Tabletop games
Grand Austria Hotel
FunforgeVirginio Gigli, Simone Luciani2015
- players
- 2–4
- minutes
- 120
- years
- 12+
In the box
1 board · Individual Hotel boards · Customer cards and Employee cards · Politics cards · Dice · Wooden dishes: strudel, cake, wine, coffee · Coins
Official rules (PDF, publisher's site)
Box details
- Designers
- Virginio Gigli, Simone Luciani
- Artwork
- Klemens Franz
- Publisher
- Funforge
- Mechanics
- Dice RollingOpen DraftingHand ManagementObjectivesSet Collection
Where to buy it
Near you and online
In a shop
Within 50 km.
Online
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The basics
Each player makes their Viennese hotel prosper by welcoming and serving guests, hiring staff and keeping the Emperor's favour. Twice per round, take a die from the action board to gain food, drinks or money, prepare rooms or hire staff; a guest served everything they want moves up to a room and gives their rewards. After seven rounds and three visits from the Emperor, the highest total wins.
The rules, step by step
Setup
Hotel and café, Staff cards in hand, 3 Politics cards
- Each player receives their hotel board, with its rooms in three colours, its café and some starting resources.
- Guest cards are lined up face up: this is the queue of arrivals.
- Each player receives Staff cards in hand.
- Three Politics cards set the shared objectives; the Emperor track is ready for his three visits.
How to play
7 rounds, 2 dice per round, Serve then move to rooms
- The game lasts seven rounds. At the start of each round, the dice are rolled and placed on the action board according to their value.
- Each player takes a die in turn, twice per round. The strength of the action depends on the number of dice of the same value still there.
- The actions give food, drinks and money, prepare rooms, move you along the Emperor track or let you hire a member of staff.
- Before or after your action, you can welcome a guest from the queue: they sit at a free table in your café.
- Serving a guest everything shown on their card sends them up to a prepared room of their colour: you then receive their rewards.
- Completely filling an area of rooms of the same colour earns a bonus.
- Fulfilling a Politics objective scores points, more for the first to achieve it.
Scoring
Guests accommodated, Completed areas, Politics objectives
- Points are scored during the game on the score track: guests accommodated, completed room areas, Politics objectives, the Emperor's visits.
- At the end of the game, some staff still score points according to their effect.
End of the game
After the 7th round, Emperor rounds 3, 5, 7, Highest total
- The Emperor evaluates each hotel after rounds 3, 5 and 7: a high enough position on his track earns a reward, too low a position a penalty.
- After the seventh round and the staff scoring, the highest total wins.
Going further
Frequently asked questions · In the same family
Frequently asked questions
Why take a die of a not very useful value?
Because the strength of the action counts the remaining dice of the same value: taking the last one of a value gives a weak action, taking one from a big group a strong one.
Can a guest stay in the café indefinitely?
They occupy a table until they are served: with no free table, you can no longer welcome new guests.