is a 2010 Passporter still good?

[plove53]

I have a 2010 Passporter , and I’m going back to WDW. Should I get the 2013 version, or just stay with the 2010?

I know it’s only $20… (but a penny saved….)

Thanks,
-phil

 

[Marionnette]

I have a 2010 Passporter , and I’m going back to WDW. Should I get the 2013 version, or just stay with the 2010?

I know it’s only $20… (but a penny saved….)

Thanks,
-phil

2010 won't have anything new in it such as the entire Fantasyland Expansion. It will also have outdated show information and nothing about Magic Plus.

I would look for a used copy of the 2013 Passporter if I purchased any guidebook at all.

 

[bumbershoot]

Well, how are you using it? Do you just want the budget worksheets, notes sections, ADR sheets for keeping track of them, and passpockets? If so, the old one will work just fine.

If you are using it for information, however, you are looking at a guidebook that was likely based on information valid in later 2009, then written up and published in 2010. A guidebook that is newly published is usually already a bit out of date, and every year that goes by makes it even worse.

There will be a LOT in that book that doesn't exist anymore, and a lot that's new that won't be mentioned.

Personally, I get the newest guidebook I can. I check out the Unofficial Guide to WDW, Birnbaum (wait, are those the same books? I get muddled there), anyway, I get all the newest versions of books out of the library, then I generally get the latest passporter. (though I'm starting to realize I mainly love the worksheets and passpockets so I might slow down with buying them...and I buy the refill pages anyway, because I have the Deluxe binder from a previous purchase)

On a non-Disney trip I took in the '90s, I was silly and read an out of date guidebook, and because of it got some fairly bad, outdated, information. It wasn't worth the savings at all.

 

[2manypets]

You can go to the Passporter dot com website and click on the book updates section. It has a list of updates since your book was published. Very helpful to save money.