ACNH Hotel Tickets Guide: How to Earn More and Choose the Best Rewards

Hotel Tickets are a special currency introduced in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 3.0. You can earn them by decorating hotel rooms and completing DIY requests, then exchange them for exclusive furniture, hotel souvenirs, and other collectibles.

The best approach is to collect tickets through daily room decorating, complete worthwhile DIY requests, and check Grams’ discounted display items before spending tickets from the catalog.

How to Earn Hotel Tickets

There are three main ways to earn Hotel Tickets. Room decorating provides a predictable daily reward, while DIY requests offer additional tickets without a fixed daily submission limit.

1. Decorate Hotel Guest Rooms

Speak to Leilani at the Resort Hotel and decorate the available guest rooms. Completing a new standard room rewards 200 Hotel Tickets. You can design up to two new standard rooms per day, earning up to 400 tickets daily while progressing through the eight standard rooms.

After all eight standard rooms have been completed, you can continue redecorating a room for its ticket reward. Make room decorating part of your daily routine rather than treating it as a one-time task.

2. Complete DIY Donation Box Requests

Check the DIY Donation Box on the pier beside the hotel. Kapp’n requests crafted items, and submitting the required items earns Hotel Tickets. The reward depends on the request, including its difficulty and required quantity.

Requests are replaced as you complete them, so you can continue submitting items as long as you have the materials and recipes. The full request list refreshes on Monday. Some requests offer bonus ticket rewards, so check the displayed payout before spending time gathering materials.

Tip: Prioritize requests with better ticket rewards when you already have the required materials. You do not need to craft every requested item immediately if doing so would consume materials you need for other projects.

3. Help Tourists Stay at the Hotel

You may encounter a tourist on your island who has not arranged a hotel stay. Speak to the visitor and help them check in. Completing the room arrangement can provide an additional Hotel Ticket reward.

This is a useful extra source of tickets when it appears, but it is not as predictable as your regular room-design routine. Check for these visitors while carrying out your usual island activities.

 

What Unlocks as You Complete Hotel Rooms?

Hotel progression expands Grams’ souvenir shop catalog. Completing more rooms is therefore useful even if you are mainly interested in collecting exclusive furniture.

Progress	What it unlocks
Start using the hotel	Access to the initial souvenir selection
Complete 4 standard rooms	An expanded souvenir catalog
Complete all 8 standard rooms	Further catalog expansion
Complete the first VIP room and reach 400 hidden hotel points	The special catalog containing classic Nintendo collectibles

The hidden points are separate from your Hotel Ticket balance. They are earned through eligible hotel activities, including room design and DIY requests, and the game does not display the running total. Having enough tickets alone does not guarantee that the special catalog will unlock.

 

Which Hotel Ticket Rewards Should You Buy First?

Grams’ souvenir shop has two ways to buy items: daily display items and the larger catalog. Both use Hotel Tickets, but the daily display offers a discount.

Check the Daily Discount First

Two items appear in the shop display each day, and they cost 30% fewer Hotel Tickets than the same items purchased through the catalog. If an item interests you, compare its displayed price before ordering it from the catalog.

This is the simplest way to make your tickets go further without changing how you earn them.

Prioritize Exclusive Furniture

The catalog includes exclusive furniture collections that cannot be obtained through ordinary shopping. These include the Zen Modern, Kids, Tubular, and Marble series.

If you are decorating a themed room or completing a collection, prioritize the pieces you need most. Some catalog items cost considerably more than basic hotel souvenirs, so avoid spending all your tickets on novelty items if a specific furniture piece is your goal.

Save for Special Collectibles

Classic Nintendo collectibles become available in the special catalog after you complete your first VIP room and accumulate 400 hidden hotel points. The points are earned through eligible activities, not by spending tickets.

If these collectibles are your main target, continue designing rooms and completing DIY requests while saving enough Hotel Tickets to purchase the items you want once the catalog unlocks.

 

Is Kapp’n’s Extra Boat Tour Worth 100 Hotel Tickets?

After you have completed your first VIP room, Kapp’n can offer an additional boat tour for 100 Hotel Tickets after your regular daily tour.

This is an alternative use for tickets rather than a souvenir purchase. Consider the extra trip when you want another opportunity to visit a mystery island. If you are still collecting exclusive hotel furniture, compare the tour cost with the price of the item you are saving for before spending your tickets.

 

A Simple Daily Hotel Ticket Routine

Use this short checklist to earn tickets and avoid unnecessary spending:

1. Decorate a room: Complete available guest rooms to collect the predictable room-design reward.
2. Check DIY requests: Compare ticket payouts and submit requests that fit your available materials.
3. Visit Grams’ shop: Check the two discounted display items before ordering from the catalog.
4. Check your collection goals: Save tickets for exclusive furniture or special Nintendo collectibles instead of buying every item immediately.

If you are still building your island collection, you can also browse ACNH items on ACItemsBuy to find pieces that fit your decorating plans.

The most efficient strategy is to collect room-design rewards consistently, use DIY requests for extra tickets, and spend carefully on discounted or exclusive items. You do not need to complete every request or buy every souvenir at once to make steady progress.