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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I know you can get room discounts thru AAA and discounts on tickets too. We actually got better room discounts from AAA than we did as passholders. Go figure. You can go on the AAA website and check out possible discounts at DTD restaurants.
If you book a trip package with AAA, you get a bunch of vouchers for things like a massage, free mini golf round, some other activity stuff that didn't interest us and a free basic Photopass. What the various perks are changes from year to year, so I don't know what may be current.
It does pay for some, depending on where you want to stay, to book via AAA. We do that because we needn't worry about the details. Our agent books the flight, does the room request with specifications for DH's disability, gets tickets for things like MVMCP, sets up our Passhopper and the like. We paid a deposit and will pay off the bulk in September for our November trip. We like doing that, because then all we have to worry about is making ADR's and getting ready to travel.
Room rate discount is generally from 10%-20% but may be so close to Disney's discounts that it's not worth it unless you really want the other stuff AAA offers. It pays to compare the two before booking.
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We got a great discount with AAA at the WDW Dolphin hotel. It's not a Disney hotel but its on the boardwalk (in walking distance to both HS/Epcot). It gets all the perks of a Disney hotel except ME. Almost all of the restaurants in both the Swan/Dolphin also offer 20% discount w/ your AAA card.
Before we bought DVC we would always book with AAA. There were great perks including free pins & lanyards you could use for trading or fun luggage tags and other goodies. It's worth looking into the package if you are already considering the room discount. Also I a deal saw on our AAA site if you book 7 days at the Swan & Dolphin they give you $200 Disney dollars.
Not as good as a room discount but you can get 10% off your purchase at Earl of Sandwich. I didn't even have to show the card I just asked about the discount and the girl rang it up.
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Not as good as a room discount but you can get 10% off your purchase at Earl of Sandwich. I didn't even have to show the card I just asked about the discount and the girl rang it up.
I wish I'd known that discount was available there. I ate there in Jan and then this month.
Every time I go to Orlando, I tell myself that I have to ask about AAA discount wherever I buy anything and I always forget. I also should do it at home....
Every time I go to Orlando, I tell myself that I have to ask about AAA discount wherever I buy anything and I always forget. I also should do it at home....
Yeah, I know the feeling. We nearly always forget that, too, except when booking hotel rooms online. The chains we like best have a box to check for the AAA discount when you make the reservation. Then, you just show your card (or in our case, the smartphone app reproduction of the card) when you check in.
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When I saw this thread, it gave me an idea to check the prices for tickets at AAA. We need to buy one adult ticket for our trip in July. I checked the price for a 10 day hopper pass with the water park fun and More option. The price is within a few cents of the special price offered by Undercover Tourist with the Mousesavers discount. The only bad thing is that you have to go to the AAA travel office to buy the ticket. They do not mail them. There is one very good thing about the ticket through AAA. When you pick up the ticket, you are given the AAA Diamond parking pass for all tickets more than 3 days. This parking pass gets you very near the front of parking lots. I was told it is as close as you can park without a handicap parking permit. I will pick this up soon.
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Beware that the AAA room discounts may be only for certain dates. if I remember correctly our April/Easter trip last year didn't land on the dates in fine print listed in the AAA brochure, and we did not get a room discount, but you still get the vouchers for extras on a Magic Your Way package. I think some of the bonuses were a AAA member special parade viewing area and a story time with a princess character.
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