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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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 cant find where they are offering free didning in 2009 ? Are they ? and when if so? THANKS A BUNCH
No they have not offered it to residents of the U.S. YET. I believe that residents of the U.K. were able to book late last year for the same time frame as the offer from '08.
In a nut shell, if the economy keeps going the way it is going, I am fairly certain they will be offering some kind of deal like they did in 2007 and 2008 with free dining.
If and when they do offer the deal, you should start hearing rumblings around the end of March beginning of April for dates around the end of August to the end of September.
If an announcement comes, it will probably come in mid-April... with bookings starting for Disney Visa cardholders the first week of May and open to the general public the next week.
Assuming, of course, that they go with the way they've done it the past few years.
Eileen
i added free dining to my reservation I made last year and they did not have to rebook. when i made the reservation in late Feb/early March I specifically asked 10 times if we could add free dining to that reservation or if we would have to rebook and they said it would be no problem for them to simply add the free dining plan to our existing reservation.
what are the chances that they will offer something like this in October? I understand that given this economy, anything can happen, but is the F&W and MNSSHP such a draw that they typically don't do this kind of thing then?
fyi, they r going to again offer the buy 4, get 3 free booking begins 2/9 thru 8/15, not quite the deal as free dining, yet maybe they'll extend this yet again
I wonder if your going to stay 14 days if u buy 8 days get 6 free? LOL Just a thought ..................... We gonna try to stay long trip this time so we can relax, look , then relax, then look ...etc ... u get the idea
I wonder if your going to stay 14 days if u buy 8 days get 6 free? LOL Just a thought ..................... We gonna try to stay long trip this time so we can relax, look , then relax, then look ...etc ... u get the idea
Wonder i that would work if you book the two weeks seperately, as two diferent reservations?!?!
I wonder if your going to stay 14 days if u buy 8 days get 6 free? LOL Just a thought ..................... We gonna try to stay long trip this time so we can relax, look , then relax, then look ...etc ... u get the idea
as long as u don't link the ressies, don't see why not...2 separate ressies, not a big deal to have bell services to store (or move) your things. If you want to try & stay in the same room @ initial resort, you can call the hotel direct 7-10 days ahead of time & let them know; usually agreeable as it saves them time from turning over the room
probably should crunch some numbers, depending on level of resort (bigger %savings on deluxes as i see it), it might be even more economical to upgrade to APs with 1st set of tix; especially if u can see yourself returning for next trip within a year of activation
great to see so many different offers this year, if things don't get any better economy wise; they may get even better
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), it might be even more economical to upgrade to APs with 1st set of tix; especially if u can see yourself returning for next trip within a year of activation
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