The Blue Board

Avoid Epcot, it's awful

Weather: The norm is around 65/45 that time of year.
Parks: Depends what your looking for. Magic Kingdom has the most rides. Epcot has some restaurants. Animal Kingdom has well animals. MGM is mehhh. Check out park hopper passes.
Hotels: Couldn't tell you I live here

Florida weather is weird. Right now it is 80 in Orlando but it can be 50 in two weeks, last year I didn't even have to wear a jacket except for 3 days so it is a toss up on whether it will be 70 degrees or 4o degrees in January. For the most part the weather doesn't get too cold. EPCOT is alright, it doesn't really have too many rides so you can get through the park fast. A lot of people go to EPCOT on the day they leave because they will go to the park in the morning and get done around 2 or 3 and catch their flight or drive back home. EPCOT is a cool place for adults because they have a whole bunch of different countries so you can go get beer and wine from all over and get different kinds of food from all over the world. Disney World and Animal Kingdom are cooler than EPCOT imo. No clue on resorts though because when ever I go it's either just for the day or I stay in a regular hotel.

Also make sure you ride Splash mountain first. No true theme park experience without being soaking wet, uncomfortable and cold forcing you to buy $50 tshirts. Good Stuff

PS yes people really do this

Stay at the safari hotel. The rest of the Disney hotels suck. But the back balcony of the safari one opens up to where they keep the giraffe. You can feed them from your back door. Your kids will love that. Magic Kingdom is the best bc of the rides. Animal Kingdom is a zoo. The rest suck, IMO. Busch Gardens in Tampa is the best theme park in Florida. Then Islands of Adventure/Universal Studios.

We went last Christmas and had a blast, weather was nice.The parks get very crowded during December so January should be perfect. I have a child with special needs so lines were never an issue. The only rides at Epcot that are worth anything are soaring and test track.

Stay at the Port Orleans on the grounds! Orlando is nice during the day and chilly at night.

Illuminations, Soaring, Innovations, the Country Walk (Especially the Wine Tasting), Nemo says otherwise ...

Get to the parks when they first open in the morning. That way you get through everything you want in a few hours. Then you can go back to the hotel for a nap and head back to the parks at night.

No, its not cold. A hand full of days get in the low forties. It's a laugh to anyone who has lived above the mason dixie.

No idea why people don't pay extra for fast passes. I almost felt guilty passing by hundreds of people on rides where I'd wait 5 min and they'd wait a hour but that guilty feeling went away pretty quickly because anyone has that option and chose wrongly.

Been to Disney many times.

1st - I really like EPCOT... great place to relax and they have some really good rides. We did the world booze tour. Get the speciality drink in each country

Our favorite place to stay is The Wilderness Lodge. Not cheap (nothing at Disney is), but a nice place.

You are going at a time when the crowds will be the smallest, so that is good...however park hours will be the shortest.

A lot depends on who is going with you... kids, ages??? If you have little kids stick to the magic kingdom and stay close (grand floridian, Poly, contemp, wilderness lodge)

If no kids, I would stay at the beach club (stayed there once, really nice) you can walk to epcot

The animal kingdom lodge is out on the boonies. It is nice, but it takes forever to get to the other parks.

The best advice for a disney trip is to plan ahead for everything. The more organized, the better off you are.