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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            Canadian Niagara Hotels video

            I stumbled across this the other day… Veoh is one of the big video sharing sites out there. There is a user by the name of “cnhvideos” that has uploaded promotional videos for the Rainforest Cafe, Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, Fallsview Indoor Waterpark, and more (the Canadian Niagara Hotels properties). I have no way…

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              Captive Killers – Junior

              I’m sure there are lots of anti-Marineland sites out there. I am certainly not going to post about every complaint, but I thought that this one was particularly interesting, because it mentions the “warehouse” that has caused some controversy for Marineland over the years. Junior was captured from Iceland in 1984. He was then transported…

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                2007 Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory pamphlet

                I recently posted pictures and a video from the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory. I was cleaning up some files and came across a scan of a 2007 pamphlet. At the time it was the 10th anniversary of the Butterfly Conservatory. I have created a PDF file of the pamphlet if you’d like to download it…

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                  The Running Fat Guy: Vacation – Day 2

                  The Royal Canadian Henley Regatta was in St. Catharines recently, which brought some extra tourists to Niagara Falls. One of those posted about their trip on their Blogger blog: Now, Niagara Falls is a *huge* tourist trap. Everything here is expensive, and is tailored for tourism. Everything has a charge associated with it, from horrible…

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                    Dino Mini Golf & Dairy Queen…

                    The Uprising, a “a program exclusively for students in Grades 6, 7 and 8” out of Welland, is planning a trip to Niagara Falls today (it was posted yesterday): Just a reminder that Dino Golf is tomorrow! We are LEAVING Faith Tabernacle at 6:30pm and heading to Niagara Falls (Clifton Hill) to do the dino…

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                      Hilton update (working on 44th floor)

                      It looks like the Hilton is now working on the 43rd floor (only 10 more to go). Note, I took this picture yesterday when I said how beautiful a day it was…

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