Cities XL

Holiday Hotels are the second hotel type in the game. They’re also more complex than the business hotels.

Citizens like going on holidays. You know, the type where you’re in a nice hotel, with an incredible view, the pillows are soft, you wake up to birds chirping… you get the idea.

Tip: Holiday Hotels can only be built on maps that contain “Holidays“. If your map does not contain these holiday areas, you can not build holiday hotels.

On a map with holiday areas, you have to be very careful about what you build, and where. Holiday areas are very sensitive to pollution. If you have busy roads running through your holiday area, or pollution that’s managed to creep it’s way over, you can forget about building any holiday hotels there.

I’ll emphasize this again – build very wisely near these areas. Remember that holiday hotels are your key focus for these prime locations – they take priority. If you’d rather not give them priority, pick a map that doesn’t have Holiday areas and just buy the tokens from the Cities XL marketplace.

When you go to build a holiday hotel, the map will light up green in the areas you can place them. There are 2 shades of green – light and dark. You can only place the hotels in the dark green areas.

According to the manual, leisure activities and monuments should have a positive impact. They’re affected by the quality of life nearby, so make sure the area is pleasant, and pollution free.

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Holiday Hotel Chart

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Suggestions and Notes

• Plan early! Keep anything that pollutes very far away from these zones!
• Don’t run busy roads through these areas.
• Fill up your Holiday areas with hotels early in the game. First of all, they make money (and don’t require anything). Second, you can sell all your extra Holiday tokens for a nice money boost as you create your city.