The survey I alluded to earlier had a ton of questions concerning Express. They also had myriad potential hotel categories & their amenities. One constant, though, that no matter the name used for the top tier, Express was always included for the top tier hotels. Sounds like something they intend on keeping, otherwise they would have had scenario's listed that didn't include Express for top tier levels. From that survey, I would strongly believe that Express will be maintained for Portofino & Hard Rock or any other "new" hotel that was included in that category. Royal Pacific is the wildcard though. Perhaps, if they build another new hotel on the level of Portofino or Hard Rock, they will add Express to that hotel & strip it from RP with a re negotiation with Lowe's, who would probably be operating a new hotel anyway. The other side of the coin is that they would keep some form of Express for RP since that would make it easier to market to conventions. Just my opinions though.