Another in my series on keycards… The other day I found a Doubletree Hotel room keycard on the ground. There is nothing on it that is specific to the Doubletree on Stanley Avenue. These are generic cards that could be used at any Doubletree Hotel location.
I’m not sure how long it has been there for, but the other day I noticed a new sign outside the Guinness World Records Museum. There is still the tall vertical sign (see the bottom picture), but there is a new sign right above the store attached to the side of Ruby Tuesdays. It is…
The new Montana’s on Victoria Avenue (not yet open) is now hiring.
From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda got his first taste of the wet and windy conditions he’ll encounter when he walks over the falls, as blowing rain drenched the stuntman Wednesday during his daily training session. The skies opened at 11 a.m., just as Wallenda was walking his practice wire, drenching him and causing onlookers…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s back to business as usual at Great Wolf Lodge. Less than 24 hours after an electrical fire forced the evacuation of 200 hotel guests from the Victoria Avenue resort Monday evening, staff began checking in patrons to the affected rooms in the south wing Tuesday afternoon. “The lodge is…
On Monday I received the latest newsletter from Niagara Hospitality Hotels, the operator of the The Oakes Hotel Overlooking the Falls. To subscribe to the newsletter, click on the Email Deals link on the main page of their site.
From the Niagara Falls Review: The head of Niagara’s tourism marketing organization says it has been “as transparent as we can” and insists it played by the rules when it issued a $500,000 untendered contract to publish a promotional magazine. “I trust the folks around this table. They vetted it and decided it was a…
WIVB TV has a bit of a gallery of Winter Festival of Lights pictures…
Last night the family went for a brief drive along the Niagara Parkway to check out the Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights. It is the first time I’ve seen all of the lights at night. They look excellent. There are a lot more than there used to be. One strange thing is related…
A bit of history from InSauga.com: Although there is precious little information online about him, the Niagara Falls Public Library Facebook page used Throwback Thursday to highlight a local dairy that delivered milk door-to-door on horse-drawn wagons back in 1915… A series of restaurants and souvenir shops took advantage of the proximity to Clifton Hill…