What are your Niagara plans this Summer?
Earlier this week I received the latest email newsletter from the Hilton Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel and Suites. Today is the last day to book this deal
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Waterparks to sleep cheap
From the Niagara Falls Review: The three waterparks in Niagara Falls are expected to be popular draws in this year’s Sleep Cheap, Charities Reap promotion that gives deeply discounted hotel rooms to Niagara residents. About 20 hotels in Niagara Falls and a group of charities are teaming up again to raise money for charities by…
Another week, another floor done at the Hilton
I’m not sure how the floors are going to be counted, but it looks like the 13th floor is done and they are working on the 14th floor of the Hilton addition.
Stay and Save with Marriott Fallsview
Last week I received an email newsletter from the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa
Top 10: the best Niagara Falls hotels
From The Telegraph: Spectacular and easy to get to, Niagara Falls have been a honeymoon destination since the 19th century. Nowadays, romance is matched by casinos, spas and family amusements. There are actually three falls, the Canadian Horseshoe, American and Bridal Veil Falls, and, as they straddle the US/Canada border, the question is: where to…
‘They’re more sharp’: Tourists take in new lights on falls
From the Niagara Falls Review: For longtime Niagara Falls visitor Chris Endres, it was like looking at the falls with a new glasses. They were brighter. Clearer. Better. Like several other tourists Saturday night, he had come to check out the falls in a better light. Four million dollars worth of better lights, actually. On…
Niagara Falls’s secret tunnel
Boing Boing, the popular blog, had a posting recently about “Niagara Falls’s secret tunnel“: The Vanishing Point, a site dedicated to urban exploration and secrets of the built environment, has a page about the massive abandoned Tailrace tunnel at Niagara Falls. (The entire Vanishing Point site is mesmerizing, rich with great writing and fantastic photography.)…
Dragon Mountain update
I’ve contacted Marineland trying to get some information about this, but I haven’t heard from anyone yet (I’m not impressed!). They have finished putting up the mess covering that I showed in the previous posting:
Whales show an ability to learn and teach
From The Guardian: Canadian scientists have observed a case of learning and culture in a killer whale. A four-year-old orca in a marine park in Ontario has found a way not just to provide fresh fowl for supper, he has shown other young whales how to do the same thing. The precocious predator made a…
Cantina Charlies Niagara Falls to reopen as Johnny Peppers
The fomer Cantina Charlies Niagara Falls location on Ferry St is undergoing some renovations. There is a liquor license notice on the window, and apparently the place will reopen as Johnny Peppers.