A classic family style board game that has actually been around since the 1970’s. This time one of the best board games around Hotel Tycoon has now got even better with a stunning new design! The aim of the game is to become a Tycoon, owning the most hotels and land and in the end being the most filthy rich player left in the game.
In our home my boys and hubby are all big gamers, every gen console you can think of between them they have. We all visited EGX in London in September to find out what new games would be coming out for 2014 and 2015. Whilst wandering through all the latest console gaming areas we came across the Esdevium games area, which was a breath of fresh air at the event. An area full of some of the best board games available, a real chance to try out some old and new games that do not require a plug or batteries!
Thanks to Esdevium games, we were sent Hotel Tycoon, a board game to try out as a family and give our honest thoughts, so it was controllers down and dice at the ready!
Board Games forever!
I am a big Monopoly fan and love ruthless money hungry games, where I can become a millionairess and be the proud owner of multiple properties (even if it is just for 40 minutes or so). As a child I played board games with whoever I could find to challenge me. I did earn myself the title of the ‘Queen of games’ as there wasn’t a game of Monopoly I didn’t win, even if some of the time I did cheat (I admitted it, 25 years later!).
In my home now, have always made sure my childrens cupboards are filled with board games Including Frustration , Monopoly and Scrabble to name but a few. So my children have grown up playing games, learning sometimes you win and sometimes you lose (When they play me, they lose). In all honesty, I find board games teach children how to interact increasing their social skills whilst learning in many ways to use their minds.
Setting up Hotel Tycoon
Setting up the game was pretty straightforward although a little time consuming. We had to build some of the cardboard & plastic 3D buildings before we began, typically I got this job whilst the kids grabbed some snacks.
Hotel Tycoon for Gameplay & fun
The game is visually stunning, infact in my opinion one of the most interesting and colourful looking board games on the market. The game is aimed at players aged 8 and up and suitable for 2-4 players. We tried playing with only 2 players, but found it much more exciting with 3 and 4 players. Obviously the more players you have the more properties and action there was on the board. Hotel Tycoon is a strategy based game and personal I like these types of games because they test your forward thinking skills. With a roll of the dice our game began, becoming a land owner then buying hotel buildings, the game was straight forward and easy to understand. From start to finish our game took about 1 hour before we had our winner. The last man standing was my youngest son Jake who left us all bankrupt (I think he cheats too) and he was looking pretty smug about his victorious win. As a parent I could clearly see my children enjoyed this game so much! We have made a pact to make sure we play board games every Saturday night because of the amount of laughter and fun we had.
If you fancy trying a new board game to have some fun with the kids, then I thoroughly recommend this game for the family you can get more information here at Hotel Tycoon, Infact my 12 year old son gave it a 9 out of 10!
RRP: £24.99
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Closing Date Monday 1st December 2014
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I always loved (and still do) playing Monopoly!
I have 3 favourites – cluedo, monopoly and game of life!
We have regular game nights where we switch off the tv and play games, eat popcorn and laugh lots. Son loves to play Monopoly (cos he always manages to win), I like Logo or Pictureka, hubby just plays whatever we fectch down, lol
Thanks for the chance to win x
My favourite game when i was younger was downfall x
Risk was my favourite board game
its gotta be monopoly
we love playing monopoly
Monopoly
Snakes and Ladders!
Love Risk
i love monopoly 🙂
Simpson cluedo board game we love playing 🙂
we love snakes and ladders
a game called bonkers. my son would love this. he keeps seeing on tv
monopoly
I actually had “Hotel” when I was younger and LOVED it. Also had a game called Hollywood that was brilliant too
Monopoly – as it is so engaging
Monopoly
I loved game of life 🙂
Monopoly
connect 4
Snakes and Ladders
As a child I loved Hungry Hippos and Cluedo. Now I love them all!
Monopoly was always my favourite!
DRAUGHTS
Still love to play Monopoly
monopoly
Snakes and Ladders 🙂
My favorite board game was, and is, checkers
Frustration was a winner in our house x
I love Monopoly and used to enjoy Totopoly (sp?) too.
Cluedo
Always enjoyed playing Monopoly
I’ve always loved Monopoly
monopoly
monopoly
I loved Cluedo
It has to be monopoly
my favourite is monopoly 🙂
Payday
“Build a Better Burger” 😀
It was, and still is, Monopoly
Frustration!
I like uno extreme its so fun for the family to play!
Its got to be monopoly! Its a classic, loved by all of the family! (although I think each family makes up their own rules) haha 🙂
I really like Ludo
It was always Monopoly but it caused murder in our household. People robbing the bank when somebody would go the toilet, ha ha!
i loved game of life
game of life
Monopoly and Frustration
Ghost Castle
I loved monopoly and still do.
Monopoly
monopoly
The game of life
Monopoly was my favourite board game when I was little 🙂 xx
As a child enchanted forest board game
Mouse Trap
It was Buckaroo!
Game of life
As a kid Trivial pursuits had just come out … I loved it even though I couldn’t answer most of the question xx
monopoly or libel
Game of Life
Mouse Trap !!
Scrabble
I loved Cluedo!
I never understood how to play it but I was forever playing Cluedo! xx
I had a few…downfall was good, but my sister hated to play it lol
i love the game scrabble
cludo
My favourite board game as a child was Monopoly.
We loved Sorry
It was Totopoly (growing up in a racing family) although my sister and I never played it properly, we just raced the horses around the board with the Dice.
Frustration!
Monopoly
Hungry Hippos!!! 🙂
my pop…I always jumped even though I knew it was coming
whoops meant mr pop
IT’S GOT TO BE CLUEDO
I always enjoyed Scrabble
Mouse trap
Trivial Pursuit
I like Scrabble
i used to love mousetrap
monopoly
Hotel
We have just started playing Monopoly and the children love it 🙂 my favourite as a child was the Game of Life x
I still love pictionary 🙂
Monopoly – Classic but timeless!
Monopoly 🙂
My favourite game is supercluedo
MONOPOLY
Monopoly, we used to play it for hours.
Monopoly
frustration was my fav , I still love it
I liked Payday
Me and my Sisters played Mousetrap for hours on end when we were kids!!It’s changed a lot since then!!Thanks for this giveaway!!I Love your picture on your facebook page!!very psycadelic!!X
I used to love the Game of Life, I always wanted to get as many kids as possible…
Payday! Monopoly and The Game of Life 🙂 and I still love playing them now x
I love game of life
I like Cluedo because it’s the only game I can win!
Scrabble
Payday!
monopoly or mouse run
I liked Clue.
We used to play The Game of Life a lot. My sister hated Monopoly as I would bankrupt her then lend her money at loanshark rates so we could keep playing!
Game of Life 🙂
Hungry hippos
Settlers of catan.
We all love Monopoly
Cluedo
I always loved (and still do) playing frustration
monopoly has always been a family favourite
Monopoly, I have still got my original boardgame of it!
GUESS WHO!!
Cluedo it was so much fun
Can’t beat a good game of Cluedo!
Has to be monopoly!!!
Mousetrap for me
Cluedo xx
I used to play Mouse Trap all the time.
Mouse Trap although it took ages to set up and if you knocked it you had to set it up again lol
Monopoly
iT WAS CALLED SORRY – CAN’T REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT IT APART FROM THE FUNNY TRIANGULAR PEOPLE.
monopoly of course fab game
I loved Careers
GUESS WHO
i used to love a game called Risk
Ker Plunk
Monopoly
Game of Life x
Disney Trivial Pursuit
my favourite was and still is monopoly
Monopoly
scrabble 🙂 or mousetrap although it took a long time to set up
junior monoply
I loved Guess Who when I was younger
Monopoly
We used to always play the game of life…it was pretty bad!
Monopoly xxx
Monopoly! x
monopoly
Disney Trivial Pursuit x
Monopoly
i loved guess who 🙂
monopoly 🙂
Monopoly
Frustration – had to get another one as we wore the first one out.
Cluedo
Monopoly
Monopoly
I used to love playing Poleconomy which was similar to Monopoly
frustration
I loved Cluedo and hated Monopoly!
Snakes and Ladders was always my fav
Our family including me love Monopoly.
a fantasy game called hero quest was my fav
Monopoly