passporter yes or no?

[tink9285]

How helpful is the passporter? I really want the deluxe edition but dh doesn't think that we really need it with all the info i get from all the wonderful people on the boards. Could someone tellme a little more about the passporter? And are there any discount codes for it? thanks

 

[TootyJane]

How helpful is the passporter? I really want the deluxe edition but dh doesn't think that we really need it with all the info i get from all the wonderful people on the boards. Could someone tellme a little more about the passporter? And are there any discount codes for it? thanks

Personally, I decided against buying the Passporter. I got more helpful information here. HTH

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I purchased the deluxe for those times I cannot get online and my inquiring mind wants to know. I will take it with me on our cruise and make use of the handy-dandy pouches inside. I am a very organized person...sometimes too much for my own good.

 

[miclen]

I just bought a Passporter. We are going to be going on our second DLC in August. I actually haven't read anything in it yet that I didn't know from reading these discussion borads. other websites or from my previous cruise. The one plus to it would be that your have all the info to carry with you and you don't have to trust your memory about what you read on the Disboards.

 

[lbgraves]

We have the regular DCL passporter & I read it on the trip down to our first cruise & referenced it several times during the week. We took it on our second cruise to look at the port info the night before.

 

[emememem]

I bought one and found it very useful...plan to bring it with me on our Aug. cruise.

 

[TiggerKing]

Absotively, posilutely get one if this is your first DCL cruise. DW and I bought one for our first cruise last year, and the information was great. Like another poster stated, it may not contain much more information that you could find here, but it does organize it all (and some of us are too cheap to pay for internet access on the ship to visit the DIS).

I also like the fact that it lists the excursions, and provides feedback ratings on the excursions from other cruisers.

We have booked our second cruise for this year, and I will be buying the updated book for reference. As far as discount codes, if you go to their web site and download the "sneak a peek" version, it will automatically give you a 20% discount towards the purchase of the full book.

Hope this helps!

 

[Scott H]

I think the DCL and WDW guides by Passporter are the best out there. They are a good companion to the information available here of the DIS boards. I just got the DCL Passporter and think it is great. I keep all our old guides (Burnbaum, Unofficial, Passporter) as references when we want to see how things have changed.

 

[kb1esx]

Hi, I first started using the Passporter with the WDW version. They are great!!

Besides the book being a great offline resource, the Passporter Pockets are a great help for organizing paperwork & keeping a journal of the vacation.

The family usually spend a few minutes a night or the next morning making notes about what we did or liked.

I think you need to get the Deluxe DCL in order to get the Passporter Pockets.

David

 

[branv]

I posted this before I read one the other day at Borders, and I decided against it.

I LOVE my WDW Passporter, and I wouldn't part with it for the world. There's just too much at WDW to remember it all. But DCL isn't large like WDW...there aren't the same # of options Everything I read in the DCL Passporter, I'd already learned online.

Now we are also going to WDW prior to our DCL trip, and I am taking my WDW Passporter with me. There are so many days worth of those little folders in the back, that I am able to put all my docs/info in for each day in the park AND my days on the cruise. But even if you have no need for the WDW one, you can create your own little binder with binder folders for individual days. (also helpful b/c DH is a huge receipt keeper)

If you have a bad memory, maybe it's a book for you. But I have an average one, and can still retain most of the basic info you need to know and can find online: stateroom info, restaurant info, event/sights of interest. Tips and the ins/outs of cruising have become pretty imbedded simply thanks to repetitive studying on this trip We pretty much know exactly what we want to do before we board, and with the new online system, we can book it beforehand. Since I've planned it before I even arrive, I won't have any need to pick up a book while on ship and say "hmmm, not what was the name of that restaurant" or "what should I do today?" If that WERE to happen while I was on ship, or we should change our minds, all I would have to do would be to pick up the daily Navigators.

I simply don't see where I would benefit from taking the Passporter with me on the cruise, and that makes it a useless purchase for me.

The only cruise related things I printed up that I plan to take with me? Maps to the port, I cut out the deck plans from the booklet that came with our planning video, our confirmation emails for car/airline/DCL/reservations.

Again, some people don't want to devote this much time to seeking out this info, so it' being all in one place works for them. Some people have just terrible memory retention, so it's of benefit. I'm neither of those people I'm so organized and pre-informed for every tip I take, it's rather frightening

 

[HeelMD]

Bought it recently for the upcoming second Disney cruise and I wish I had gotten it prior to our first.