Mastering The Upgrade Tree in Hotel Architect!
In the world of Hotel Architect, success isn’t just about placing furniture and decorating rooms. It’s also about strategically planning your layout and amenities to maximize revenue, guest satisfaction, and efficiency. The upgrade tree in Hotel Architect is a crucial system that determines how your hotel evolves, offering a pathway to better facilities, higher-tier services, and unique benefits such as speedy builders! Let’s break down the mechanics of the upgrade tree and how to use it effectively.
The Upgrade tree is broken down into sub sections for each area you can upgrade.
[h3]Laundry Room [/h3]
Upgrades in this branch improve laundry services, ensuring faster room turnover and cleaner facilities.
Focuses on your employees, their efficiency and the hiring process at your hotel!
Enhances guest comfort through room upgrades and additional amenities.
Provides you with more wiggle room in expanding with loans and credit.
Focuses on upgrading dining services and food quality to enhance guest satisfaction.
Covers unique and specialized upgrades that don’t really fit into other categories.
While all of the upgrade tree is beneficial, you may want to consider which parts to upgrade first and your priorities as a hotelier! Consider your location, what the goal is of your build and also if aesthetics are important to you before jumping head first as each upgrade costs money and time to research.
It’s a slippery slope, and not all upgrades cost the same!
Key Branches of the Upgrade Tree
The Upgrade tree is broken down into sub sections for each area you can upgrade.
[h3]Laundry Room [/h3]
Upgrades in this branch improve laundry services, ensuring faster room turnover and cleaner facilities.
- Better Washers: Reduces the time needed for laundry cycles.
- Better Drying Equipment: Speeds up the drying process and eventually leads to a washer/dryer combo!
- Bigger Shelves: Less room taken up by those bulky towel and sheet shelves or simply just more in the same amount of squares depending on how you lay things out!
Focuses on your employees, their efficiency and the hiring process at your hotel!
- Employer Branding: Allows you to look at more candidates when browsing to hire a new employee,
- Energizer: Your staff will lose energy 25% slower than normal!
- Candidate Screening: Means you can hire staff with better starting levels (this has a pre-requisite of your hotels star rating so watch out!)
Enhances guest comfort through room upgrades and additional amenities.
- Luxury Furniture: Improve that all important diamond rating of your hotel easily with luxury bedding, seats and bathroom items!
- Add new services: These were not usable in the demo, however you may have noticed two pretty cool upgrades here including a Guest Comfort Upgrade & Room Service Table!
Provides you with more wiggle room in expanding with loans and credit.
- Loan Magnet: You will gain access to an additional loan offer.. Doesn't mean it’ll be a good deal
though! - High Staker: Allows you to borrow more money with loans.
- Credit Champion: Allows you to borrow more into the red temporarily, thinkof this like an overdraft. Max this out and you’ll have an extra $100,000 at your deposal, but remember this needs to be paid back and you can run out of money!
Focuses on upgrading dining services and food quality to enhance guest satisfaction.
- Expanded Shelves: For both plates and the pantry – similar to the laundry room shelves.
- Bigger Menus: Attracts different guest types and helps you cater for multiple guest types! Starting with one item on the menu is rather limiting after all.
- Better equipment: Bigger capacity fridges and also better dish washing equipment means less time restocking and more time making guests happy!
Covers unique and specialized upgrades that don’t really fit into other categories.
- Vertical Velocity: Unlocks Elevators
- Air Conditioners: A much-needed upgrade for those warmer climates like Santorini.
- Trash In Style: Bigger trash cans, bins or dumpsters – however you say it.
- Speedy Builders: Make the most from your construction crew, now at 1.33x speed!
While all of the upgrade tree is beneficial, you may want to consider which parts to upgrade first and your priorities as a hotelier! Consider your location, what the goal is of your build and also if aesthetics are important to you before jumping head first as each upgrade costs money and time to research.
It’s a slippery slope, and not all upgrades cost the same!
