Luxor Las Vegas Nile River Ride 1994 

Thank you for this upload...The tour guide is my old family friend Jack. He passed away years ago. People used to ask him for autographs because they thought he looked like John Denver when he had his glasses on.

It is sad that many family attractions are closing down, like volcanoes, pirate shows, water parks, lazy rivers, rides, etc.

I loved this ride/experience so much as a kid!

Footage of the old Luxor river ride is very rare - Never got a chance to see this, my first time at the Luxor was in 1997. I've been trying to see if I can recognize any of the areas to see how it was converted back to the way it is now

I was there last year, and regaled some tourists with the story about the old river ride they used to have inside the pyramid. I don't think they believed me. Well, watch this video and BITE ME, tourists

I remember this ride .it was the first time I had went to visit Luxor in 94, I purchased a very yummy blue alcoholic beverage in a blue Luxor souvenier glass which I still have. Thanks for the upload. Great memories indeed

Great memories. Thank you! I wish the Luxor still had this ride.

Thank you for this. I used to come ride this with my father (he worked over at Polo Towers) and it's such a happy memory. I was so sad they removed all this...

I just remembered this existed while I was collecting old ride footage to recreate childhood vacations. So glad someone uploaded this and it's remembered, it was really cool. At the same time I was there they had a two floor arcade sponsored by Sega and it was just the coolest thing for a 13 year old, I loved the egypt theme. We stayed here but visited all the hotels.

I remember this when I stayed there. Forward 15 yrs later to visit the hotel it was gone. The idea was cool but I was told by someone who worked there it was too expensive to maintain.

If they had this today it would be very popular

MGM what were you thinking removing this awesomeness? Things that make you go hmmmmm

Would love to see a map of where this ride traveled through and around the Luxor!

Was reading about the history of Luxor after going down the rabbit hole of posidons fury at universal, it seems like Luxor now is really a shell of its former self after all the renovations removed much of the original theming, cool to be able to see what once was.

This was open when I was there as a kid in ‘93. This footage is history!! Amazing video!

May I use this footage in a video I'm making about strange dark rides? I will give your channel full credit.

Thanks for this link. I miss this ride. I was hoping to find remnants of it but nothing. Such a bummer.

this is giving backrooms. THank you for sharing this with us friend!

Aww, such Good memories!! We stayed there when they had this ride and motion theater/ride attraction/ In Search of the Obelisk...Very cool experience back then. Also the inclinators were a fun time on the way up to our room! Too bad they took the river Nile out, was so pretty!! The Egyptian artifacts and artwork looked so authentic. 😒

Thank you for uploading, I always wanted to get on this ride. My trip with my parents is that we vacationed at the hotel resort and the ride would be in front of our room!a I still remember the chlorine smell

Why the heck did they get rid of this?? Stayed there three years ago and didn't have a clue that this boat tour existed .

dude thank you for sharing this i had no idea the luxor even had this lol

I remember this ride as a kid. I was sad when I heard it closed down.

Thanks for sharing. Had never gone on this, but we stayed at the Luxor in the mid 1990s. Was so awesome. Too bad so much of this wonderfulness is no longer in existence.

I rode the Nile River Ride in 1996. I thought it was pretty good, and I'm amazed to read it only lasted 3 years. It's the only time I visited Vegas (for 2 days) and I enjoyed this ride. I thought we paid something to go on it but I forget. We didn't leave disappointed though. I was reading online some say it was removed because......it wasn't thrilling enough. Give me a break! Can't people just enjoy a cool dark ride? Does it really have to be some kind of roller coaster too? My best guess is the real reason it was removed was to make space for something else, such as more rooms. This attraction took up a lot of room. We found it worth our time to visit in our limited time, and we stayed at Circus Circus which was probably a lot cheaper. But if funds weren't of concern staying here with the Nile Ride inside would have been very nice.

The Vegas hotels were much more interesting, and appealing, when they had themes. Once they started removing them, these grand properties lost their heart.

I didn't exist yet when this ride opened and i didn't move to vegas until 2002 i was 5 years old and i can tell they already took this ride out

I rode this- I wish it was still there 👍

You can’t tell me this wouldn’t be scary riding by yourself💀😂

They spent insane amounts of money on all of that, including other rides.

I've been to this hotel probably 100 times by now and I keep trying to picture where this ride would have been. Looks like it went around the whole outside of the first floor. I wonder if there are any remnants of the old ride left?

They should bring it back with updated stuff. I been to real egypt and it was amazing. It hostile right now from the war and conflicts out there.

I vaguely remember it, thanks for sharing

Today the Luxor is soulless.

It wasn’t just a ride. This is how they took u to your hotel room. I saw it in person it was pretty cool the first year it opened. The parking lot was barely full and u could almost pull right up to the door where the valet parking is now. None of that existed

They really let that place go. So sad that they put so much into the Luxor when they built it, it was so legit like a museum. I saw the Tutankhamun exhibit when they had it there. But later they just gave up on everything... filled in the river, turned the Sega arcade into a food court, got rid of just about everything and now it's just another run-down themed casino.

Thanks for posting this! Does anyone know if the boat ride was free? If not, how much they charged? Also, was it powered by jets in a flume or did the boat have a motor to it? Glad to finally see footage of this ride!

Wow this is amazing

I remember going on this ride when I was 9 years old. There was also a VR motion ride. Does anyone remember that one?

Was such a cool experience..sad they got rid

I wish this still existed it would've been cool even tho my first stay here made me hate the Luxor (I don't hate the employees at the museums there or the people at the restaurants or the security or the maids they were very nice and helpful. But the front desk and everyone else there like the employees at the shops that try to sucker you into buying stuff). Had ADA problems, my mom is (sorta) bound to a wheelchair (after taking the 4th COVID Vaccine back in April 2022 she couldn't feel her legs or feet or hands. She couldn't really walk at all at the time. Now she can sorta walk now but she can't balance that well so when we go on trips she has to bring her travel electric wheelchair and she can use her caine when we're out of the house at home). We got there at 1:00pm and we did sign up for early check a few days earlier but apparently they didn't assign us a room so we had to wait until 3:00 😃. Once we got the room it was small and a bit dirty (but he beds were made and clean) but the problem was it wasn't an ADA room and we couldn't change rooms that day because apparently (as we were told from the front desk) it was past the time they could do it. So we had to stay the night in that room and switch to another room tomorrow. We did end switching the room it was a bit bigger than the last one so it was nice. But on the 2nd of being in that room I started to hear chirping from my air vent. It sounded like a cricket, I did hear crickets around the hotel but I was told by employees that it was just an audio but I wondered why they would put an audio of a cricket around the hotel. But as soon as I heard it in my room I thought maybe they just want to cover up they have a cricket infection but I tried calling the front desk anyway about it and they said they would send someone up. We waited for 2 and a half hours but no one should up so I called again and they said they couldn't bring anyone up. They said they will give us a discount on our bill but after I checked the next day on our bill it didn't change it's still same price.

THIS IS SO COOL

Hmmm... interesting. It appears at 2:16 while talking about death by mosquito bite, Jack might have gotten shoved or slapped by an invisible force? He said this tunnel gives him an uneasy feeling [at 2:02] and I've heard some say they've seen a ghostly apparition in one of the tunnels during this ride. Wow.

Where in the Luxor was this located?

I used to work here, it was creepy but neat.

Did any other strip property have a ride like this? For some reason I have a memory of the forum shops show and then quite literally go on a ride like this but Atlantis show version very soon after that day. Must’ve been like 2004 or is this “memory” a weird dream?

Kind of similar to the gondola ride at the Venetian

wow wow wow!!!

Never should have been removed and a free ride should've been included with every hotel stay. SMH

This ride looked boring as hell

I wish this still existed it would've been cool even tho my first stay here made me hate the Luxor (I don't hate the employees at the museums there or the people at the restaurants or the security or the maids they were very nice and helpful. But the front desk and everyone else there like the employees at the shops that try to sucker you into buying stuff). Had ADA problems, my mom is (sorta) bound to a wheelchair (after taking the 4th COVID Vaccine back in April 2022 she couldn't feel her legs or feet or hands. She couldn't really walk at all at the time. Now she can sorta walk now but she can't balance that well so when we go on trips she has to bring her travel electric wheelchair and she can use her caine when we're out of the house at home). We got there at 1:00pm and we did sign up for early check a few days earlier but apparently they didn't assign us a room so we had to wait until 3:00 😃. Once we got the room it was small and a bit dirty (but he beds were made and clean) but the problem was it wasn't an ADA room and we couldn't change rooms that day because apparently (as we were told from the front desk) it was past the time they could do it. So we had to stay the night in that room and switch to another room tomorrow. We did end switching the room it was a bit bigger than the last one.