Hi I am looking for some help re: vacation hoods and their visitors.

I have several custom vacation hoods, one Australia, new Zealand, Caribbean, Alaska.

And I have specific sims and pets ( jaguar, goats, sheep, panda, koala, wombat, etc. all are large dogs re skinned) that I want to show up in specific hoods.

I have tried creating vacation locals, but they are the same across all hoods of the same theme. So can only do Caribbean and not Australia or new Zealand locals as they are all "island vacations".

I tried creating families that I wanted to be visitors and walkbys and moving them into purpose built shopping district which is just a bin for all of them, and then taking them all on vacation and leaving them.

But they don't appear when I visit the vacation hoods, no one except for tourists, maxis locals and npcs.

I tried using the visitor controller, but that only bans sims, doesnt make them appear.

I tried using the auto teleporter from twojeffs in conjunction with the visitor controller. But they don't seem to effect each other.

I'm all out of ideas

Can anyone help? Is there another mod or hack with which I could change who visits vacations lots?

Ideally I would like all my vacationing sims to turn up as visitors and walkbys on all lots in the hood in which they are vacationing.

@chocabro Sounds like you have not properly classified your sims as locals and tourists. See this tutorial:
Making your own custom vacation destinations with custom hidden vacation lots, custom locals and custom tourists by Lili975 and use Argon's Townie Brick to change your sims to locals or tourists.

Now getting pets to show up, otoh, might be more difficult. Strays do not normally show up on community and vacation lots. While there is a mod to make strays visit (here), I don't think it differentiates groups of strays so you might have all your strays show up, not just ones for that vacation destination.

If you're willing to experiment, you can pick up Lamare's Pets and Toddlers on Vacation and then send a family with all the pets to the appropriate vacation destination. Then play another family and see if the one with the pets shows up as visitors when you go to community lots. Otherwise, I don't think you'll be able to set pets as a vacation local or tourist--but if the Townie Brick does give you the option, I would try it and see what happens.

Remember to back up your game before you test!