Galveston is home to the only Rainforest Cafe with its own unique theme park ride. It's a weird place to find the Rainforest River Adventure.
The only Rainforest Cafe with a ride can be found in Galveston, Texas. Like the city itself, the ride is haunted, not by the ghost of the Great Storm of 1900, but by the ghosts of a misguided effort to create a Disney-level ride in the world’s most expensive Chuck E. Cheese wannabe.
Its boats look like smaller, more compact versions of what you’ll find at river rapids rides, but don’t worry: you won’t really get wet. Your craft slowly spins through a lazy river surrounded by lush vegetation and animal animatronics that aren’t quite Disney quality but better than you’d typically find in a small regional attraction like this. You’ll pass temple ruins and an indigenous war party that’s as poor in taste as the characters Disney removed from The Jungle Cruise a few years ago.
The Rainforest River Adventure opened in 2003, almost a decade after the chain’s creation, and it remains a one-off. If the Rainforest Cafe ever had plans to clone this ride at other locations, or come up with unique attractions in different cities, they never came to pass. So the Rainforest River Adventure stands as a unique, rather unloved vision of what this themed restaurant could have been. Instead of a slightly more immersive Chuck E.
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