Hotel Board Game - Fan Page - 1986-EU

1986 - Europe

This is the first "modern" version of Hotel. The design is typically '80s with a lot of neons and stuff like that.
Now the dimensions of the box are about half of the 1974 edition, thanks to the fact that the table is folded in two. Everything has been redesigned, even money, entrances (now they look like a real entrance of an hotel), dice (now region-free without any text) and cars (now the shape reminds a Porsche).
One of the biggest step forward was the new buildings. The design was very well done, the version sold in Europe nowadays still include the same buildings.
This is the most successful version of the game, even because it was translated in several European languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Dutch. With a great worldwide promotion it gained a lot of fame between children and adults.

This edition has been released in the same year in two different editions, which can be easily identified by the box: in the first release the "HOTEL" logo is blue, in the second release is light blue and covered with a bright silver paint. There are also small differences that you can see in the table below. The first release is more rare.

Trivia: In Italy, BIM BUM BAM (a famous kids TV show at that time), included the game GIANT HOTEL. The whole set was built with the items of the boardgame Hotel, rebuilt to person size. It featured a short game played by kids with a simple version of the rules of Hotel.

NAME	Hotel
YEAR OF RELEASE	1986
PUBLISHER	MB Games
COUNTRY	Europe
LANGUAGES	English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Greek, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, ...??
INSTRUCTIONS	Inside front box	Instructions on Spanish edition (first release)  are on the rear box
WALLS THICKNESS	0.05 cm.
BOX		Dimensions: 51x32.5x5.5 cm. First release has no overlying shining silver logo
BOX INSIDE
REAR BOX		On the rear box of the first release in Spain there are the instructions
REAR BOX INSIDE
BOARD		62x49.5 cm. - fold in two The border is the same color of the backside, so in the first release is red (as seen in the box photo)
BOARD BACKSIDE		In the first release is full red
TITLE DEEDS		Dimensions: 9.5x12.9 cm. In the first release they are thinner
BANKNOTES		Dimensions: 4.9x11.5 cm.
DICE		In the first release "2" and "H" are not carved and are written  with a different font
TOKENS
ENTRANCES
BANK/TOWN HALL
HOTEL LIST	FUJIYAMA	BOOMERANG
	L'ETOILE	PRESIDENT
	ROYAL	WAIKIKI
	TAJ MAHAL	SAFARI

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