Hotels

Lilsimsie showed a tweet that the sims team has hinted hotels! Watch her trailer reaction on yt, at 11:22 she shows the tweet. Someone from the community asks SimGuruGraham about snow depth and if there will be any hotels, and he only answers that there will be no snow depth (possible meaning that there will be hotels?!) We have to cross our fingers for that!

"WallSims4ever;c-17698322" wrote:
Don't we already have Airbnbs in the game? I can see no difference between the rental system and Airbnbs.

I hope a Sims airbnb would mean owing a second property, not having to pay each time sims go on holiday. I pretty much make vacation homes now on retail lots that never open. It would be nice if you could just own the second home and possibly make some money renting if they gave us a bnb option.

"WallSims4ever;c-17698322" wrote:
I can just go there and spend the day, without paying for a vacation, and just come back home at the end of the day. Same thing with Sulani. Why would I pay for a vacation there if I can go to the beach for free any given day?

@WallSims4ever

1. It's more realistic to pay for your vacation
2. Sometimes I want to stay longer than one day and need a place to stay
3. Putting beds or tents at a beach lot or restaurant lot just doesn't work the same,
4. I want to own a vacation home without having to move out from my house

"alanmichael1;c-17695301" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17695290" wrote:

"alanmichael1;c-17695276" wrote:
There are rental homes in the world.

Those are not even things they had to program, they already had them in Outdoor Retreat.

It depends ... If we can place rental lots in every world now it would be one of the biggest steps in TS4 history.

That’s just sad. Rentals were in the first DLC pack for this game, and they were accidentally enabled in Sulani before the devs disabled it citing their mistake. With all that in mind it seems like this didn’t take much to enable (since they managed to do it by accident last year) and I don’t consider this a big step. Like not even worth a mention. Outside of Sulani I don’t see much vacation potential in any of the home worlds. Hotels would have been no better but that would require them to do work they clearly don’t want to do.

"Coconut27;c-17697549" wrote:

"WilliamVSims;c-17696976" wrote:

"Karon;c-17696277" wrote:
It is so weird that they won't add resorts/hotesl to this pack, what a lost opportunity. But at the same time I'm starting to feel like this pack only exists as a way for them to add that "lifestyle & sentiments" feature, cuz everything else seems like it could fit in a game pack, maybe they spent the other half of their effort into this personality feature.

Exactly! The only interesting feature that should be BG is locked behind a 40 dollar paywall while the other stuff feels like a GP. I also feel like they tried to do 2 themes in one EP: A Japanese theme and a Snow vacation theme.

Well actually Japan is known for its mountain/snowy tourist destinations so in that respect I think it makes sense to mesh the two together!

Japan is hardly the only place for winter sports, and it’s far from anyone’s first thought. The two conflicting themes really don’t mesh well since only one zone and 3 activities involve snow. The bulk of this pack is Japan in summertime, just look at the trailer. I don’t enjoy cultures being appropriated for entertainment, but escape to Japan should have been it’s own thing instead of taking over what’s advertised as a snowy pack.

"SimmerGeorge;c-17695868" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17695289" wrote:
What is the big deal with hotels? They aren't even that interesting.

@PlayerSinger2010 You know the story of the Fox and the Grapes? :lol: That applies perfectly here.

Never heard of it.

I'm starting to wonder if it is possible to add hotels to the sims4 and do them well. I'm sure they could add some simpler version of it but could they add one where sims walk around and behave like guests and staff walk around and do tasks?

Maybe they will add hotels in next game pack with a summer destination? That would be a better idea. Sulani as a world doesn't have vacationing site features. I think this new EP might be one of the most fullfilling EPs, considering previous ones, I am actually happy for once. Finally there will be depth in this game with lifestyles and sentiments thing.

I think it's possible to implement hotels to the game, but if it comes with summer destination and extra summer vacation features, I wouldn't expect complex hotel managements. Or they should update remaining in Get to Work EP.

What about AirBnb I want to add that in some places in Europe this type of rent is banned or limited or close to be banned. For example Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and another regions and cities in Spain are working on it. I am not sure that they want to limit that in whole kingdom, but I know that popular places want to ban this. Due to that I preffere to have hotels too in my game, because I want to more diversity :)

"crocobaura;c-17697298" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17697285" wrote:
All they needed to do for a hotel is to give us a reception desk for signing in so that we could rent a room like we could do in Bon Voyage for Sims 2. I really enjoyed sending my Sims on holiday. That had Vacation Homes, Hotels, and Campgrounds. None of my relatives, in real life, liked renting apartments or houses on holiday. They wanted to be pampered with room service! :)

With Dine Out I suppose one could add rooms above the restaurant as suggested above and with Spa Day stuff one could have a separate room for the pampering and a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen.

Rooms above restaurants and spa work great as long as you don't add stuff to them to attract lots of other sims. I loved the room service in Bon Voyage, my sims used to order lobster thermidore and eat it on their balcony overlooking the ocean. :lol:

Don't the lockers in Spa Day attract the number of visitors? I alway put lots of those in, plus changing rooms when I build one in Sulani. The more visitors the better I thought, so as to make more friends.