Expect to see bears on Clifton Hill

    From the Niagara Falls Review: A new attraction is coming to Niagara Falls that children from the local area and beyond will be beary excited about. Build-a-Bear Workshop, the St. Louis-based company that gives little ones – and not-so-little-ones – the chance to pick and create the fuzzy friend of the dreams, is set to…

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      Off-site hotel parking presented as green solution

      From the Niagara Falls Review: More off-site parking will mean less of an impact on the Niagara escarpment, say developers of a five-star hotel that will be built into the moraine near Robinson Street. City council gave Canadian Niagara Hotels permission to provide 71.5 per cent of the parking for its planned Westin hotel in…

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        Fun House in Summer 2007

        I’m definitely way late in posting these, but I guess you could also say that I am early for this year. Last summer my family went to the Fun House on Clifton Hill. This is an attraction owned by Niagara Clifton Group. It is supposed to be a traditional fun house with crooked mirrors, slanted…

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          Wikipedia – Harry Oakes

          The Oakes name is well-known in Niagara Falls. Harry Oakes was a miner from Kirkland Lake who ended up in Niagara Falls. Actually in the very end he ended up in the Bahamas (where he was murdered). His family runs HOCO (Harry Oakes COmpany), one of the main companies on Clifton Hill. Wikipedia has a…

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            Make your Spring Splash with Great Wolf Lodge

            Last Wednesday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge. They are promoting a package for April, as well as a package for Moms. You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.

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              Construction and development update – Part 2 of 2

              Apparently there is an addition being built at Al Macs What’s up with the blue paint at Cantina Charlies?! The new “smoke room” at the Fallsview Casino is still under construction The Domino’s on Clifton Hill is undergoing some renovations inside There are still no replacements signs for the removed Marvel signs The shell of…

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                Construction and development update – Part 1 of 2

                The outside of the new Build-A-Bear still needs some work, but they are progressing on the inside of the store The Hilton from the front and back, as well as the back lot Table Rock Place is coming along, including the walkway over the Niagara Parkway

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                  Hillman Wonders of the World – Niagara Falls

                  Howard Hillman is a well-known travel writer. He has a web site called Hillman Wonders of the World. I’m not sure how the rankings come about, but currently Niagara Falls is ranked 88th. Why Niagara Falls is special It is one of the mightiest falls on earth. Although Niagara Falls is smaller and less breathtaking…

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                    Niagara Falls’s secret tunnel

                    Boing Boing, the popular blog, had a posting recently about “Niagara Falls’s secret tunnel“: The Vanishing Point, a site dedicated to urban exploration and secrets of the built environment, has a page about the massive abandoned Tailrace tunnel at Niagara Falls. (The entire Vanishing Point site is mesmerizing, rich with great writing and fantastic photography.)…

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                      Target tourism dollars

                      From the Niagara Falls Review: Ontario needs to focus its tourism dollars on its strengths in Niagara, Ottawa and Toronto instead of spreading it across the province, says the executive director of The Binational Tourism Alliance. Too often, the Ontario government tries to divvy up its tourism cash to every nook of the province, but…

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