How We Paid as Little as Possible for our Vacation Part 2

Our family went on our first "real" vacation a few weeks ago.  We had a wonderful time and were thankfully and miraculously, for us, able to pay for it upfront and in cash.  This is the second in a two part series of how we did it.  If you would like to read the first part you can find it here.

• We packed a cooler and took as many condiments and non-perishables as we could.
• We didn't take a lot of food with us, but there were some items like mayo, ketchup, butter, and lunch meat that were easily packed and saved us quite a bit once we arrived and didn't have to buy those things. 
• We wrote to the local chamber of commerce and received visitor guides with lots of coupons.  Did this save us much.  Heck no!!!  But a $1 on each of our admissions adds up to $4 and when you multiply that it is still a decent savings.
• We bought restaurant coupons from restaurant.com and signed up for Living Social.  I wasn't able to get anything good through Living Social, but if I had started earlier I'm sure it would have been a great help.  We are planning on going to Disney next year and I am getting ready to sign up for both Groupon and Living Social in Orlando. 
• Use your reusable water bottles and fill those babies up with good old refreshing water!  While this didn't save us hundreds of dollars it certainly saved us a good amount.  We used them when we were driving and when we went out on excursions.  Along those same lines, when we went out to eat we drank water too.  When you think about a soda costing $2, it can easily add up to over $10 a day on drinks.  Our vacation was 7 days so that is $70 saved (I'm sure this figure is low too).  Wouldn't you rather do something fun with that money?!?!

I would love to hear how you have saved money on your vacations.