When my mom, our friend, and I decided we'd go to Disney World for my 21st birthday, we thought we'd do it on the cheap. Stay at one of the value resorts and upgrade to the Dining Plan so that we wouldn't have to worry about spending so much money.
And just like always, that's what we did. Our travel agent got us the quotes for a few of the value resorts and we decided on Pop Century.
But, like all almost 21-year olds that change their minds a lot, I decided value didn't sound like any fun. So we upgraded to a moderate.
That spiraled a few months later when Disney opened the free-dining package, and it didn't include the one moderate resort we were planning to stay at.
And then it happened . . .
The only resort available that had free dining left was Animal Kingdom Lodge!
