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?

EmmaVane
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
Going to a swimming pool is a good day out. Though make note of the weather in it's home world so you can pick an indoor or outdoor one appropriately. I always have at least one outdoor public Pool venue in game, usually in Oasis Springs (instead of a Gym, though not necessarily on the Gym lot). I usually add an indoor public pool too a Gym or Spa lot. Other things to add to pools, to give them more of a waterpark vibe are the waterslide, fountain of butt, water balloon bucket, beach towels/loungers/pool floaties to relax and sunbathe, and a pet food bowl and ball to throw if you allow dogs to visit.

An Arts Centre is great for any sim into music, painting, or other crafts you choose to place there. Other things to consider adding are pipe organ, digital mixing deck, DJ booth, workbenches (sculpting), tables with blobs of clay, wax stations, floristry benches, digital sketchbooks, cross-stitch supplies, murals and photography equipment. I like to switch up the "still life" displays that painters and photographers use occasionally too. Might be worth adding a stage area with acting marks/mirrors etc too, if you want to add theatre to "The Arts".
moderateosprey
New Spectator
3 years ago
"crocobaura;c-18042998" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;c-18042969" wrote:
"jennieeffin;c-18042949" wrote:
I know Eco Lifestyle gets a lot of hate, and I myself have disabled NAPs, but the Community lots are amazing for day trips. I first realized this playing CatSaar's amazing makeover of the one factory lot on the Waterfront: https://catsaar.tumblr.com/post/630887016013430784/factory-one-community-garden-the-community-has . I found that the sims used not only the expected items on the lot (gardening plots, bug thingies), but really interacted with the ping pong tables, kitchen, vendor tables, food stalls, etc.

This inspired me to raze the other two community lots in Evergreen Harbor and instead add them to other worlds. Because I play semi-realistically, sims that live in Mt. Komorebi, for example, can't just hop on over to Willow Creek. Instead I group my worlds into where I think they'd all be geographically, and any world outside of that requires a vacation to visit. Now each one of my world groupings has a Community Center, and I've added all sorts of things to them: pools, yoga studios, tvs, co-working spaces, even laundromats. Sometimes my sims, especially gardeners or freelancers, spend all day at those dang lots.

I have been dropping the EL community lots all over my world as well. I have not had a chance to use them in anger yet, as I am still placing them. But what bit I have done - they work great.

My only complaint is the difficulty in changing their type in neighbourhoods with no residential lots.

They work the same, so unless there are visual changes to the lot, you don't need to change their type. Most of the time I don't bother placing all four versions at all, just one is enough. I tried to change the lot type through playing once and it took my sim a whole weekend to do so, with barely any food and bathroom breaks, so even through playing it's not very easy to change the lot type, if you wish to do that often.

Yeah, I have done that. My intention was to use each slot for a different set up according to the season.

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