The Hotels of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

radit mahindro
17 min readDec 10, 2023

San Andreas is one of the country’s most diverse visitor destinations, known for its huge size and incredible variety. Although justly celebrated for its 3 wildly different main cities each with its own style and attractions to offer — Los Santos with its celebrities and sprawling ghettos, San Fierro with its eclectic artist community, and Las Venturas with the glitz and glamour of casinos — it has so much more beyond that; such as mountains, ghost towns, dense forests and hot, dry deserts. Take time to visit the whole state and support local businesses — GTA San Andreas Manual.

GTA San Andreas marks the first appearance of an entire state as the setting of a GTA game. The San Andreas state, which was modelled after the state of California, Nevada, and Arizona, consists of three main cities: Los Santos (based on the city of Los Angeles), San Fierro (based on San Francisco), and Las Venturas (based on Las Vegas), with several counties and small towns in between / around the cities.

The game features references to many real-life landmarks with its plot heavily based on several real-life events in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, including the rivalry between street gangs, the crack epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s, the LAPD Rampart scandal, and…

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