Don't get the 24 hr buffet pass deal, it's not worth it and the food is horrible. There's a Chipotle on the strip. You also can walk half a mile north on the strip and hit a cheap, great mexican restaurant and a korean place. There's also a huge Korean town a few miles west of the strip.

1-2nl is pretty easy to find everywhere but there's also an android app for poker rooms that show you what's open if you're looking for something rare.

The Harrah and Imperial Palace are ridiculously cheap and on the strip. IP is doing renovations right now, can get rooms for like $15/weeknight. But they aren't the best hotels and have huge checkin lines.

I love the Bellagio buffet. Get a line pass from the poker room so that you can cut the line, and go right before they switch to dinner so that you pay a relatively small amount but can eat Alaskan king crab legs.

Make sure to check out the Bellagio garden. The display they have right now is really cool (there's a video camera mounted on the train... check out the screen at the end of that middle section). They usually have music for an hour there every afternoon-- I usually miss it, but it was nice the few times I saw it.