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Boutique Hotel Mod | Download v1.01
🕑 Added 2024-08-27 17:21:38 +0000 UTCUpdated 22/09/2024: See details below.
This mod introduces Boutique Hotels as a new venue type to elevate your sims’ vacations! The mod is all about the vacation and guest experience for your sims, and it uses the existing vacation rental system. It’s not for owning or running a hotel.
The Boutique Hotel is a new buildable lot type that functions like both a vacation rental and a community lot. The hotel’s daily booking price is automatically calculated based on the value of the build.
Up to 8 different households can vacation on the same lot at the same time! Random npc guests and employees will also spawn throughout the day.
While staying at a boutique hotel, sims will generally be less tense, sad, angry, bored, or uncomfortable. Their fun and social bar will fill up slightly faster, and they’ll gain a slight skill boost to photography, wellness, and romance skills. They’ll also get a bit more satisfaction points for achieved wants/whims.
Custom whim set: Take a photo, Have a drink, Go swimming (randomized)
Custom buff: Beautiful Vacation (+4 happy boost for 24hrs)
Base-game friendly but has extra features with certain DLC
How to Install
Download and unzip the zip files
Place the Boutique Hotel Mod folder directly in your ‘Mods’ folder.
This includes an updated version of Basemental’s Universal Venue List. Delete any older venue lists you have installed.
How to Play
Build mode: Assign the Boutique Hotel lot type to a pre-existing lot or start a new build from scratch.
Live mode: Book a vacation, (from your sim's phone or computer) then choose the location you want to book. When you arrive, I recommend you pick your room(s) and lock the doors. You may also want to assign beds right away so your sim won’t fall asleep in the pool later.
Mod Recommendations
Unlock/Lock Doors for chosen Sims
Just like real life, it might get a bit boring to spend the entire day in the hotel. Don’t forget to get out and explore other lots in the area! (This will also give the venue a chance to refresh.)
Since the hotel has NPC sims at all hours of the day, the game won’t automatically switch to super speed when household members are asleep. You can manually click the fast-forward button to speed through time, but you may notice it’s not as fast as the residential version.
I called this mod “boutique hotel” for a reason. There’s more stuff going on than a typical community lot so you may have issues if you try to build a giant 64x64 hotel to play with 8 full households. The playable capacity depends on your computer.
Maids will spawn a few times a day, but they’re honestly pretty slow. You’re probably better off cleaning up after yourself most of the time.
Boutique Hotel builds will convert to “vacation rentals” when uploading for the gallery ( this is on purpose to avoid causing bugs). You need to change the lot type to Boutique Hotel when placing a build from the gallery.
Sometimes the hotel staff will behave strangely because they aren’t designed to work in this kind of environment. For example the massage therapist might start their shift by laying down on the massage table. You can just reset them or ignore them, they’ll eventually be ready to work.
If an NPC employee is standing around aimlessly outside the lot, it’s most likely a routing issue. Make sure the object they need is accessible.
When more than 1 household is staying on the lot, the function to lock/unlock doors by household no longer recognizes whose household is whose. It’s best to allow access to specific individuals instead.
Celebrities may spawn as hotel guests, but there should be no annoying paparazzi situation.
Front Desk Computer (Get To Work Required)
Spawns an NPC receptionist who’ll pretend to use the computer and answer phone calls all day. This is mostly for visual storytelling and doesn’t have a gameplay function. If not on a Boutique Hotel, the computer pretty much functions like a regular computer, minus some superfluous features. Unlike a regular computer, it can be freely placed anywhere for decorative purposes. To function, it must be placed centred on a desk (with a desk chair) or an island counter (with a bar stool).
Room Phone
Order a meal instantly to sim inventory. The menu changes in certain worlds. You can order sushi in Mt. Komorebi, pasta in Tartosa, arepas in Selvadorada etc… Also includes some of my own custom food and drinks.
Order vacation purchases instantly to sim inventory. I curated items different from the default EA version.
Call a Taxi (Travel)
Miscellaneous vacation functions
Room Service Plate
Order a meal instantly to the built-in refrigerated inventory (same dynamic menu as room phone.) You can also use it to store food if there’s no fridge nearby. Uses the same tuning as the room phone, so don't delete that file.
NPC Employees
Hotel staff will spawn depending on the presence of certain optional objects. If these items aren't on the lot, the employees won't spawn.
Bar: Up to 2 bartenders
Massage Table: Up to 2 massage therapists
Yoga Instructor Mat: Yoga instructor
Chef Station: Experimental chef
Front Desk: Receptionist
If you play with my mod, please tag me on Tumblr I love seeing the community use the things I make!
Please feel free to DM me if you have any issues.
Have fun ♡
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MY BOUTIQUE HOTEL BUILD IL PALAZZO ROMANZA
1.01 Update(22/09/2024):
Double bed category is no longer hidden
Nectar purchased from room service objects can now be served properly
Fixed Vacation purchase pie menu icon
Updated vacation purchase list to include more stuff
Please download the updated files and delete the older versions. ♡
Comments
Andi Malisheski
No issues for me now! Thanks again :)
Lijoue
I posted the updated mod already on 22/09, are you still having this issue? Please make sure to delete the older files.
Zen _Mitsukiami
I notice this as well I couldn't figure it out but your right this did conflict with my game. cant wait for the updated version!!!
Lijoue
Thank you so much! I’m happy you like it! That’s such a good suggestion. That lemon soda was my favourite drink when I visited Venice, so I was excited to bring it to the game. I actually want to do a whole custom drink set in the future. Feel free to share image refs if there’s a can/bottle design you like. I won’t promise to do anything specific, as I already have plans of my own, but I don’t mind extra ideas!
Dreamview
I love this mod. You're really talented. When I was downloading it, I was drinking Lemon Soda, but Mojito. I have seen you included Limonata Lemon Soda. I know it's a strange request. Possible to include version of the same drink, but Mojito version in the future? :)
Andi Malisheski
No worries! Thanks for responding so quickly!
Lijoue
I fixed it! I will post an update shortly! Sorry I didn’t notice this issue earlier.
Andi Malisheski
Hi - wanted to report there is some kind of bug causing this mod to hide all double beds in the game (CC and Maxis). Started last week and when I removed the mod, beds reappeared. Hope it can be fixed as it's such a cool mod!
Lijoue
The included venue-list is working fine but make sure you only have one such list. It could also be corrupted from your zip extraction process. Try downloading it again. If you need help troubleshooting, please dm me! I won’t be able to help you in the comments.
Mia M
Hello. The venue list that comes with the download is showing as corrupt when I try to load my game. Has this venue type been included in the recent basemental venue list on their site?
Cassy98
Either we could customize the menu ourselves or all the recipes could show up in room service menu. I placed a hotel in San Sequoia and the menu for room service was limited and had no breakfast food.
Lijoue
I’m glad you’re enjoying it and i appreciate the feedback. But I’m not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean the chef menu or the room objects? Also do you mean that you want to determine the menu yourself in game, like a restaurant? Or you want all your recipes to show up in the purchase list?
Cassy98
I am enjoying the mod. Everything is working good so far. The only thing I wish is that we could add more custom foods and drinks to the menu.
Andi Malisheski
I'm obsessed with this! Thank you!
