Cities Skylines: Hotels & Retreats DLC – Review

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With Cities Skylines 2 on the horizon, Hotels & Retreats marks the final expansion for the eight-year-old Cities Syklines. With new Hotels, Retreats and tourism related expansion gives you a variety of options for providing more for your tourists in the hope of expanding the appeal of your cities.

To start off it’s worth revisiting the release of Cities Skylines: Remastered earlier this year, at launch we were told that not all pre-released DLC would be available for the new build created solely for Xbox Series consoles, but the developers did a fantastic job (after a few launch day bugs) of making sure all but a few of the most recent packs where available in the new release.

The reason for mentioning this is, if you own the Cities Skylines: Remastered version, you’ll be disappointed to hear that at the moment, Hotels and Retreats isn’t yet available for the the remastered version.

I can fully appreciate the difficulty in getting many years of DLC ready for a new update, and I commend Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order for making sure so much was playable at launch, but a new expansion, months later, marking the final main DLC of a massive game, really should have been ready to launch on both versions, so it’s utterly disappointing that I had to reinstall the original, after spending months enjoying the Remastered release.

So, while the userbase will be a little split, I’m sure it won’t be long before Hotels and Retreats is available to the wider audience, which is great news, because I feel this is a fantastic addition to the Cities Skylines Roster. The main headline of the expansion are the hotels, with a total of 15 hotels, ranging from 1-5 stars which represent the overall quality of the hotel you’re investing