From the Niagara Falls Review: Ontario has locked down Casino Niagara’s long-term future with a 15-year extension on the lease at its Falls Avenue location. The government’s commitment could unleash up to $1 billion in private investment in the area around Clifton Hill -money investors were afraid to spend when the casino’s location was uncertain,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Playing tourist for a day was a welcome escape for the Hesse family of Niagara Falls. Mike, Melissa and their 10-year-old daughter Sara enjoyed several of the tourist attractions along Clifton Hill as part of the annual Loonie Museum Day to benefit the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. “It was fun,”…
From Sirpi.com: Yesterday morning my last full day in Niagara Falls, Ontario, had arrived. After a packed schedule the day before that had included a wonderful presentation at the Imax Theatre, my up-close encounter with the Great Falls at the Journey Behind the Falls and an entertaining show at the Oh Canada Eh? Dinner Theatre,…
Last Thursday (Christmas Eve) 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.
I first saw this video on the Clifton Hill Blog, and have since had someone else email me a link to it as well. This is a very cool time-lapse video hosted by Vimeo by Matthew Wartman of various parts of the Niagara Falls tourist area. Very well done! [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5370705[/vimeo]
From Jaunted: The Pop Culture Travel Guide: Even though the winter storms have started to blow across North America, believe it or not that now is a great time to visit Niagara Falls. Ideally you’d want to drop by one of the nation’s biggest tourist traps during warmer weather, but if you’ve already been during…
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.
Here is a cool video I saw the other day. It’s short, but shows what Clifton Hill looked like 20 years ago. [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81jus_clifton-hill-in-the-late-80s_travel[/dailymotion] Note: Sometimes the Dailymotion site says that the video has to be reloaded. This is a problem with their site or the video that they host, not on my end. If you…
From the Niagara Falls Review: If you’re checking out the new Rink at the Brink this weekend, you’ll have no trouble finding it. The Niagara Parks Commission’s new fence running the length of its Table Rock parking lot makes it impossible to miss it. It turns visitors to the falls into cattle, herding them from…
Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: We also went to Niagara Falls and had a blast there. We went to Clifton Hill and did a few of the attractions there. Nightmares Fear Factory was my favourite. It was really scary! The falls are really pretty. I’ve been to…