What is great about the Rio: The room size and lay out. The rooms are larger than standard strip rooms, and now the price point makes this place a great value. It is off strip - but barely (by car or taxi). There are shuttles run by Caesar's Ent to it's strip properties - so you can save a little on taxi's. The pool is still great but it now has been upstaged by other properties - MGM, Palms, Hard Rock and Mandalay Bay.
What is not so great: The staff attitude and food quality is mediocre.