Festival lights up Niagara

From the Niagara Falls Review: With the flick of a switch, the Niagara Parkway erupted with about three million lights illuminating more than 120 seasonal displays. The 27th annual Winter Festival of Lights, which attracts more than one million visitors each year, officially got underway this past weekend with performances ranging from magical to soulful….

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Spinning Security at 500 Feet

This doesn’t affect any of the visiting tourists, but here is a short article from JMR SoftwareSystems about the challenges implementing a network at the spinning restaurant at the Skylon Tower: The very location of the RDR presents a challenge. With a more than 500 foot span from the central computers at the bottom of…

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Sleep Cheap rooms still available

From the Niagara Falls Review: Rooms are still available for next week’s Sleep Cheap, Charities Reap event in Niagara Falls. Local hoteliers are offering Niagara region residents overnight stays starting at $35 between Nov. 9 to 12. About two-thirds of the rooms have been sold for the event, said organizer Jim Diodati. Some hotels are…

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Where will you be when the clock strikes 2010?

On Thursday I received the latest email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.

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The Szmurlos: Niagara Falls

Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (with lots of pictures): I made everyone stand around and wait at the top of the falls because I had to get a video of the Maid of the Mist doing its thing. Turns out that it just fights the current of…

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