On the front side is the symbol of a vacation district, and shows either a villa or a hotel. The villas can only be placed on the building sites near the beach, and the hotels are built only on the central four building sites. The backside of the counters shows undisturbed land. Whoever places a counter on the board with this side facing up, gives up the opportunity to build on this site. Even if the nature side is facing up, the counter must be placed on one of its allowed sites.
Every villa is placed on any of the three corresponding beach building sites.
The other twelve counters are mixed together face-down and put into a pile next to the game board. Every player takes his set of possession markers in his choice of color. Then money is distributed. Everyone keeps the ammount of money they have secret. The rest of the money forms the bank.