The regular Tuesday feature will be a highlight of a web site that has to do with Niagara Falls. I figured I’d start off with the easy/obvious ones first, so today I will highlight CliftonHill.com.
Clifton Hill is the street with all the attractions. There are dozens of them, but they are all owned by a handful of companies. Perhaps the biggest one on that street is HOCO Limited, which owns and operates the entire south side of Clifton Hill (except for the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum). The CliftonHill.com web site focuses on all of the HOCO attractions, hotels and restaurants, and also includes links to some of the other operations in the area. However, as far as I can tell, it does NOT link to any of the competitors on Clifton Hill itself. That’s unfortunate as visitors may expect the site to provide information on everything to do on that street. But I do understand why a company would choose not to promote competitors.
The site is very well done, and has a blog and an image gallery as well. There are links to various web cams, maps, history, and more. If you’ve been planning on a trip to Niagara Falls, then you probably have already visited the site. If not, then you should! It is probably the nicest operator’s web site in the city.
Leave your thoughts on the CliftonHill.com web site in the comments…
Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. They are promoting various packages through the month of March.
You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.
Last Tuesday I received the latest newsletter from the Radisson Hotel & Suites Fallsview. They are emphasizing that you do not need a passport to drive across the border and link to the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. They are also promoting Spring Break packages.
You can sign up for their newsletter on their web site.
Keeping with my announced plans, on Mondays there will be a question of the week. This will most often be asking about your experiences, but may occasionally be a trivia questions.
To start it all off, I’ve got a pretty basic questions: What is your favourite thing to do in Niagara Falls? Do you come for the casino? The view? The attractions? It brings back memories? Leave your answer in the comments below!
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Bob Benson doesn’t have a staff of full-time employees. Most of the folks who make the run to Pearson, Hamilton or Buffalo-Niagara International airports to drop off or pick up travellers for Niagara Airbus are retired and work a few hours a week to supplement their pensions.
But the general manager of operations said like Niagara’s other tourism industry insiders, he’s concerned about the effect cancelling the visitor rebate program will have on business.
Very definitely, it does affect our industry. Taxis as well, said Benson. If people aren’t coming, it affects us. We don’t have full-time people to lay off, but certainly hours could be cut.
Wow! If you live in the northeast area of North America, you were probably hit by a lot of snow. I don’t know the exact number, but it looks like Niagara Falls got about a foot of snow. Today is a much clearer and brighter day. I’ll try to get out and take some pictures and/or a video.
I’ve owned this domain name for many years now, and it wasn’t until a year or two ago that I actually started to do things with it. I’d love for the site to become a major destination for all things Niagara Falls, but it takes a lot of time and resources that I don’t have right now. I’ll keep trying to grow the site by doing what I’ve been doing, which is posting information on new developments, reporting the news, and reporting on my visits to various establishments. To put a bit of pressure on myself, I’d like to commit to the following to help the site to grow:
- Question of the week (most likely on Mondays). What is your favourite attraction? What is the strangest Niagara Falls related souvenir you’ve seen? What is the most you’ve ever spent for a hotel room in Niagara Falls for one night?
- Web Site of the week (most likely on Tuesdays). I’ll highlight other sites like mine, and of course highlight some of the various establishment web sites.
- Video of the week (most likely on Wednesdays). It’s been fun putting up the videos on YouTube. There is so much to see and do around here. It should be easy to have a video ready each week.
- Establishment of the week (most likely on Thursdays). I’ll continue my write-ups about the various places in the tourist area. If I haven’t been, I’ll share what I know about the place. If I have been, I’ll try to share what it is like to be there. Hopefully as I put some of this content together, the main part of the site as well as the Niagara Falls Wiki will grow as well.
- Image of the week (most likely on Fridays). I’d really like to have a new gallery up every week, but that may be difficult. One week I may have a new gallery, another week may be a link to pictures someone else has, another week may just be one picture, but it’s a significant one.
As you can imagine, there will certainly be some overlap, so I may not have something every day. For instance, I may go to the Fun House on Clifton Hill and take pictures and a video. I’ll then have content for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. None of the daily topics are set in stone. If I find that one of them is too hard to do, I may switch it for something else.
This gives me a schedule that I’ll need to keep up with, and gives you something to look forward to. I’ll do my best to keep the content coming, but I need each of you to help promote the site. The more people that are coming the site, the more people will be commenting, and the better community we will end up with.
Leave your comments with any thoughts and suggestions. If you have content for me to put up, email me separately.
On Saturday I received the latest newsletter from Falls Avenue. They are promoting various activities that are taking place during the March Break:
To subscribe, visit their “Spin to Win” page and fill out the form. Be sure to check that you’d “like to receive news on Niagara Falls discounts and seasonal special eMail”.
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