Grand Austria Hotel Setup Guide

Setup Steps

1. Place Components: Place the components (dustbin, dishes, VP markers, rooms by color) next to the game and action boards.
2. Place Initial Guest Cards: Shuffle the Guest cards and place them face-down on their designated space. Draw 5 and place each one face-up in a Guest space.
3. Prepare Staff Cards: Shuffle the Staff cards and place them face-down near the game board.
4. Place Politics Cards: Draw one Politics card from each category (A, B, and C) and place them on their designated spaces on the game board.
5. Place Emperor Tiles: Draw one Emperor tile from each category (A, B, and C) and place them on their designated spaces on the game board.
6. Prepare Dice: Place 10 dice on the Action space. Return unused dice to the box. (2 players)
7. Prepare Dice: Place 12 dice on the Action space. Return unused dice to the box. (3 players)
8. Prepare Dice: Place 14 dice on the Action space. Return unused dice to the box. (4 players)
9. Prepare Turn Order Tiles: Take the Turn Order tiles for the correct number of players.
10. Distribute Player Components: Each player takes an Overview card, Hotel board, and the 6 wooden disks in their color.
11. Initial Disk Placement: Place one wooden disk on the 0 space of the Emperor track, the 0 space of the VP track, and one on the 10 space of your Money track. Set the other three disks aside – you may use them later to engage in politics.
12. Initial Resources: Each player takes one of each colored cube – coffee, wine, cake, and strudel and places them in their Kitchen.
13. Initial Staff Hand: Draw 6 Staff cards and keep them hidden. Optionally, use the lettered sets (Intro) or Draft (Experience) as written in the rulebook.
14. Set Round Marker: Place the round marker on space 1 of the Round track.
15. Choose Hotel Board Side: Decide which side of the Hotel board to use.
16. Determine Start Player & Turn Order: Randomly determine a start player. The start player receives Turn Order tile 1. The next clockwise receives Turn Order tile 2, etc.
17. Draft Initial Guest: Beginning with the last player and proceeding counterclockwise, each player chooses a Guest from the face-up ones and places it in their Café at no cost. After each choice, slide the remaining Guests to the right and place a new one on the empty left space.
18. Prepare Initial Rooms: Players then prepare up to 3 rooms by taking Room tiles and placing them on the same-colored spaces of their Hotel board. You MUST start with the bottom left of your Hotel board. Subsequent Room tiles MUST be placed orthogonally adjacent to already placed ones. You pay the cost associated by moving the disk on your Money track down.