Every year since I was 8, My family has spent Thanksgiving in upstate NY and then headed over the following Saturday to the Falls. That means that we were there for the first Winter Festival of Lights in 1983. This was long before casinos and mega hotels. This was when the Festival was even celebrated on the…
Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Canadian readers. I myself am Canadian (born and raised and still live here), so I will be enjoying a feast on Monday. Whenever, wherever, and with whomever you are celebrating it, I hope you have a great weekend!
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From the Niagara Gazette: Mark Rivers is calling it the “anti-mall.” While thousands of eager shoppers will be running through department stores and retail outlets Thanksgiving night and early Black Friday, the man behind the new Holiday Market in downtown Niagara Falls is encouraging his customers to take it easy, avoid the rush and get…
From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: Tourists can enjoy free trolley rides in Niagara Falls – starting today. The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority is providing the service to visitors at participating hotels. The service runs via the Niagara Falls Blvd. and Pine Avenue bus route. Service will be available only on weekends in may and…
From GO Transit: Our seasonal excursion train service between Niagara Falls and Toronto is starting up again! In addition to our year-round bus service, passengers can take the train between Toronto and Niagara Falls starting Victoria Day weekend. The trains will be stopping at Union, Exhibition, Port Credit, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls…
From the Niagara Falls Review: More than 43,000 passengers used GO Transit’s “excursion train” to travel between Niagara Falls and Toronto, according to figures released by the provincial transit agency. The summer weekend and holiday service ended on the Thanksgiving holiday Monday, considered the end of the traditional tourism season. There were 833 passengers on…
Someone with a Blogger blog has posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: My dad was superpumped that Chris and I decided to go to Niagara Falls for Thanksgiving weekend, as he was under the impression that it’s the engagement capital of Canada. I don’t know if that’s the case, but I made it…
Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (with pictures): Monday was thanksgiving holiday so we decided to take the opportunity to go to Marineland and Niagara. We thought that we would have heaps of time to do everything we wanted but of course ran out of time. What we…