I first stayed here 5 years ago. Nothing has changed since then. I recommend if you want to stay at the Venetian, stay at the Palazzo.
We stayed here for business and was jealous of my coworkers staying in the Palazzo. I remember staying at the Venezia 5 years ago. It was such a maze to find our rooms. Business or pleasure in Vegas, I'm drunk and my sense of direction is foggy. Why does it have to be so hard to find my room? If they don't want to build direct elevators, please provide a monorail service to the elevators. 15 minutes, at the least, to get from my room to the ballrooms near the Blue Man Group and Canal Shoppes where our meetings were being held inside the Venetian. I probably could have gotten to work faster staying at the Mirage.
The rooms are in desperate need of a face lift. No iPod jack. No coffee maker. No coverings on the light fixtures in the bathroom. No wifi. The rooms are gigantic and perfect, I guess, for 6 people trying to stay in the same room together. It's not perfect for business travelers. They should take the money spent on the travel sewing kits in the bathrooms and use it on something people actually need. If I'm going to drink in Vegas, I'm going to a bar. Take out the minibars and give guests a coffee maker so they can stay up all night gambling or get rid of their hangovers without having to go on a property adventure to locate the Coffee Bean.
There's potential to actually be the fantastic property it promises to be... it just needs to keep up with the times and the many properties going up around it.