Dave’s Wet ‘n’ Wild Vacation

    Similar to NBC, CBS’s morning show, The Early Show, was in Niagara Falls: If you decide to vacation at Niagara Falls, be prepared to become damp. Whether you’re fishing, boating or sliding under the Falls on the Maid of the Mist, chances are you’ll want to dry off at some point. Dave Price learned this…

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      Things to do in Niagara Falls: Marvel Super Heroes Adventure City

      Continuing my series on the arcades in the tourist area (last week I wrote about the Great Canadian Midway), today I will write a bit about Marvel Super Heroes Adventure City. This is owned by Canadian Niagara Hotels and is in the Falls Avenue complex. Marvel Super Heroes Adventure City opened a couple of years…

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        Beginning of May construction update

        This is a smaller construction update than normal, but here are a few pictures: Bronto’s Adventure Playland looks like it is almost ready They are starting to put the roof on the former Pilgrim Restaurant (future East Side Mario’s?) The sidewalk along Victoria Avenue used to have large rocks periodically along the edge that you…

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        Public aerosol art installation on Robinson Street is gone

        Last fall I posted about an “art installation” on Robinson St that was a collaboration between the DoubleTree Fallsview Resort & Spa by Hilton Niagara Falls and local artists. Well, the house, as well as the one beside it, have been torn down.

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        Williams goes out fighting

        From the Niagara Falls Review: The way Ontario Tourism Minister Monique Smith wants to tender the right to run boat tours on the Niagara River will harm the Niagara Parks Commission, Niagara Falls’ tourism industry and tourism provincewide, says former Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams. He’s not going quietly after resigning his $250-a-day government-…

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        The Royal Cafe

        As I posted before, the AAAA Royal Hotel is now the Fallsview Lodge. They modified one of the rooms on the Ferry St side to become a small cafe. It looked like it was almost ready to open, and then the other day I saw a notice on the window. Apparently they did all of…

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        A brief and somewhat inaccurate history of Niagara Falls

        From Niagara This Week: No matter where I travel in this world, whenever I say I’m from Canada, the reaction is almost always “Ah Canada … Niagara Falls.” Over 25-million tourists come every year to this historic eighth wonder of the world in order to watch water fall over a cliff. Although it’s now Canada’s…

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