[terry1156]

If you are not going to be staying with your friends, pick up a coupon city book. It will give you half price on hotel lodging and a lot of discounts on restaurant meals. It will also give discounts on local attractions if you will be doing some of those too. I always buy a book when I'm going to a new city to visit. Never has it not paid for itself many times over and I usually leave it with my friends who live there when I leave and they take it as a great gift.