The Plaza is a renovated dump.
The two towers were renovated a year or two ago so the rooms don't creep you out like I am sure they did not too long ago... but the rest of the hotel feels like its a tenement.
The elevators to the parking garage haven't been cleaned in about 30 years. The pool is so bad that on a 110F Sunday afternoon I spotted two people in the pool from the room. The tennis courts are unusable and they look like they've been that way for decades (http://j.mp/1sPN2lk).
Oh, and you talk about lipstick on a pig? How about perfume for a smoky casino?
Ugh!
Dear reader, I was comped a free room for three nights... yet, somehow, I feel paid too much.
I think my soul is still curled in the fetal position. Sigh...