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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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Thursday June 2 : Drive down from Atlanta arrive roughly 3pm
Check in to Pop Century- hopefully room is ready
Head to Epcot
Dinner ADR at La Hacienda de San Angel at 730pm
might get to see Illuminations from Restaurant
if not then ride some rides in FW until park close
Friday June 3: Head early to MK
Breakfast ADR at Crystal Palace at 8:25am (tradition) - OOP
hang our in MK for the day
lunch at a CS somewhere in the park
Dinner at Olivia's Cafe in Old Key West Resort at 715pm
check out resort before dinner or after
back to MK for EMH
Saturday June 4: Breakfast in the room
Head to Epcot for the day
focus on what we want to do in FW then head to WS to see some
shows we missed on our last trip
Lunch at a CS, need recommendations for this
Dinner at Cape May Cafe' at 700pm (tradition)- plan is to walk to
BC from Epcot and return back after dinner and stay to close
Sunday June 5: Breakfast in the room
Head to MK for the day
finish up anything we missed or want to do again since this it the
last MK day
lunch is CS in the park
Dinner is at Liberty Tree Tavern at 720pm (new to us)
Stay for EMH
Monday June 6: sleep in a little
Breakfast at Kouzzina at 930am - OOP
head to water park for the day (probably TL)
Lunch at water park
dinner at either DTD or Boardwalk - want to try Big River Grille
or perhaps somewhere in DTD
Tuesday June 7: drive home day
Breakfast at Chef Mickey's at 730am (never been here for
breakfast) - OOP
drive back to Georgia
That is our current plan. We are making our final payment with in the next week.
Sounds good! Just an FYI I noticed you said your ressies at La Hacienda were at 730 and then hope to watch Illuminations, fireworks don't start until 9pm. We are doing the same thing on the 31st of May and our ressies are for 745. I figured on watching them from there as well but I was just told that because of ressies and times they will need the seats for people with the later ressies. I do eat slow but I am not thinking it will take an hour and 15 minutes to eat. Heres to hoping it works out for both of us! I was also going to call dining because DH said maybe if we tell them we want seats to be able to see the fireworks then they will know and will work it out for us over the phone, and that way maybe we will be guarenteed seats where you can see them.
Sounds good! Just an FYI I noticed you said your ressies at La Hacienda were at 730 and then hope to watch Illuminations, fireworks don't start until 9pm. We are doing the same thing on the 31st of May and our ressies are for 745. I figured on watching them from there as well but I was just told that because of ressies and times they will need the seats for people with the later ressies. I do eat slow but I am not thinking it will take an hour and 15 minutes to eat. Heres to hoping it works out for both of us! I was also going to call dining because DH said maybe if we tell them we want seats to be able to see the fireworks then they will know and will work it out for us over the phone, and that way maybe we will be guarenteed seats where you can see them.
We figure if it doesn't work out then it doesn't. Not really worried about it, just figured that it would be some place where we could watch and the fireworks might not freak my son out but it is okay if it does not. We will just go on some rides instead. Hope it works out for you.
For the CS in Epcot if your family is interested in something a little different my DW and I were extremely impressed with the meal in Norway. They have great sandwiches and soups, and the cost was very reasonable.
For the CS in Epcot if your family is interested in something a little different my DW and I were extremely impressed with the meal in Norway. They have great sandwiches and soups, and the cost was very reasonable.
Thanks for the suggestion but this is not an option as my DS has a severe peanut allergy and the only kids option is PB&J. Plus he is just not a sandwich kinda of Kid.
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