All things Niagara Falls tourism…
On Tuesday I received my first email from the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. I’ve signed up on their site a couple of times to get mailings, but hadn’t received anything. The mailing I received on Tuesday is small, and is promoting a discount if you book a room for more than one night on Labour Day weekend.
You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.
I just posted about a press release and some pictures on the Ronald Bussink AG web site. Well, the Niagara SkyWheel was made in partnership with Chance Morgan as well. I was looking around their web site to see if they have any information on the Niagara SkyWheel, and they have a video! It is very well done and comes in both Quicktime (MOV) and Windows Media (WMV) formats.
The movie is just over 4 minutes long, and has some great shots of the wheel, as well as some comments by Harry Oakes, the President of HOCO Entertainment Resorts.
Unfortunately, I can’t link directly to the page. To download the video, visit the Family Rides section of the Chance Morgan web site. Then click the arrows to scroll through the rides until you see R60 Giant Wheel. You can then download the video in either format. They are both the same video, but the WMV format is a smaller file size, yet the video is actually slightly larger on screen, so I would recommend that.
Back in January I linked to the Ronald Bussink AG web site. They had a press release announcing the Ferris wheel coming to Niagara Falls. Now they have a press release announcing the completion. The details are almost identical to the original press release:
Ronald Bussink Professional Rides has finalized the delivery of a new Giant Wheel type R60 to HOCO Entertainment & Resorts. Together with Chance Morgan based in Wichita, the Giant Wheel Type R60 SV has been manufactured in both the United States and in Europe. The Skywheel is open for public since the second week of June 2006, and has already been a great success.
“The superior design of Ronald Bussink, combined with the manufacturing strength of Chance Morgan, makes the R60 the premier Giant Wheel product available in the market today,” remarked Harry Oakes, HOCO President.
The Giant Gondola Wheel features fully enclosed gondolas for a climate-controlled ride year around. After completion, the ride will be located in the Clifton Hill Area of Niagara Falls, Ontario. It’s slated for installation in the spring of 2006.
The Giant Wheel is part of a 3-phase, $100 million development project expected to take 5 to 10 years to complete.
If you visit the Ronald Bussink AG web site, and click on the News link (the site uses Flash, so I can’t link directly to it), you can then click on the information on the HOCO attraction. There are some nice pictures of the Niagara SkyWheel along with the press release.
I recently received the latest newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa (I’m not sure why they use both that name and Niagara Falls Marriott Fallsview in their promotional material). They are promoting some relaxing, spa-related packages:
You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.
Last Wednesday I received the latest Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter:
It highlights several different packages. As always, you can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Anxious to attract new visitors, tourism marketers in Niagara Falls aren’t waiting for the Chinese government to grant Canadian destinations permission to market to the country’s 1.3 billion people.
“(We) can’t market to the Chinese citizens, but we can market to the trade partners,” said Anna Pierce, manager of Niagara Falls Tourism. “We can’t speak to the Chinese consumers, but we can speak to the trades. We’re doing as much as we are allowed to do to promote Canada.”
From the Niagara Falls Review:
A new admission policy at the Avalon Ballroom may leave ticket buyers feeling burned, worries one local parent.
On Wednesday morning, Niagara Falls resident Sarah Kennedy purchased two tickets to an upcoming Alice Cooper concert at the Avalon, located inside the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort. One was for her husband Gord, the other for her 13-year-old daughter Chantel.
But when she picked up the tickets later that day, she was shocked to discover a new policy suddenly in effect - no one younger than 19 can attend shows at the venue.
I generally wouldn’t put this sort of thing on the blog, but I drive or walk by this billboard regularly and it bugs me. It’s for Mints, an “adult entertainment club” on Main Street. The part that bugs me is the line at the top of the billboard:
Better Odds Than The Casino Baby
What does that mean? Of course I know what it is supposed to mean, but I still think it is dumb. You have better odds that you’ll run into a woman who has no interest in you? Better odds that you will lose even more money than at the casino? Better odds that you won’t see the woman on the billboard? Better odds that your wife/girlfriend won’t let you go? Better odds that you won’t take your kids in?
Niagara Falls has several of these places, and they all seem to have billboards right near family-friendly destinations. As you can see in this billboard, it is right above another billboard for the Rainforest Cafe and their free shark exhibit.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Trying to beat the heat has been a whale of a challenge this summer, but not for the folks who care for the menagerie of animals at Marineland.
As Marineland’s pod of belugas hail from the cool arctic waters along the Russian coast, they don’t care too much for the heat.
To keep the 1,500-kilogram animals as comfortable as possible, the park uses a water “chiller,” akin to a huge water cooler, which provides an optimal underwater environment.
I’ve written a few posts about the new Asian restaurant on Stanley Avenue. I’m a couple of weeks behind on this latest news, but it finally has a name. It is A Young Garden which makes Japanese and Korean cuisine.
Click here to see all the posts on the development of this property.
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