First I thought I wouldn't write a review, since I didn't think this story would need more of a review from me than the first one got, but I think I do have to write this out just because this annoyed me a lot.
The story starts off promising, it's still all very cute, very heart-warming... The royal penguins are coming to visit, so the staff at Hotel Flamingo have to make all sorts of arrangements to accommodate them, at the expense of other guests. Not every animal likes the cold temperature or the huge iceberg in the swimming pool...
And this is where I thought that oh, this is going to provide us with internal conflict. The whole point of Hotel Flamingo was that everyone is welcome, and now everything looks like people are not welcome anymore as Hotel Flamingo gets fancier. I thought that Anna has to really think about her values and stuff, and I thought wow, this is a pretty heavy subject for kids: is sacrificing your values for work worth it?
But they didn't really go there, only in passing. It was easier to get an external conflict and a some kind of antagonist involved. Like I seriously was excited that maybe this book has an almost anti-capitalist message, that you don't need to sacrifice ethics and values for work and money, but I think the book went a safer route. Maybe that's good, IDK if the target audience is ready for such heavy themes, but also... This has been explored in children's movies such as Monsters Inc., so why not here? Maybe the author just didn't want to, I don't know. I just was kind of let down by this.