The newest update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has added a new building to your island, the hotel. Here you can decorate the rooms and earn a special currency for new items.
How Do You Access the Hotel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Getting to the hotel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the easy part. Load up the game as normal, and as part of her regular morning updates, Isabelle will inform you that a hotel has appeared on the island’s pier.
To clarify, though, this is the not the welcome pier where Orville and Wilbur are stationed, this is the fishing pier located on one side of your island. Simply head there and you’ll find it’s extended to include the hotel building.
What Can You Do in the Hotel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
The purpose of the new hotel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a new gameplay mode focused on decorating hotel rooms. When you first enter the hotel, Tom Nook will greet you and introduce Kapp’n’s family, who are working together to operate a new business. There’s just one problem: they need someone to decorate the rooms.
This is your job, and on your first day you’ll be able to decorate the first two rooms, with later rooms opening up on successive days. Speak to Leilani at the front desk and she’ll take you to each room. For the first room, she’ll provide a theme, but for all subsequent rooms, she’ll offer you a choice of two.
Decorating the hotel rooms is exactly the same as decorating your house. However, when you go into the items menu, Leilani will provide some recommended furniture pieces for the theme. You are free to arrange these items however you choose, but it’s best to stick with the recommended ones. Once you’re happy with your arrangement, use your phone camera and take a picture. I preferred to use the handheld camera by pressing the – button but it’s up to you how you choose to do it.
Once you’ve taken a picture of the completed room, speak to Leilani and select “All done!” to exit back to the main hotel.
What Do You Get For Decorating the Hotel Rooms?
As you complete each room in the hotel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll earn Hotel Tickets. These can be used to purchase a range of exclusive items, with the catalog expanding over time. Initially, you’ll be restricted to a few hotel themed items, but as you take part in hotel activities, the range increases. These additional items include a selection of retro Nintendo consoles.
In addition, random villagers will arrive and stay at your hotel. They can be visited at any time by using the stairs at the back of the lobby, which provides an overview of all the rooms. Some of these guests can also be seen wandering around your island, so you’ll regularly have a chance to meet some new faces.
Update 3.0 for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.