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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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Great start! Looks like a very nice lounge to wait for your flight. How do those work? Can anyone pay to use them, or do you have to be a member of something?
FWIW, when stuck with a 10 hour layover in Mexico City, we paid to use the AeroMexico lounge. No questions asked, just pay and there you go. It was wonderful too!
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Sorry you didn't have a great night's sleep. That was one expensive breakfast buffet!! Thank goodness the price was included in your room. The lounge looks very nice and a great place to relax before the flight!
That looks like such a nice airport now. they really are doing it up nice. Great hotel too.
It's nice it included the breakfast. The lounge looks really fancy too. soon you'll be on your way!
Great start....already up to four pages....I better make sure to check in each day or else I will fall behind quickly!
Glad you enjoyed a nice dinner before heading to the hotel. I often sleep poorly the night before a trip...and the the bigger the trip, the worse I sleep. Hopefully, you caught a few zzzz's on the transatlantic flight. Nothing like passing pre-flight time in the lounge; it is a nice, pampering way to kick off the vacation!
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I have a hard time sleeping the night before we leave on vacation, especially if I have to fly. I know staying in an unfamiliar bed would just add to that. Interesting how it dumped you into the duty free shop. It had to be awful not being able to breathe though! Poor little bear pegged to the wall. It just looks so...awkward.
Definitely a nice breakfast spread but the price did seem steep (you would think that you would have been eating with characters visiting your table )
But included in the room did make it much more reasonable. Looks like you found the perfect spot in the lounge to relax until it was time for your flight.
That is a huge breakfast buffet, but even then, the price seemed very high, especially for someone like me who prefers a light breakfast unless it's 10:00.
Let's face it - at those prices, you need to be able to eat a heck of a lot to get your money's worth!
FWIW, when stuck with a 10 hour layover in Mexico City, we paid to use the AeroMexico lounge. No questions asked, just pay and there you go. It was wonderful too!
Sounds like the perfect way to handle a 10 hour layover!
That looks like such a nice airport now. they really are doing it up nice. Great hotel too.
It's a lovely airport and quite small, with just the two terminals, which is why we much prefer it to Heathrow with its five terminals. I'll be interested to see what it's like once all the improvements are finished.
Great start....already up to four pages....I better make sure to check in each day or else I will fall behind quickly!
It's a bit busy, isn't it? I just logged on this morning, and couldn't believe how many responses had been added since last night.
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Glad you enjoyed a nice dinner before heading to the hotel. I often sleep poorly the night before a trip...and the the bigger the trip, the worse I sleep. Hopefully, you caught a few zzzz's on the transatlantic flight.
Not really, but thankfully we were Ok for the day...
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Nothing like passing pre-flight time in the lounge; it is a nice, pampering way to kick off the vacation!
I have a hard time sleeping the night before we leave on vacation, especially if I have to fly. I know staying in an unfamiliar bed would just add to that. Interesting how it dumped you into the duty free shop. It had to be awful not being able to breathe though! Poor little bear pegged to the wall. It just looks so...awkward.
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