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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I'm so excited only 7 months before our big Repositioning Cruise onboard the DCL Magic and I have been frustrated with the fact that its so FAR away and really haven't a clue as to what to Plan to keep busy!
So I decided I would work on the Pre Cruise portion of the trip as much as I could today. Southwest has not released airfare past March but we know that based on its current schedule we will have to fly in the day before we embark on our cruise.
So I booked 1 night hotel's stay at The Radisson at the Port. The price was not as bad as staying at Disney 1 night at a Moderate and way less then staying at the airport!
I also booked a rental car one way from Hertz for the first time and got a pretty good rate for a pretty good size car. It was $54 with fees for a Hyundai Sonata or similar! The Good part about renting that car is my mom owns one and we can do a dry run with the suitcases to see what fits
I also reserved us 2 spaces on the first shuttle to the port from our hotel. In Case we decide to return the rental car the night before and then cab it to the hotel.
So now we have:
Hotel for Pre Cruise
Car Rental for 1 day
Shuttle to the Port from the hotel
I love making plans and as we all know this gives me a lot of time to CHANGE it all
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My friend, Carol, and I will be on the repo cruise with you and have the same plans! Staying at the Radisson the night before, then the first shuttle to the port. I wish there were more I could plan right now. I think I'll start reading up on the ports and reading trip reports from the first canal cruises.
I am SO excited about this cruise! Looking forward to meeting you and other Passporters on board.
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I'm still working on my checklist for our 12/09/07 cruise. We have the pre and post cruise hotels booked. I still need to get the rental car, and buy tickets to theme parks. We're going to do Kennedy Space Center before the cruise and Disney World\Universal Islands of Adventure after. Fun, fun, fun...
We have plans made for Dec 7 on DCL Magic Andddddddddddd September 27th 2008
I have folders made with notes and confimation numbers and meeting times and plane info..
Hubby says I should be a Travel Agent and go into my own Business of "Vacation Planning" and rent myself out
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Cruising Again When??
*DCL Magic Eastern to Tortola.... 9/12/09
*RCC Independence of the Seas.. to Belize.. 3/14/2010
*DCL Magic 11 night Christmas.. Cat 3... 12/18/2010
Planning is all the fun [I]before[I] the fun! 'Don't matter if you change plans later... that's part of the fun! The dry-run with the car is great planning!!
Now our friends needed a room so I booked them at the same place as us and then we went from Rental car to TownCar/Van Service as we are splitting it with them!
I'm not as organized though with the cruise I should get a binder going but its 7 months away and I just don't have the energy right now
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ACK!!! I am going on that cruise but I am also going on a 4 day cruise this November that I still don't have a rental car for! I hadn't even thought about plans for the panama cruise!!!
Airfare down is between $89 and $117 and the Radison is $129... I have to figure this out! and get my husband's credit card
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and really haven't a clue as to what to Plan to keep busy! 
and as we all know this gives me a lot of time to CHANGE it all 
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