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.
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
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 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
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.
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
People have a hard time believing. I tell them “If you’re a girl, you don’t have to pay for vegas nightclubs. Guestlist is free.” They always call me a liar. Oh well. I’ll just keep going for free while the doubters pay.
MGM is moving further away from entertainment and moving towards resort and hospitality… I remember going on this ride once… it’s unfortunate they shut it down… but they realized that all those tunnels could be remade into rooms providing much more revenue
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.
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.
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
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. 😒
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.
They originally marketed it as transportation, but it turned out that it was faster to just walk to your destination, so they then marketed it as entertainment, which also didn’t work because it wasn’t very entertaining.
I was there when this was used to take u to your room with your luggage. I saw the workers paddling boats around. Right after it opened in spring of 92 or 93
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'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?
me too. Wish there was video of the resot of the hotel back then. That last spot looked like the lobyy but not sure where the ride would have been? Was the river below the casino floor and it was just filled in?
There are several videos of the hotel when brand new that show its original layout ...I stayed when the ride was open....You are walking on the river bed when standing at the front desk and along the corridor to the towers! When you entered the hotel you did not walk to into it as today but stayed level with the driveway...bridge walk ways took you over the river and a ramp went down into the casino ...also the front desk was on the side of the hotel facing Mandalay Bay with grand entrance... All was ripped out in 1997 by a new CEO to "upscale" the hotel with the Towers suites and new Theater ....it really was cool when it was brand new and was very busy in the early years
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!
Yeah, it was free. They marketed it as transportation, but it turned out to be faster to just walk to your destination so they then marketed it as entertainment, which also didn’t work because it wasn’t very entertaining.
Yes it looks rather boring. “Faster to walk” sounds like the Vegas elevated tram. By the time you walk to the rear of a casino, wait for the tram, and reach a second casino, you could just walk there (in half the time).
@@electrictroy2010 It wasn't boring at all, unless your bored with the classic dark rides or jungle cruise adventure rides at amusement parks. Sadly though kind of rides aren't as popular at parks like they used to in favor or huge thrill seeking coaster type attractions. The dark rides were my favorites as a kid of the 70s and teen of the 80s, and I still love them. Must be a generational gap thing that younger people seem to want the big thrills and can't appreciate the "artistic" approach of theme rides that were once popular. None of my friends that I've attended amusement parks with were big fans of the huge thrill seeking rides, and when I attend parks today, there is very little to go on as the people I'm generally with enjoy big thrill seekers even less than I do. Bring back these kinds of attractions! When I visited, I don't recall it taking guests to their rooms but rather it was a ride. Maybe they re-themed it a little different by 1996 when I visited?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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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.
What a small world this is. This is awesome!
Jack sounded like a fun guy. I hope he rest easy, I bet he brought a lot of people joy!
It is sad that many family attractions are closing down, like volcanoes, pirate shows, water parks, lazy rivers, rides, etc.
The volcanos suddenly bursting was killing local birds.
Read Vegas is slowly turning away from family-friendly attractions. 🤷♀️
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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
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...
Glad you enjoyed it!
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
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 the arcade. All during the "Bring the family!" era of Vegas.
Great memories. Thank you! I wish the Luxor still had this ride.
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.
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
People have a hard time believing. I tell them “If you’re a girl, you don’t have to pay for vegas nightclubs. Guestlist is free.” They always call me a liar.
Oh well. I’ll just keep going for free while the doubters pay.
MGM what were you thinking removing this awesomeness? Things that make you go hmmmmm
MGM is moving further away from entertainment and moving towards resort and hospitality… I remember going on this ride once… it’s unfortunate they shut it down… but they realized that all those tunnels could be remade into rooms providing much more revenue
Yeah it’s a shame they closed this down and more at the Luxor
The pyramid was sinking on one side I had heard in the late 90’s.
@@JAMESWUERTELE Mandalay Bay sunk 18 inches next door in the beginning. I can’t remember if they had opened yet or not.
The ride is boring. It’s just a boat with some pictures on the wall. The boat ride in Venetian is more interesting (barely)
If they had this today it would be very popular
Thanks for this link. I miss this ride. I was hoping to find remnants of it but nothing. Such a bummer.
This was open when I was there as a kid in ‘93. This footage is history!! Amazing video!
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.
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.
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
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. 😒
dude thank you for sharing this i had no idea the luxor even had this lol
Would love to see a map of where this ride traveled through and around the Luxor!
I remember this ride as a kid. I was sad when I heard it closed down.
this is giving backrooms. THank you for sharing this with us friend!
I rode this- I wish it was still there 👍
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.
May I use this footage in a video I'm making about strange dark rides? I will give your channel full credit.
I found you while researching my options for the Google Survey you made🤣🤣
@@suttongriffin8154 same here!
Andddd again
Absolutely! You may use it anywhere you'd like.
I vaguely remember it, thanks for sharing
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
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 .
because its tacky AH. glad luxor is most likely being demolished
I feel the same I lived in Vegas 8 years and watched the place turn into a shithole.
They originally marketed it as transportation, but it turned out that it was faster to just walk to your destination, so they then marketed it as entertainment, which also didn’t work because it wasn’t very entertaining.
I was there when this was used to take u to your room with your luggage. I saw the workers paddling boats around. Right after it opened in spring of 92 or 93
The Vegas hotels were much more interesting, and appealing, when they had themes. Once they started removing them, these grand properties lost their heart.
Today the Luxor is soulless.
as it should be...evil place
You can’t tell me this wouldn’t be scary riding by yourself💀😂
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?
me too. Wish there was video of the resot of the hotel back then. That last spot looked like the lobyy but not sure where the ride would have been? Was the river below the casino floor and it was just filled in?
There are several videos of the hotel when brand new that show its original layout ...I stayed when the ride was open....You are walking on the river bed when standing at the front desk and along the corridor to the towers! When you entered the hotel you did not walk to into it as today but stayed level with the driveway...bridge walk ways took you over the river and a ramp went down into the casino ...also the front desk was on the side of the hotel facing Mandalay Bay with grand entrance... All was ripped out in 1997 by a new CEO to "upscale" the hotel with the Towers suites and new Theater ....it really was cool when it was brand new and was very busy in the early years
It was by the front check in section, about 40 ft away from the front door where valet is. It was pretty cool
Thanks for posting. I was there when it first opened. I went on the ride, but couldn’t remember much.
They spent insane amounts of money on all of that, including other rides.
Actually Luxor was the cheapest new casino of its time. It only cost Half as much to build as the Mirage (built the same years).
Wow this is amazing
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 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.
THIS IS SO COOL
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
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!
Yeah, it was free. They marketed it as transportation, but it turned out to be faster to just walk to your destination so they then marketed it as entertainment, which also didn’t work because it wasn’t very entertaining.
Yes it looks rather boring. “Faster to walk” sounds like the Vegas elevated tram. By the time you walk to the rear of a casino, wait for the tram, and reach a second casino, you could just walk there (in half the time).
@@electrictroy2010 It wasn't boring at all, unless your bored with the classic dark rides or jungle cruise adventure rides at amusement parks. Sadly though kind of rides aren't as popular at parks like they used to in favor or huge thrill seeking coaster type attractions. The dark rides were my favorites as a kid of the 70s and teen of the 80s, and I still love them. Must be a generational gap thing that younger people seem to want the big thrills and can't appreciate the "artistic" approach of theme rides that were once popular. None of my friends that I've attended amusement parks with were big fans of the huge thrill seeking rides, and when I attend parks today, there is very little to go on as the people I'm generally with enjoy big thrill seekers even less than I do. Bring back these kinds of attractions!
When I visited, I don't recall it taking guests to their rooms but rather it was a ride. Maybe they re-themed it a little different by 1996 when I visited?
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.
He was making a joke about the curse of the pharaohs.
I guess the guy doesn’t recognize a “joke” by an employee, when he sees one.
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.
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?
Venetian has a boat-gondola ride inside its mall
Race to Atlantis from what I can find
wow wow wow!!!
Kind of similar to the gondola ride at the Venetian
Where in the Luxor was this located?
All the way around the interior base of the pyramid.
why the hell would you build all that and take it out?
Never should have been removed and a free ride should've been included with every hotel stay. SMH
This ride looked boring as hell
You’re 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.