Business hotels: Keep going bust !

[pipvac 0]

I have a couple of relatively small cities, the largest of which has around 250k population.

There are a considerable concentration of low densitiy and medium density offices.

However, they have got to a stage where they require business hotels, yet when I set up up, they quickly go bust. Regardless of size, or bedroom quality. Regardless (it seems) of location, or proximity to available services.

I appear to have reached a brick wall, and would greatly appreciate your expert help please.

[Androv 6]

I haven't had troubles with my business hotels, I generally have them close to the offices but I have others scattered throughout the map.

Not sure what's causing your problem - maybe not enough passenger services?

[nataklug 3]

pipvac and Androv,

I have a similar problem... my business hotels just get about 55% of profit (no mather where I put then). My biggest city has about 300k pop and a bunch of high grade offices (level 4) and only 1 motel in the city that has 55% of profit and it is located near a expressway. Don

[Psycho_Teddy 25]

Yeah I'm thinking that there may be a bug in the Hotels where they get stuck making crap profits. I've got bare minimum tax rates and a healthy amount of Offices. What's going on now is that my Offices are shutting down because there are no hotels around. However, the hotels are there, but they're also shut down. I've got no idea. Maybe city-wide pollution is scaring them off? The environment around my downtown centre is all green though, not a speck of red. Btw, this city is nearing 1 million in population.

[pipvac 0]

This problem goes away (kinda - still crap profits), where you have 'holidays' as a resource on the map. However, this issue is devastating where no holiday resources are available. Not sure if this is intentional or not, but there is no way to compensate for the lack of 'holiday' resource on a non-holiday map.

It would seem a little daft for business hotels to rely on 'holidays' as a resource as opposed to the available business community.

Asking around on the servers, those who claim that its not an issue for them are also on maps with holiday resources. Others in the same position as myself, also do not have holiday as a resource. This is out of sample of about 20 cities. There would appear to be some correlation, although this is not a statistically significant sample.

[HeroIV 0]

You need to build them ON, not NEAR to, busy roads. Hotels need traffic.

One thing I also noticed is that you don't need luxury hotels untill you have Executives. Hi-tech for Elites etc.

It doesn't matter how close they are to Offices, only Traffic matters.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

There are a few threads on this topic in the CXL technical issues forum.