If you make your reservations early you can save some major money!  Example…..When my mom came to visit me in California I kept saying that we should reserve our rental car early to hold the rate of $15/ day.  But we forgot to reserve it with all of the problems of organizing everything else.  Big Mistake.  We ended up renting a car from the front desk with no reservation and we had to pay $60/ day for a beat up economy car!  Now this wouldn’t have been so bad, but we rented the car for 5 days!  So we ended up paying $225 more than we had to!  Learn from other peoples mistakes lol.

There are quite a few websites out there that you can use to reserve your car, hotels, air fare, and other things as early as possible.  The website I use the most is cheaptickets.com, but there is also a few other sites out there like orbitz.com, and kayak.com and you can use these to compare and find the cheapest rate.  I also have these and other helpful links on the sidebar.  Use them and don’t wait till the last minute!