From the Niagara Falls Review:
Who says travellers are sticking close to home this summer?
Nearly half of America’s 50 states were represented in the Niagara Parks Commission’s parking lot at Table Rock Sunday afternoon. Throngs of people strolled along the walkway adjacent to the falls, lazed in the park, dined in cafes in the park and on Clifton Hill, speaking in languages that would be a United Nations’ translator’s dream: Japanese, Chinese, South Asian, French, Spanish, German, Italian and ones of Eastern European origin. British and Australian accents were also heard.
But tourism operators like Tim Parker, general manager of Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, Ripley’s Moving Theatre and the Louis Toussauds Wax Works said the attractions are down about 10 per cent over a wet Memorial Day weekend last year.
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Maybe one of these days, some of the operators will think, “hey, I wonder if I lowered my prices to something reasonable, people might come in and spend money”. I won’t hold my breath, but sooner or later…
Ive got to imagine the passport requirements are going to make operators make changes.
so true drafty…but we were there last thursday…the falls walkway was PACKED….right down to the slowing traffic to cross the street packed…so??…go figure…ya gotta wonder where they count from/at ?….
The whole point of the article was that there were huge crowds of people, but they weren’t going in to attractions, stores, etc. It’s like people have learned that prices are inflated, so they don’t bother.
I think people are becoming very price-conscious. If they see inflated prices it will be an instant turn off and they will leave before you can even attempt to reel them into the attraction. Plus with people paying more for food and gas on their trips (and in general), they have less to spend on attractions. You need food and its not always practical to bring your own, and you need gas to get to your destination. These needs unfortunately come before going to attractions, also most people’s income isn’t going up any (and in some cases its being cut) but prices sure are.
great point SaraAB87!
very true, no one would want to pay expensive prices for an attraction when they have to pay alot more for gas and food!
lower prices gets more people. bottom line.
I think there will always be large crowds in the summer, lets not forget the biggest attraction in the area (the falls) is FREE. A family could make an entire day of hanging around the falls, staying for fireworks, and bringing food into the parks. I’m sure those same family’s will walk around Clifton Hill, the other surrounding areas,and take in the atmosphere of the area w/out spending $$.
My boyfriend and I wanted to see the 3D/4D movie at the Skylon tower because I had read about it and it sounded so good. First of all, we were told the movie ran every 20 minutes, that it would be a 10 minute wait to see the movie, so we waited and it turned out to be a 40 minute wait. When we finally got inside, it was a joke. There was an error notice on the screen, the glasses were cheap(my boyfriend got an instant headache from them) and the movie was blurry. What a joke and a waste of money. NEVER AGAIN.
I never go on the attractions that require the glasses for that reason (plus I wear prescription glasses which screws it up for me, and I am unable to get contacts), although I hear the ones with the actual plastic glasses that do not have the blue & red lenses are pretty good and don’t give you headaches (they have these at disney, I think the glasses just have a gray tint to them). Blue & red lenses is just a cheap way of doing 3D really.. there is nothing high tech about it and 3D has been done like this since the late 80s or early 90s..
I remember getting those blue & red glasses when I was dragged to see Spy Kids 3D because my cousins wanted to see it, and it was terrible. The 3D scenes were done pretty well for the time (and for the cost of a regular movie ticket) with the glasses but you couldn’t wear them for more than 3-5 min without getting a headache and eye strain and the movie required you to wear them longer than that.
when i watch spy kids 3D, i watch the normal version on second DVD for that same reason, SaraAB87.
I hate those blue and red glasses with a passion, and the ones in disney are definitely a nice break for 3D movies.
I have it on good authority that the 3D stuff, at least in Disneyquest is very well done, but I have not been there myself to see it. Its good that disney does it this way though because if your on a disney trip its likely that you could be seeing a couple of those movies a day, or going to a couple attractions that require glasses (I know disneyquest has more than one attraction that requires the glasses), and that would wreck havoc on your eyes even moreso than just going to one attraction!
If you want to see a 3D or 4D movie or whatever they are calling it these days you are better off going with the one in the Great Canadian Midway, they don’t use glasses at least the last time I went. Its not going to be true 3D in the way they did it in Spy Kids 3D but at least you will be able to enjoy the film and not have to suffer through it.
true
disney’s 3d movies are a lot easier to sit through with the gray-tinted or someodd type of 3d glasses!