Celebrate the Howl-idays at Great Wolf Lodge’s Winter Wonderland

    On Tuesday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge. They are promoting winter packages for the month of December. You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.

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      Strong Canada dollar hurts Niagara Falls tourism

      From Sympatico Finance: Niagara Falls, one of Canada’s most prized tourism attractions, is luring fewer American visitors this year because of an unfavorable exchange rate, a Canadian tourism official said on Thursday. The number of U.S. day trippers crossing the border into Canada to see the spectacular waterfalls has dropped 16 percent this year, Christopher…

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        Thoughts on the convention centre – Part 2

        This is part 2 of Margin’s thoughts on the convention centre. Therefore, to avoid the wailing and gnashing of teeth that has occurred annually with respect to the relatively minor payments the casino has made to the city, a Community Development Agreement would set some easily definable payments that the private proponents of the center…

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          T&C MaC: Ontario 2007- Day Two

          A person with a Blogger blog posted about their trip to the Niagara Falls. They stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake and visited many of the sites in Niagara Falls. The person posted a lot of pictures, with short captions under each one.

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            High-tech licences to be allowed at border crossings

            From Niagara This Week: A U.S. government plan which will allow enhanced driver’s licences as acceptable identification when crossing the border along with passports is being hailed as good news for travellers and business people alike. But while most like the idea of a new high-tech licence, some frequent border users hope rolling out the…

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              Thoughts on the convention centre – Part 1

              Last week a new user joined the community here at AccessNiagara and is going by the handle Margin. He has submitted a document with his thoughts and concerns about the convention centre. As I asked him why the interest in this, he said that he has “no axes to grind or money to be made…

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                Niagara Falls Photo Contest

                Last Friday I received an email from Niagara Falls Tourism about a new Niagara Falls Photo Contest they are holding in conjunction with the Winter Festival of Lights. You can find out more on a special page on the Winter Festival of Lights site. The contest runs from Contest Runs from November 9, 2007 –…

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                  A Comedy Festival is Born

                  From the Niagara Falls Review: When he was a high school student at NFCVI, Rodney Pentland stood on the theatre stage and made a vow to himself. “I remember standing there thinking, ‘Some day I’m going to come back here and people are going to pay to see me,’” says the Niagara Falls comedian. The…

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                    Niagara Falls in Autumn 2007

                    Autumn is well on its way, and winter is almost here. We’ve had a few snow flakes fall, but they haven’t stayed. Most of the leaves are off the trees now, but a couple of weeks ago I took a set of pictures of the autumn leaves along Queen Victoria Park. As is always the…

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                      The ice-men of competitive goofy golf

                      This doesn’t have much to do with Niagara Falls, but I came across a web site about miniature golf. In passing, the person mentioned Galaxy Golf (although not by name) on Clifton Hill and has a picture: I love miniature golf, the more preposterous the holes the better. I like loop-de-loops, rotating obstacles, crossing wood-plank…

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