Creating a "functioning" bed and breakfast

Sinkala

I thought I would post in here as I have been experimenting with the idea of making a working hotel/Bed and Breakfast with the roommate system in University life and I have had some success.

My test sim makes around 8000 simoleons a week from running her little B&B.

Here are some tips if you want to do the same.

My sim, Victoria, is a natural cook and has the neat trait (cooking isn't essential but the neat traits "clean house" option makes life a lot easier)



I moved Victoria into a large house with 6 bedrooms and had her use the roomate option with the number set to 7(Max). Once everyone had arrived, I locked the kitchen to only allow Victoria and I locked her bedroom. I added a laundry room off the kitchen so she is the only one who can do laundry.

I added a dining room and placed a counter and dishwasher (this is because some sims like to wash their own dishes and having a dishwasher in the dining room stopped them from trying to wash the dishes in the bathroom) I also added a buffet table so Victoria wasn't spending all day in the kitchen. It's advisable to make sure there isn't an empty counter top in the kitchen or your sim will place the meal on there instead of the dining room counter





The B&B also has a bar area and a library - The bar is closed off and the door to it is locked for Victoria only





Some Bedrooms







I am really enjoying playing this, it really does feel like my sim is running a B&B and she makes a decent living from it. If you ever get tired of your "guests" just dismiss them and a new one will take their place

I will upload the B&B at a later date. The grounds haven't been decorated much as I wanted to see if this worked properly before investing loads of time in making it look perfect.

rosemow

Thanks for sharing with us how you worked out a functioning bed and breakfast. It sounds good, and your explanations as to how it works are great. It would be a fun place for our Sims to run/work there/live there. Very nicely furnished dining room and the library area would be a great place for guests to read/study. Lovely shades of green and apricot you used in the bedrooms. A great idea for a lot, and great building of it and designing of it so it functions the way you want it to.

luckyheather

Hi what a Fantastic idea I hope you dont mind I posted a Link to this page in my Hints/Tips thread here...
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/285/429264.page#10490074

I have bookmarked and want to ask you, how do you get the money from the sims in the B+B? Is it them paying the rent? I will pop back tomorrow.
Hill

Illyianna2005

I would be interested in this in my game as well I think it's cool how you got it working.

Sinkala

rosemow wrote:

Thanks for sharing with us how you worked out a functioning bed and breakfast. It sounds good, and your explanations as to how it works are great. It would be a fun place for our Sims to run/work there/live there. Very nicely furnished dining room and the library area would be a great place for guests to read/study. Lovely shades of green and apricot you used in the bedrooms. A great idea for a lot, and great building of it and designing of it so it functions the way you want it to.

Thank you rosemow, I chose the colours on purpose as they are colours I never use

luckyheather wrote:

Hi what a Fantastic idea I hope you dont mind I posted a Link to this page in my Hints/Tips thread here...
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/285/429264.page#10490074

I have bookmarked and want to ask you, how do you get the money from the sims in the B+B? Is it them paying the rent? I will pop back tomorrow.
Hill

Hi Luckyheather, I don't mind the link at all, in fact I am honoured. The money is from the rent. I believe the rent varies depending on what you have in the house and the value. I did notice that the mount of rent I was getting per "guest" seemed to be equal to the weekly bill amount - so for Victoria, her weekly bills were 1029 simoleons and she was getting 1029 simoleons from each guest

Illyianna2005 wrote:

I would be interested in this in my game as well I think it's cool how you got it working.

Thanks Illyianna. OFB was my favourite EP from sims 2 and I miss running hotels, this will keep me going till IP comes out

Baby_Girl_Fi

This is a brilliant idea, I wonder if you would consider uploading your build to the exchange? I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who would love to rec & download such a brilliant place. ( I myself would download, if I had Uni,but I'm saving myself for the Islands.)

luckyheather

Hello Sinkala and thanks for the answer, its brilliant and I will definately have to create a building just as a B+B and a sim to run it, when I get the chance as I always have too many things on the go at the same time
I think this idea is much better and less stressful than looking after kids all day Lol, so thanks for sharing with us, I hope one day I can tell you how I got on with my own.
Hill

norkopse

Hey I really love this idea. I was wondering if you could upload this?

Mandyc349

what a great idea and the building looks awesome

EndOfMyBoot

what a fantastic idea you have and thanks for sharing this in so much detail to help others. one more helpful tip if you have supernaturals (sub type witch) would help for the cleaning also if you have late night (sub type genie) would likewise be the most idea sim for this. they can clean the entire house in one swoop and summon food. so you can set any traits other than neat and cooking

luckyheather

Good Tip's EndOfMyBoot I did think of a Genie as I have quite a few now I have started to convert a Lucky Palms building that was already a group of houses like a motel/hotel its going to work well I think when its finished.
Hill