When my brother came to visit me I helped him planned his trip.  For most of the trip he would be staying with me and driving to his destination from my house.  He was going to need a rental car so I looked up the best car rental prices for him and found him a great deal on a car that he would be able to keep for his whole trip.  A couple of his excursions were going to take him farther than he would want to drive in a day so I also found him some good rates on single nights at very high class hotels.  I sent him all of the information before I booked it to make sure that it was OK with him and he told me he was so relieved to have someone who knew the ropes handle things for him that he wanted me to just book it right away.