Manual

Introduction

Build and manage your own hotel in our simple, yet fun game. Struggle to attract many guests from all over the world. Gain reputation and money to make your hotel empire flourish.

Rules

Goal

You decide what you're playing for - build a huge network of hotels around the world or a small exclusive group of five star hotels; join a group of several hotel brands with other players or simply have fun meeting new friends. The game is open ended - there's no "final boss" to kill :).

Visitors

  1. Everybody (or every unique person, to be precise) can visit one hotel every 6 hours. A little bonus for registered users: they can visit 3 hotels every 6 hours.
  2. No matter how many visits you can make, there's an additional limitation: you can't visit one person's hotel more often than once every 1 day. Example: at noon, you visit your own hotel and the one that belongs to Jennifer (leave her a comment to visit yours!). 6 hours later, you can't come back to either your or Jennifer's hotels (you need to wait full 1 day to do that. But you can go to hotels that belong to other people (and drop them a note as well :-) ).
  3. Once your hotel grows, you will be able to visit more hotels.
  4. There are two kinds of visitors - regular and premium ones. Regular visitors don't have much money and aren't really keen on spending whole lot (for example, they will never rent a 3-star or better room). Premium visitors are they way to go. How to get them? Other hotel owners (registered users) are premium visitors. Also, people that came from other websites, if those websites contain "proper links". Read more on a "get visitors" page.
  5. Every visit lasts 1 day. Of course one room cannot be occupied by two visitors at once.

Finances

  1. You get cash every time someone stays at your hotel. The price depends mainly on standard of the room - the higher it is, the more people will pay. Also, there are other, less important factors that influence the price, read advanced manual for more info (don't hurry though... basic manual is enough to get you started).
  2. You spend your cash on:
    • Building new rooms - higher standard is more expensive.
    • Daily upkeep, depends on standard of every room and on a standard of the whole hotel.
  3. Don't worry too much about upkeep in the beginning - some nice people are renting space for their shops on the ground level. A neat coincidence - it covers the cost of upkeeping your hotel... almost - you need to bring one visitor (it's enough if you will come yourself... remember? You can visit one of your hotels per day.) a day to break even.
  4. You can see how much you're earning and spending on the finances page.

Building your hotel

  1. You can build rooms of different standard. Higher standard is more expensive.
  2. You need to change the standard of the whole hotel to be able to build higher-standard rooms. For example, your hotel needs to have a level 4 standard to have 4-star rooms.
  3. You have 12 "slots" on every floor of your hotel. Higher standard rooms are bigger. Class 1 and 2 take two slots. Class 3 takes three slots. 4-star rooms take 4 slots. Highest-end rooms take 6 slots.

Getting help

If the manual has left some unanswered questions, feel free to ask them in the forums.

Terminology

Unique person
Someone coming from a unique IP. You don't need to know exactly what it is. It all comes to the fact that one person can visit your hotel once a day. There's a small limitation: people sharing an internet connection may be considered one person.
Proper link
The game is supposed to be fun, not a nuisance to other people on the web. We fear that some users would create a link to their hotels that would be misguiding (example: "funniest video ever, check it out!"). This is why you will get wealthier visitors when people come from pages that contains "proper links" to your hotel. For more info and the HTML code for proper links, see "get visitors" page.