We just got back from the Hard Rock using the Entertainment rate. Although we were not too impressed with the hotel, we did not see any dogs (6th floor garded room), the front of the line made it well worth it. When you consider that 2 express booklets for two parks cost $30 bucks each, that makes our rate of 134.00 a night a real bargain!!! Another great deal is City Walk Bucks. I really havn't read too much about these but we paid $100.00 dollars for $125.00 worth of City Walk bucks that are good for any store or restaurant on City Walk except for Emerils. They come in $5.00 bills. You cannot tip with them and cannot get any change for them but you can work around that with cash. I read about them on Trip Advisor and asked at Concierge about them. I don't know if you have to stay at Universal hotels to get them or not.