The basic offer is hotel rooms at half the usual price. To get the discount, you must first buy a directory of participating hotels with an ID card bound to the inside cover. If a room is available at that price, you can reserve it, then show your Entertainment ID card when you check in, and pay when you check out, as usual, by cash or charge card. It also includes some dollars-off airline coupons, restaurant deals and other travel promotions. Whether you get the discount depends on how full each hotel expects to be.
Some hotels add blackouts at peak time periods.
Moreover, even when you do get a discount, you can t be sure it s a full 50 percent off the rate most other travelers pay. Often, the reduction is calculated from a phony list price that nobody actually pays. Still, in my experience, you get a big enough reduction, often enough, to justify spending the cost of joining. If so, you don t need to buy another. But if you don t already have a program through some other source, Entertainment is probably your best bet.