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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Hi...Our family will be staying at PORR from August 27th to Sept. 2nd. I would like connecting rooms with a riverview in one of the mansion buildings, preferably Oak Manor (bldg. 90). Can anyone recommend rooms that connect that have a good river view? Thanks for your input.
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You'll have a better chance of getting what you want if you don't request specific rooms. List your requests in priority order. Example:
1. Connecting Rooms
2. River view
3. Magnolia Bend
Put them in whatever order you want. If you request specific rooms and they're not available they won't know where to put you. Also, be aware that Water View rooms are higher priced and include not only river view, but also pool view. There is no guarantee that you will get a view of the river if you pay for water view. That being said, if you're more general (see above) you have a better chance.
IMHO, water view isn't really worth it - partly because you may get a pool view, and partly because you don't have a balcony - so you won't always be leaving your shades open for a view (or else everyone else has a view of you too!)
We paid extra for a waterview at POR requesting a river view. We ended up with a view of a quiet pool (which was not always quiet ). The view wasn't that great and definitely wasn't worth the extra over the course of 10 nights. Still it was our first Disney on-site trip so the boys loved it and we learned about how to list requests better for next time.
I wouldn't pay the extra money for river view...like the other posters said, you might end up with pool view. And with a need for connecting rooms, it will be even more difficult. I'd just book standard view. There are no balconies, you won't want to leave your curtains open all the time with people walking past...it just isn't really worth it. Having said that, if you still really want a river view, you can put your requests in order of preference and state that...I've faxed before saying In order of importance, I'd like 3rd floor, facing the Volcano Pool, would prefer Samoa."
For you, Connecting rooms should be the number one, it is the most difficult to fill. So you might say:
1. Connecting Rooms
2. View of the River
3. Would prefer Oak Manor or another Mansion
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POR, POFQ, Pop, AKL
Club Level: Polynesian, WL, YC, and BWI
I did POR river view once and it was totally not worth the extra money. Because of the common walkway, you can't leave the blinds open, so what's the point of the view? I had a good view of the Sassagoula, and it still wasn't worth it
Hi...Our family will be staying at PORR from August 27th to Sept. 2nd. I would like connecting rooms with a riverview in one of the mansion buildings, preferably Oak Manor (bldg. 90). Can anyone recommend rooms that connect that have a good river view? Thanks for your input.
Hi,
I am assuming you have a "water view" room booked. I would actuly suggest that you change to a standard view room as the water view rooms at the moderates are not worth the extra money due to all of the moderates being set up like motels in the sense that the door to your room is going to open onto a public walkway so you will have no balcony or patio to sit our on and even though you might have a water view booked it does not mean that you will see the river. You could have a view of the pool or fountain. At a moderate the view is really not that important due to its set up.
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). The view wasn't that great and definitely wasn't worth the extra over the course of 10 nights. Still it was our first Disney on-site trip so the boys loved it and we learned about how to list requests better for next time.
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