The Sims 3 Island Paradise: Resorts

Managing, Guests, Profit, Workers, Tips, and Help with Star Ratings

This guide to Resort Management in The Sims 3 Island Paradise will teach you how to start your first resort, and provide tips on getting your first Five-Star Resort. If you can do that, you'll unlock one of the best islands on which to start a huge luxury Resort that can bring in many thousands of Simoleons each day - a real money-maker. Managing Resorts is like a Profession but more of a business simulator, and my personal favorite addition to Island Paradise. With my information on hiring staff, feeding the guests, keeping them happy, managing expenses, and setting the prices for your Resort, you should be ready to make the big time. I've even included a tutorial to show how I started with a two-star Hobart's Hideaway and transformed it into a wonderful and profitable (if not beautiful) five-star resort.

The Guide is broken into several sections to help Simmers find the information they need. I'll detail what you can find in each section below, but first...

Lifetime Wish and Traits

If you want to pursue managing Resorts as a Career, use the new Resort Empire Lifetime Wish, which requires you to earn $40,000 Simoleons in profit from running Resorts and own a Five-Star Resort. Honestly, Traits do not matter so much to this money-making choice. You could manage resorts and be a self- employed inventor or take up the Journalist Career. Handy is an excellent choice, but otherwise you should choose Traits that will help your Sim whether they're socializing with guests at the Resort or taking on the Private Investigator Profession. Owning Resorts is an investment.

Starting a Resort

This Guide shows your various options for starting a Resort in The Sims 3 Island Paradise Expansion Pack. This page will show you the routes you can take to get started, from taking over Hobart's Hideaway, starting a Resort on an empty lot or one of Isla Paradiso's Uncharted Islands.

Resort Basics: Management Responsibilities

This guide will teach you all the concepts you need to know in order to run your resort successfully. Details on each subtopic are provided. I'll show you how to manage your expenses and gauge your Resort's pricing. You'll also learn about your Resort's Star Rating and how you can raise it to make profit.

Guest Towers & VIP Rooms

Learn about the various means of housing the guests of your Resort. You have basic cottages, special upgradeable apartments of sorts, and full-on towers for hosting dozens of guests in one building. Learn about upgrading, maintenance costs, and the maximum amount of guests that can stay at your Resort at one time.

Feeding Guests

I felt I could dedicate a full page to feeding the guests at a Resort, and I have. Learn the various types of foods served, upkeep on the buffet tables, and the role of Food Carts on the Island.

Hiring Staff and Maintenance Workers

This Guide will teach you about the various types of staff you can use to make your Resort better. Hiring Mixologists, Front Desk Workers, and details on the various types of Maintenance workers is provided here.

Star Ratings & Pleasing Guests

This guide covers raising your Star Rating specifically. It is an invaluable tool to learning the needs of your guests and how you can make your resort more popular and expand to own even more profitable Resorts. Earning five stars is necessary to unlock No Trouble Atoll, so read on.

Tutorial: Improving Hobart's Hideaway & Resort Mogul Lifetime Wish

This walkthrough focuses on Hobart's Hideaway, a run-down Resort in Isla Paradiso. Taking it over is free, and doing so is recommended for many first-time Resort Owners. Learn how I took this two-star slum and turned it into a five-star Resort people will want to revisit.

Isla Paradiso's Resorts

Learn of the Resorts you can take a week's vacation in or take over. Ricalynn has provided lists of amenities, costs to purchase, and extra information on each of the existing Resorts in IP.

No Trouble Atoll is the best place to Start a Resort

No Trouble Atoll: Reward for Five-Star Resort

When you create your first Five-Star Resort, you will unlock No Trouble Atoll, one of eight Uncharted Islands. It happens to be one of the best lots to build a massive Resort, so you can start a new one and rake in the profit from your first Resort to become super-rich and pass the property down through the generations.

Share your tips for managing resorts in The Sims 3 Island Paradise Expansion here. You may also ask questions for problems you may have, but our Sims 3 Forum may be a better choice if you need a faster response.

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