A final solution , if you will . <| sep |> Has there been a rainy Abu Dhabi GP before ? <| sep |> I think they pretty much did an animated version of one of their old movies , the island at the top of the world . It ' s exactly Atlantis but with vikings . <| sep |> I ' d be happy to give you more detailed numbers via email if you ' re serious about doing similar . But the answer to your other questions are a bit complicated given our unique scenariobusiness model and depend greatly on your point of view . Since we had to save up cash to do this financing isn ' t an option as local banks won ' t loan to you and your home bank isn ' t going to finance a project overseas we own it outright . and since we live here , this means that we don ' t pay any rentmortgage . So . how you would calculate break even numbers depends on whether or not you ' re calculating in paying back our investment or not . We can get by here no offense to those who survive on much , much less on around $ 15 , 000 year so depending on the number of roomsnights , the first 10 reservations per year are our sort of break even number . where we earn enough to survive . From a businessinvestment point of view this clearly isn ' t breaking even at all , particularly given that we ought to be paid a salary for running the resort . But I ' d say that 20 reservations as a minimum per year puts us in a place where we don ' t need to stress about money . Our end goal is to earn approximately $ 100 , 000 year and when we hit that threshold we ' ll start closing more . We ' re still a very long way from hitting this point Every season so far we ' ve doubled our sales , though , so we ' re not worried about it or anything . So the answer is a combination of the two . yes , we have an eventual number in mind but the true purpose here is to finance our lifestyle . much of the reason we ' d like to earn more is that we liquidated every single asset we had to do this . we own the resort and that ' s awesome but we ' re in our 40 s without a single penny in traditional retirement savings . so even when we do start making $ 100 k we ' ll likely stash 50 % of that each year into the bankretirement investmentsetc .