In The Last Jedi, the resistance fleet, seemingly about to be destroyed, fortuitously comes across the planet Crait, and Leia "reveals" a plan to stealth down to the planet to escape. This is news to the audience, who thus far knew that Admiral Holdo's plan was... to just keep running until they died?
...or was it?
Did Vice Admiral Holdo know about the presence of Crait and/or intend to go there all along?
Answers directly from the movie are preferable, but other canon material is also acceptable.
Incidentally, if she did know about Crait, why was this information not shared with the rest of the resistance command? Corollary question discussed here, though I would prefer an explanation from canon material instead of speculation.
Answer
Both Leia and Holdo knew where they were going when they executed their jump. Leia had info about a last-ditch, middle-of-nowhere base that they could use and Holdo must have known about their destination since Leia spent much of their journey unconscious.
The film's Visual Dictionary is very clear on who knew what and how.
THE LAST GASP of hope for the Resistance is the otherwise uninviting mineral planet of Crait, tucked in a remote sector of the Outer Rim Territories. This has been Leia Organa and Amilyn Holdo's secret endgame - bunkering down on a former rebel world that had fallen off most modern starcharts. The Resistance's penchant for using old rebel-era caches and facilities is part of Leia's strategy, for she alone has a store of navigational information from the early days or the Rebellion that she has never shared.
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