<p>VHFather,</p>
<p>Thanks for the recommendations! We’ve had great success with priceline and hotwire over the years for hotels. Haven’t tried it for a car yet, but heard the same recommendation from someone else who had good luck with a car rental that way recently! </p>
<p>Our S, who graduated college in '10, visited U of I, Purdue, Iowa, Wisconsin, and ISU the summer after his sophomore year in hs. He planned all the trips, printed directions from mapquest and did all the driving while I got to relax and read the whole way there and back
: ) He always used priceline or hotwire to book the hotels, and knew all about strategies for rebidding and adding zones, etc. He is sooo very different than D; he always knew how to get real world stuff like that done, while she has always been completely focused (obsessed?) on academics. He never signed up for a single AP class, had a job year-round all through high school, and squeaked into U of I by just barely making the top 20% of his class. Funny how two kids in the same family can be so different!</p>