How many trips do you have mapped out in advance?

[Pdollar88]

My brain is wanting to roughly plan at least three trips, spanning a year. I’m going in September but am already thinking about trips in January and May 2019. This will be my second year as an AP holder.

So how many do you juggle? Have I lost it completely?

 

[jimmalru80]

Usually two per year. We leave in a week and will return late October/early November.

 

[Templemom]

Two, solo in July and next Nov I'll take my youngest on a joint birthday trip, our birthdays are 5 days aprts

 

[DisneyWishes14]

I've got three going right now - August, November and December.

 

[dachsie]

I have two current and two to do. Am going in Sept and Dec and then plan to do a trip in Jan-Feb and then May

 

[AngiTN]

I have two booked at this moment and a third that I have dates figured out that I need to get on booking, I will get it done before 60 days out. There is a 4th trip we are tentatively thinking about for October butt that one will need to coordinate with other parties first.

After that, we'll go back for New Year's if we don't have a bowl trip

 

[Jadyreen1282]

One long. One short.

 

[eeyorepixie]

I am planning now my August Disney trip with one DD, a August Bermuda family cruise, a December Disney trip with another daughter and hoping to book bounce back for our big family trip to celebrate my third daughters graduation for next August.

 

[hereforthechurros]

One. We finish our current trip and eye up possible dates for the next. There’s too many other awesome things to do and experience to have WDW monopolize time off and vaca funds.

 

[ellbell]

I have 3 so far, and 2 tentative. I'd have more if I were able to figure out how to snag more vacation time and if I also didn't have 2 cruises booked because hubby isn't a Disney guy and insists on vacationing elsewhere occasionally.

 

[jeff_h]

We have 3 this year (never been more than twice in a year but just bought APs) and maybe another in January for marathon -- another trip, another tab on the spreadsheet.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

I only truly focus on one at a time. Brain just can’t process much more.

I may have other dates booked at any given time, but I’m not ‘really’ focused on them until after the current trip.

 

[GirlDreamer]

I live too far away to plan more than one trip at a time. We usually go every other year anyway, as that's often enough for us. Going more than that would be too expensive as trans-Atlantic flights are quite costly.

 

[Pdollar88]

I only truly focus on one at a time. Brain just can’t process much more.

I may have other dates booked at any given time, but I’m not ‘really’ focused on them until after the current trip.

This is basically where I'm at. I just wondered how many dates folks juggled. My primary focus is my solo September trip, but I have dates in January and May picked out for traveling with other people in my family.

 

[KenHutch]

We only go every 3rd year so I am already planning our 2021 trip. This planning is getting interesting because we are moving to off-site. The pay for your car thing was my breaking point. And this site is still extremely helpful especially Swan/Dolphin section and people.

 

[loves to dive]

Not sure what you mean by map out, we will be there next week and I'm pretty sure I'll be back some time either Sept. or Oct. for F&W solo. I don't plan anything in advance except about 30 days out I'll book a resort. I don't book FPs any more in advance than the day before, usually the day of and ADRs are booked the day of while walking around the park. Once, I've booked a room for F&W and the special events and meals are announced, I usually book one pairing meal and a couple of seminars. The meals tend to book up pretty fast although last year I did decide to try to book one about 2 days before I went and decided if it wasn't available it was a sign I didn't need to go, it was available. My son and have been taking a short 4 night trip the week before Christmas for the past few years but he is graduating from college this summer so it depends on if/where he gets a job as to whether that will happen this year. I'm semi-retired, beginning this year I went from full time salaried to 40 hours a month hourly so my income has decreased considerably. My boss is gearing up to shut down the company so I never know from month to month if I'll even be employed. That makes any kind of advance planning kind of hard because all my retirement funds are tied up in harder to access accounts (on purpose).