{"id":220,"date":"2006-05-15T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:25:51","slug":"everybody_into_the_pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/everybody_into_the_pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody into the pool!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Post<\/a> has an excellent article about the “latest sign of the designer indoor water park trend that’s sweeping the hospitality industry.”<\/p>\n

These swimming pools-on-steroids are becoming standard amenities at hotels and motels in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this more evident than in Niagara Falls, Ont., where this month a multi-million-litre water fight is set to break out between the Great Wolf Lodge and The Fallsview water parks.<\/p>\n

Both have many of the same attractions: various waterslides and water bowls, wave pools, areas for small children and a 4,000-litre water bucket that fills up and cascades down a water structure.<\/p>\n

The aptly named 125,000-square-foot Fallsview is built on top of a casino parking lot, but close enough to the seventh wonder of the world that those heading down the slides can catch a glimpse of Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n

At the 103,000-square-foot Great Wolf Lodge, the water park is housed inside an ersatz log hotel built in a run-down warehouse neighbourhood just beyond the Evil Knievel Museum. But it makes up in decor and theme what it lacks in the location department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an interesting article with some good comments from the Fallsview Waterpark Marketing Manager, Gary MacGregor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Post has an excellent article about the “latest sign of the designer indoor water park trend that’s sweeping the hospitality industry.” These swimming pools-on-steroids are becoming standard amenities at hotels and motels in the United States and Canada. Nowhere is this more evident than in Niagara Falls, Ont., where this month a multi-million-litre…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}