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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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:
Date: January 10th - 17th
Adventurers: Me - Ashley 36- 9th trip, DH Kevin - 44 - 10th trip, DD Abby 6 - 4th trip
Resort/Hotel: Polynesian
Celebration: Our last vacation with only our little girl as our baby boy(2 month old) will not be going on this trip but will be on all future trips!!
Destination: WDW
Date: Jan 25th - Jan 31st
Adventurers: Rhonda (me), Larry (dh), Laura 13, Ashley 11, Ryne 8, Tyler 8
Resort/Hotel: SSR
Celebration: Trying a different time of the year
Meetings: Nothing planned
Destination: WDW!!!!
Dates: Jan 5-12
Adventurers: Me (Andie), DH, DD (Abbigail, 8), DS (Andrew, 7 by then), and DD (Bethany, 4)...DH took the youth group to Magic Kingdom one day a few years ago while they were on a trip to Orlando...first time for the rest of us!
Resort: Port Orleans Riverside
Celebration: Our FIRST family vacation, EVER that doesn't include going to visit family!
Meetings: Nothing planned.
We are just SO excited to be able to finally go on a trip...of any kind! And to get to go to WDW...just icing on the cake. We are all so excited and are already marking the days off of our "countdown to Disney" calander. I update the days till disney on the kiddos lunchbox notes every day. I honestly don't know who is more excited, them or ME!!!
Destination: WDW
Dates: Jan 21 - Feb 1 (although we drive to Portland, Maine on Jan 20 for our flight, we are actually at WDW from the 21st to the 1st)
Adventurers: Me (Jo-Anne), husband Kevin and son Noah (13)
Resort: All Star Movie
Destination: WDW
Dates: January 11 to January 25th
Adventurers: Lisa (me), Brian (DH), Lindsay (DD - 4), Caitlin (DD-4), Ginger (DM), Judy (DMIL), Brad (DBIL)
Resort/Hotel: Cypress Pointe Resort (we have a time share and were able to exchange for this resort for both weeks of our vacation
Celebration: 4 year old birthday party (X2) for DD's - and their first time at WDW
Meetings: none planned yet, but would love to meet some PP'ers
I can't wait!!! We have plans for the girls to celebrate their birthday with lunch at CRT (with a BBB appointment just before). I am so excited for them too!! I don't have as much time for planning as I would like, but whatever time I can find is spent planning or message board reading.
Destination: WDW
Date: January 2-9, 2009
Adventurers: Me, DH, Luke, Chat and Lucy's already there!
Resort/Hotel: Polynesian Club Level Lagoon View
Celebration: Do we really need a reason?
Destination: WDW
Date: January 13-22, 2009
Adventurers: Me, DH, 2 DSs & 2 DDs
Resort/Hotel: Pop Century but praying 2 rooms open up for ASMusic
Celebration: My 40th birthday & each of our kids birthdays on different days
Destination: WDW
Date: January 13-22, 2009
Adventurers: Me, DH, 2 DSs & 2 DDs
Resort/Hotel: Pop Century but praying 2 rooms open up for ASMusic
Celebration: My 40th birthday & each of our kids birthdays on different days
We are there for your entire vacation (11th to 25th).
The players; Rob-DH, Cora Blue-DD (10), Franklin-DS (8 months), Daphne-my sister, Taylor my niece,and Me(Amanda)
The Dates; January 16th-25th
Where;WDW
Day one- Take flight 1/16/09
Arrive at White Plains Airport at 12:30 check in and wait for our Airplane to take us to the happiest place on earth. We should leave at 1:59 pm if our time doesn’t change between now and then. This will get us in at 4:30 pm. We will hopefully arrive at Pop Century around 6-6:30 pm. We will catch a bite to eat at the food court, Take a swim and go to bed.
Day Two-Magical Beginnings 1/17/09
This day will be spent at Magic Kingdom Arrive at opening after a quick breakfast at Pop. Lunch at 11:30-Cosmic Rays. Dreams Come True Parade at 3 pm Dinner at Crystal Palace at 5:05 Spectro Magic at 7 Wishes at 8pm
Day Three-1/18/09
This day will be spent in Magic Kingdom. Arrive at opening after a quick breakfast at Pop. 10:00 Family Magic Tour, Lunch 1:20 Pecos Bills, Skip parade Dinner at 6:30 Tony’s Town Square Stay for Fireworks depending on Franklin.
Day Four-1/19/09
This day will be spent in Animal Kingdom. Arrive at 7:30 for EMH Head straight for EE for Fast pass. Lunch at 11:30 Resterauntasarus.4 pm Jammin Jungle Parade Leave AK by 6:00 for dinner at Boma’s at 6:45
Day Five-1/20/09
This day will be spent at Epcot. Arrive at 7:30 for EMH. DH will head straight for a fast pass for Test Track then will meet us at soarin. Lunch at Sunshine Seasons in the Land 11:30. Don’t forget to find the coke area Dinner at Rose and Crowns at 7:30(may try to reschedule for an earlier time) 9pm IllumiNations.
Day Six-1/21/09
This day will be spent in Animal Kingdom. Arrive at 8:30 after a quick breakfast at Pop. Visit the same location for lunch 11:30. Leave around 3 pm take a break at the hotel and then on to the Contemporary for dinner at Chef Mickey’s at 7pm
Day Seven-1/22/09
This day will be spent at DHS. Arrive at 9 am after a full breakfast at Pop. We will head straight for fast passes at Woody’s new ride, Toy Story Mania. No Lunch, Block Party Bash at 3 pm then onto Hollywood and vine for our Fantasmic dinner package 4:40pm. Fantasmic at 7pm.
Day Eight-1/23/09
This day will be spent at Epcot. Arrive at 9am after a quick breakfast at Pop. Liberty Inn in the American Pavilion for lunch at 11:30 Dinner at Coral Reef at 7:00pm
Day Nine-1/24/09
This last day L will be spent at Magic Kingdom. Arrive at 8:30 after a quick Breakfast at Pop. We will head straight for the Barber for Franklins first haircut and Cora’s first Disney haircut. Lunch at Harbor house for DH and Cosmic Rays for Cora and I. We will end the day with dinner at CRT at 5:40 Spectro Magic at 7pm and Wishes at 8pm.
Day Ten-!/25/09
Catch plane at 10am
I'm still working on our plan, but maybe we can meet up. We have a lot of days that overlap.
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Destination: WDW
Dates: Jan 30- Feb 7
Adventurers: Me (Beverly-18th trip) and DH (Mitchell 4th trip)
Resort: Pop Century
Celebrations: Our Anniversary 01-02, and My birthday 1/31
Meets- nothing planned yet
Destination: WDW/Disney cruise!!! Date: Jan 8-11 for the cruise, and Jan 11-18 in WDW Adventurers: there's a lot of us...DM(46), DF(47), me(22), Dsis#1(20), DSis#2(16), DBro(14), DBF(23), and sister's bfs (20 and 19) Resort/Hotel: Pop Century Celebration: The trip is a gift from my parents to celebrate my sister and my graduation from college (although really, that is 2010 for me and 2011 for my sister..they have a lot of faith in us actually finishing)
Destination: Walt Disney World Date: Jan 12th (flying into MCO @ 9:30am) to Jan 16th (departing @ 2:00pm ) Adventurers: Me (Deanna), my gf (Steph), and 2 college friends (Jackie and Suzanne). This is my girlfriend's first Disney trip, but the rest of us are Disney veterans. Resort/Hotel: Pop Century Celebration: Because grad students need some excitement too! Meetings: We're part of a larger group from our school, who set us up with a fantastic-super-awesome deal. If you see a bunch of crazy kids wearing Monmouth University shirts, that'll be us!
Destination: Walt Disney World!
Dates: January 6th to 15th
Adventurers: Me, DH, DS (9 yrs, almost 10), DS (7 yrs), and DD (4 yrs, almost 5)
Resort: Port Orleans Riverside
Celebration: Our first trip to Disneyworld and really one of our first family vacations to somewhere together other than visiting family (not counting camping!)
We planned the trip before realizing that it overlapped Marathon Weekend. Dh is super excited because although he has completed triathlons before, this will be his first marathon (and especially memorable since it's right through DW!)
Meetings: Nothing planned, but would love to meet up with others!
KSTink - We have a lot in common! Similiar travel dates, same resort, and we even used to live in Kansas (Olathe)!
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