Where do you take your Sims out for the day? Do you have a favorite lot or residential neighborhood maybe for a day trip with a Sim family or an evening night out for a couple or place to recommend for a single Sim to wander around for a few hours? I keep my Sims on the home lot mostly, except for work and the occasional San Myshuno festival or rare vacation. I want to take my Sims out more to explore other neighborhoods and lots in the game. Lately I've started wandering around Newcrest since it has always been a ghost world until I just built it up. Had no idea there were even some tall buildings here.

I often take my sims to Sulani for a day of sun and fun on the beach. Also Granite Falls for fishing and foraging. My sim parents spend date night in San Myshuno. Usually dinner and dancing. My Ladies Who Lunch club goes to a spa and restaurant in Newcrest. My sims spend a lot of time outside of the house. Father daughter dates. Playdates, etc.

Most of the time, my sims stay home, but they do make some occasional day and night trips. Where they go on their trips depends on the occasion, the combination of sims, and the sims’ likes or interests. For my romantic couples, I often have them travel to the local default world bars or to a custom restaurant I have downloaded. Once in a while, I’ll send my sims to the festivals, depending on the festival of the day.For my families with children, my favorite place to send them is Granite Falls. If the family lives in the Sulani world, then I often try to have them live close to the beach, or have them travel to the beach area.

I would say I keep my sims fairly busy. I don't like for them to spend every day at home, unless its fall or winter. Of course they will still spend plenty of time at home, but they tend to travel somewhere for a day a few times a week.What I like to do is to download nice, big parks from the gallery packed with plenty of activities which I usually place on the big lots in Willow Creek, Oasis Springs and Brindleton Bay. I edit the parks to be family, especially toddler and child friendly and dog friendly so the whole family and sometimes extended family can have a good time. I also use the parks for family reunions and dates.I like to send my sims to Mt. Komorebi for the day for some hiking, snowboarding, skiing and rock climbing.Sometimes I just send my sims out and have them do specific activities, for example one sim will do fishing while the other one will paint the scenery with the sketch pad.For teens I like to organize after-school club meetings at different locations. For example I downloaded a nice, big art center where they can practice their music and art skills. I also downloaded a really cool cafe, which has a small apartment on the top floor where the teens can do their homework and practice other skills like logic or research and debate for example that will prepare them for university. I have also had a gym club where they gather at a local gym to workout together.For my current sim I have a yoga/spa club for her and her sisters. They regularly gather at a big spa and keep in touch through the club meetings.For evening activities I like to replace simple bars with karaoke bars, where my sims will gather with friends and family.My sims go to festivals in San Myshuno and Mt Komorebi fairly often.I will also have my sims visit their family members a lot. And they live almost all over the world, so it is fun to get a change of location frequently. If my sims have a big enough garden, they tend to throw a lot of parties like weenie roasts and costume parties at their own place and if my sims have a tiny garden they will throw and host a party at a family members house which also works great.I don't send my sims to Sulani, Selvadorada or Granite Falls just for one day, because then they would not feel like special vacation places to me anymore.edited to add:Sorry, I know you asked for specific locations, but a lot of the above activities can be done in any world really.Another thing I remembered is that I am currently looking for parks in the gallery that will have season-specific themes and activities. For example I want to find a christmas market or village where they can travel in the winter and a pumpkin patch where they can go in the fall.

I have lots of different places my sims like to spend time, but for a whole day out I like to use my water park place. It has a pool shaped to skirt around the edge, playground items, beach type areas for sunbathing and bbqs with picnic tables.Or they can go to an actual beach if they live near Sulani ?For the more Wintry zones I have a big lot in Mt Komorebi where they can ice skate, do indoor activities or lunch by the fire. It is also situated so they can go off-lot for hiking, skiing etc.

I quite like the Bluffs from Get together. It's a nice place for a picnic and a swim and its solitary.

Best day trip locations in the game?

JaggidEdje
3 years ago
"cyncie;c-18040400" wrote:
I got the mod that notifies you of the Sulani festivals, so they do those when they want a beach day.

Thank you for this post!

I love going to the various festivals in the other worlds where I do get notifications. I'm going to start using this mod immediately. I found it right away with a google search.
MaggieMae7276
Seasoned Rookie
3 years ago
I use Newcrest as my place for community lots, usually with restaurants, karaoke bar, bowling alley, skating rink, a park, a spa, and retail shops and cafe with arcade. Where they go depends on the sim family and ages of children. I usually save Batuu, Selvadorada, Granite Falls and Sulani for family vacations.
mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
Sometimes I don't do much, but when I do, I really like the open air swimming pool in Windenburg, or I send sims to the beach.
RouenSims
Seasoned Traveler
3 years ago
My favorite places are the lots I created, including the concert venue.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Great idea for a thread! :) I play different households, mostly they are busy with their goals, but occasionally some might travel a bit. Sulani and Selvadorada are favorites, and some also visit Oldtown of Windenburg. I got lodging in most worlds.

I have made up local history including a few sights for tourists to visit in each world. That might involve some of my older families. I also play a traveling agency's tour guide and use the Groups (GT) to bring together sims for the next trip, then the guide will take them to various locations on that destination, it's quite fun and just a little bit chaotic, LOL :)
bshag4lv
Seasoned Adventurer
3 years ago
I love sending my sims on day trips! My active sims will usually start out the day with a trip to one of the gyms I tweaked, followed by lunch at one of the bars in Windenberg, weather permitting and the sims are outdoorsey, they will probably head to one of the parks to get some fishing in, some b-ball, maybe skate. I have tweaked the parks in WC and OS to include other activities.

My outdoors sims will usually go to the beach at Sulani during the winter days and the peaks of Mt. Kormorebi to ski and snowboard during the summer days.

Most of my sims vacation in GF, Selvadorda, or even Batuu.
Monet11
New Spectator
3 years ago
I send my sims out to Oasis Springs a lot. I have made this into a high tech, city destination. Or at least I pretend it is a city. The architectural style is modern, and all the lots are built of metal and glass. Nothing is single level. I have lounges, night clubs, restaurants, galleries, a library, park, pool, and a spa. It's really a fun place to go. I also send my sims to Brindleton Bay Salty Paws Saloon whenever they go on blind dates. It's great regardless of the time of day, and there are always cats to talk about. Plus, it's fairly easy to slip away from if the date isn't going well.
sikoah
3 years ago
@Monet11 I love this idea. I'm going to have to do this in my game. Things are in need an update. Especially Oasis Springs.

I send my Sims out often. They do a little retail therapy from time to time. I don't use Mt Komerabi much at this time, I'm still turning it into a vacation spot in my current save. But cafes, restaurants, night clubs, bars, bowling allies, parks, pools, day spas, a library and so much more are used in my game.

In my supernatural save Batuu and Strangerville are must go places for all of my Sims.

I have a large park that is set up for both indoor and outdoor activities, depending on the season and the weather. There is outdoor pool, a little spot where they can get ice cream, they can sit inside or outside, a bowling alley, fishing spot, and small arcade where they drink coffee and burn their energy playing games.

I did revamp the lots in Granite Falls because it reminds of the some of the National Parks I have visited. A lot of them have restaurants that are popular with visitors and locals (think Roosevelt Lodge in Yellowstone National Park) so I put in a restaurant that simulates this idea. A nice cozy café, a day spa, and then a couple of cabins.
elliandre
3 years ago

One thing I started doing with the parks is I have put families in social clubs of their own and then set them to socialize only with their club and then set the location to their local park, so it's nice to sometimes see a whole family together at a park when I do go there. I also have couples set in clubs for themselves, set to socialize with their own club, and added their local bar or lounge. So they are usually sitting or chatting together when I go to the bar.

Editing lots for seasons is something I'm so excited to try next. Especially since there are those seasonal food stalls and winter ice rinks.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Take them to the beach in Sulani. Bramblewood is fun, too, if you have Cottage Living. Skiing in Mt. Komorebi is also fun.