From Niagara This Week: According to Robert Hickey, the Niagara tourism sector faces some serious challenges with the decline in American visitors. In turn, the workers at the region’s many hotels face tough roads ahead with problems with low wages, increased seasonal positions and risks of being injured on the job. Hickey, a professor of…
Well-known Canadian scientist David Suzuki was in St. Catharines recently for a fundraiser and spoke out against Marineland. Marineland is currently suing the Niagara Action for Animals group claiming that they have been harmed economically because of the groups actions. The Niagara This Week newspaper had an informative article titled Suzuki Wades into Fight with…
I’m going to be on vacation for the next week or so, and I’m not sure how much I’m going to be in the Falls. If anything exciting happens, be sure to let me know. There may be a few postings that I get put up, as I’ve got a few almost ready. If not,…
In case anyone is interested, I’m a big fan of Oatmeal Crisp Triple Berry cereal. I love it! Feel free to send me boxes 🙂 Anyway, over the Spring, many of the General Mills cereal had information about a free admission (as you can see by the image above). For the longest time I just…
Someone with an AOL Journal has posted some information about Houdini. Included, is some information about the old Niagara Falls attraction: 1968 – The Houdini Magical Hall of Fame was opened on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. At its opening, this museum contained the majority of Houdini’s personal collection of magic paraphernalia. One…
Someone with a WordPress blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (including being unimpressed with the non-tourist area): Well, this was what we saw when we got off the bus that was suppose to bring us to Niagara Falls. This got us questioning ourselves whether we had got off the bus at the…
The Hilton Niagara Falls Fallsview sent out a promotional email this week advertising Valentine Specials. It is the same one they sent out a couple of weeks ago. To subscribe to the newsletter, fill out the form on the left-hand side of any page on the Hilton Niagara Falls web site.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: Tere’s more than one way to get wet in Niagara Falls: • Hop on a Maid of the Mist boat tour and hang out at the base of Horseshoe Falls, letting the spray surround you. • Take a Cave of the Winds tour, carefully navigating the steps next to the…
Yesterday I received the latest email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa. You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.
Cool! Even Wheel of Fortune knows about the Niagara Falls Blog! I created this here…