Ocean View Hotel

BUSINESS Ocean View Hotel
Appearances:	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Name:	Ocean View Hotel
Owner:	Unknown
Type of Business:	Hotel
Location:	Ocean Beach, Vice City

The Ocean View Hotel is a hotel in Ocean Drive in Ocean Beach, Vice City in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The hotel is most prominently featured in GTA Vice City as the player's first safehouse in the game.

Description

Available from the start in GTA Vice City after "In the beginning...", the Ocean View Hotel is a green, white and yellow Art Deco hotel facing the eastern beachfront of Ocean Beach. The hotel boasts an interior (featured only in GTA Vice City) that includes a detailed lobby level, as well as the stairway and hallway leading to the player's suite upstairs. The suite itself is quintessentially 1980s in design, with artsy furnishing and light colors.

In GTA Vice City, the hotel serves various purposes:

• Basically, players can save games in the hotel; while the player is assumed to reside in the suite, the save point is actually located at the reception counter of the lobby.
• Players can change to their default "Street" clothing using a clothing icon inside the suite.
• Various weapons attained by collecting hidden packages will spawn along the hallway and within the hotel suite. These include body armor (10 packages), a chainsaw (20 packages), a Colt Python (30 packages), a flamethrower (40 packages), a PSG-1 laser scope sniper rifle (50 packages), a minigun (60 packages) and a rocket launcher (70 packages).

The hotel as a structure still exists in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and is given a cosmetic refinement, as are with many Ocean Drive buildings in the game. However, the hotel lacks the "Ocean View" sign, and features green and yellow as its primary exterior colors.

The design of the hotel is partially influenced by The Clevelander Hotel in Miami. The in-game depiction simply widens the facade of the hotel, resulting in a hotel design that appears larger.

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  The hotel at night, GTA Vice City.

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  The same hotel in GTA Vice City Stories.

Items in Ocean Beach Hotel

In GTA Vice City, Tommy's Ocean Beach suite will be filled with various memorabilia either available from the start or available after completion of a specific mission:

• Claude, the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto III, appears on a pop-art poster in the room.
• Upon completion of "G-Spotlight", two posters for Candy Suxxx's "movies" will appear on both sides of the Claude poster.
• Upon completion of Phil's mission "Boomshine Saigon", three barrels of boomshine will appear in a corner of the room, behind the bar.
• On the coffee table there are magazines with pictures of Lance Vance and Ricardo Diaz on them.
• Upon completion of "The Job", a hockey mask will appear on the coffee table, as is a bag full of money on the bed.
• Upon completion of "The Shootist" you will get a trophy on top of the television in the apartment.
• When you have collected all 100 hidden packages, there is an broken hidden package on the bar counter, revealing the package contains an unknown white powder.

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  Three barrels of Boomshine after "Boomshine Saigon"

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  The GTA III Claude and Candy Suxxx posters; the latter are acquired after "G-Spotlight".

• The hockey mask on the coffee table acquired after "The Job", the magazines.

  The hockey mask on the coffee table acquired after "The Job", the magazines.

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  Money on the bed following "The Job".

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  The trophy upon following "The Shootist".

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  A broken hidden package after collecting 100 hidden packages.

Trivia

• Inside the hotel the chours of the song "La Vida Es Una Lenteja" by Unaesta constantly plays (this song is also heared on the radio station Espantoso.)