Your BEST memories on your FIRST trip to Sin City??

Mine are:

trip 3 nites 4 days. Dad on a junket, gave me my mom's airline ticket 2 weeks before (she didn't want to go)

1) the expanse of the desert while on the plane!!! (had never seen a desert before, being a canuck and all)

2) clearing the mountains and seeing vegas below!!! (it was mid-afternoon but STILL amazing)

3) making my first LEGAL bet while my dad was watching our luggage in the checkin line!!!

4) asking my dad to borrow $50 bucks off him by 10 A.M. the morning after we arrived!!!

5) meeting a guy and his son in the checkin line, the dad took his son to VEGAS for his 21st bday, next morning saw the dad in the casino and asked where his son was. He said he was in one of those casino classes learning how to play craps. I was out and about all day and night (while dad was tring to get his BJ hours in), got back to the casino about 3 a.m. it was mostly dead except for 1 craps table. The people were about 4 deep with tons of yelling and laughing. Saw the dad and asked where his son was again. He said he was shooting craps and making a killing. The son was up 24k!!!!!!

Saw the dad in the A.M. again no son, asked how he made out. Finished up just over 20k and wired 18k to his home bank account. SMART KID SMART DAD!!!!!!

6) shopping in Neiman Marcus and wondering how all the sales clerks could possibly be soooo HOT!!!

7) seeing tumbleweeds blowing down LV Blvd!! (gimme a break would ya, i said I was a canuck)

8) 8 hrs sleep in 4 days!!!

9) making a LOCAL collect call from a pay phone booth in the airport in our home city (we needed to get picked-up) because we couldn't scrounge .25 cents between dad and I to use the pay phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT SO SMART KID NOT SO SMART DAD

To this day one of the best trips of my life!

1. I was 16 and with my parents.
2. I had grown a 'moustache' for the occasion.
3. We went to Elvis's show at the Hilton...the real elvis..
4. I slipped away from my parents and played blackjack and drank gin and tonics....and was never 'carded'. The casinos just didn't care back then.
5. My parents kind of thought it was funny when I told them...until I published my drinking and gambling exploits later that year in an article in my high school newspaper. Then it wasn't funny.

I was 27 years old. (1992) I went with a friend, we got all dressed up in our best and went into Ceasars palace.

We went to a bar and the bartender was in a white tuxedo with black tie.
We ordered 2 Dewars and soda and the drinks came in 12 ounce glasses filled to the top. (HUGE)
We thought for sure the drinks would cost 25 dollars a piece.

The bartender slowly brought up a silver swan full of "Fisher's Favorites" nuts.

When the bill came it was eleven dollars for both drinks. We could not believe it!

on my first trip to vegas, i kept winning jackpots of $250.

i did FOUR in one day on my actual birthday, on an elvis machine.

i also got them a bunch of times in the og quarter monopoly.

still went home dead broke.

1. Driving down Freemont Street and seeing all of the lights and the waving cowboy.

2. While standing in line for the restaurant that snaked through the casino, my mom put nickles into a slot machine and more nickles came out than what she put in.

3. My dad getting a free roll of ten nickles for some promotion and playing those ten nickles in a machine, no more and no less (to meet the spirit of the promotion), but pocketing anything that came out of the machine as he was no obligated to play any of the winnings.

The drive from LA to LV on the roller coaster road with thousands of tumble weeds blowing across the highway.
The Hacienda with its huge 3 round table buffet and its olympic size pool with high diving board.
The dinner shows we went to.
The fancy dresses all the women wore and the coat and tie I had to wear to dinner.
How everyone seemed to know my dad (he was in the motion picture business).

Either 1954 or 1955 with my parents. First of many, many visits when growing up.

Senior year of college, one of our friends went to Vegas for Spring break and she would not stop talking about Vegas. Back story: I heard stories from back in the day as my grandfather was a craps player at Caesars. He passed away when I was 5 years old but just before he passed he won a lot of money and came home and took all the grandkids to Disney World for 5 days, stayed on property and bought us anything we wanted.
Now I am 21 and booked a trip from Orlando-Vegas left Friday morning returning on Sunday (red-eye) 4 guys in one room. Flight and room came out to $186 per person. Our mistake was winning the first night from our Roulette "system" but at least we hit a club and partied it up on Fri night/Sat am because we lost it all Saturday night. I have been going back on average 1-2 time year for the past 19 years and still have a blast.

I was 25. I remember having a whole $100 budgeted for each day to gamble with and thinking I was a big shot. =)

Highlites included the $5 steak at Ellis Island, getting looped off $1 margaritas at Slots-A-Fun, and going to the free show "Viva Las Vegas" at the Stratosphere. I pledged to go back every year - and I have.

I came to Vegas for the first time in the mid 80's. At that time, Caesar's Palace was the king of the strip. Almost every hotel (not Caesar's) had advertisements for $2.99 steak and eggs breakfast or $5.99 prime rib dinner. Most of the hotels went much more upscale.

The most memorable thing then and now are the women.

Nothing new here, but my first trip was the first and only time flying in at night.
What an amazing sight. 1987, stayed at Aladdin. Little Caesars, smoky dive, actual penny machines, big jackpot was 80 pennies.