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Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
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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.
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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.
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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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Apologies if this has already been asked - Im 60 days out from my trip and I have the link for the BOG FP Lunch - however, I can only get as far as the reservation number?
I have entered BOTH my invoice number and the number linked with my WDW stay neither are triggering - any ideas?
Hi and Welcome to the boards. The number you need is a twelve digit number like ADR confirmation numbers. Different people get it different ways but even if you're able to log into the website, you won't be able to get anywhere. I'm 30 days out from my trip and still can't get anything (I've tried here and there over the past few weeks out of curiosity). Most people who have been successful at actually getting the FP for BoG have received an "invitation" from Disney to get one. Others who have gotten them have done so between 30 days and under up until the time they actually check into the resort. Hope this helps
I had the same thing happen to me today for our candlelight processional reservation. I even put it in manually in My Disney Experience and it didn't work.
Upon calling MDE support, they told me that sometimes they have to refresh your itinerary on THEIR end. I would suggest calling WDW and asking for the MDE help desk. Explain your issue and gently suggest that they might start with refreshing things on their side. It's worked for me before, as well - they only listed MY park passes, and no one else's in my party, even though I'd paid for them. Once they refreshed their info, BOOM - everyone showed up.
The people I've spoken with at the MDE help desk have been really wonderful and do a LOT to help you. It's always been a positive experience for me.
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The number you need is a twelve digit number like ADR confirmation numbers.
I have asked this on another thread and now I see it asked here again but no one seems to be answering the question. Where does one find this twelve digit number among the vacation package information?
You may have to call Disney to get the "all numbers" one needed for the BOG FP. That's what we had to do last fall when we were trying to get this FP.
We were told that what was needed was the resort confirmation number rather than the numbers we had which were both letters and numbers. The CM quickly looked up the all-numbers one and gave it to us.
You do also have to be within 30 days of your arrival date for that site to work. As to whether or not you need to have been invited, I'm not sure. I've seen people post that they had not received an invitation when they got an FP through that site.
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You may have to call Disney to get the "all numbers" one needed for the BOG FP. That's what we had to do last fall when we were trying to get this FP.
We were told that what was needed was the resort confirmation number rather than the numbers we had which were both letters and numbers. The CM quickly looked up the all-numbers one and gave it to us.
You do also have to be within 30 days of your arrival date for that site to work. As to whether or not you need to have been invited, I'm not sure. I've seen people post that they had not received an invitation when they got an FP through that site.
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We arrive on 2nd Aug and got out invite on 8th Jul...... went on immediatly but was very little availabvle but got booked for 4th Aug.
One thing I noticed is not connected to the My Disney Experience itinary and after you have booked and left the site you cannot go back to view, confirm edit.
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