Palazzo or the Venetian, how to choose? In my case booking the Palazzo guaranteed a newer room, slightly more SF, and a sleeper sofa in case you pickup a last minute friend or two wanting to crash. One nice recent development is that the $25 resort fee (covering Wi-Fi and the gym area) is optional now versus it being a mandatory charge as it is for many other hotels on the Strip. Pool access is included either way. Nice touch.
My stay here wasn't perfect this past weekend. Slightly mushy beds, a mysterio white (skeet?) stain on the sleeper couch which created a lot of laughs, and poor/late cleanup room service. Perhaps even the Palazzo is showing its age a bit. But countering this is the summer room pricing, easy billing and checkout, great customer service (hello sundries!), spacious rooms, and parking situation which after a couple tries I found to be much easier to access the hotel/casino than during my stays at the Venetian.
Even after many so many visits here and at the Venetian, it still makes for a comfortable stay. Definitely my hotel(s) of choice for a weekend in Vegas.