From the Niagara Falls Review:
While many families in the city played with new toys, cooked turkeys and picked up mountains of wrapping paper Christmas Day, hundreds of others whiled away the hours at the Fallsview Casino.
Jack, a senior from Burlington, said he and his “gal” turned the prospect of a bleak Christmas Day without their families who are in the sunny south into a mini-break of their own.
“It’s a break from the regular Christmas routine,” said Jack who, like all of the people interviewed in the Fallsview Casino’s food court and foyer did not want to give their last name.
It’s the same for John and his family from Hamilton, who also decided to forsake the hustle and bustle of Christmas by spending time away together.
“It was strange (waking up in a hotel room on Christmas morning),” John admitted. “But we’ve had a lot of fun.”