Marineland is notoriously slow in opening new rides or attractions. They announced a while ago that there would be a Topple Tower ride. It was supposed to be ready last year, and it still isn’t ready. I was at Marineland on Friday (I’ll post pictures and info later this week), and Topple Tower is in…
One of the attractions that was announced years ago, but has yet to materialize, finally looks like it’s going forward. There is a Hooters restaurant on Stanley Avenue right by the Fallsview Casino is building a wind tunnel so that you can indoor skydive. They’re calling it Niagara Freefall and Interactive Centre. The website says,…
From Niagara This Week: It was Saturday morning and outside Marineland it was business as usual. The parking lot was filled with cars, the screams of children could be heard from a nearby ride and visitors were fanning themselves to keep cool in the heat. Beyond the theme park’s property, however, about 30 individuals were…
This is not a great picture (taken with my camera phone), but it is off a 2007 Tim Hortons calendar I saw in a store. Each month has a picture of a Tim Hortons location (near the ocean, beside a mountain, etc) and the June 2007 picture is of the Tim Hortons on Clifton Hill….
From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s amazing. It’s great. And the fact he does so much to help children around the world makes his death-defying feat all that much more spectacular. Those were just a few of the comments made by spectators Thursday afternoon as they watched wirewalker Jay Cochrane make the first of his…
As I’m always on the lookout for good Niagara Falls sites, I came across a Flickr collection the other day for someone with the username Mtl_Shag. This person came to Niagara Falls 6-9 months ago, and took some nice pictures of the Falls in Winter. There are also other Niagara Falls pictures as well.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara’s tourism industry continues to suffer a hangover from significant events of years past – the SARS outbreak and 9-11. Compounding these lingering effects are issues like confusion about the need to show identification when crossing the border, the rising loonie and the end of a GST exemption for visitors…
A popular Disney discussion board recently had someone post a question about Marvel Adventure City. He wanted to know if anyone had been and what the cost was. There weren’t a lot of responses, but it was interested to see what other people’s perceptions are. One response was: The views from down in the gorge…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Wirewalker Jay Cochrane is ready to go – and if the weather co-operates today as expected – he will perform the first of his 20-storey walks this summer in the Fallsview district near the Skylon Tower. Wednesday’s rain prevented the 63-year-old world famous wirewalker from performing on America’s Fourth of…
Canada.com has a current feature called 50 Canadian travel highlights. There is one reference to Niagara Falls on the list: 10. Take a ride on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls, Ont. Sure, it’s touristy, but worth every penny just the same. This isn’t particularly noteworthy, but there is a link to a…