I feel like this whole PTR should just start from this post. LOL so many changes since we first started planning.
A little storytime...
As excited as we were to stay at Coronado, our excitement was quickly squashed when rumors started to fly about free dining. 1- we weren't sure if our dates would be included, 2- moderates were possibly now getting quick service not standard dining. Now i know free dining isn't a better deal for everyone but Billy eats a lot, i like table service meals, for us its a great deal! Paying for food or paying to upgrade the dining plan AND staying at Coronado would put us way over budget. April 24th came and it was official, free dining was for our dates, but only quick service for moderates. We knew this meant we needed to downgrade, so back to POP we went, but wait... There was NO availability. There was no availability for any values with free dining
We already bought our flights and really could no longer afford Coronado, so i was desperate to take anything i could get. We booked a room at All star sports with a room discount, while it wasn't perfect, it would allow us to stay onsite and pay for food (no desserts
) without going over budget. I knew there was a chance that POP might open up within the next couple weeks but we had already waited weeks for the offer to come out, i had spent all day trying to just get through to someone on the phone, was not able to modify online. I was kind of done and went to bed defeated. The next morning Billy was up super early for work, he woke me up so i thought id check the WDW site just to see if there were any changes. Lo and behold there were! Not only was POP showing available but so was Allstar movies and sports! I really did not think it would happen so fast! Still could not modify online but I had 15 minutes until the phone lines opened and my hopes were high. I swear i must have been the very first person to call Disney that morning, because i got right through to a nice lady. Nice lady tells me that there is nothing showing on her end and i ask if i need to just cancel my old reservation and make a new one because it was showing on my end. She puts me on hold and when she comes back, she tells me okay she can do free dining at POP. WOOHOO! She goes over all the details and its all sounding good, then she reads my balance... it seemed low but i thought eh i can look into it later. After i get off the phone i cant stop thinking the balance and how that number came to be and now i am worried she messed something up. Its 4am my time and i had to get back to bed so i decided it was fine and if something was in fact messed up i could deal with it later. Just then i get an email with the confirmation of the changes "Great this will set it straight!" As i read the confirmation i see nothing about dining, nothing at all. Our tickets were wrong too, not a big deal, that i knew i could fix later. But i could not sleep without confirmation we got free dining, so i call back, 90 minutes plus phone wait. Okay im being crazy i tell myself, its fine and i need sleep. The second i got to work , i jumped on the computer and looked at my reservations. It was now showing i could modify online, YES! When i go into modify i see POP but still see no free dining, just a room discount and now the total makes sense. I am not sure how it happened but basically she never added free dining just left the room discount. Its now 8:30am and i am worried the deal is gone. But it wasn't! I was able to change everything online and can now say i'm sleeping easy knowing our plans are set
SOOOO HERE WEEEEE GOOOOOOOOO Lets update these
Who: ME! (Ciara) and my boyfriend (Billy)
What: Our 4 year anniversary trip to WDW
Where: POP century
When: September 13th-22nd
9/12
We are crazy people who like to fly red-eye
Off work by 4pm, flight takes off at 6:20pm
9/13
Arrive at mco @5:00am
DME to resort
Fingers crossed room will be ready and we can nap
Typhoon Lagoon
Epcot
Dinner @ Spice road table
9/14
Rope drop Avatar land
Late lunch/early dinner @ Raglan road
Back to AK for nighttime shows
9/15
Epcot
HS
Dinner @ Mama melrose
9/16
HS
Dinner @ 50's prime time
9/17
Breakfast @ OHANA
MK
MNSSHP(no tickets yet)
9/18
Blizzard beach
Epcot (food and wine)
9/19
MK
Lunch @ Teppan Edo
Epcot (food and wine)
9/20
AK? (usually a one day park, unsure if we will want to go back for half day)
MK
Dinner @ Chef mickeys*
9/21
Our Anniversary!
Breakfast @ BOG
MK
Afternoon tea at Grand Floridan(may cancel, dont want to over do it)
Dinner @ Cali Grill
MK
9/22
Plans are up in the air, will probably make us some HS fastpasses
Leave WDW @ 3pm
Flight leaves 6 something
*I took out garden grill for chef mickeys, just worked better for our plans.
Coming all the way from Oregon and our schedules it always works best to do a red-eye flight. We fly out of Portland at 6:20pm and arrive in Orlando at 5:01am. Fingers quadruple crossed our room will be ready like last time and we can nap, otherwise we will be "those people" sleeping by the pool at 6am 
I'm glad everything ended up working out for you though!
