Yesterday I received an email from Canadian Niagara Hotels (Falls Avenue) regarding some suggestions for your New Year’s Eve planning:
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Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Wow, they just keep on coming! I guess word has gotten around and everyone is using PRWeb. It is obviously the cheap, easy way to advertise. Here is yet another press release from Niagara Falls Tourism:
Three million lights and fantastic fireworks displays are only the beginning of a winter Niagara vacation. The holiday break has come and along with it has arrived a wonderland of Niagara events to charm and cheer during this spectacular season. From the Winter Festival of Light to New Year’s Eve Niagara Falls, there’s truly no place like Niagara for the holidays.
Yesterday I received the latest newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel And Spa. They are promoting a package at the Fallsview hotel, and a package at the Courtyard hotel. It appears that at least one of the packages was offered to Travelzoo customers as well.
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.
On Tuesday I received the latest newsletter from the Travelodge at the Falls. They wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season, and then promote various packages. Unlike the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter, they have also announced their contest winner. It wasn’t me 
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WIVB TV has a bit of a gallery of Winter Festival of Lights pictures…
From AssociatedContent:
My husband’s birthday is in December, and I try to do something memorable for him every year. This year, I had the bright idea of taking him to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, for a birthday dinner. I figured that we never know what spring can bring, so let’s go to Canada now, while we still have the chance. If you don’t know what I mean by “still have the chance”, a brief explanation is in order:
As has been mentioned before, there are several motion simulator rides in Niagara Falls. If you’ve ever been on one of these things, you know how fun they can be. There is a platform with a few rows of chairs. The platform that moves you up and down and around as a movie plays on a big screen in front of you. The platform actually doesn’t move as much as you think it does, but with the movement and the movie, you feel like you are shooting around a bend, bumping into things, and more.
Ripley’s Moving Theatre is at the top of Clifton Hill and is currently showing a version of the Polar Express, the Tom Hanks Christmas animated movie. When the signs went up a few weeks ago, I hadn’t seen the movie, so I didn’t understand how there could be a “4-D” experience, but I’ve since seen the movie. There are some scenes on a train where it is almost like a roller coaster, that I think would make a great motion ride.
WIVB has a story about how MSN has ranked Niagara Falls as one of the world’s 10 gambling getaways:
Seneca Gaming Corporation (SGC) is proud to announce that its Niagara Falls, NY property, Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, has been included in the MSN.com poll, “Top 10 Gambling Getaways.”
The December 12th article ranked the top ten action-packed gaming vacation destinations in the world where visitors will find that, “the odds are in (their) favor on and off the floor.”
The MSN article mentions the casinos on both sides of the border (not just the US casino). You can view the short paragraph about Niagara Falls and read about the other 9 locations in the Top 10 Gambling Getaways article.
Apparently press releases are the “hot” way to promote yourself. Here is yet another one, this time from OntarioTravel.net (via CNW):
Families looking for innovative ways to warm up to winter during the festive season will find some great ideas at Ontario’s travel website, www.ontariotravel.net, Tourism Minister Peter Fonseca said today.
“I encourage people to log on and discover for themselves the incredible range of fun family events and celebrations happening across Ontario this year,” Fonseca enthused. “The festive season offers Ontario families all manner of wonderful winter fun - Ontario-style!”
I’ve recently been in contact with Robert Orsini, Managing Partner and Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for the Doubletree Resort Lodge & Spa in Niagara Falls. I stayed at the hotel this past week and was impressed. I’ll be posting my comments, pictures, and videos early in the new year.
Robert did send me something that I thought I would include. These are his comments about getting the best rate from the hotel you are staying at:
The question of knowing if you are paying the best available rate at hotel often plagues the mind of the traveling public. The truth is, most major hotel brands including the Hilton Family of Hotels offer a Best Rate Guarantee. In short, this means the rate you are quoted hotel direct or on the hotel’s web site or through the brands’ reservations centre is guaranteed to all be the same, and no higher than you will find through any other booking channel, including the on-line travel sites. For most brands including Doubletree, if you find a lower rate, they’ll match the rate you found plus give you a bonus item, with the Hilton Family of Hotels it is an American Express Gift Cheque - so you can be assured the hotels do not want to go down this round and have technology in place to prevent rate discrepancies. Not need to search high and low, when traveling to Niagara Falls Canada - the hotel’s web site is reliable, safe place to book your hotel stay - best rates … guaranteed.
From the hotel point of view, of course they want you to book directly with them. If you are paying $100 for a room through them, or $100 for a room through Expedia, they may only be getting $80 or less from Expedia even though the guest is paying the same amount. But the overall point is still valid. Have you ever tried to cancel a booking through Expedia, TravelZoo, Priceline, etc? It’s not easy. It is much easier to deal directly with a hotel and speak to someone on the premises who knows what they are talking about. If you want, use Expedia to compare prices and use TripAdvisor to check for feedback, but in the end, I do think it’s a good idea to book directly with the hotel.
As a side note, price-matching also works great in other retail areas as well. Look online for deals on computers, books, etc, and then go to your local store and see if they will match the price.
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