Rent it with a Kitchen

If you are going to be out of town for a while see if you can swing a room that has a kitchen area. Even if it's a little more you can cook in your room and save the price of eating out every day. When the wife and I took the family to Gulf Shores this year we shopped around for a cancellation and got a great deal on a condo with a kitchen! We cooked ourselves and probably saved ourselves a hundred dollars a day doing so.