You’ll see this coupon book everywhere. I skimmed through the booklet, and have a few observations:
- Including the covers, there are 32 pages.
- The cover has a collage of the Skylon Tower, fireworks over the Falls, and some Beluga whales and Walruses from Marineland. It is an attractive cover.
- The next 10 pages are all about Marineland.
- There are 4 pages of ads for the HOCO attractions. There is a 2-pages ad for the new Niagara SkyWheel. It is the same ad that I complained about before. The Ferris wheel itself looks beautiful, but I don’t think the woman and young boy say anything about the ride.
- There is an ad for Movieland. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I quite like Movieland, and think the new location is fantastic.
- There is an ad for Dinosaur Park Miniature Golf. This is pretty much the same ad that they’ve had for a while, but now there is a new family that has been superimposed over the picture. I guess we’re supposed to think that they are together mini-putting, but it doesn’t really seem to fit with the rest of the ad.
- There are 4 pages for the Niagara Clifton Group attractions: Guinness World Records Musuem, Mystery Maze, Brick City, The Fun House and The Haunted House. Having been to them all, I’d say the Guinness World Records museum is the best one, yet the ad doesn’t do it justice.
- There are 3 pages of ads for the Ripley’s Entertainment attractions: Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Ripley’s Moving Theatre, and Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks.
- The remaining 10 pages have full-page ads for The House of Frankenstein, Niagara Go-Karts & Mini-putt, Avaia, Skylon Tower, and Niagara Parks along with half-page ads for the Niagara Falls Aviary, LazerBall, Double Deck Tours, Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours, IMAX Theatre, Nightmares Fear Factory, Niagara Helicopters, and the Falls 3D/4D Movie at the Skylon Tower. Out of these ads, I only noticed a couple of things. Lazerball claims that they have an indoor skydivin facility coming soon, but they’ve been saying that for a couple of years now. It seems rather misleading. And this was the first time I had heard of the new movie at the Skylon Tower motion theatre. They used to have a movie that had Leslie Nielson in it, and now they have the new movie called Legends of Niagara Falls. Sounds interesting!
As can be expected with marketing material, some things are a bit misleading, but overall the pictures do give you a good idea of what the attraction will be like. Plus, virtually every ad has a $1 or $2 off coupon for the attraction. Never go to an attraction unless you’ve got a coupon!