Hotels

"Simburian;c-17697351" wrote:

"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.

Well, if you want to designate some rooms as hotel bedrooms, don't put any items in them that would attract other sims in while your sim is using them, things like TV, game console, etc. You can add the locker to the spa, but not in the guest bedroom.

"logion;c-17696794" wrote:
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?

They could base it off the apartment model, or university. Where you pick a room to rent and the others are filled by the game.

Kind of like S3 adventures. Except I wouldn't want my sims having to cook each meal...just go down to the dining room and order.

But it would be different than just a rental lot because it would "feel" busier and there would be other travelers there to meet.

I think they add hotels with a french-romance pack or something.

"Sthenastia;c-17697236" wrote:
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.

AirBnb listings in Japan are required to be licensed and registered with the government.

There is actually a hotel/resort mod. Haven't tried it out yet but it doesn't look like you can book a room exclusively for your household. Still better than nothing so kudos to the creator!

Don't we already have Airbnbs in the game? I can see no difference between the rental system and Airbnbs.

I don't think hotels are coming. SimGuruGraham probably just didn't say it off the bat because it would bring hate to the pack, so they're waiting for the livestream to say there will be no hotels, because at least the livestream will show a lot more than the trailer, and the pack won't get so much hate after that.

As I said in another thread, I'm not sure how to feel about them adding the rental system to all the worlds. Since Mt. Komorebi will be both a residential and a vacation world, I'm assuming we can visit it any time, like we do with the other livable worlds. So, if I live in San Myshuno and want to go snowboarding, 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?

I guess if they don't give us hotels in the near future, one workaround (at least for owning a hotel, not staying in one) is to build your own hotel, but you have to live in it (residential lot), and use the roommate feature in DU to have "hotel guests"? It's not a perfect simulation of the concept, but it's better than nothing. Since I don't have DU, and one of my fave households to play is the Hotel Cortez from American Horror Story, I have my Sims lure unsuspecting passersby into the hotel and lock them in rooms. It's still fun in a way, haha. Of course this method works for this kind of storyline, but my Sims don't earn money from the guests. Not directly, anyway. I guess you can pretend that they are by cheating money per day the Sim stays in the room (if not using the roommate feature). Though once you play another household, the trapped Sims escape or teleport out of the room they were in. I mean you could technically own a restaurant and build it as a hotel but the customers will come in, eat, pay and leave, and will only use the beds when sleepy (or if you have autonomous WooHoo turned on via MCCC) and won't really stay overnight.

Japan has lot of ski resorts. I was reading the Japan-guide site on “Snow in Japan” and it reads like an advertisement for this pack. XD (I’m new so I can’t do a link).

"logion;c-17696794" wrote:
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?

I don’t see why not they’ve had them in other sims series, and it wouldn’t be that much different than restaurants. I remember one series had a buffet table for sims to eat from too, also had fair games in one. I just hope we can build and change them around if we want.

"catitude5;c-17697167" wrote:
I've made a hotel. I just made it a restaurant and put rooms upstairs. It works since hotels have restaurant in them

I have done that with a night club and other things, but it’s not quite the same as checking in and paying for the vacation.

It would be nice if you could have lot combinations.