I agree with @PugLove888, I would really like to queue interactions for Sims staying home on travel. When I first started playing I would queue up interactions for the Sims staying at home, only to find that they are mostly doing stupid stuff unrelated to what I had intended.
There is a bug with the "care for self" option (bug report here - consider clicking "me too" if it's an issue for you https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-Care-for-Self-for-Sims-at-different-lot-not-properly/td-p/6626155) The workaround - click "care for self" after you arrive at the other lot - will work, but only for the lowest need. I read a great explanation of how this all works, I wish I could find the original post to credit. But this is how it works:
When you travel away from the lot, the sims left on their own are not actively "doing" anything, as far as the game programming is concerned. When you click "Care for Self", the game will slowly increase the need bar for whatever was the lowest bar on that Sim. It will continue to fill that bar regardless if other needs fall below it until you click "care for self" again. If you only click "Care for Self" the one time, whatever the need that was lowest will be the only one that is filled. And it will not switch to another need, it will completely fill whatever that one need was and just stop. So, if your Sim was a little bit hungrier than he was sleepy, you could come home to a sim who is dog-tired, needs to pee, is dying of boredom - but definitely not hungry for breakfast.
The key to working it out is keep an eye on the needs bars of the at-home Sims, and click "Care for Self" again when sleep is the lowest need bar. Every time you click "Care for Self", the program evaluates the lowest need, and that's the one that gets filled. So, it is really a hassle as far as I'm concerned - I end up micro-managing the at-home Sims trying to maneuver the sleep bar to be the lowest need on anyone that I want to "sleep through the night". If you can manage to get the energy bar to be the lowest need, then click the "Care for Self" option and leave it alone and they will finally fill that energy bar. Just be aware when you return to the lot, they weren't really sleeping - so the game chooses something for them to do as it loads the lot. I don't know why, but for most of my Sims that seems to be trolling teh forums lol.