Clifton Hill

Graham on March 12th, 2010

Galaxy Golf is the large glow-in-the-dark mini-putt on Clifton Hill. It’s been open for a few years now, and during those three years, nothing much new has been done/added. Over the last month or two several small, but nice, changes have been made. The most obvious is the repainting of the 18th hole (what you [...]

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An eBay user has an auction for a postcard from 1934 that shows the area that would be the current Maid of the Mist plaza (at the base of Clifton Hill) with the Falls in the background. Neat!

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Graham on March 1st, 2010

From the Niagara Falls Review:
Think your line of work got hurt in the recession? Try sword swallowing.
“The last few years have been tough, economically. People aren’t going to pay $1,000 to have a sword swallower at their kids’ birthdays,” said Vanessa Neil, who shocked a Niagara Falls crowd Saturday when she downed a 24-inch sword [...]

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Graham on February 27th, 2010

From the Niagara Falls Review:
It’s not a holiday yet, but sword swallowers have made today their own.
World Sword Swallowers Day will see performers send steel down the hatch at more than a dozen Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums throughout the world, including Clifton Hill.
Toronto’s Vanessa Neil does the deed at 2:27 today, symbolic of [...]

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From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Niagara Parks Commission wasn’t the only business to struggle in 2009.
The tourism industry as a whole had to scratch and claw its way through a year hampered by unseasonable weather, new passport requirements and a deadly influenza strain.
“It’s extremely bleak out there,” said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman Wayne Thomson.
“And the [...]

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Graham on February 25th, 2010

Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent bad experience at the Burger King on Clifton Hill:
Why do multi-national food chains, with billions of dollars in profits all have the worst washrooms in the country? I recently had lunch on Clifton Hill at Niagara Falls
. Me and my family ate at the “King’s” palace…you [...]

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Graham on February 24th, 2010

On Monday I received the latest newsletter from the Clifton Hill Resort.

You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resort Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.

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Graham on February 24th, 2010

Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to a Haunted House on Clifton Hill:
…I think there are 4 major haunted houses on Clifton Hill: The Fear Factory, Dracula’s Castle, Frankenstein’s…um, castle (?), and another one that has just as terrifying a name and plays the scary music from Halloween onto the street…

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Graham on February 11th, 2010

A photographer has posted some pictures from a wedding recently. There are a couple of pictures around Niagara Falls…

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Graham on February 2nd, 2010

I guess this is the sort of thing that CNN iReport is looking for…
…So…the day after our wedding, we hopped in the car and headed to Niagara Falls!
This warm and welcoming city provided much fun and tourism for the first couple days of our honeymoon, and on the third day we made a phone call [...]

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