Ocean Beach

What Rockstar has confirmed

• Ocean Beach is a neighbourhood of Vice City. Rockstar's Vice City page opens its tour with "the pastel art deco hotels and bright white sands of Ocean Beach" (as IGN quotes it).
• The pre-order bonus garage is here. The Xbox Store copy for the Vintage Vice City Pack stores its '55 Vapid Stanier "just a stone's throw from the glistening sands of Ocean Beach in the Shore Court garage", and the car is made to cruise Shore Drive.
• Washington Beach is the other beach Rockstar names in its edition copy: the Ultimate Edition's Shitzu Squalo speedboat is "docked at Washington Beach" (PlayStation Store).

Vice Beach and the boardwalk

Trailer 1 rebuilds the boardwalk of GTA: Vice City "complete with the Ocean View Hotel, which was Tommy Vercetti's very first safehouse", IGN says. Next to it stands the Boardwalk Hotel, which IGN reads as Miami's Colony Hotel, with Hotel Dixon behind it. The parasols on the sand read "Vice Beach", a road sign points to "Vice Beaches", and far down the shore is a seafront tower called Bayfront Heights. In Rockstar's Trailer 2 screenshots the Ocean View Hotel is back, modernised, beside Ocean Beach (IGN). Rockstar's Vintage Vice City Pack screenshot puts a couple under its neon sign: the photo at the top of this page.

Washington Beach

Rockstar's Ultimate Edition copy calls its pink and blue Squalo, docked at Washington Beach, perfect for casting in Gambit Bay. That is all Rockstar has said about it. IGN points out that Ocean Beach and Washington Beach are both names fans of the 2002 game will know.

The real place behind it

Outlets read Ocean Beach as South Beach on Miami Beach. Miami New Times and Dexerto match its art deco strip to Ocean Drive, and IGN calls the Vice Beach shoreline GTA's equivalent of South Beach. Miami New Times also places a Trailer 2 pool party at "what can only be the Clevelander", the Ocean Drive hotel that Dexerto matches to the Ocean View Hotel's signs.

Our take: the boardwalk is the most direct callback to the 2002 game Rockstar has shown, and the Ocean View Hotel was Tommy's first safehouse. We expect the story to send Jason and Lucia here early, since the pre-order garage sits beside it, but Rockstar has not said so.

Not announced yet

Whether Washington Beach and Vice Beach are parts of Ocean Beach or beaches of their own, where Gambit Bay is, and whether any of the boardwalk hotels can be entered. Every spot named on this page is pinned on our GTA 6 map at an approximate position until the game is out.