This interesting article from the Globe and Mail is about the author’s trip to the Fallsview Casino. There was one part near the middle of the article that stood out to me:
Fallsview is so tasteful and appealing, it’s almost disruptive — especially when you consider that just three blocks away you can stroll lurid, seedy Clifton Hill and rock out at a stuck-in-the-seventies heavy metal wax museum, marvel at a foam and plaster haunted house incongruously crammed next to a mini Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, shop at the World Wrestling Entertainment doll store, ride the Pink Panther’s balloon tower (you can’t make this stuff up), or eat cheeseburgers underneath a two-storey-high Frankenstein’s monster.
I think that all reports want to think of Clifton Hill as tacky. Almost the entire south side of Clifton Hill has been renovated (the HOCO Limited side), yet the article didn’t mention that at all. The heavy metal wax museum isn’t even on Clifton Hill, and the haunted house, the dome, WWE store, Pink Panther ride, and Frankenstein are all on the other side of the road.
Clifton Hill is great, and thats all there is to it.
i can’t believe the mantality of this guy…altho HOCO has done so much to make their side beautiful..there is absolutely nothing wrong with the other side..i’ve never seen people out picking up garbage off the sidewalk like on the HOCO side..but i’ve never seen mounds of trash either..the garbage bins are there and people use them…the only reason we go all the time is because of the hill..and as far as we’re concerned..there’s nothing seedy about it…has this guy never been in a tourist area before?..does he not realize that there’s gonna be a few attractions and gift shops?…i wonder what he’d say about vegas?…and Niagara?.. you’re right…clifton hill is great..and that’s all there is to it …