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Redrogue60
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

🏨 Hotel Game Pack

Just to be clear what I am going for is a bit of old school luxury in my hotel choices. Something that centers around the aesthetics and service. Also since the Sims tends to skew American I went for more of a Great Britain feel with a bit of luxury Egypt. I tossed in a little Overlook Hotel too. This may not be everyone's cup of tea stylistically speaking, some people maybe want something simple like a bed & breakfast or the great American Road trip where you stay in kinda tacky cheap places.

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Absolute Must Haves for a Hotel Pack 

  • Not tied to any particular world so we are free to place one in any world we want
  • Check In/Concierge Desk in design styles that would match the potential vacation zones.
  • Owned & Managed by player if desired
  • Player can choose the name if the Hotel is owned 
  • Hotel Type
    • Bed & Breakfast
    • Boutique Hotel
    • Haunted Hotel - Spirits Check in but they don't check out
    • Hotel & Casino
    • Hotel by Star Rating
    • Motel
    • Resort Hotel
  • Capable of adding on amenities like (pretty good chance of this given the Hobbies pack):
    • Bars - Pictured is the famous Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel. Artwork done by Ludwig Bemelmans the author and illustrator of the Madeline books. Opened in the 1940's
      Bemelmans Bar named after the famous author of the Madeline booksSims 4 Version of the Bemelmans Bar
      • New Bar Categories 
        • Ice Bar
        • Piano Lounge
        • Vampire Lounge
    • Casinos
      http://www.shop12design.com/portfolio/images/038/05.jpg
    • Grand Ballroom - Most really grand hotels have them for events 
      • Suggested Events 
        • Anniversaries 
        • Black & White Ball
        • Charity Balls 
        • Costume Ball 
        • Masquerade Ball
        • New Years Eve Ball
        • Weddings 
    • Restaurants - Pictured is the The Palm Court Tea Room at the Ritz Carlton, London
    • Spas
      https://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/4UvK_Rr9bZeAMGvHWD08QA/o.jpg
  • Booking Window  
    • Type of Hotel based on star rating and budget
    • Multi-Room Bookings i.e. How Many Rooms are being Booked
    • Room levels
      • Single
      • Double
      • Suites
        • Honeymoon Suite
        • Presidential Suite
      •  Villas
    • Price per room
    • Length of stay
    • How Many Guests? Which room will they be staying. Pet Booking?
  • Dog Friendly  
    Could be a great soft introduction to groomers
  • Staff Uniforms Selectable

  • Haunted Hotel Lot Trait - Some Guests Check In but NEVER Check Out   Haunted Hotel Youtube Video

  • Room Service Menu - Chinese food at a Chinese Hotel, Middle Eastern Food choices for Egyptian Hotels
    • Default Room Service Menu at Un-Owned Hotels 
    • Curated Menu at Owned Hotels 
      • All Current Cooking Recipes to choose from
      • All New Recipes Introduced for the pack

 

Features

  • Service Employees  
    • Aestheticians/Masseuse for Spa (if you have Spa Day)
    • Bar Tenders
    • Bell Hop
      https://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bellhop.jpg
    • Casino Croupiers - No Robots like in Sims 3 Please! that's just Cringe
    • Concierge/Desk Clerk
    • Cook (If you have Dine Out)
    • Doorman
    • Grounds Keeper
    • Housekeeping Maid Service
    • Maintenance
    • Servers (If you have Dine Out)
  • Owners can choose all Uniforms
    •  If I want Housekeeping in a French Maid outfit then that is what they will be in.
  • Locking Hotel Doors
    •  Accessible only to the guests who are staying in the room or service staff.
    • The worst part of World Adventures was if your Sim had any level of fame they would paparazzi come in the rooms at the hostel and snap pictures of them.
  • Hotel Fountain - Pictured is the Fountain at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas
    http://traveldigg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Bellagio-Fountain-At-Night-Aerial-View.jpg
  • New Preferences - Vacation Destinations
    • Cities
    • Deserts
    • Forrests
    • Mountains
    • Rainforest
    • Small Towns 
    • Tropical 
  • Rating the Hotel
    • Star Rating System just like Michelin 
  • Negatives for cheap poor quality hotels  
    • Bed Bugs
    • Broken Plumbing Fixtures
    • Dirty
    • Neon Sign with portions of it going out and making that noise they do when they are starting to expire
    • Out of Service Elevator
    • Roaches 
    • Stained Sheets - Lol wouldn't it be fun to be using a black light one the sheets in one of these! 

 

Hotel Details



Build



Buy




Room Service Menu - I consulted the Room Service Dining Menu of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, also the Ritz-Carlton in London

Breakfast  

Part of the Breakfast/Lunch Menu
  • Avocado Toast
  • Blintz - Cheese
  • Crepes
    • Apple
    • Caramel
    • Chocolate & Pistachio Cream 
    • Nutella & Banana
    • Strawberry & Cream
  • Eggs Benedict
  • Half a Cantaloupe
  • Half a Grapefruit
  • Omelettes
    • Cheese Omelette
    • Denver Omlette
    • Veggie Omelette
  • Quiche Lorraine
  • Pancakes
    • Banana Nut
    • Blueberry
    • Chocolate Chip
    • Peaches & Cream 
    • Pumpkin
    • Red Velvet
  • Smoked Salmon & Bagels
  • Steak & Eggs
  • Waffles (I know we have the waffle iron in game this was originally made before it came out) 
    • Banana Nut 
    • Blueberry
    • Chocolate Chip
    • Pecan
    • Pumpkin
    • Strawberry



Lunch  



Soups

  • French Onion Soup
  • Minestrone Soup
  • Tomato Basil Soup
  • Vegetable Soup



Salads

  • Caesar Salad
  • Cobb Salad
  • Greek Salad
  • Salad Nicoise



Sandwiches - Bonus if you have Dine Out these sandwiches can help make a great Deli

  • Club Sandwich
  • Croque Monsieur
  • French Dip
  • Grilled Chicken Sandwich
  • Pastrami on Rye
  • Reuben Sandwich
  • Tuna Melt



High Tea  

Tea Sandwiches

  • Cucumber on White
  • Chicken Salad on Wheat
  • Egg Salad on White
  • Ham Salad on French Bread
  • Pimento Cheese on Wheat
  • Roast Beef and Swiss cheese with Horseradish on Rye
  • Salmon Cucumber on White



Dinner  

 

  • Beef Stroganoff
  • Duck Confit with Braised Red Cabbage and Cherry Chutney
  • Grilled Pork Chop with Carrots and Mashed Potatoes
  • Roast Chicken with Fingerling Potatoes
  • Steak au Poivre
  • Surf & Turf
  • Wild Mushroom Stroganoff



New Interactions

  • Bed
    • Add Heated Blanket (Upgrade)
    • Magic Fingers (Upgrade)
    • Place Chocolate on Pillow (Housekeeping)
    • Place Rose Petal Heart on the Bed (Goes away upon bed being turned down)
    • Place Towel Art on Bed (Housekeeping)
    • Read Book in Bed
    • Read Magazine in Bed
    • Watch TV in Bed
  •  Hotel Phone
    • Call Concierge to arrange an excursion
    • Call Concierge to arrange Dog Walking
    • Order Room Service
  •  "Housekeeping!" in Simlish when the maid knocks on the door
  •  Pool Lounge Chair 
    • Sip Bar Drink while relaxing by the pool 
  • "Room Service!" in Simlish when the Bellhop knocks on the door with food
gameplay feedback
ideas

172 Replies

  • crocobaura's avatar
    crocobaura
    Legend
    2 years ago
    That would be lovely. Would love if the hotel was pet friendly not just dog friendly meaning that they allow all pets. Would also like if we could order gourmet pet dishes as room service for our pets.
  • SimplyBuilds's avatar
    SimplyBuilds
    Seasoned Rookie
    2 years ago
    Yes yes yes! Finally some others people are talking about this I love the idea of a hotel pack and also create a world ? I started a petition for caw but a hotel one might be next lolll ? link to the petition for caw: https://chng.it/x7SX7zyWN2
  • GlacierSnowGhost's avatar
    GlacierSnowGhost
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    I would definitely be interested in a hotel game pack (similar to the restaurant game pack) that is entirely focused on a really well designed system for making, visiting, and running hotels. I'm most interested in being able to build my own hotel lots, set the uniforms from CAS like we can for restaurant uniforms, build in different types of amenities (pools, gyms, room service etc.), and have it all work like a hotel when I bring my sims there for a stay. I'm not as interested in owning and running them, but I know a lot of players would want that, so I think it should also be part of the pack.

    I do see some potential issues (besides just the usual "things not working properly" problems we keep having with complex systems). One is just the limit on how many sims can be on a lot. Large hotel builds would definitely feel weirdly empty. But small hotels, inns, and bed and breakfast type builds would probably seem fine. There also could be some controversy about needing other packs such as Spa Day or Dine Out to be able to have those amenities on the hotel lot. But I think if they designed it so that any functional objects you put on the hotel lot spawn the right type of employees to run them, and trigger visiting sims to use them, it would be fine. That way players would be able to use whatever packs they have to create really interesting and unique hotels. Could be a lot of fun to see what kinds of weird and exotic ideas simmers come up with using a system like that.

    I currently create fake "hotels" by setting the lot type to spa or restaurant or night club and making rooms up above that main attraction for my sims to stay in. If I want to see other sims spending time in the other hotel rooms, I set up Get Together clubs that come and use the items in the rooms (using rules like "sleep" or "watch TV"). But it would be nice to have it set up to actually work like a real hotel.
  • Redrogue60's avatar
    Redrogue60
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    "crocobaura;c-18306370" wrote:
    That would be lovely. Would love if the hotel was pet friendly not just dog friendly meaning that they allow all pets. Would also like if we could order gourmet pet dishes as room service for our pets.


    I don't see why not since there is already gourmet pet food in game.

    "GlacierSnow;c-18306438" wrote:
    There also could be some controversy about needing other packs such as Spa Day or Dine Out to be able to have those amenities on the hotel lot.


    I could care less about controversy, we have controversy over free stuff that goes into the base game. You cannot make everyone happy. Why should we cater to people who didn't spend the coin over those who did? Besides this is what cross-pack functionality looks like. If you have the right packs new stuff unlocks for you or works in new ways. Almost nothing I listed requires an outside pack to make the hotel work well. If you don't have or don't want Spa Day for example, you still can run a very nice hotel. You aren't being shortchanged. Room Service would work independently from any Restaurant just as it did in Sims 2 you only need Dine Out if you want to make a fancy restaurant within the Hotel. If you have Spa Day then you get to be able to add a spa to your hotel, and it incentivizes Simmers who didn’t purchase Spa Day to do so because having the Hotel pack adds more value to the Spa Pack and vice versa. If you have Cats & Dogs you get to bring your pooch. If you don't have the EP you cannot bring a dog, it's that simple you don't get free dogs just so someone doesn't complain.
  • Player_srr5r59i's avatar
    Player_srr5r59i
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    Unrelated, but... geez, I need to work hard in life so I can stay at a hotel like that someday. XD
  • Redrogue60's avatar
    Redrogue60
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    "LJK;c-18307246" wrote:
    Unrelated, but... geez, I need to work hard in life so I can stay at a hotel like that someday. XD


    I know right. Kind of bucket list stuff. Some pictures I'm not sure where the hotel is but I can tell you some of them.


    • Bellagio - Las Vegas
    • Claridges - London
    • Old Cataract Hotel - Aswan, Egypt
    • Ritz-Carlton - London
  • Player_srr5r59i's avatar
    Player_srr5r59i
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    "redrogue60;c-18307251" wrote:
    "LJK;c-18307246" wrote:
    Unrelated, but... geez, I need to work hard in life so I can stay at a hotel like that someday. XD


    I know right. Kind of bucket list stuff. Some pictures I'm not sure where the hotel is but I can tell you some of them.


    • Bellagio - Las Vegas
    • Claridges - London
    • Old Cataract Hotel - Aswan, Egypt
    • Ritz-Carlton - London


    Thanks for the list. :smiley:
  • Redrogue60's avatar
    Redrogue60
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    "LJK;c-18307300" wrote:
    "redrogue60;c-18307251" wrote:
    "LJK;c-18307246" wrote:
    Unrelated, but... geez, I need to work hard in life so I can stay at a hotel like that someday. XD


    I know right. Kind of bucket list stuff. Some pictures I'm not sure where the hotel is but I can tell you some of them.


    • Bellagio - Las Vegas
    • Claridges - London
    • Old Cataract Hotel - Aswan, Egypt
    • Ritz-Carlton - London


    Thanks for the list. :smiley:


    You are very welcome! :smiley:
  • Redrogue60's avatar
    Redrogue60
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    "LJK;c-18307300" wrote:
    "redrogue60;c-18307251" wrote:
    "LJK;c-18307246" wrote:
    Unrelated, but... geez, I need to work hard in life so I can stay at a hotel like that someday. XD


    I know right. Kind of bucket list stuff. Some pictures I'm not sure where the hotel is but I can tell you some of them.


    • Bellagio - Las Vegas
    • Claridges - London
    • Old Cataract Hotel - Aswan, Egypt
    • Ritz-Carlton - London


    Thanks for the list. :smiley:


    I forgot one The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado
  • Briana2526's avatar
    Briana2526
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    I think I would love for it to be an expansion pack like seasons it doesn't have a world it's not tied to a world. Or have an actual vacation with multiple hotels and resorts like in Sims 2 and 3, have scenic and picturesque scenery, go hiking, swim in the ocean, snorkeling and scuba diving, relax on the beach, have a honeymoon suite with the heart shaped jacuzzi and the heart shaped massage bed. Have rabbithole tours, buy souvenirs, and get a refreshed moodlet like we did in Sims 2.

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