Continuing my series on the arcades in the tourist area (last week I wrote about the Great Canadian Midway), today I will write a bit about Marvel Super Heroes Adventure City. This is owned by Canadian Niagara Hotels and is in the Falls Avenue complex.
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure City opened a couple of years ago, after the Great Canadian Midway opened.Although not as big, there are plenty of games and some attractions. I’ll write about the Spider-man ride, Incredible Hulk Mini-putt, X-Men Bumper cards, and the rest another time.
The arcade isn’t nearly as big as Great Canadian Midway, but the theming is fantastic, and the kids will love it. There is a huge sign outside the building with the incredible Hulk on it that I’m sure draws many people in. Once inside, the games are pretty standard, but the signs and rides are all based on Marvel comic characters. Many of the prizes at the redemption booth are also Marvel-themed prizes.
It is hard to make a comparison between Marvel Super Heroes Adventure City and Great Canadian Midway. They have a lot in common, but they are also entirely different. If you have children, then you’ll probably have to check out both 
A couple of weeks ago, the Lodge Near the Falls (which only had that name for 10 months) changed it’s name and sign to Country Hearth Inn & Suites. As you can see by the picture, they still haven’t changed the sign on top of the hotel.
I don’t have any idea why they changed their name again, but I would assume it had something to do with the blue sign using the “lodge” name that would confusing for an established name such as the Travelodge across the road.
Another reason may be that I believe Lodge Near the Falls was an independent name. Although not a huge chain, Country Hearth Inn & Suites is a chain, so there are benefits to promoting an established chain. You can see the information on the Niagara Falls hotel on the Country Hearth Inn & Suites web site.
There are lots of different magazines and fliers that are around. I thought I had looked through them all, but I recently flipped through the Menus magazine, and was impressed with it. I’ve seen it around, but I guess I’d never looked at it before. I picked up my copy at the Pen Centre in St. Catharines.
There is no real content to the magazine. It is essentially entirely filled with ads. This may sound like a bad thing, but it is a very nice glossy magazine with mostly large ads, so it is like a full-colour Yellow Pages. A bonus is the section in the back with coupons for various attractions and restaurants. There are coupons for free appetizers, free drinks, and then the standard coupons for some of the attractions. There are ads and coupons for places all over the Niagara Region, but most of them are for Niagara Falls.
I’m not sure where else the magazine is, but I’m sure if you look around you’ll find it.
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