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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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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06-22-2006, 09:00 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: London, UK
Posts: 1,468
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAD !!!!!!!!
I just tried to book our ADR's and I can't do it. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shameonyou.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shameonyou.gif[/img]
After having spoken to Disney Dining yesterday where they confirmed that I could start to book our ADR's today as I was arriving on Dec 15th and staying at the Dolphin I am now being told that I can't. I have just had a LOOOONGGGG conversation with Guest Services and they told me that the 180 + 10 days DOES NOT APPLY to the WDW Dolphin or SWAN hotel !!!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
I am so angry I could cry. I now have to call starting June 29th EACH DAY for my ADR's from Dec 26th till Jan 2nd.
I think I'm going to go mad...I'm boiling !!!!!!!!!!!
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06-22-2006, 09:26 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/pout.gif[/img] That must be very frutrating for you. Take a deep breath and count to ten and before you know it, your time will be here! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
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06-22-2006, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
I don't think you will have to call each day.....pretty sure you can do it all at once at 180 days from the start of your trip.
If I'm wrong, I'd just wait until 180 days from your last day and make them all at once....you shouldn't have a problem getting what you need at that point.
Shoot...I made all my ADRs for times I wanted less than 90 days out.
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06-22-2006, 09:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,176
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/sorry.gif[/img] Think happy thoughts about the trip...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-22-2006, 09:50 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ohio
Posts: 641
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
I would call back and talk to a different CM. When I called at the 180 day mark I was told that I could only make ADR's for the first day because the other days were more than 180 days away. When I called back the next day to make ARD's for that day I was told that I could have made all of them the previous day because it goes by the first day you check in.
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06-22-2006, 10:41 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: nyc
Posts: 9,580
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
well, just to clarify..
the 180 + 10 applies to Disney Resort guests only. Not DTD Resorts, not SOG, just Disney. If a CM lets you book 180 + 10 and you aren't staying at a Disney resort, well, they're wrong. They're supposed to be taking a reservation # too to verify.
for the OP, I'm pretty sure you'll be safe just calling 180 days from your check-out date and making all your ADRs unless there's something in particular you really don't want to chance.
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06-22-2006, 10:44 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 3,958
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
I think the issue is that the Dolphin is not a WDW owned hotel (nor is the Swan), so the 180+10 does not apply. I go w/ the suggestion that unless you have something really hard to get, wait until the 180th day before the last day of your trip and call.
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06-22-2006, 12:08 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Songtan, South Korea
Posts: 4,681
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
Awwwww. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/sorry.gif[/img] Be happy and enjoy the planning of your magical trip. It will be wonderful, no matter what.
Laura
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06-22-2006, 12:23 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Mahopac, NY
Posts: 3,460
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
is 180 + 10 mean you can book your adr's 180 days from arrival and for up to 10 days of your trip???
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06-22-2006, 12:26 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: nyc
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
yes
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06-22-2006, 12:45 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35,829
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
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06-22-2006, 01:20 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MD
Posts: 2,038
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
I called 180 days out and got all the ADRs I wanted.....don't be mad!
SOG is 180 days out too, it's just a bother to have to call everyday.
Chin up!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-22-2006, 02:48 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 2,586
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
We stayed at a DTD resort on our last trip and booked for the entire trip at 180 days out from our date of arrival with no problem. I wouldn't worry. After all our planning at booking 180 days out, I discovered there were things I needed to change at the last minute (when we were already there) because there was no way of knowing that far in advance when some of the shows would be, and that they would be impossible to see with the meal times we planned. I even got ADRs for the Princess luncheon in Norway the day before. I don't think you have anything to worry about.  |
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06-22-2006, 06:08 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 3,451
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
Pixies to brighten your day!
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It is so frustrating when a CM tells you one thing & then another CM
says something different. Cheer up and just remember you're going to WDW. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img]
When you call 180 days from arrival just start booking..don't ask..just name
your restaurants & times! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/chef.gif[/img]
I bet you'll be able to reserve them all.
I hope so...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-22-2006, 06:18 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Arlington,Texas USA
Posts: 2,555
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Re: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
I agree, call back. I made all our ressies on Sunday for Dec. 15-25. I called back yesterday and booked the last two days of our trip (day 11 and 12). When I called yesterday the cast member started to tell me I couldn't book yet. I told her I was checking in on Dec. 15 and she let me book.
Not sure about the Swan and Dolphin problem, though.
tenya
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