Another in my series on keycards… I’m not sure which hotel this is for, but I found a Best Western keycard the other day. The information on the front of the card is about their points program. There isn’t anything that is specific to any hotel.
My 5-year-old son has a small puzzle that is a map of Canada. It’s kind of hard to see, but each province has a few small drawings (almost like icons) showing things that the province is famous for. In Ontario, among other things, there is a drawing of the CN Tower, and a drawing of…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor has booked 158 tee-off times for free rounds of golf at Niagara Parks Commission golf courses since he was elected in 2003. He uses the perk the parks commission offers public officials to promote the community to guests and to make up for time his…
There are lots of different magazines, leaflets, pamphlets, and maps that are offered free to visitors. Almost all of them are made up entirely of ads and coupons. (getting off track for a bit, don’t get me started about the whole coupon thing… coupons are everywhere and hardly anyone pays full price… let’s save some…
Here is a blog posting from someone who came to Niagara Falls to celebrate their 4th anniversary: Last Thursday, the wife and I celebrated our fourth anniversary in Niagara Falls, Canada… We stayed at the Ramada Fallsview, which is at the top of the Konica – Minolta Tower. The tower is just south of the…
From GOLFmagic: A Canadian entrepreneur is hoping to set up a contest in which the world’s longest drivers try to smash a golf ball over the Niagara River at the world famous Horseshoe Falls. Gary Nickerson, a 61-year-old who claims he can hit a ball over 300 yards, aims to gather the world’s best strikers…
Yesterday I received the latest issue of the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter. They are promoting the same sorts of packages they always promote. They also highlight the Big Becky project. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.
Greenwich Time, a newspaper in Connecticut, has some very old pictures of Niagara Falls on their web site. There are 19 of them, all of them from the Library of Congress. Because of the age and size of them, it is hard to see the detail of the pictures. The Library of Congress site has…
Here is another blog entry from someone who drove from Connecticut to Niagara Falls and spent several days here: Monday- we left Connecticut around 9 am and arrived in Ontario Canada around 4:30 p.m. We checked in at Days Inn Hotel which is North of the Falls and facing the gorge of the falls. There…
From the Niagara Falls Review: They’ve been running around the world for water for the past three months and on Tuesday, they breezed by Niagara Falls where more than six million cubic feet of water flows over the Horseshoe Falls every minute during peak hours. A team of 20 international citizen runners representing 13 countries…