In Hotels the players are building resort hotels and attempting to drive their competitors into bankruptcy.
Players take turns moving around the board.
Each square on the board is adjacant to one or two hotel properties. Most of the squares are either purchase squares or building squares. Whenever a player lands on a purchase square which is adjacent to an unowned property they may buy that property by paying the purchase price. Once they own a property, they may attempt to build on it whenever they land on a building square. A special die is rolled to determine if permission to build is granted or denied.