I love Vegas, but every time I land at McCarran I feel as though I'm suddenly taken back about 20 years. Nowadays it looks like it's mostly Southwest flights coming into this airport, but every time I have landed here I seem to have to walk miles and miles to the other side of the airport, where I'm supposed to be. The food choices here are average. They've done some renovation to try to make the airport better but there really is not anything memorable about this place at all other than the slot machines that (seriously!) take your money.
It's about a $20-25 taxi ride to get to the strip, so if you're on a tight schedule beware, as traffic may fluctuated depending on what time you're getting in.
I guess if you're intoxicated this might be an okay airport but if I had to be here for longer than an hour for a layover, I think I would cry myself to gamble at the slot machines scattered throughout the airport.