EPCOT passports

[Lovin' Disney]

Can someone fill me in on the passports you can buy for Epcot? We are planning on 2 days at Epcot, one on the future world side and one on the countries side. We thought the passports might be fun for the kids to do. Here are my main questions:

-Where can I buy a passport?
-How much is it?
-Where do I get them stamped?
-Are the kidcot stops worth it? Or do you get a lot of bulky junk to carry around all day?

Any information from those who've done the passport thing would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[DisneyDaddy-O]

We did the free kidcot station stuff a couple of years ago and the kids thought it was a lot of fun. You get to color a mask in the first country you visit and then take it to each Kidcot station and they add a small paper charm to the mask and stamp it.
It is not bulky at all really and worth stopping, it gives you a opportunity to get into the buildings and look around while the kiddies are looking for the station.

We did the passports this year and they were about $10-12 if I remember correctly. You get a Epcot button a passport and a bunch of stickers.
Same sort of thing, you go to each station and only this time the CM writes something specific about that country in their language. Very neat interaction. There is a spot in the passport for each country, so you have a cool keepsake when the kids are done.

Hope this helps

 

[Lovin' Disney]

Thanks, that gives me a little bit of info to work with. Has anyone else tried the passports?

 

[laughinplace199]

We just did this last week. The kids loved it! I have a DD9 and a DS7. They've done the Kidcot mask thing on other trips and weren't interested in doing that again, so we got the passport. I just bought one and they shared it. We didn't make it to all of the countries, so we'll be bringing it back on our next trip to finish it up.

 

[trennr]

My DS 14 did this a few years back with the passports. He may have been 10-11 at the time. He liked it...and it give them aneat souviner.

We bought his passport at Mouse Gears in Epcot. It was somwhere in the $10 neighborhood.

 

[smurfie]

we just did this. The kids (5 and almost 3) loved going to each kidcot station to get their mask handle stamped (as well as their passport) and the dangly cutout added to their mask. Plus at each station something was written in the passport in the language of the country.

While they did that I sought out the penny machines to get a penny from that country.

 

[susykt4]

If your kids are impatient or shy you may want to wait until they are older to do the passports. My 6-yr-old son didn't enjoy the passports at all. He likes making the masks and getting the charms, but didn't like the much longer wait for the CM to fill out the book. He can also be shy sometimes so didn't like the extra attention brought on by the passport.