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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Are you planning a trip anywhere in August 2013? If so, share your dates and plans with your fellow travelers here! Here's some suggestions to get you started. You can copy and paste it into your post or rearrange it as you see fit!
Destination:
Date: (when you'll be there, arrival to departure)
Adventurers: (who's going with you, their ages, and their experience)
Resort/Hotel: (where you are staying)
Celebration: (why you are going, even if just for R & R)
Meetings: (places you'll be at if others want to join you, plus ways fellow travelers can spot you, such as wearing a PassPorter Pin, etc.)
Feel free to post even if your plans aren't firm -- you're always welcome to return and update us when you've made more plans!
When you return from your trip, we encourage you to share your adventure with us in one of our Trip Report forums!
Hi Everyone I haven't been on here in a really long time but the kids and I are planning our next trip - hoping that we can take it!!
Destination: Legoland, SeaWorld, and of course WDW
Date: August 13 - 21, 2013
Adventurers: Me, Jackson, and Kerry
Resort/Hotel: POP Century and maybe the Nickelodeon Hotel
Celebration: Because this is the year of the big trip - we try to take one every other year...
Meetings: None planned yet...
Aug 16-24 Wilderness Lodge 2 bedroom villa Daughter and Hubby their children who will be 8-6 & 2. Pop and I and 3 of our other Grandchildren who will be 9-7 & 3.
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Love the Magic of Disney Thanks Dad for our first 5 trips.
Destination: Orlando
Date: (arrive 13th August leave 28th August)
Adventurers: (Me Hazel 45, DH 48, DD 18, DS14, DS10)
Resort/Hotel: (3 OKW, 6 nights Treehouse villas, 3 AKV Kidani, 3 nights BLT) I must be mad!
Celebration: (Celebrating DD's graduation and her last family holiday before she leaves home. in fact she flies straight to her new destination when we leave and DS10 's birthday)
Meetings: (I'll be the one moping up my tears cos I don't know how I am going to cope with going back home without DD)
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Scottish Hogmanay (with a stolen Picture)
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Destination: WDW and other WDW parts (Magic Your Way package)
Date: Aug 11 - 17
Adventurers: DH - 41, DD - 13, DD - 7
Resort/Hotel: Art of Animation
Celebration: We normally go every 2-3 years.... and it's that time.
Meetings: none planned
Destination: WDW
Date: August 3 - August 9
Adventurers: Me (45), DH (RobDVC) (44), DS (16) and DS (13)
Resort/Hotel: Bay Lake Tower - Lake View
Celebration: A Little R&R before DS 13 begins high school and before DS16 and DS13 begin high school soccer tryouts.
Meetings: Always looking to meeting our fellow Passporters!
Destination: WDW
Date: 8/24-9/1
Adventurers: Me (32) & DD (9)
Resort: AoA right now is booked but will probably upgrade to a Mod
Celebration: DD's early birthday celebration
Meetings: One of my friends lives in Canada & meets up with us each trip with her son
My family is going to WDW the last week of August. In 2011 free dining was offered then. We are going with our friends, they haven't been to disney in years They have 3 kids 15,12 & 10. My husband and i have 4, 22,20,18,16. I have 2 weeks on my time share im going to lose if i don't use them, but i did love free dining. Do i hold out and wait? I called dining and they said they don't know when free will be offered and any new offers wouldn't be available til the recent one is done mid June. Not sure which way to go!
Destination: WDW
Date: 8/13/13 - 8/20/13
Adventurers: Me age 46 & dd age 18 (plus db, dsil & dniece)
Resort/Hotel: Caribbean Beach Resort
Celebration: A little late but celebrating DD's high school graduation (6/10/13) and her 18th birthday (6/16/13) and a little just us time before she head off to Princeton University!!!!
Meetings: None yet but always open
Destination: WDW and Sea World
Date: August 9th to August 19th
Adventurers: Me (37), Lenny (52) and Abby (12)
Resort/Hotel: AS Sports
Celebration: to see the new portion of Fantasyland and to get away
Meetings: None but I'm sure people will see us - we're hard to miss
Destination: WDW
Date: August 20 - 26
Adventurers: me & DH, our 3 daughters: 17, 8, & 5. Plus our niece who is 20
Resort/Hotel: 2-bedroom villa at Old Key West
Celebration: celebrating our wedding anniversary, DDs 9th bday, nieces 21st bday, and DD (5 yr old) first official Disney trip ( she went as an infant but we don't count that)
Meetings: none planned but would love to!
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Destination: WDW
Date: August 20 - August 26
Adventurers: Me, DH, DS (14), DS (8) also my mother and father
Resort/Hotel: 2 bedroom villa SSR
Celebration: DS Aiden will turn 8 the day we arrive
Meetings: Always looking to meeting our fellow Passporters!
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Destination: WDW
Date: 11 Aug -- 18 August
Adventurers: Me (34/4th trip), 8 others including DH, Mom, 2 sons (17 and 6), Sister and her family
Resort/Hotel: Villas at Wilderness Lodge (got a GREAT pin code)
Celebration: our first extended-family vacation
Meetings: up for anything!
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"There are moments of life worth purchasing with worlds."
We are still in the planning stage but looking at Aug 20-30 or somewhere around there.
We want to stay in AoA.
This won't be Disney inclusive. We hope to get to Busch Gardens and go and see The Gator Boys too.
We are a family of 4: dh 48, me 47, ds 12 and dd 7.
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Destination: WDW
Date: Aug 11 - 19
Adventurers: Me, DH, DS (13) and DD (18 months). We have quite the age range to manage!
Resort/Hotel: POFQ
Celebration: DD's first trip and our anniversary
Our last visit to WDW was on our honeymoon at POFQ in Aug 2009. It's so strange to be going back the next visit at the same time to the same hotel, but with 2 kids. We've never traveled with a toddler like this before so we're kind of flying by the seat of our pants!
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I haven't been on here in a really long time but the kids and I are planning our next trip - hoping that we can take it!!
They have 3 kids 15,12 & 10. My husband and i have 4, 22,20,18,16. I have 2 weeks on my time share im going to lose if i don't use them, but i did love free dining. Do i hold out and wait? I called dining and they said they don't know when free will be offered and any new offers wouldn't be available til the recent one is done mid June. Not sure which way to go!
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