Her First Lover Was Imploded, But This (Former) Vegas Virgin Still Carries The Torch

June 25, 2010 at 3:13 PM | by juliana | Comments (2)

We told you about our first time...visiting Vegas, that is. And now it's your turn to tell us yours. Our next reader comes from the UK, who chose the old Frontier as the setting for doing it the first time. Enjoy!

My Vegas cherry popped in 2000. I went with my mum, who had been once before. The journey from the UK was torturous, we learnt from that experience. A flight to Atlanta from the UK, and then another four-hour trip in what can only be called a breadvan, while Galaxy Quest played silently on the overhead TV (I didn't want to pay five bucks for headphones), the movie still makes me feel nauseous and tired if I see it now - hows that for a sense memory?

We arrived in Vegas at 10pm - 6am our time, the slots at the airport looked and sounded otherworldly at that point, and the tram from the D gate seemed to take three hours (I still hate that tram!).

Shuttle bus from the airport was pretty quick, we were the first stop, we stayed at The Frontier, the wonderful fantastic ramshackle Frontier (now long gone) which was just emerging from six years of union scuffles.

To me, a Brit who had grown up going to Butlins, the casino smelt like a penny arcade, all metal and coiney. I mentioned this to my mum, who was horrified that it was a bad comment but it wasn't and my love affair had begun.

We'd done our internet homework, and had upgraded to atrium suites - these were huge affairs, two rooms, three TV's and the biggest bath I had ever seen. I felt like a 5-year old when I climbed into that bath. Our view was out to the Rio - a place that even now reminds me of the big monsters from Tron.

We dumped our bags, and went down to the casino - the overwhelming coin noise, bells, whistles and assorted cacophony that assaults you in a casino was too much that first night, and after getting a 20 worth of quarters (Ha! I lost that habit soon enough, just shove the note into the machine, dammit!), we went upstairs to sleep.

When I think fondly back to all my firsts on that trip, some of them are now one and only's: Lunch at the buffet at the Desert Inn (lovely and sedate), hand pays at The Desert Inn and Slots O Fun - my first hand pay was for 60 bucks at Slots o fun!

My first Buffet was at The Stardust and I remember watching a family consume what looked to be a whole seabed full of shrimp, they seemed to make a mini buffet up for their family at their table.

I think my fondest memory was seeing the fountains at Bellagio for the first time. It was hot - start of April - well hot for us, and we were stood outside front and centre waiting for them to start and a cool mist appeared and bathed us in cooling droplets, and then they started - Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring, and I remember my world exploding. It was and still is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I remember falling in love with Bellagio that day.

I loved the hokey Frontier, I fell in love with the old time classic that was the Desert Inn - a place that started my interest in Vegas history, and I mourned the loss of the DI when it went.

The first trip is the discovery, subsequent trips are the enjoyment. I was hungry to go back, and am always hungry to go back - my next trip will be trip 14!

We told you about our first time, now you tell us about yours! Did it hurt? Did you like it? Were things weird afterwards? Could you not wait to do it again? We wanna know! So send us your stories. And yes, we promise to keep your Losing the V-Card experiences totally anonymous.

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I love these virgin stories here at Vegas Chatter. This one was great. It reminded me that Vegas changes so much, you may only get one shot to enjoy some of it's offerings. Example... I always wanted to see the bikini bull riding at The Frontier and I never got the chance. What can I say, I like to keep it classy on my Vegas trips ;)

Thanks for the story, UK reader!

This one is cute. So I have a question for the person here: do they stay at different places now when they return? Or does the love of the Bellagio make it their one and only?

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