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Blithering Lodge: The new topic. (VERY picture heavy)
Danny
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The park is bigger than the outside, but I've made the car parks and such larger on the diagram. Inbetween the hotel, carpark and Entrance plaza is the main path that guests walk up. This is where the guest spawners are. There is also a path that runs parallel to the monorail from the entrance plaza to the monorail station 1, with the loos half way up.
Some photos of the monorail stations, car park, hotel and such you can find here for any ideas.
So you can fit it all into one park save file. Just work your normal magic and everything should be fine
Some photos of the monorail stations, car park, hotel and such you can find here for any ideas.
So you can fit it all into one park save file. Just work your normal magic and everything should be fine
Danny
TS Contributor
Try it in each way you see possible, then choose the solution you like. Then it's the case of deciding where to plonk the hotel and what sort of style you'll give it. I think it would look great if you gave it a similar style to the lodge itself
Danny
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Depending on where you've put the station, you could have the queue head directly over the entrance to Welcome Street, and cover it up with a building of some sort, something similar to the railroad at Magic Kingdom. Then have the queue descend into one of the buildings on Welcome Street and have that as an official monorail entrance building.
DiogoJ42
TS Member
Hmmmm. I wonder if a tunnel would have the same effect? Might have to try that.
UPDATE: I've rebuilt the park entrance to incorporate the new monorail station, Europa Park style. Infact, I'm using the EP Express CTR, as it has nice gentle slopes and wide curves. The only downside is that the trains have "EP Express" written on them!
The footprint of a hotel has been mapped out. I'm working on the basis of each room being 2 x 3 squares. This is seriously complicated. In order to make it believable, I'm having to at least plan the entire hotel, even if most of the interior never gets built.
An "official" update will come in due course, but I'm still very much experimenting at the moment.
UPDATE: I've rebuilt the park entrance to incorporate the new monorail station, Europa Park style. Infact, I'm using the EP Express CTR, as it has nice gentle slopes and wide curves. The only downside is that the trains have "EP Express" written on them!
The footprint of a hotel has been mapped out. I'm working on the basis of each room being 2 x 3 squares. This is seriously complicated. In order to make it believable, I'm having to at least plan the entire hotel, even if most of the interior never gets built.
An "official" update will come in due course, but I'm still very much experimenting at the moment.
Rowe
TS Member
This sounds like an incredibly challenging and gruelling hotel project here Diogo but, considering your massive effort to make Lodge a virtual world class park, I think you'll do fine with it! Maybe even good? Hoping it'll be EP inspired much like the monorail and entrance since you can't go wrong with 4 star!
At least make a bar and create a flashing light 'No Children' sign outside?
Hoping it'll be EP inspired much like the monorail and entrance since you can't go wrong with 4 star!DiogoJ42 said:
At least make a bar and create a flashing light 'No Children' sign outside?
Ian
TS Team
DiogoJ42 said:
You no doubt remember the chat we had on AT's Monorail a few weeks back about RCT hotels
Just don't make the mistake I did with Rivervale and try to furnish any rooms for the sake of image It led to the inevitable death of the park, with the file becoming too large 
James
TS Founding Member
What I tend to do with hotels in RCT3 is just furnish one or two rooms (perhaps a generic room and a themed room?) and then use these rooms to show others what the hotel looks like. Then furnish and create the main spaces (so dining area, reception, bar, gaming room etc...).
That would be my advice on how to go about it. It save times and as Ian has said it saves your park file size.
That would be my advice on how to go about it. It save times and as Ian has said it saves your park file size.
DiogoJ42
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Believe me, it is SOOOO tempting to fit out ALL the rooms! Wouldn't be too hard either, could just save each room as a module and plonk them down... But you are right, that's a bad idea.
Still working on things at the moment. It's going to be a while yet.
Wouldn't be too hard either, could just save each room as a module and plonk them down... But you are right, that's a bad idea.Still working on things at the moment. It's going to be a while yet.
DiogoJ42
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DiogoJ42
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Bringing us up to the present day, 2012 sees the opening of the parks spanking new four star hotel and water park; Tiki Lodge and Luau Lagoon!
Why spend thousands of pounds flying half way round the world, when you can have your dream Hawaiian holiday right here, at Blithering Lodge?
The park's entrance plaza has been remodelled to add a monorail shuttle to the hotel.
The view from the ride may not be as exciting as other parks' but it the route was chosen for speed and efficiency. The track takes you round the perimeter of the park, behind Filbert's Fun factory, and past the coach park, staff car park, and maintenance workshop. (Note: these are not new, they were always there, but off the game map )
At the other end of the line, the station is themed to match the hotel.
The hotel features a grand lobby, decorated to feel like it is outside, with a central water feature.
It has 136 family rooms, each sleeping four guests, as well as 3 luxury suites. On the top floor, the Hula Bar has terraces at the front of the building, and on the other side, looks down over the water park.
The hotel appears massive from within the park, because unlike most hotels, all the rooms are in one straight wing. The means that the majority of rooms get a view over the theme park, while the few that don't face the outside area of the water park.
There is a small side gate that connects the hotel directly to The Lawns area of the park, passing under The Quest.
The water park itself is mostly under cover. It has 11 body flumes (3 of which plus a bowl flume are outside), an Aqua Blaster called Hula Blaster, A large lagoon pool, several smaller pools, a huge lazy river, several hot tubs and a giant tipping bucket!
The lazy river is the largest in the UK, and includes both indoor and outdoor sections.
The outdoor area of Luau Lagoon has a relaxing pool, a lot of lazy river, a hot tub for colder days, a large splash pool for the three outdoor flumes, and a smaller splash pool for the bowl flume.
So now we truly are up to date. While I may make a few minor tweaks here and there for the sake of POVs, that's about it for Blithering Lodge.
But do not despair! For there are still many videos to come. Though it's only fair to warn you that they may take a while. I'm off to Tilburg Kermis and Phantasialand tomorrow, then when I get back I'm working 23 straight 11 hour days on the trot, with no time off! But hopefully this will keep you ticking over till I can start on the next video.
For one final time, here's that now-classic wideshot of the whole park:
(The park is now so big that zooming out far enough to fit it all in means some scenery starts to vanish!)
Why spend thousands of pounds flying half way round the world, when you can have your dream Hawaiian holiday right here, at Blithering Lodge?
The park's entrance plaza has been remodelled to add a monorail shuttle to the hotel.
The view from the ride may not be as exciting as other parks' but it the route was chosen for speed and efficiency. The track takes you round the perimeter of the park, behind Filbert's Fun factory, and past the coach park, staff car park, and maintenance workshop. (Note: these are not new, they were always there, but off the game map
)
At the other end of the line, the station is themed to match the hotel.
The hotel features a grand lobby, decorated to feel like it is outside, with a central water feature.
It has 136 family rooms, each sleeping four guests, as well as 3 luxury suites. On the top floor, the Hula Bar has terraces at the front of the building, and on the other side, looks down over the water park.
The hotel appears massive from within the park, because unlike most hotels, all the rooms are in one straight wing. The means that the majority of rooms get a view over the theme park, while the few that don't face the outside area of the water park.
There is a small side gate that connects the hotel directly to The Lawns area of the park, passing under The Quest.
The water park itself is mostly under cover. It has 11 body flumes (3 of which plus a bowl flume are outside), an Aqua Blaster called Hula Blaster, A large lagoon pool, several smaller pools, a huge lazy river, several hot tubs and a giant tipping bucket!
The lazy river is the largest in the UK, and includes both indoor and outdoor sections.
The outdoor area of Luau Lagoon has a relaxing pool, a lot of lazy river, a hot tub for colder days, a large splash pool for the three outdoor flumes, and a smaller splash pool for the bowl flume.
So now we truly are up to date. While I may make a few minor tweaks here and there for the sake of POVs, that's about it for Blithering Lodge.
But do not despair! For there are still many videos to come. Though it's only fair to warn you that they may take a while. I'm off to Tilburg Kermis and Phantasialand tomorrow, then when I get back I'm working 23 straight 11 hour days on the trot, with no time off!
But hopefully this will keep you ticking over till I can start on the next video.For one final time, here's that now-classic wideshot of the whole park:
(The park is now so big that zooming out far enough to fit it all in means some scenery starts to vanish!)
