"It's a bad time to be in the Animal Crossing hotel business. New Horizons' 3.0 update introduced a wave of new features, but one addition stands out above the rest: a fully fledged hotel that appears on the pier of every island. Overnight, that official beachfront resort has effectively put countless player-made hotels out of business. That might matter more if anyone besides Tom Nook--and the long-suffering players paying off his loans--actually exchanged money in New Horizons."
"Hotels have long been a popular attraction for Animal Crossing players, even though the game has never provided the infrastructure to build a functional one. Instead, players relied on creativity and illusion. Some terraformed multi-room interiors and used partitions to simulate hallways and suites, while others leaned into visual trickery, creating hotel facades meant to be admired from a specific angle."
"One such example can be seen in a Reddit post documenting the final day of an island's Dodo Hotel, a lovingly crafted facade that existed purely for aesthetics. These facades have become works of art in their own right, allowing players to build convincing cityscapes that evoke sun-soaked Greek islands, dense urban skylines, or luxury five-star resorts looming in the distance."
New Horizons 3.0 introduces an official beachfront hotel that appears on the pier of every island. The in-game hotel competes directly with player-made hotels, making many custom resorts feel obsolete and prompting owners to dismantle them. Players historically created hotels using terraforming, multi-room interiors, partitions, and visual facades to simulate hallways, suites, and varied architectural styles. Some facades were crafted purely for aesthetics and contributed to convincing cityscapes evoking Greek islands, urban skylines, or luxury resorts. The official hotel uses a rigid, one-size-fits-all design anchored to a specific pier location, limiting placement flexibility and creative variation.
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