The Hotel Plaza (860 8583/9; www.hotelplazacuba.com; doubles from £38), on the same side of the square, is a good-value alternative.

Shortly thereafter, around 1923, a competing hotel opened just down the block on Market street: the Hotel Plaza.

The Hotel Plaza would not last, however, and was acquired by the Sterling in 1927.

"De Hotel Plaza down in de city."

Downtown, in the elegant Prado area, the Hotel Plaza opened recently.

Nice - Galerie of the Hotel Plaza (1965)

Stay three nights at the four-star Hotel Plaza (b&b basis), from £299, including return flight.

The stranger has left his wife in the Hotel Plaza, watching television.

He starts his life as a waiter in the Hotel Plaza, while taking night classes in business at Columbia University.

The tribes established a new settlement at the base of the butte known as Hotel Plaza.