki's high school graduation.
Meetings: I would LOVE to meet other passporters! Feel free let me know and we'll figure something out as far as meeting place.
Location: Davenport, Florida 20 minutes from the mouse
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Destination: WDW
Dates: Aug 19 - 27
Travelers: Me and DD 11
Resort: AKL Club Level with free dining
Celebrations: Rest and relax. DD will be starting middle school.
Meetings: Would love to meet up with other PassPorters
This is the third of three planned trips to WDW. After 3 years of being in a bad situation (back surgery, state disability and fighting almost 1.5 years for Socical Security Disability). I finally have the ability to return to WDW as a gift to myself and my DD for enduring our hard times
Update of plans:
Cast: Me and DD Jessica 11.
Resort OKW for one night then on to AKL Kidani from 8/16 to 8/25.
Celebrating Jessica's graduation and our friends first visit
Meets. None yet. Would love to meet fellow passporters.
We are traveling with our friends for their first visit to WDW. This is also our first DVC stay. Really looking forward to it.
Destination: WDW
Dates:August 18th - 29th
Resort: PoP Century
Travelers: Myself, Wife, Daughter(5),Son(17months @ time of travel)
Celebrations: Son's first trip to WDW
Meets: None ( Always open to meeting new people)
PassPorter's Free-Book to Walt Disney World It’s hard to believe anything is free at Walt Disney World; but there are actually a number of things you can get or do for little to no cost. This e-book documents over 200 free or cheap tips to do before you go and after you arrive. You could save a considerable amount of money following these tips. Perhaps more importantly; you can discover overlooked attractions and little-known details most people whiz by on their way to spend money. Click here to see free sample pages from the e-book! Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95.
Destination: WDW
Dates:August 18th - 29th
Resort: PoP Century
Travelers: Myself, Wife, Daughter(5),Son(17months @ time of travel)
Celebrations: Son's first trip to WDW
Meets: None ( Always open to meeting new people)
We will be at POP from the 21-25! Maybe we can meet up. It will be DH, DD (12) and I. How are you traveling? We are going by train
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Trips to WDW: 1994 POFQ; 2004 POP and POFQ; 2011 POP and Beach Club
Cast: Me and DD Jessica 11.
Resort OKW for one night then on to AKL Kidani from 8/16 to 8/25.
Celebrating Jessica's graduation and our friends first visit
Meets. None yet. Would love to meet fellow passporters.
We are traveling with our friends for their first visit to WDW. This is also our first DVC stay. Really looking forward to it.
We'll be at Kidani Village from 8/16-8/23. Hope to see you there.
Location: Davenport, Florida 20 minutes from the mouse
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We'll be at Kidani Village from 8/16-8/23. Hope to see you there.
Hope to see you as well. Would love to meet up. I will be on a silver/black scooter. I have a license plates on the basket saying Marci's People Mover and Disney4us2. I am fairly easy to spot.
PassPorter's Free-Book to Walt Disney World It’s hard to believe anything is free at Walt Disney World; but there are actually a number of things you can get or do for little to no cost. This e-book documents over 200 free or cheap tips to do before you go and after you arrive. You could save a considerable amount of money following these tips. Perhaps more importantly; you can discover overlooked attractions and little-known details most people whiz by on their way to spend money. Click here to see free sample pages from the e-book! Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95.
Destination: WDW!
Date: August 21- 26
Adventurers: Me (20) and my bf (22)
Resort/Hotel: All Star Music
Celebration: My 21st (and golden) Birthday!
Meetings: MK: Sunday, Monday HS: Tuesday EP: Wednesday AK: Thrusday
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