text: The Plaza is haunted. I'm certain of this. You have to be in the right spot inside the hotel to feel it. \n\nIt's not apparent in the recently remodeled casino. It's an old-fashioned casino, dim and dusky, rather than the brighter feel common in newer casinos. They have a poker room, really an area set off from the rest of the casino instead of a seperate room. The first hint that there are ghosts hovering at the Plaza is the classic and hard-to-find game of pan you can find being played in the poker room.\n\nIf you want to feel their presence more clearly, take the escalator up to the second floor and spend time at The Dome. The view of Fremont St. from the lounge's windows is an iconic Vegas image, and now the space has been augmented with the addition of a handful of televisions. It's a sportsbar-type theme now, you see. But spend even a few moments in here and you will feel what must've been many varied incarnations of the room. I imagine it was once a very glamorous restaurant. Now it's an underpromoted downtown vantage point.\n\nThe escalator ride to the third floor feels like a journey to a ghost town. There is a jerky store waiting to be explored with a selection of candies and flavored jerkies available. The third floor is also home to the only bingo room currently up and running in downtown Vegas. What may have once been a conference room is now home to dozens of folding tables. Here too, odd variations on the usual game are offered. The spirit of the room is casual and friendly: if you have a thing for bingo you might end up spending a lot of time here.\n\nI haven't yet seen any rooms or suites at the hotel, so I can't speak to how they look or feel. But the place that feels most eerie to me is the open area between the casino and the food court on the first floor. The spirit of visitors past is almost palpable as you look thru the glass doors and out to Fremont St. When downtown was the most exciting part of Vegas, the Plaza must've been THE place to be. Today it feels lot like a relic trying to keep the old spirit alive.\n\nOne more thing: avoid the parking garage if you can. It's the most narrow, twisty thing I've ever had to drive thru.