Some fun venue ideas to make dates/ taking children out way more fun:

agent_bev

Besides the roller blading and ice skating rinks that I would love to see return, here are some fun ideas:

Indoor trampoline park:




Paintball course:


Laser tag (I bet they can reuse a lot of the animations from paintballing... having both laser tag AND paintballing would be so awesome):




Indoor rock climbing (the TS3 climbing wall was cool but got boring fast...we need a full on indoor climbing park!):


Skate park:


Public pools:





Some others: archery range, nectar store (that lets you throw wine tasting parties if you own it), pre-arranged shows for stand-up comedians in the lounges so sims know ahead of time to go and watch them, piano dueling bar, jazz club, old school disco, berry picking farm (make it fun rather than focus on gardening- sims are chatting, eating berries as they pick them, finding random goodies along the way, etc.), kids petting zoo, science museum for kids, a Gymboree type venue where you can drop kids off (and then choose to follow the adult somewhere else or stay with the kid)

agent_bev

Thought of a few more:

Indoor skydiving (was one of my favs in TS1):



Arcade (TS3 was pretty good with this after all the store stuff, but we never had a racing simulator, or that annoying coin game):




Drive- in movies (I think this beats the cinema, as you can have your sims do stuff in the car ):

Graycat2000

I used to like water balloons in Sims 2!
There was a funny skydiving machine in sims 1 which they should bring back.
There was also a rollercoaster which was fun.
What about a Ghost Train or the haunted house from Sims 3?
you have some great ideas by the way!

mkryan

These are amazing ideas! They'd go so well with an expansion that let you own a venue and charge for entry.

SakuraJones

I'd love and pay to have all of those ideas put in my game!! Amazing Ideas!

daneilhenry12

My cousin had a Trampoline Date, sounds awesome!!