Hotel doesn't know Sim isn't there anymore.

[Hitch]

My Jade's Exclusive Resort has become a bit too exclusive. Through stupidity on my own part, the lot is broken and no one can go there.

I was carelessly monkeying around with hacks (some outdated) when one of my sims got lost on vacation. When I tried to load her home lot, it told me she was on vacation at another lot, did I want to play there? I said yes, and the lot loaded with Live, Buy, and Build Modes all grayed out -- my sim nowhere in sight. I eventually recovered her by having a friend call her on the phone and invite her over. I then forced her into the family, had her move out, and moved her back into her original lot. She's fine.

However, the hotel still says there's a family vacationing there and won't allow anyone to visit. I can't move or delete the lot because the game thinks she's still there. Anyone have any idea how to reset the "someone is vacationing here" flag on a hotel?

[KatEnigma]

Yeah, I broke a lot too. LOL I used the teleporter bush to save the family.

I eventually got tired of the stuck lot and bulldozed it. It wouldn't let me move it, but it did let me bulldoze it.

[Hitch]

I have a working Jade's Exclusive Resorts again. Now I just get to spend a few days dreading unintended consequences. Emboldened by the ability to bulldoze the borked lot, I created a new Takemizu village in an unplayed neighborhood, copied Jade's from there, bulldozed my borked one, and planted a new copy. It's working, but I can't guarantee no VBT anomalies yet.

[J. M. Pescado]

It is believed that bulldozing the afflicted lot represents a serviceable stopgap solution to the problem. It is not the best or cleanest, but it works with relatively little damage, and the threat of lot-instance-id depletion is not considered to be serious. Be warned that after the 32000th-ish repetition of this, your neighborhood will finally explode.

[Hitch]

How do desk clerks work? There seems to be one on hotel lots in build mode. Do Sims get memories of meeting them? I figure the one that was there may have been bulldozed under with the lot. I managed to break it pretty fast, so if there was anything left dangling from destroying him, it should have been minimal. But certainly something I don't want to risk another 31,999 instances of.