Spent this past Thursday through Sunday in Vegas with the intent of having a good time, playing some tourneys, playing some cash games. Stayed at the IP. Their tourneys are meant to get them started and finished within two hours. Classic quick hitter. Buy-in is $55 + $25 for their rebuy tourneys and $55 for their freezeouts. Played three times, 2 freezeouts and 1 rebuy, and over half the players were out of the tourney by the break every time. In the Saturday freezeout they cap it at 80 players then take alternates. I was about the 12th alternate. I got into the tourney by the second 15 minute blind level. Play a hand and get your chips in. By the 1st break, about 110 players had bought in and the tourney was down to 4 tables.
The cash game has a $100 max buy-in for the $1-2 NL game, so you're not going to make a lot of money. Overall, below average players that don't like to push their chips in.
The Bellagio is a great room. I sat at a $2-5NL table that has a $200min/max buy-in. I was hoping to get on a new table but got called first. When i sat down there was atleast 8 grand on the table, the guy in the 2 seat had about $3500 and the guy in the 4 seat had about $2000. Crazy game, 2 or 3 live straddles, chips getting pushed in constantly. Luckily the guy in the 4 seat was sleeping in between hands, so needless to say, he wasn't on the top of his game. Made about $250 in 3 hours, and this was after making a horrible nut flush call that cost me $175 with 3 others in the pot. I had odds, but paid way too much.
The Harrah's setup is pretty decent. Below average players, clean place, quiet. The only down size is that they didn't have a ton of tables running on Saturday night at 11pm. Only 3 $1-2NL tables. Some drunk bad play, a good thing, right. After 4 hours, +$350.
Only played in a ridiculous tournament at the Flamingo. 40 players max for $60 buy=in with $50 going to price pool. By the 1st break, there were 11 players left. Get 'em in with the 2nd, or even 3rd best hand in this tourney.
Caesar's - Nice room, set back behind the sports book. Big, quiet, good tourney structure. Played in $80 plus $40 rebuy. They don't take much out of prize pool. 40 minutes level, 1500 chips, plus 3000 for re-buy which most do right away. Enjoyable place to play, only problem seems to be a lack of a lot of players.

Lessons learned- play the ring games, avoid the badly structured tourneys...stay away from Blackjack, get your trip for free if you do...