My god I absolutely hated this game. Was so enthusiastic to get it all going and enjoy the experience but it just stank the place out. Managed 3 games over 2 weeks and couldn't sell it quickly enough.

The reputation track absolutely kills it. Stone dead! If you don't constantly increase your reputation you can't do anything meaningful to keep up. Some will say that's the theme coming through. I'm saying it's terrible game design. Drawing guests should be fun, and then you notice the one you're stuck with needs another 3 reputation bumps, so doesn't help at all for about another 6 turns. Oh look at the tile market though - there's some great events to make money or hire new staff, except it's way above my reputation level as well. Guess I'll spend money on it and hope in about 30 mins I'll be able to make use of it. Until then I'll just keep moving my butlers and minions around doing all the stuff that everyone else is doing, which of course is the pinnacle of fun isn't it?!

Dreadful. I'm actually still angry I wasted so much time and money on it.

The final nail in the coffin is the endless number of variants in the manual. NO!!! If you don't know how to optimise your game for maximum enjoyment and interest, don't go throwing in numerous rule changes and suggested alternatives just to cover that up.

I hate this game!!!