How we check

Events come from the organisers' own sites; hotel prices from the same fixed panel of hotels every sampled night; the Vice City places from published comparisons of the official trailers, each linked.

Events

Dates from each organiser's site, checked against the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau calendar. Visitor numbers only when the organiser or the press publishes one; otherwise we leave it out rather than guess.

Hotel prices

The same 23 hotels in Miami Beach, Brickell and Downtown every night we sample: the lowest rate on sale for 2 adults for one night, before taxes and resort fees, from TripAdvisor's partner rates (via Xotelo). We publish the typical price across the panel and how many were sold out, not any one hotel's rate. Sold-out hotels count as dearer than any room still on sale, because they are. Nights are sampled, not every day.

Vice City

Every place carries the comparisons that make the match and how sure they are. We use no game footage or artwork. We aren't affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.

Independence

No hotel, venue or event pays to be listed. What's On Miami is a sister site of What's On Vegas.