How do seasons work in Bon Voyage?
If you have The Sims 2 Seasons expansion installed, the seasons, weather systems and seasonal affects are continued whilst your sims are visiting vacation destinations. For more detailed information on seasons and how they work, see
The Sims 2 Seasons - Frequently Asked Questions.
The default seasons for the three pre-made maxis vacation destinations are as follows:
Three Lakes- Season 1 - Autumn
- Season 2 - Autumn
- Season 3 - Winter
- Season 4 - Winter
Twikkii Island- Season 1 - Summer
- Season 2 - Summer
- Season 3 - Summer
- Season 4 - Summer
Takemizu Village- Season 1 - Spring
- Season 2 - Spring
- Season 3 - Autumn
- Season 4 - Autumn
You can change these to any combination you prefer in the usual way, by using the season changer control in the vacation neighbourhood screen.
Which particular season your sims will experience when they arrive at their vacation destination, depends not only on how you have set the seasons via the vacation neighbourhood season changer, but also which seasonal quadrant of their cycle they are currently in.
For example, I set my main neighbourhood seasons as follows:
Season 1 - Spring
Season 2 - Summer
Season 3 - Autumn
Season 4 - Winter
My sim and his family are ready for a holiday and are currently in the second season quadrant (click to enlarge):
If I leave the default seasons as they are and take my sims to Three Lakes, they will arrive during during the Autumn as that is what the Three Lakes Season 2 is set as. If I take my sims to Twikkii Island, they will arrive during the Summer as that is what the Twikkii Island Season 2 is set as. If I take my sims to Takemizu Village, they will arrive during Spring as that is what the Takemizu Village Season 2 is set as.
Since all the seasonal affects still apply, it's worthwhile planning ahead what you intend your sims to do while on Vacation. For example, if I want to take my sims above to Takemizu Village to make as many far east friends as possible, it would be worthwhile to go to the Takemizu Village neighbourhood screen first and use the season changer control to switch the Season 2 (and season 3 if they were going for more than the current 5 days they have left in their current season quadrant) to Summer, since the summer season accelerates the building of non family friendships. If I then take my sims to Takemizu Village, they would arrive in Summer instead.
Note: Autumn accelerates skill building, however the only place in a vacation neighbourhood that your sims can build the traditional 7 skills, are whilst they are on a residential vacation home if they own one.