Best Lot Type for Roller Rinks?

I recently downloaded a lot from the gallery that surprised me at first, but I really love it now: it's a replacement lot for Planet HoneyPop, and it's a boba/thrift shop with a roller rink on the first floor. So now all my trendy YAs in the Fashion District can meet up at one venue for boba, shopping, and skating. It's not a combination that I ever would have thought of myself, but it's surprisingly great.

I've also planned for a while now to update the Worthington's retail venue (MP) into more of an approximation of a mall, so it might be fun to put a rink in the first floor there, as well.

Oh, but to answer your question a bit more specifically: if you were going to make the roller rink the sole focus, I would probably just make it a park (and then hide the other mandatory park objects, like in a locked underground level).

Park works well. Lots of child and teen sims show up at parks and use the rink. You just either have to create a logical reason for also chess tables there, or hide them as @Amapola76 suggested.

I added a lounge to the snowy section of Mt. Komorebi and put an ice skating rink on it. Sims would skate there all the time. A bar or nightclub would most likely work too.

I like cafes and bars. I have a cafe with roller rink in Windenburg. My ice skating rinks are in San Myshuno (indoors) and Mt. Komorebi, both are bar lot types.

"GalacticGal;c-18223036" wrote:
I've never placed a roller rink in my game, but my best guess would be Generic for the lot designation. Especially, if that's the only thing going on said lot.

Generic would mean no other visitors. Pretty lonely roller rinks.

"RedShoe7;c-18222753" wrote:
I added a lounge to the snowy section of Mt. Komorebi and put an ice skating rink on it. Sims would skate there all the time. A bar or nightclub would most likely work too.

That is a great idea!

I put a skating rink on a community space lot and it works pretty well. But most often I don't bother to add them to lots due to their size and the fact that they are already available in the neighbourhood space and just use those.

I like having a roller/ice skate rink in a park. You can still have picnic area, chess, and the play area, or even a food stall or 2. That way everyone can enjoy it, choosing which activity they want to do. I also built the old Sims 2 roller rink for my Sims 4 and put a cafe area in it as well as arcade games. I use the cafe lot type .

I've never placed a roller rink in my game, but my best guess would be Generic for the lot designation. Especially, if that's the only thing going on said lot.