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Make sure you know your song parts and arrangements backwards and that you have your guitar sounds,keys,bass more or less sorted.If the engineer is good he'll tell you if the amps need tweeking here or there.
If you are recording real drums and you play as a band and will record as a band then as Woodman said you need to nail takes which in turn will give you extra time for overdubs and any experimenting you want to do.Spend some time getting a good sound at scource first (engineers job again) as even a badly recorded snare or guitar will still sound bad later on....and make sure the drummer hasn't got 10 year old crappy skins on his kit.
Finally...if you need to book extra time to mix then do so.There's no point in spending time getting a good recording done then only having 30 mins left to mix the tracks and rushing it...chances are after a few listens over the next couple of days you might want to remix anyway so be prepared to spend a bit extra.
.....and enjoy.
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