Last Thursday I received another newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel & Spa. They are promoting a Marineland package. 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.
From Hospitality.net: How the family vacation has changed. The Alphabet Game has been replaced by personal DVD players on the annual road trip. And the kids’ favorite hotel amenity isn’t the swimming pool anymore; it’s the in-room video games. There are precious few places where children can unplug without pleading boredom, and where parents feel…
From the Buffalo News: A renovated Niagara Adventure Theater in the Niagara Falls State Park Visitor Center marked its grand opening Thursday with a 40-minute movie on the history of the falls. â€ŔNiagara: Legends of Adventure,†which has been shown in Niagara Falls, Ont., for 21 years, made its official debut on the American side….
From the Niagara Gazette: A historic building with a commanding view of the falls is now owned by a hotel chain committed to preserving its stately exterior. Seldom is that kind of foresight evident in a city which claims tourism as the leading industry. The former Loretto Academy in Niagara Falls, Ontario, a boarding school…
The Olympian has this entry for the history of June 30: In 1859, French acrobat Blondin (born Jean Francois Gravelet) walked a tightrope above the gorge of Niagara Falls as thousands of spectators watched.
Rich Ralph is rollerblading across Canada to try to raise money for cancer research. On June 25 he made it to Niagara Falls: We arrived at Oaks Park in Niagara Falls where we stopped for lunch and were met by a reporter from the Niagara Falls Review. The actual waterfalls were only a few kilometers…
From the St. Catharines Standard: Around the corner from Fallsview Casino and a wall of towering hotels, the two-storey Ritz Inn Niagara features a sign boasting deep discounts heading into the peak tourist summer season. The 25 per cent price cut is the only way Niagara Falls motel owner Hoat Oey foresees surviving what some…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It should have been his first outing onto a slender wire 20 storeys in the air near the Skylon Tower. Instead, Jay Cochrane was a no-show Saturday evening. The famed wirewalker’s 4 p.m. show – what was supposed to be the first of many this summer – was cancelled. According…