Ok the Bon Vivant suite was really disappointing to me. I mean, two beds, a bathroom, a couch,plus everything must be stolen by you. I expected it to be enormous, luxurious, and awesome. What happened there Obsidian?

People who want to live in the Ultra Luxe will live there. If not, get over it.

Obsidian focused on the parts of the game that mattered. Considering they weren't given a lot of time, they did pretty good.

I've never considered actually living there, the other bases available are much more useful. In fact, I'm not sure that I even went and looked at it....

the room itself is a typical hotel room, just what i expected. what i didn't like was that everything was marked 'stolen'. has to be an oversight as it makes absolutely zero sense. maybe the room could have been more (it's an old pre war hotel room, what were you expecting?), but at the ultra luxe you're not paying for luxury, you're paying for the illusion of luxury and exclusivity.

There's a mod which fixes this at the Atomic Wrangler (another example of owned furniture not making sense) so there's probably one out there for the Ultra-Luxe Suite as well...

There's a lot of inconsistencies in whether things that are marked owned or not, in various parts of the game. Sometimes stuff is marked owned where it is not clear who owns it. For instance, nobody seems to control or own the gas station in Novac (across from the dinosaur motel), although the useful items on the shelves there (mostly parts for Weapon Repair Kits) are all marked owned. There's a gameplay reason for this (do I steal them or not to repair my stuff), but if they wanted to do it that way, they should have come up with a NPC owner of the gas station at the very least. An opposite example is in Westside. The plants being grown there aren't marked owned (except for one row, which is next to other non-owned rows of plants), even though they are clearly being specifically farmed and sold in the co-op.

Meh. I prefer the Novac suite, or The Sink. Both are extremely easy and fast to get too, and The Sink has tons of useful features. Novac is more of a simple house to use until I get to OWB, and since you can get it early on with ease its very practical. /shrug

Well... it's a hotel to begin with. It wasn't supposed to be an all-around "headquarters". You don't find any other feature in a 5-star hotel.

IRL, you can't:
Make stuff
Cook heavy stuff aside from instant noodles

in a 5-star hotel room. You can call bellboys and buy them, but you can't make 'em. And frankly, that's what happened in Bon Vivant.

I appreciate their decision.

I prefer Novac as well - it's a hotel room as well, but just seems to have gotten everything right. There aren't any tables there but you can find both tables in the petrol station just across the road, which actually feels good. Reminds you that Novac isn't just a single room, otherwise I'd just fast-travel to the entrance, do what I want, walk out of the room and fast-travel away. This way I get to walk about and take in the sights for a short while, and it's not so far that it's inconvenient. The Bon Vivant seems a bit of a chore to get to. I have the same problem with the Lucky 38, even with bookmarks which take you right to the door. Having to go through the casino and speak to Victor and then select a conversation option can get annoying at times.

The Sink is the ultimate base, but almost too convenient and too good to be true. It almost feels like cheating when I can bring in loads of worthless junk and turn it into something of good value. It fits in the theme of retro Science Fiction, though, and has a lot of charm. Novac is still my choice of home.