This isn’t directly related to Niagara Falls, but it does tie in with the Niagara’s Lost Amusement Parks: From the Niagara Falls Review: When it came to gathering stories about the old Crystal Beach Amusement Park, PBS senior producer Lynne Bader-Gregory had it easy. All it took was a nudge, and dozens of Buffalo and…
One of my favourite attractions on Clifton Hill is Ghost Blasters. This is the “dark ride” inside the Great Canadian Midway. You sit in a little cart that takes you around a circuit where you shoot at targets. When you hit a target, different parts of the set move. I admit it… I’m not very…
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…
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…
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…
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 wormâ€, and so I started my next day at Niagara Falls really early at 8am. Even the busiest streets of Clifton Hill was deserted.
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…
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…
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…
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…