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…
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.)…
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…
Someone with a LiveJournal blog wrote about a trip to Hollywood and compared it to Clifton Hill: Hollywood reminds me of Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. Clifton Hill is the gaudy tourist strip built in the 1950’s to ‘modernize’ tourism in the city by bringing the high cultures of wax museums, haunted houses, and overpriced…
All of the snow that we’ve had recently has me singing “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” to my sons. They laugh, and say, “No Daddy… It’s not Christmas, It’s Easter.” Anyway, all of this snow and talk of Christmas reminded me that I had taken some pictures of the Winter Festival of…
From Niagara This Week: The last time there was nary a light on glorious Niagara Falls was probably during the Northeast blackout in the summer of 2003. Usually bathed in colourful light, later this month the falls will be shrouded in darkness again, this time intentionally along with most of the city, to help encourage…
From the Niagara Falls Review: There will be more mayors in Niagara Falls than you can bang a gavel at in 2014, when the city hosts the Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual conference. It’s the first major convention to book its event for the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre, the $100-million facility to be built…
I just received an email update from Niagara’s Fury. The “click here” link just took you to the main page of the Niagara’s Fury web site.
Yesterday I received a newsletter from NiagaraFallsBestHotels.com. This is a site that doesn’t seem to have any purpose other than it gets good search engine positioning, and it charges sites to be “listed” with them. The newsletter/site promotes various packages that the hotels are offering right now. To subscribe, fill out the form to join…
I’m not sure how the floors are going to be counted, but it looks like the 13th floor is done and they are working on the 14th floor of the Hilton addition.