Spa Day or Dine Out?

It's a really, really tough call for me, as I use both of these packs all the time. That being said, Spa Day just barely gets an edge, because (unlike Dine Out), none of its objects, features, or locations have ever been the slightest bit buggy for me.

Also, I use the wellness skill on almost all of my sims. Mind you, I also take most of my sims to both restaurants and spas all the time, but... for everyday use and play on the home lot, the wellness skill is a little more versatile.

Honestly, though, I would find it difficult to play without either at this point.

The only reason I bought Spa Day was because it kept showing up in gallery content downloads and I got tired of builds with so many things I had to fix.

Now that I have it, that still seems to be the only value I got out of it. Most of the build items in it I don't even care for - so it's mostly just there so I don't get an error message on grabbing something from the gallery, can then go in, and see the bland stuff rather than an empty spot, and manually know what to replace.

If the game provided some kind of market for "we removed a chair from right here" I would not have bought Spa Day...


Dine out on the other hand added a lot of new play for me and I use the build and CAS items from it all the time.

Restaurants make sense for me as a place for Sims to go often. Spas seem about as 'normal' of a visit spot as having a Pack for the DMV. Except, at least everybody has to go to the DMV a few times now and then - Spas are just too obscure.

Still not sure what the Wellness skill even does for my sims.

I've been trying to add yoga mats and meditation things to various builds - but they're just not something I relate to so they always feel like oddball additions and the yoga mat and meditation seat "footprints" in build mode are both about 300x bigger than the actual object, so unless you turn on the bb.moveobjects cheat you can fit about 1 every 2 lots and that's it.

I have accepted Dine Out's shortcomings and use it frequently, especially if my Sims have 24 hours free.
It's my go to romance setting to lock in that sim, romantically

"ncisGibbs02;c-17891109" wrote:

"BlkBarbiegal;c-17891103" wrote:
I enjoy both. But if I had to choose, Dine Out for sure. I'm not sure what's buggy about it currently? I just played last night as owner and also going to a restaurant. Everyone received their meals in a timely manner. I do have to stop my sims from talking for them to eat up!

They take a long time to eat meals when you go as a guest to a restaurant. It was annoying because I’d send my Sims on their day off from work so they had time to stay there. Had to stop going in the evening. They said they fixed it but I’m not ready to try.

I see. I can't remember what happens going as guest but I do know that they won't really eat if they're talking. I have to stop their conversation for them to eat.

I don't own dine out, but I was surprised with how, well, RELAXING spa day is! Buuuuut I might be a bitbiased because I'm a sucker for spa, sauna,etc in irl too ?

I would definitely suggest Dine Out! It works a lot better now, I've noticed. And it allows your Sims to go on dates at restaurants, which is one of my favorite parts of the pack. However, just know that it is kind of difficult to get the talking about the food objectives done at these dates now that Sims eat faster. You have to make sure to talk about those things quickly so that your Sims don't eat all their food before that. Other than that, it's a great pack!

This was really hard to answer. I picked spa day but only just. I get use out of both packs equally and they are both very good. I love sending my sims to spas and as well as restaurants. With dine out I love how you can customise the restaurants to what you want them to be.

I can't choose one over the other because both packs add so much to the game and give our Sims different activities. Spa Day adds the wellness skill with yoga and meditation, visiting a spa for a sauna or a massage. Dine Out offers the ability to build a variety of places for romantic dinners or taking the entire family out to eat. Both packs are very important to me.

I am one of the people who can't choose. DO is essential to me, because as someone already said, there are not many places that make sense for your Sims to dress fancy and while I have a number of restaurants in all my saves, there is one that is a staple: Stargazers (formerly the Stargazer Lounge in San Myshuno). For some reason I don't get tired of my Sims having romantic dates there, especially to ask to start a relationship or propose and then take a picture together with the skyline in the background ...
But Spa Day is so good as well. Not only to have a Spa, but also for the functionality of just placing the instructor mat and a few yoga mats in any gym and the game start to schedule yoga classes there. Also, the BB is great, especially the tiles, I could not do without those. Oh, and it comes with a special wall and flooring that has a wonderful glow and looks great in pools! The only thing I am still upset about, is that there is no Wellness aspiration, but the Wellness skill itself comes with a couple of great recipes, the ability to influence other Sims' emotions and teleporting. So, my answer is: Wait for a sale and get both. :D

DO is my favorite GP. I just go to restaurants a lot in my game . I also enjoy owning restaurants. But the most use I get out of it is going to restaurants. I have them scattered around a lot of worlds.

I think Spa Day is also a good pack. Yoga is just fun to watch. Best animation in the sims 4. New woohoo and death. I also like to have my sims visit spas and use them on vacation.