Island Paradise Resort Management Strategy Guide
Guests, Star Ratings, and Profit Information
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Resort Management Options
Access Resort Management Options by clicking on a building or the front desk of your Resort. From there, you can open/close the Resort, set the price level, access build options (improve resort), hire maintenance workers, and view your finances and guest reviews which will show your Resort's Star Rating out of 5
This Guide will teach you the basics of running a Resort in The Sims 3 Island Paradise. We'll learn about the various Resort Towers and Bungalows that you can purchase to house your guests and their various upgrade levels. I'll also explain Star Rating and Guest Reviews and the minimum requirements to have a five-star Resort. Information on making profit, and the various types of employees you can hire is also included here.
Booking Guests - Resort Profits and Expenses
Your job as a Resort Owner is to manage a Resort and improve it. Ideally, you goal will be to increase its Star Rating and add amenities to justify a higher price while earning a bigger profit. On the Resort Finances screen, you can see how your Resort is doing, including profits, expenses, and how many guests are staying in the beds you have available. Revenue minus Expense equals the Profit you will get each day, which is given at 7AM. You're required to collect it, just like other Real Estate. Owning a Resort is a bit like Real Estate Proprietorship, for you own it, collect resources, and when it's upgraded and running smoothly you simply return daily to collect the profit. Like other businesses you may own, you are free to enjoy all the benefits your Resort has to offer.
Guests and Price
Set stay prices by clicking
your Resort's Front Desk, Resort Management, then Resort Stay
Pricing. Your three choices are Affordable, Moderate, and
Expensive. Prices vary by the percentage of rooms filled and
the Star Rating of the Resort. You can gauge how well your
price is set by whether or not your beds are full (finance
screen). You should lower the price or add new amenities if
beds are empty. The maximum amount of guests a Resort can
hold is around 1000. In testing, I was able to
get a guest capacity of 490 using towers on No Trouble Atoll.
There would be little room for amenities, landscaping, and
pools that guests like, so I imagine the max capacity most
Five-Star Resort owners will utilize is around 2-300. That
will give them the building space necessary to justify a high
price at the front desk.
Forum member Vinyl posted on the max number of guests and was able to come up with that average of around 1000 using the beach resort version, eco-modern in testing with basements to hold amenities. Daily profit was 81k for the resort. See the post, pics, and results here.
Star Rating
Star Ratings and Upgrading the Resort
It is your
job to upgrade the Resort and meet certain requirements if
you intend to raise its star level. There are certain things
that raise star levels - having landscaping, vip rooms, more
guest capacity, and pools. You can tell that you've made an
essential improvement if you see a blue plus sign indicating
it's been improved. Meeting the needs of your Guests will
also help here, by feeding them foods they like in high
quality and making sure that they have all they need to have
a good, relaxing stay at your facility.
If you need to make extensive upgrades, you can click the front desk to close your Resort, which will cost you some money due to the downtime, but you'll be able to move buildings. If you'd like, you can accomplish some of this without shutting down by using the moveobjects on cheat.
Even if you make sweeping changes to your Resort, the game is coded to only allow you to go up about 1 star level each day. So, if you're interested in saving money, wait after adding a lot of extras to your Resort until star rating levels out so you can add the bare minimum. That is only for those interested in maximizing profit - if you want to make the resort of your dreams and don't care if it has too much, go for it - just keep your revenue above expenses.
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2I have built a resort in the Sims 3 but apart from the resorttower, I myself have made several houses as a stay but will they be used? I have made on all the 4 houses a VIP-lock. Is that it that you have to do for making it able to stay in? And can I adjust the prices of those rooms?
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