I had heard that this morning was the official announcement day. The Niagara Falls Review hasn’t posted the information yet, but the City of Niagara Falls web site has all the details… You can book rooms as of October 18, 2010 at 7 am The available dates are Monday, November 15, 2010 to Thursday, November…
As I tweeted last week, I stopped by the new Niagara Falls location of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. I walked all through the restaurant to check it out. I haven’t eaten there yet, but here are some observations: They did a very nice job fixing up that building. It has a definite “island” theme to it….
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from Canyon Creek:
At another store, I recently saw this book called Visions of Canada. It is a collection of stories and essays about different parts of Canada. The section about Niagara Falls is from novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s visit in 1832 (but not published until 1835). Oh, that I had never heard of Niagara till I beheld it!…
The motion simulator ride inside the Great Canadian Midway has had a rocky history. It started out as the Fun House Express Ride, then it became the FX Thrill Ride, then it became Cosmic Coaster, and now it is FX Ride Theatre (I might have the two FX names mixed up). They have only shown…
Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 14,868 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. They have a page on Niagara Falls with some basic information.
I was over at my sister’s place yesterday and she asked me to look at the DVD player in her computer. Movies would play, and then cut off. The movie she brought out to show me was Canadian Bacon. I saw it along time ago, and had forgotten about it. The movie was written and…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Executives behind a new Niagara-based television station say the news, sports and weather-focused channel will fill a void in the region. Called Niagara News TV, the St. Paul St.-based station will run nightly newscasts from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and paid programming and regular news…
Shoppers Drug Mart is a major pharmacy/drug store in Canada. They have teamed with TicketOps (CAA, Walgreen’s, and others have similar agreements) to offer discounted tickets to attractions around the country. Most of them are in Ontario, and there are several in Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls Aviary – Birds of the Lost Kingdom Louis Tussaud’s…
From a PRWeb press release: Winter may be the wedding industry’s off-season, but the remarkable natural landscape of Niagara Falls in winter provides a uniquely dazzling setting for weddings and banquets. The 20-acre Falls Avenue Resort, located directly across the street from the Niagara Falls, offers the Sheraton on the Falls and Crowne Plaza Niagara…