If you're a fan of the wild creativity you can unleash while building in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and have been desperate for another chance to show off your design skills, then you'll love the Resort Hotel added in January 2026 in the version 3.0 update for ACNH.
With eight set themes in the Resort Hotel, but plenty of creative freedom within, it's important to keep a few tips in mind as you help Leilani decorate each guest room she has in the Resort Hotel. Jump into the furniture catalog and let your imagination run wild again!
Keep On Theme
While it can often be tempting to sidestep and beat to the beat of your own drum when it comes to designing opportunities in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, when it comes to creating eight rooms in the Hotel Hotel, you'd do well to listen to Leilani when she tells you the theme he means the specific room you are furnishing.
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This is because the number of Hotel Tickets you'll be awarded at the end of any given rebuild is directly tied to how well you kept the room on theme with what Leilani asked you to build. When you enter designer mode, it gives you a catalog page of recommended items right at the start of your build catalog, so if you want to earn as many hotel tickets as possible, you'd be wise to use them as the primary pieces in your room.
The more items in the room, the better
Along with the fact that your score is tied to the theme going on in the room and how well you actually follow that theme, it's important not to do remakes that you haven't put your heart into. Would you want to walk into a hotel room with only one bed and literally nothing else in the room, or would you expect a few extra pieces of furniture?
Just as you get more points for staying on topic, you will get more points for more items on said topic in the room when you tell Leilana you're done with work. Place bedside tables next to the bed and lamps around the room. Offer guests a restroom and options for dressers around the room. Make a place to sit with food on the table. The possibilities are endless!
Use different items as highlights
While you technically only need the furniture in the room to make your guests physically comfortable during their stay, you should also consider adding touches that make a room feel more alivebecause you'll have tourists coming over to check in pretty much as soon as you tell Leilana you're done with the proposal.
Liven up your hotel rooms at the Resort at ACNH with small table objects. Place magazines or knick-knacks on the bedside table or mugs and recipes for prepared meals on the coffee table with the chairs pulled up ready to serve, or place flowers for fun in vibrant colors. Rugs are always a nice addition to spaces and can also help fill large empty spaces between furniture.
Set the Mood With Music
The tracks in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are almost all originals by KK Slider, and he's more than happy to have his tunes playing at your Resort! It's a fun easter egg that the lobby music is a rehash of the original Tortimer Island theme from Animal Crossing: New Leaf, but what about the guest rooms?
To set the tone, you can always consider placing a music player in the room to keep the music playing not only during decoration, but also during the arrival and departure of tourists from the area. Wouldn't Bubblegum KK fit so perfectly in the room you designed with a cute theme? We think so!
Can't forget about customization
For any designer worth their salt, this is especially important customization offer for many furniture items when furnishing rooms at Hotel Resort in ACNH. We saw Reese and Cyrus return for a grand wedding a bit before the couple settled on Harv's Island to start offering customization services, and even if you don't physically go there, you'll still be able to change things up on a whim.
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Don't you think the color of the wood on the bed you placed doesn't match the mood of the room with the wallpaper options Leilani gave you in the recommended tab? Change it! Do you have a design of your own that you want to place as a quilt on said bed, lampshade, magazine page, or any item in the room? Go for it.
Think Walls And Ceiling
The interior customization capabilities we have in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are positively stunning compared to other games, and you should keep some of these improvements in mind when decorating rooms for your hotel resort, as there are few ways to add more intrigue to a space than add items to hang on walls or ceilings in the room.
Even if you deviate from the Recommended tab in the Hotel Resort room designer, you will find plenty of things like lamps, curtains, framed art, posters, fans, decals and more to decorate.
Although moving items from the catalog places them on the surface they belong on, use them + Button switch between a bird's-eye view of the ceiling, a front view of the walls, and a free-rotating view of the floor.
Buy new furniture and add new options
What's fun about the Resort Hotel is that Leilani kindly allows you to use the things Grams sells in the gift shop to purchase with those hard-earned hotel tickets before you actually save enough to buy them yourself after helping the family get the Resort Hotel up and running after installing the update.
he said that Special items available for purchase at the Nook Stop over in the Resident Services building features a range of unique items that you won't find anywhere else, with everything from branded tie-ins to clothing for your favorite Nintendo characters. They don't seem to appear as options in the Hotel Resort until you've cataloged them yourself, so hopefully you've already been spending your Bells on co-op stuff if you want to use any of the Mario items or the cool new Zelda collection in your hotel.
Use partition walls to separate spaces
You only have so much space to work with when furnishing the rooms in the Hotel Resort at ACNH, but if you are putting a bathroom in the building, who will realistically want to use the toilet from the view of their bed? If you want to avoid this recipe for germs, you can always build partition walls add a sense of separate spaces in the room.
You can do a variety of things with the dividing walls in your Animal Crossing: New Horizons Hotel: create a hallway that leads through the room, cut out space in the back for a changing area in the bathroom, build a section of wall in the middle of the room for guests to walk through to make the space bigger, and more.
You can similarly use a handful of items on the big screen to create private dressing areas that also carry a theme. Place a suitcase, a mirror and a chest of drawers together behind a screen between the door and the bed and you get, for example, a picturesque changing room.
Rebuild the resort as needed
Once you've taken a cute photo of yourself for the visitor guide Leilani is trying to create and told her you've finished your work on the resort room at ACNH, that doesn't mean you have to hang up your decorator hat forever! There is a lot of prestige to be earned for both the town and the hotel, so if you feel like your decor is getting stale, you can change rooms whenever you want from XX
For example, you start with the seaside room, but what do you get to the end of the new rooms that Leilani requests and you feel like you can make the first room better now with everything you've learned along the way?
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