Dallas Plaza Hotel, Dallas, Texas

Dallas Plaza Hotel Downtown Convention Center in Dallas, Texas is one hotel out of many hotels in the downtown Dallas area. Unlike other Downtown hotels, this hotel is situated conveniently across from the Dallas Convention Center as well as on one of the main thoroughfares, Interstate 30, leading to most of the main attractions that Dallas has to offer. The Dallas Plaza Hotel is close to Fair Park, Deep Ellum, Farmers Market, the West End Marketplace, as well as many other business and entertainment areas. This hotel is perfect, convenient and right near the downtown Dallas Texas as well as unique than other hotels. Our beautiful Hotel has one purpose: To provide everything needed for productive meetings, world-class events and large gatherings, whether you hold your event at our hotel or half a block away at the downtown Dallas Convention center. The Dallas Plaza Hotel is situated in downtown Dallas approximately seven miles from Dallas Love Field and 21 miles from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Local attractions include Dealy Plaza, Dallas Museum of Art, Reunion Arena, and American Airlines Center. Welcome to the Dallas Plaza Hotel.

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During your Dallas vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:

Dallas Museum of Art
Though a substantial notch below a world-class institution, this I. M. Pei-designed museum contains impressive collections of international art, especially from the Americas, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific. The Arts of the Americas section is the largest and most impressive, with valuable contributions from pre-Columbian lost civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Nazca peoples and Spanish colonial arts. The more limited Art of Europe gallery exhibits a handful of works by the biggies -- van Gogh, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Degas -- while the small 20th-century collection includes Picasso, Mondrian, and Giacometti, among others. The contemporary collection includes works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, the Texan Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. In the Wendy & Emery Reves Collection is a curious re-creation of Coco Chanel's French summer home, complete with her collection of furnishings and paintings by French Impressionists like Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Degas. The DMA puts on interesting occasional shows, such as the recent, colorful "Day of the Dead" installation and the blockbuster "Splendors of China's Forbidden City" exhibit. In the atrium, where jazz combos play for free on Thursday evenings, hangs a gorgeous, monumental blown-glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. A couple of hours should be sufficient, unless you're a dedicated art hound.

Nasher Sculpture Center
Despite its status as the principal art museum in a city of considerable wealth, the rather modest permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art is proof that either north Texans don't collect much great art or they don't donate it on a grand scale to local institutions. One notable exception to that rule is Raymond Nasher, one of the world's foremost collectors of contemporary sculpture. A local businessman, by way of New York, who made his banking and real estate fortune in Dallas (with the shopping mall NorthPark Center, among other properties), Nasher decided, after years of being wooed by the Dallas Museum of Art as well as major institutions like the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to establish a public sculpture garden in his adopted city. The $50-million project was entirely funded by the private Nasher Foundation.The Nasher Sculpture Center opened in 2003 on a 2 1/2-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art, in a glass-and-marble structure infused with natural light, designed by the renowned architect Renzo Piano. The center should change the way art aficionados think about Dallas and make it an art destination. The collection, which includes high-quality pieces by virtually all of the great modern masters and was amassed over 4 decades by Ray and his wife Patsy, is considered by some art experts to be the finest private sculpture collection in the world. The tasteful 54,000-square-foot center, a place of quiet refuge in downtown Dallas, features an outdoor sculpture garden landscaped by Peter Walker, with pieces from Nasher's immense collection exhibited both indoors and out. The collection includes some of the finest individual works from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Joan Miró, David Smith, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, Mark di Suvero, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Joseph Beuys, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others. Among the monumental pieces in the open-air museum there are too many highlights to mention, though James Turrell's "skyspace" Tending (Blue), perhaps deserves special recognition as a site-specific piece commissioned for the museum. At the back of the garden, near the bathrooms, it is a walk-in box open to the sky, with optical effects and an unexpected perspective. Although the Nasher Sculpture Center -- which has some of the biggest names in art and architecture attached to it -- opened with big publicity and truly ought to be one of Dallas's most highly prized treasures, it is sadly and inexplicably having some difficulty attracting visitors, especially locals. If you're at all a fan of modern art, don't miss the opportunity to see this spectacular collection.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
November 22, 1963, is a day Dallas can't live down and the world can't forget. A sniper's bullets assassinated the nation's 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in Dallas as his motorcade traveled west on Elm Street. Whether or not there was a single shooter or more camped out on the grassy knoll below, and whether or not the Cubans or the Russians or the CIA were involved, the Warren Commission concluded that 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald fired his rifle at least three times from a window perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, killing JFK and critically injuring the Texas governor, John Connally. (Oswald had only days earlier secured a menial job at the School Book offices.)The redbrick building overlooks Dealey Plaza, an otherwise unremarkable spot that is ingrained in the memory of most Americans and people across the globe. The museum, the top draw in North Texas, preserves the spot where Oswald crouched and fired his rifle (now encased in Plexiglas), but it also examines the life, times, and legacy of the Kennedy presidency. The exhibit provides a moment-by-moment account of the day of the assassination and a day-by-day recollection of that harrowing November week. The display, which includes documentary film footage and more than 400 photos, summons the "Camelot" White House before getting to the event that put Dallas on the quivering lips of people across the globe. On view are images from the famous Zapruder film, whose frames have been isolated and examined more than any footage in history. However, there is no original evidence on display; everything examined by the Warren Commission forms part of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The JFK assassination has been so hashed over and occupies such a place in pop culture that few visitors are likely to discover much in the way of new information. It is, however, a place to revisit the tragic episode and recall (or tell your kids about) the impact it had on you and a stunned nation -- as children's drawings from the period and visitor remarks inscribed in "Memory Books" at the museum's exit attest. Unless the information here is new to you or you want to relive the episode in great detail, spending no more than a couple of hours here should be plenty.Dealey Plaza, which draws two million curious visitors annually, remains a stark public square at the junction of a triple underpass, virtually unchanged from 4 decades ago. A red X marks the spot on the asphalt of Elm Street where Kennedy was struck; incredibly, many visitors to Dallas feel compelled to dodge traffic and have their pictures taken while standing on the X as cars hurtle by. Unless you really want to follow in the footsteps of JFK, however, I strongly advise against such reckless participation in our nation's history.

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1 out of 5

clean bed?

Lillian, Nashville, TN

We were 1/2 mile from the convention center, You could get to just about anything to do or eat in about 10 minutes. Location was great!

Upon arriving at the Plaza, it did not look too bad. The first night should have been a warning. I checked in and was given the key. After unloading the truck. It was a key to someone else's room??? was pretty good. Suitcase in the floor, towel over the door and bed unmade of course. I went all the way back down stairs with the full cart and handbags.. Went to another room. It was pretty good. 2nd night The room above us had a water pipe to burst and water was about an inch deep in the hall and going under the door to our room. They moved us to another room. This room had such mildew and mold we had to ask to be moved to another room by morning. 3rd room No heat in this room. 4th room no water and T.V. had low sound or very loud sound. 5th room We were moved to a suite, Which was a nice gesture on their part. But no hot water came out of the pipe. I crawled under the sink to open the valve. Just a trickle of water caem out. But it was hot. We then moved to the 6th room. Very little water in the sink would come through the faucet, but it was hot, The shower was stronger. We checked in on a Friday night and left out on a Wednesday. So 6 rooms in 5 days. Yes a bit much don't you think. I got exactly what I paid for. No food close by, no amenities at all. There was a real old style computer in the business area. They did have a fax, You could get wireless in the business area if you were patient. The staff were pretty friendly,. Most of them. So basically we had a clean bed and that was about it.

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1 out of 5

worst hotel ever

joseph, Salt Lake City, UT

this hotel was sick, first of all they wouldnt give us a key to our room, every time we needed to get in our room we had to get a staff member to let us in (what a joke). the pool wa garbage the hot tub didnt work, the rooms smelled like smoke(we had a non smoking) it says you get A PRIVATE BALCANY well yes you do but it says on the door you are not allowed to go on it, its not safe. the mattresses are al ripped and have blood stains and other sick stains. the staff is not friendly. this hotel just absolutly sucks. if you have to choose from sleeping in the snow or the hotel, then maybe pick the hotel. other wise stay away

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2 out of 5

Low cost room

Robert, Philadelphia, PA

nothing close by. located in downtown area

The Dallas Plaza hotel was okay for an inexpensive night. The location was poor with nothing near or close including restaurant. The rooms were clean but nothing fancy. It was a 1980 motel done over with very few customers staying, no food other then vending machines, next to a major highway, taxi was only transportation which cost #15 to go 4 miles.

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2 out of 5

You get what you pay for.

Anonymous

Sheets that do not fit, broken lamps in the room, Nothing within walking distance to eat, or do.

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4 out of 5

Good Buy

Anonymous

Lots of bars close by.

The Dallas Plaza Hotel was located right in the middle of downdown Dallas, convenient, and an overall good buy. The price was cheap and the rooms were clean and kept.

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4 out of 5

Close to Dallas Convention Center

Phil

The Dallas Plaza Hotel is close to the Dallas Convention Center...2 Blocks away. The rooms are large and comfortable with a balcony overlooking the downtown area. Coffee makers are in the room...however, there are no snack machines...so bring your own snacks. Restaurants are a short cab ride away at a cost of about $5 oneway. The cost of the room is a good value for the area.

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4 out of 5

South side

Anonymous

Downtown Dallas was very close by.The convention center was in walking distance.

The inside of hotel looked better than the outside. I was unaware of it being on the southside of town (Ghetto). However, the people were nice and helpful with directions, but there were no restaurants near by. The room was very clean and comfortable.

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1 out of 5

The worse hotel experience in my life

Mohamad Khair, Cleveland, OH, 2007-03-01

Dallas plaza hotel is the worse hotel I've ever stayed in my life. When I checked in the staff gave a room that does NOT have any functioning light bulbs but one. So I had to go back to the check in desk and ask them to change the room. The 2nd room luckily had 2 working light bulbs. They was no wireless internet connection what so ever. The neighborhood was very dangerous and ghetto kind of neighborhood.

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4 out of 5

convience is the key

lee, 2007-02-18

dallas convention center

the plaza was the best place to stay in relation to the dallas convention center. we could walk over to the dcc and parking was free. it is inconvenient that they dont have a restuarant or dining close bye. the pool could be updated and the hottub was not working! it is satisfactory for the price.

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1 out of 5

Very Dissatisfied

Curtis, Monroe, LA, 2007-02-03

I received three different rooms in an effort to get one that was satisfactory. The first room had a whole in the ceiling above the tub where sheet rock and other debris had fallen in the tub. The tub didn't have a way to trap the water for a bath and since my 10 year old daughter doesn't take showers, I asked for another room. Then when we went to the second room we were given, the room had not been cleaned. There was a ring in the tub that my wife cleaned for my daughter to take a bath, but when she raised the toilet seat and found urine spots and hair on she said she wasn't going to stay in that room. She went down to the front desk and told the attendant that she could clean toilets at home, but she wasn't going to do it in a hotel that she was paying for. Then we were given the third room for the night. When we went into the third room, of course there was no heat on in the room. We immediately turned the heat on High at 8:30 p.m. We sat in the room on the beds with our over coats on because the room would never warm up. We finally just decided to go to bed and get under the covers for warmth. The next morning the room was still so cool that before we could take showers I had to run my blow dryer and close the door to the bathroom until it heated up. Bad experience.

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