I enjoyed playing World Adventures the most because it suits my travel style. I don't explore tombs or anything, but I don't waste my money to reach a faraway locale to spend all my time relaxing in a hotel. It was nice to have something that felt kind of like my ambitious travel goals and my less adventurous Sims did just relax. (Plus nothing beats vacation homes and taking special stuff like skills, harvestables, and recipes home in my book.)
This being said, I'm not against relaxing vacations, but I find it a very different set up process. If I want to sit around and do nothing I'd cruise or go to a resort or something. Or rent a small scale cabin.
I've pretty well enjoyed every vacation system but 4's. I greatly dislike how the vacation days mangle the actual vacation. I miss putting your money down for the trip and the world more or less freezing while you went away so you could focus on the fun. Or at least me ask for specific time off for planning a vacation, if I have to fight a career system.
I loved The Sims Vacation. My Sims would go to all three places and either stay in a room and or tent whatever for a few days and travel on to a ski resort or the beach or back to camping etc. It had a lot more to do for tourists in all three areas of the map. It was like going on a world tour since it was easy to just keep playing on endless vacations. Though the motives were hard to maintain there was a lot in that EP.
As we move away from US-centricity in The Sims (and as more people opt to have their sims live elsewhere), Sims 4's vacation system (placing down a rental anywhere) allows for more customisability to one's idea of the world and its configuration. Not to mention that even within range of one's abode, one can set rentals to act as getaways and rendezvous spots.
The last step is just to make the current "destination worlds" livable, and only make themed worlds (like Batuu) vacation-only.
I remember loving TS2's Bon Voyage so much whereas TS3's World Adventures was good but was more quest based if I remember rightly which didn't always suit the sims that I was playing.
Sims 1 Vacation is underrated. While I'm a Sims 2 player, I find that I rarely take vacations since it's so disruptive to normal gameplay. I also love WA (especially the amount of content with the tombs) but it doesn't feel like vacation.
I had trouble deciding between Bon Voyage and World Adventures. I probably should have gone with Bon Voyage, because I really do miss all the vacation options we had with that one. My Sims did take vacations in WA, where I ignored the adventures and just had them relaxing in their vacation homes, but it definitely wasn't as "vacation" friendly as Bon Voyage was. I voted for it because I weighed all the stuff that came with them and felt like WA had more to offer overall.
I really would love to have Sims 2 style vacations back though! Sims 4 went too far into the adventure aspects and as a consequence my Sims have only visited the vacation worlds two or three times since I bought them.
I never owned any expansions for Sims 1, I only had the base game, so I don't know what that one was like.
•Picnic and bear rug + the romantic interactions on them •fun text stuff • Accurate log cabin vibe • Volley Ball! •igloos •souvenirs •special npc
(to note this is ts1 so obviously just having the worlds with themed stuff was considered cool)
Bon Voyage special points: •cultural interactions like greetings, songs, tales,learning local dances(hula,slap dance and fire dance which all must be learnt separately from sim doing them).. basically more about exploring the culture and interacting wit locals • secret lots •bigfoot • souvenirs return and can yes only be bought at vacation destinations • new special npc that has more interaction than vacation ones •hammocks and sauna have arrived (i dont think ts1 had em) • new activity items such as: zen garden tea table pirate ship mahjong table log rolling axe throwing
+ searching for treasure + text adventures + specific npc fun +mementos that are basically vacation memories you gain from doing vacation things + i think ts2 hotels are the best
World Adventure special points: •Tombs have arrived Traps, Mummies, Treasure Chests, Digging, helpful camping gear • nectar making •snake charming •quests to gain visa points •some slight cultural stuff (i don't think its to same level with ts2 tbh) •martial arts •desert world with pyramids (ts1-2 have beach instead for sand)
Jungle adventure special points •Skeletons •Archeology is a skill of its own • Rumbasim (though sadly its a part of overall culture skill rather than skill of its own to learn) •speaking of which the culture skill that includes tales and makes exploring easier • new types of traps •bug related dangers •new culture to sims •is a jungle we didn't have jungle before
Snowy escape special points: •better snow sports than earlier games (though i do feel snowboarding is a choice because of different approach some may like to have item for it instead like in earlier games) •rock climbing •mountain excursion •hikes • festivals •hotpot •nature dangers +world can be used as normal non vacation world
and then these are obvious minus points in terms of knowing all these packs exist
TS4: - not all locations are in game and they come separately so its way more expensive to have it all - no hotels yet - no hammocks yet
Snowy escape: - missing the tea table and zen garden and martial arts and cultural dance and souvenirs and npcs and... - basically has no indoor activity beyond eating and looking at pretty furniture (unless you have more packs like spa day which yes go with it but again,separate pack)
jungle adventure: - again missing activities you could do without going to dangerous jungle but hey at least theres the culture skill and food - doesn't have tent cause thats again another pack and theres nowhere to snooze in the jungle unless you have the other pack - no fun npc here either tho i guess skeletons are kinda fun and probably were made in the spot of that - does worse at temple adventure aspect than world adventures tbh as the puzzles are not as complex and you only have like couple temples
World adventures - misses out on activities to do beyond tomb stuff like sure theres martial arts and nectar but what else its just collecting stuff which kinda ties with the tombs anyway so if you're looking for culture travel no errands just relax and fun its bit meh - worlds have real world names i don't like that :< id rather have made up worlds - can't recall any fun npc - cannot live in those worlds its only vacation - has no beach tho i kinda prefer desert as vacation cause beach theme has its own ep afterwards
Bon Voyage -worlds are only vacation yeah - missing the tomb element kinda like theres those treasure hunting places but like its all really similar tho - beach no longer includes volley ball :< even if i loved swimming in the sea and such which was all brand new vibe with ts2
Vacations -being first in series it really doesn't have any new fabulous things and its less about adventure and culture and more about just relax and vibe aspect -sims needs go too quick to really get to do much anyway <:D -it just feels weird to trash ts1 tbh cause like they didnt know of better so i forgive the faults too easily
sooo after typing all of this down... to sum up
I do think I must go with Bon Voyage cause its just like good mid spot to refer to
though i do think ts3 tombs, egypt and martial arts were super cool its just more adventure less vacation
and I also think ts4 worlds are pretty lit but its just really kinda lacking in activity culture side for me and i need more packs than 1 to really feel vacation in ts4
I picked Bon Voyage. That just felt like a proper vacation for Sims. I didn't really play any of the other packs. I love that you can collect actual vacation mementos, post cards, etc from this pack. This just gives me more reasons to enjoy features from this series I either have not played at all, or haven't played in a long time.
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