For hypercorporate cadres and other Planetary Consortium citizens, there is the vacation resort in the dome of Nuevo Indio, in Hellas Planitia. Only a few hours away by maglev from the major cities, this time-share paradise offers conditions under the dome close to the Pre-Fall Californian Salton Sea region, with a nice summer weather and temperature from upper 90s during the Winter to 110s Farenheit during the summer. Beside having its own Mesh island, the resort also offer a variety of XP and simulspaces, and that is without taking in account the three pools and sport grounds for Martian Basket -that's a sight to see, folks! it's like the lovechild of basket and Quidditch !- and tennis and the gigantic golf green built in between the resort dome and the Martia Lagos domes A nearby domed city, Hellas Spring, offers every Thursday a market fair -HabiFest- in the main street, going from border to border. Though it's frowned upon by the hardcore members of the Movement, lots of Barsoomian artist and crafters come to sell and expose their work, and collect some creds and C-rep. Some, like the Morph Customs Genehackers, came from as far as Pilsener City. If you go there, you can't miss the metal can carver artist. This lady will carve, with a plasma torch, the finest details out of disaffected metal cans, piece of broken aircrafts and what's not. Having starting shortly after the Fall with a small table, there is now a long counter and hangers exposing her artpieces. place a lamp inside, and it will illuminate the interior of your unit/ship/barge with shadowy shapes and patterns. Other vendors sell from carved wood frogs, fruit sent soap, feathery crosses and many other objects

Weather parties Mentioned elsewhere, where people gather to celebrate the ongoing terraforming project by watching the rain or snow fall. If you've enough money, you can commission a temporary enclosure, and fill it with atmosphere to order. Practically, only rich old people or Reclaimer fundraisers indulge such nostalgia for Earth. Whack watching If you've enough courage and insurance, or just lack sense, you can watch a cometary impact deliver volatiles. If cheap, you can take the XP stream from the ice-herders on the slushball. If well-insured, you can watch the event from a lethal seat. I lack the physics to tell whether re-entry would make any interesting optical effects, a la the fireworks show in Varley's "Steel Beach." Architecture Weaker gravity makes stairs and ceilings differ from their Earthly ancestors. As a rule of thumb, triple the height of ceilings and replace stairs with lifts or ramps. Higher background radiation means thicker walls, subsurface construction, exotic materials, or active shields in order of increasing cost. In Martian Autumn, the bad part of town has pit honeycombs, hexagonal arrays of cheap buildings built into the ground around a central sunken courtyard with a singe descending ramp and a double dome at the surface. Arrays of tunnels connect the pits to one another. The cheap subunits lie at the top, the nicer ones at the bottom. Lower temperatures mean insulation on all sides of a building, including the floor. You don't want to warm the regolith enough for it to shift out from beneath the building. It also means fasteners with high thermal conductivity (e.g., nails) will have insulation between them and the cold side. The lower atmospheric pressure means less cooling by conduction, but the lower gravity also means less convection. Lower gravity means slower draining of liquids in pipes. That means high ullage or more likely, lots of pumps. Lower external pressure makes good seals harder to make and maintain. Lower internal pressure might make wider pipes more common. Regardless, Martian plumbers curse their lot and use many robots.