Ghost Blasters in Summer 2008

    One of my favourite attractions on Clifton Hill is Ghost Blasters. This is the “dark ride” inside the Great Canadian Midway. You sit in a little cart that takes you around a circuit where you shoot at targets. When you hit a target, different parts of the set move. I admit it… I’m not very…

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      Daredevil Days brings fire back to Queen Street

      From Niagara This Week: The inaugural Daredevil Days festival on Queen Street brought plenty of life to the usually quiet area. The event saw vendors from all over Ontario bring unique and different foods to the downtown core for everybody to enjoy. “The vendors have been really friendly and there are a lot of different…

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        New Animaland (inside Fun Factory) boxes

        I know in the grand scheme of things, this is extremely unimportant, but I noticed it so I figured I’d pass it along… Before Build-A-Bear Workshop arrived, the only place on Clifton Hill where you could make your own stuffed animal was at Fun Factory. This is on the HOCO side of the street, and…

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          NOTL set to launch hotel tax

          This isn’t exactly Niagara Falls related, but given the series on the Destination Marketing Fee or DMF (here and here), I figured I’d post about it. From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara-on-the-Lake is planning to launch the first phase of its destination marketing fee by the end of the year, says the executive director of…

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            Niagara Falls (Final Post) << Thoughts of a Diurnal

            Somone with a WordPress blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: I am one that strongly believes in the phrase “The early bird gets the worm”, and so I started my next day at Niagara Falls really early at 8am. Even the busiest streets of Clifton Hill was deserted.

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