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| - The air is thick in this hotel. I'm not talking about smoke.
You walk in and the warm, rich wood everywhere make you feel comfortable right away, but there is a feeling in the air.
It is a familiar feeling, even though you may have never been here before.
It's the feeling of nostalgia.
It's the feeling of class.
It's the feeling of old Vegas.
...and it's really my style of place.
The building has been here since before just about anything else in Vegas -- 1906, so the strange familiarity and comfort start a creative soul to fantasize of sordid misadventures held here in a past life, perhaps a roaring 20's soiree or a post-WWII survival celebration.
The rooms themselves, although remodeled with modern conveniences like LG LCD tv and iPod doc alarm clock, are still thick enough with that ether-substance of the psyche of more than a century of guests that one can forget about the present time and get swank with the ghosts in the room. (Sadly, I never saw any real ghosts)
Crank open the lock on the windows and actually open them up to let the 'fresh' downtonwn air into your room!
Check out the hand-tiled bathroom and instantly transport yourself to your gramma's tourqoise powder room to draw yourself a bath from separate hot and cold cross-handled faucet turns.
As long as you're coming alone or as a couple, and not trying to share a room with 3-4+ people, the only real drawback I can see is that if you're a person of large mass or width, there may be a tight squeeze in that bathtub or even on the toilet, with your arm pressing up against the wall.
There was a bit of the Freemont Music coming in the room, but that doesn't go forever, and wasn't an issue at all. A request for a room on the opposite side of the building helps a lot.
For a ton of class, nostalgia, convenience, and value, Golden Gate in downtown Vegas is going to be tough to beat, and I'm surely going back again. Maybe someday if I'm ever a homeless ghost, this would be my ideal place to squat. I could make sure no one else was disappointed by not seeing ghosts here!
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