How far in advance do you plan?

We always go in January so that much we know way in advance. By Feb we usually know where we want to stay. As far as what we will do, we talk about possible things we want to try but the real planning starts about 7 months out. By the time we hit the 180 mark we already have our meals planned. When going with others we try to make our meals make sense in as far as keeping the park hopping to a minimum. However when it is just the two of us we go for where we want to eat and just work around that. Last year and this year we have been lucky enough to do an extra trip. Those trips were planned 7 months in advance and 14 months in advance.

We're a lot like scrappy and mr. hub in that we work around meals, pretty much. We decide where we want to eat, and then build around that. Back when the ADRs were 90 days out, we would plan 6 mos or so in advance, but now we're going to have to start thinking farther ahead!

When we're not doing a short, last-minute trip, we usually plan about 6 months in advance. We have to wait for annual passholder hotel discounts to come out, so it doesn't really behoove us to plan any earlier -- we might not get the dates we want.

I've heard a lot of people on here mention that they always have their next trip planned before they leave any vacation. Sounds like a good plan to me!

Definitely depends on the trip. Sometimes we plan months in advances, sometimes we see a deal and hop on a plane. Recently we seem to do neither though.

I'm a planning freak, so at least a few months ahead. Depends on if I have other trips happening before then. I can only focus on one trip at a time.

I would love to hop a plane at the last minute and head to WDW for a weekend, but the cost is so prohibitive.

That works a lot better if you go often enough to have an annual pass and live in an airline hub. Do you have a nearby airport that can fly direct to Orlando?