Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas N-R
Plaza Hotel & Casino
1 Main Street,
Las Vegas,
Nevada 89101,
United States
Phone: (702) 386-2110
Website: plazahotelcasino.com
About the Casino
Most people had forgotten about The Plaza in Downtown Las Vegas - and for good reason. It opened in 1971 at the head of Fremont Street and became a landmark in the neighborhood with it soaring towers and iconic dome restaurant at the front.
But years of neglect from a series of owners who didn't know what to do with the property pushed it into second and even third tier status - a tattered, worn, dingy place that you stayed at if you couldn't afford something better or if everything other hotel was full.
Now, finally, The Plaza has gotten a rebirth that could very well return it to icon status. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent on a top to bottom transformation of the property and the result is nothing short of a miracle that has turned the property into one of the best hotels in Downtown Vegas and probably the best deal in the entire city.
The entire property benefitted from the mothballing of the never-completed Fontainebleau hotel on The Strip. The Plaza picked up everything from furnishings to carpeting to marble floors to wallpaper and more, then stripped the bulk of the hotel to the foundation and put in all new stuff. All of that sexy, modern furnishing you see in the sparkly hotel lobby? That was supposed to be at the Fontainebleau? The beds and desks and pretty much everything else in the 1,000 rooms? Ditto.
The reason this is important is because the Fontainebleau was supposed to be a multibillion dollar luxury resort that would have, in better economic times, cost hundreds of dollars per night for a room. At The Plaza you can stay in a pretty good facsimile of what the Fontainebleau would have been for as low as $29 a night.
See full review of The Plaza courtesy of Rick Garman's Vegas4Visitors.com
