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The Sims 2: Bon Voyage | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 412
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15367
UPC: 014633153675
EAN: 0014633153675
ASIN: B000PS1HNQ
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | Whisk your Sims away from their everyday routines and take them on exciting trips | | | Travel to 3 dream destinations; try local cuisine and admire cultural landmarks | | | Transform them from bumbling tourists to savvy international travelers | | | Go on fun excursions, shop for unique objects, collect shells on the beach or dig up treasure | | | Splurge on the luxury suite or save Simoleons and choose a more cozy lodging |
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Product Description
Whether relaxing on a lush tropical island in a luxury suite, camping outdoors on a pristine mountaintop, or exploring the culture of the Far East, your Sims will enjoy all-new activities to relax and rejuvenate them. Send your Sims packing for the trip of a lifetime!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 I liked it September 7, 2007
D. Gomez
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
Overall, an excellent expansion. However, I would say that this expansion only applies to "hard core" players who enjoy different aspects of the Sims rather than just "life". It gives exactly as it promises: vacations. So does this really add to how your sims live? Not really. Unlike, say, Seasons or University, the Bon Voyage is more of a nice little add on rather than a change in lifestyle. Everything about this pack looks great. I haven't really encountered any bugs thus far. The vacation "badge system" is nice beucase it can make your vactation as goal oriented as you want. I enjoyed how in order to earn some local customs, you just have to let your sim roam around on his/her own (it allows the NPCs to approach your sim). So it's almost a vaction for the player compared to the nitty gritty details of Open for Business. The three premade vacation spots are different enough in that it will make you want to visit all three. Tons of new objects allow you to create your own vacation spot or just spice up a home. Also included are a few new serious build tools for those who enjoy making custom houses. So, as I said before, a really nice and well put together add on. I would rate other packs over Bon Voyage based only on necessity. But if you just enjoy the Sims and like those little touches that make it that much more like real life, Bon Voyage is a worthy investment.
Sims 2 Bon Voyage January 28, 2008
Jeff Carter (Perry, Ga United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you don't have this ep get it.It lets your sim go on vacations and it also has a lot of cool new objects in it.New objects you can now put at your own home include saunas,waterfalls,tents and even a pirate ship.These are all available on the vacation lots but you can also put them on your on.There are a lot more new objects but I won't list them.There is 3 locations to visit.Tikki Beach is my favorite.You can also visit a mountain retreat and a place in the far east.Your sim can now stay in hotels and or buy a vacation home.New interactions include comb for seashells,watch waves,dig for tresure,build sandcastles and more.Your sim can even swim in the ocean and lay on the beach and get a tan or sunburn.
There is a new camera that gives your sims the choice to take a picture of themselves or themselves and other sims or to ask another sim to take the picture of them.There is many poses your sim can do by themselves and with other sims.Your sim can even kiss or makeout with their lover or spouse and have another sim take a picture of them doing that.Once your off the vacation you order the photos on the pc.You can get them in a book or individually to hang on the wall or put on the table.
Each vacation offers so much to see it's advisable for your sim to book at least 7 days to see it all.Their expensive but this is no problem when you use the motherlode cheat which gives you at least 50,000 dollars everytime you input it.
New to this expansion
You can now have a honeymoon at one of the 3 vacation spots.
You can get married anywhere in the vacation spots and have the wedding of your dream.
New public and private places to wohoo(sims sex).
On the campground you can wohoo in tents which counts as a public wohoo.
You can wohoo in saunas which counts as private.
You can wohoo in hamocks which count as public.
You can take up to 8 people with you.You have the option of reserving one hotel room or several for your guest.Tents on campgrounds are free they don't cost anything.
You can call for roomservice and they will bring you food to your hotel room.Some of the better hotels have swimming pools,hottubs and restuarents and are beachside.
The voodoo doll.If you can fix 3 objects in the witchdoctors house he gives you a voodoo doll.You can use this for curses on other sims or to make them fall in love with you or for freindship.I used this on a sim that didn't like my sim.Her relationship was -1 on the top and I clicked on that sim hit more then do voodoo.I picked romance and instanly she went from -1 to 70 that quick and started making out with my sim.
Teleporting you can do this if you complete some kind of goal with the ninja.I haven't done that yet.
Pirate Ship This is a huge ship and there is a lot to do on it.There is even a ghost that resides on this ship.
Waterfalls.Certain locations have this huge waterfall which you can also put in your own lot.If you add soap to it it chages to lava thou.
Bigfoot In the mountain locations you can see bigfoot or even talk to him.If you complete somekind of goal you can ask him to move in with you at your own home lot.You can then control him you can hug him but can't do any romantic interactions with him.
New hairstyles Women now have 3 new hairstyles and men have a couple and some new facial hair ones too.I really like the new long hair that they give the women.It makes them even prettier.
Jewlery you can now buy it at stores and in create a sim mode you can put it on the sims your creating.
Souvineers there is all kind of souvineers and trinkets you can buy.
Souvineer racks to keep your collectibles on.These are available in buy mode.
New clothes and glasses they actually have new tourist clothes and multicolored sunglasses you can wear.
There is so much more you can do in this game but I want list that as I don't have time.After seasons this is the best expansion pack I've ever played.I also recommend seasons,holiday stuff and sims 2 deluxe with nightlife.
One last thing make sure your pc has at least 512 megs of ram and that's just the minimum it calls for.I would suggest going to 1gb if you have xp.The minimum for Vista is 1gb.I'd suggest 2 or 3.This game takes up a lot of memory and it can lag if you just have the minumum.The specs are higher for this expansion then they was for the previous ones.
Latest is best September 13, 2007
William S. Watson (Los Angeles)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I've been playing Sims since the first one came out and subsequently purchased all the expansion packs. As much as I loved being able to have pets or weather for the first time, Bon Voyage has a kind of quest system that really appeals to me. There are 45 skills or objects that the character in question has to pick up, including my favorite, teleportation. No more waiting while someone ahead of you is on the stairs. Now you can go from your front lawn to your 2nd floor bedroom in one step. I also like how you can teach the skills or learn new ones from/to total strangers. As for graphics, sometimes the characters do resemble Sue Storm from the Fantastic Four. At which time I need to shut down the game, and restart, but otherwise, no real complaints.
Leave the kids at home, it's vacation time! September 10, 2008
C. R. Swanson (Phoenix)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ah, nothing like a nice vacation. A chance to get away from the world, see new places, meet new people and have a great time! Why when I was growing up one of my favorite movies was National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary Special Edition), and if there's one thing I learned from that, it's this: leave the kids at home.
Thankfully EA takes that lesson to heart with this fine expansion pack. Yes, your Sims get to take a nice bacation, but the kids stay back at the house, out of your hair!
You get to pick from three vacation spots: the mountains, an island paradise and an Asian-themed place. While there, you can learn new things (like the hula and fire-dancing), eat new foods (sushi!), and meet new people! You'll also get to go on various tours and adventures, plus spend huge amounts of money, and when you're done, if all goes well, your Sims will return to their real lives feeling rejuvinated and alive! If all goes poorly, well... yeah. Life will suck for them.
This is perhaps one of the most fun expansion packs out there. Far more enjoyable than The Sims 2: Open for Business Expansion Pack, which I didn't really care for. The rewards your Sims can get are tangible and you'll have lots of fun earning them! The only downside to the game? Well, you can't save while on vacation. Otherwise, it's great fun! Worth every simolean you spend on it!
Nice! September 8, 2007
Sherrie Serna (Florida)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a good expansion pack. It's a little buggy, as all are when they first come out, but I have experienced fewer glitches with this one than any other EP I've gotten. The vacation lots tend to lag a little, but the normal lots do not. I imagine (hope) this will be fixed when they put out a patch.
While Seasons is my favorite, this makes a very nice addition that I have spent hours and hours playing. Some new things you can look forward to:
Tai Chi
Two new dances
Beach lots
Digging for treasure
And more. I don't want to spoil the surprises for you, so I'll leave it at that.
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