Island Living Vacation Rentals

Sulani is a livable world, not destination, so there aren’t any rentals there. You can use mods to change venue types to rentals, but with a vanilla game you’ll only have the residential option.

I placed a nice home that fit with the Island, labeled it generic and plan to take sims there to use it

Besides generic you can make something like a hotel on one of the lots, using a nightclub, bar, lounge, spa, park, pool, gym, with hotel rooms if you want. Luckily in the sims 4 other sims don’t use the rooms to sleep, at least not in a bar ( I have a lot I downloaded for the purpose of a motel room in OA, and other sims don’t use the rooms, but they do show up to the bar.). Add a buffet table, pool, and gym or spa stuff, and you have a pretty nice hotel. If you have seasons, use the calendar and make a holiday called vacation for however many days you want to be there. Make sure you mark no work or school and there is your vacation, just remember not to send sims home by the house button, instead pick the travel button. If you do send children home or something, just bring them back to the current lot when you get back to the hotel/ bed and breakfast or whatever you choose to call it.-

Wow. Thanks, fellow Simmers!

I think it would of been cool to have one or two rentals in Sulani as an extra option for vacationing sims even though it's more of an island designed for sims to live in. Like do worlds have to be exclusive to either being a living place or a vacation place? Why not both? It seems like a perfect place for vacationing but I wouldn't want it to be exclusive for just vacations like the other two vacation places.

"Sindocat;c-17139313" wrote:
The option exists everywhere. The lots actually work as rentals only in destination worlds.

It doesn't require a mod, either. I made a 'rental' lot last night on Sulani. I eventually changed it to a 'generic' lot after discovering that my Sim couldn't rent it, but it probably would have worked the same. You can still live there for weeks without losing your regular home. The only downside is that other Sims can enter the house. (I gave it the 'private dwelling' trait - not sure how much effect it's having, but no one has bothered my Sim while she was in the house. I only discovered that other Sims had been there when one of them left a glass of water on the table.)

In any case, it's been very useful as a base camp for Indiana, who is trying to get all the collectibles. One suggestion before you take your Sim there: put a boat in her inventory. You can buy them from BB while you're there, but you can't put them in the water or drag them into your Sim's inventory because they don't 'own' it. So, if you want to fish from a boat, you need to have it before you go. (It took me a couple of Sim days to find a fishing sign on the volcanic island - I bulldozed the residential lot on the island for her base camp.)

I like zoning a property as retail and buying it as a vacation home.
My sim bought a property with nothing on it but a cash register, since that is a requirement.

He used it as a campsite and would only go to Sulani on the weekends.
As he earned more money I had him build it up to a nice vacation home and now he visits Sulani for a week.
This will probably be my main use for Sulani. I don't want my sims to live there permanently.
I want my sims living in other worlds to enjoy it.

I know theres workarounds but I have no words for how disappointed I am that they gave us a beach island destination perfect for vacations and didnt include the vacation part. I really hope they decide to stop being terrible and patch in the ability for us to put rental lots anywhere. Or make it up to us with a hotel/resort game pack. Because really now...

Another reason letting us have more free reign is maybe I want a BnB in Willowbrook or the new town in the magic pack

When building in Sulani there is an option to create a rental lot. I thought that was exclusive to the actual vacation worlds? When I saw the rental type in Sulani I thought they were maybe "opening" up that possibility.

It is also a Vacation spot, I had made a rental trait lot a campsite. they went and did all the things, dived for treasure, dug for treasure, went to the bar, gym, fished and used the sailboat and more. stayed overnight and then I sent them home by the phone and they were back in Newcrest. they would have stayed longer. So no matter where you live, you can travel by the phone to Island Living. live on a campsite lot as a rental. That to me is going on a vacation. I think that is so neat. I also like that a popp came about the city living festival, Another sim called my sim and asked if he wanted to go to the feasible with her. He said yes and they went to the city festival, had fun, got a shirt and came back home on the Island. How neat. So in a way if you like, you can still use Island Living as a vacation spot also. Now I do not know yet, if you can buy a lot to visit, I will have to check it out, unless someone here knows the answer to that. but to visit it is fine. Just make a camp lot as elaborate as you like, or a cabin, or as someone said a hotel of sort, I just used a campsite to try it out, but you can make a cabin or anything to stay in. On any lot. Have a fun vacation and then use the phone and go home when you wish. I though that was fun and nice to be able to do. Learning so many new things about Island living. You can make it a vacation by changing so many lots. Have fun with your sims.