How does time work on the vacation lots?
There is a slight change to the way that time works when your sims visit a vacation destination. The change affects the passage of time when your sims are visiting community lots while on vacation.
Unlike visiting community lots in your base neighbourhoods where your sims arrive back home at the same time as they left, when on vacation time continues to run on their 'home base' lots where your sims are staying, while the sims are away on community lots. For example, if you take a party of sims to a community lot and leave at 9am, they spend five hours away taking their time to 2pm, when they arrive back at the 'home base' lot you will find that the time is also 2pm.
There are several points to be aware of, if you have sims staying at a hotel and they are away on community lots as the time passes 12pm (noon), when they arrive back at the hotel you are told that they are being charged for another day. This is because the charging times for hotels are always from noon until noon the next day.
Sims which are left behind on the 'home base' lot while your sims are away (including NPCs, local townies, NPC holiday makers and any sims belonging to your own party that you have left behind) will not see time continue, even though the time for the lot continues to run. For example, if you decide to leave behind one of your vacationing sims on his own eating breakfast at 9am while you take other sims to a community lot, when they return later the time will have moved on but your sim will still be eating breakfast.
No time passes for any sims back in your base neighbourhood.