MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) - Gas prices are on the rise and experts predict the trend will continue. AAA says the average gas price in Myrtle Beach Sunday was $3.50 a gallon. That's up 25 cents from last month and 29 cents from last year.

With gas predicted to cost even more in the next months, AAA Myrtle Beach's Tracie Lawrence says there are ways to save at the pump or other places.

"{You can do that by} utilizing the AAA memberships, or their grocery store frequent buyer programs, their traveling frequent buyer programs. And those things add up, especially groceries. You're using that and buying those things anyways," she says.

Lawrence adds that vacationers can be strategic and and map out quick routes and plan far in advance. She has because gas doesn't just go up for drivers.

"When gas goes up it affects travel across the board. Because you do see increase, the cruise ships, they take fuel, the airplanes, they take fuel, the trains they take fuel as well," she says.