Niagara Falls
Travel Blogs from Niagara Falls, Canada
A Bridge Too Far
... . It's hard to truly appreciate the falls unless you leave USA. 2. Landscape - USA While Canada has glitzed and gentrified its Niagara with tacky shops and attractions (e.g. indoor skydiving and revolving restaurants). USA has preserved the ...
Niagara's Fury!
... ordinary little town, quaint and quiet - aside from its main tourist attraction at the town’s edge; the Niagara Falls. The Falls sit on the border between Canada and the USA, so much so that when you look across the divide you can see the tourists ...
A cheap way to get from Toronto to Niagara Falls..
... cheap option worth checking out... Rather than get on the Greyhound, give "Safeway Tours" a call and book yourself on their "Niagara Falls Casino Tour". Their coach picks up from a number of hotels in Toronto and costs $30CAN. Here's the good bit - ...
Wherever you go, you can't get away from work...
Dean: While we were looking around the town area of Niagara Falls (looking for food) we went through a mall/hotel/conference center. Walking along, minding our own business, Alex pointed out a sign: "AstraZeneca Meeting - This Way" It seems that ...
Natural Wonder
... in the city as the bus cruised south to the border stopping before reaching it though at one of the world's natural wonders, Niagara Falls. Exiting the bus station I followed the river down the Canadian side towards the big cloud of spray looming in the ...
Big water and bright lights
... actually was we hopped in the car to take a drive through the town. If I had not seen the falls I would have sworn I was in a mini Los Vegas, Niagara was full of flashing lights, wax museums, novelty stores and other tourist traps, not at all what we ...
Frozen Falls
Our next stop for the trip was to see Niagara Falls. Rick had been here before, as with most of the USA trip, but it was great to see them again, this time twenty odd years older. Arriving at the bus station we put our stuff into storage ...
Basil Fawlty and Manuel
... Hugh Grant in "Four Weddings and a Funeral". Or Basil Fawlty in his Torquay dining room. The day trip to Niagara Falls left here at 9.40am. I woke up at 9.42am I had set my alarm and packed the night before. ...
Table Rock
... ROCK My first location as a Survey Pilot is in Niagara Falls NY, just across the river from my home town of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Now, Table Rock is amazing. Something even a local girl can appreciate after years of visiting and dragging friends ...
Crass tourism. And lots of water
... Okay, so let's get down to tourism proper. My first real trip as a tourist in Canada was a trip to see Canada's premier tourist attraction, Niagara Falls. I missed out on a trip to the falls back in 1998, when I spent the summer working in New York ...
Niagara Falls, Canadian side!
... mentioned in the previous entry (which we have put as a separate entry in case any other travellers do a search on Toronto or Niagara Falls within the TravelPod site), we got a really good deal on our travel arrangements from Toronto to Niagara Falls. We ...
I'm a Lumber Jack Mate!!!
... getting my stuff and wandering around for another hour to watch the football. After watching England win I crossed the border into Canada. Niagara on this side was much better and more like a resort town. After another hour walk to store my bag at ...
Thursday 3 July
Thursday 3rd July I went for a short run before breakfast and when we were all ready we packed up and drove to Niagara Falls. It was raining but warm. In fact it turned out to be a good thing because a) it was easy to park and b) you get ...
Leaving Toronto didn't grieve me.
... , plastic, 'maid of the mist' rain poncho from a bin, which protected my delicate Merrills. Wednesday 6th August Ironically Niagara falls is full of Mennonites in quaint dress, eating ice cream and driving flashy cars. The falls themselves are just ...
Day 5 -Toronto to Niagara Falls
... are less than 50 years old, and were very beautiful. After our tour of Toronto we went on to Niagara and the Niagara Falls, which interestingly enough are on the Niagara River, which runs from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, which is many ...
Niagara Falls - Canada & USA.
It was with great excitement when we arrived via a 2 hour bus ride to Niagara Falls, a "must see" in Canada. We had pre booked a room over the Internet for 4 nights thinking accommodation may be tight and for the first time, this was a big mistake. We set ...
Going over the falls in a barrel
... enough! He made a second successful trip on September 26th 1993. September 28th 1989 Niagara Falls Ontario residents Peter De Bernardi and Jeffery James Petkovich accomplished the ...
It's a lorra, lorra water
Just two hours after leaving Toronto, I was in Niagara Falls. After a slight mishap getting to the hostel (walking 15 minutes in the opposite direction before realising- with both 23kg suitcases, remember), I arrived, exhausted and ready to collapse. ...
No mousse but plenty of bubbles
... . After an extremely hospitable stop in Leamington (near London, Dunwich and Southwold) we continued over the frozen Lake Ontario towards Niagara Falls. Very tired at midnight, we took rooms in the Marriot (of course) due to the reduced, off-season rates. ...
Niagarske Vodopady
Dnes si urobili vylet na Niagara Falls. Povodne sme chceli ist aj na Kanadsku stranu, ale potom sme sa rozhodli, ze zostaneme len na US strane. A urobili sme dobre. Navyse sme si usetrili plno problemov spojenych s cestou cez hranice do a z Kanady naspat ...
NIAGARA FALLS - $3,020
If you like waterfalls, here is another one. Our fourth destination will be Niagara Falls. During our trip we will take you behind, across, above, and below the falls. Our adventure starts right when we get there. Our first activity would be to ride on ...
How do we get across the border? Oh just walk :)
... buses and catch an hour long bus to downtown Niagara Falls, America. Then we had to WALK across the border into Niagara Falls Canada. We met this Australian family from Perth who had been in America for 3 weeks travelling around and had just flown into ...
Canada for the niagara falls
Went over to Canada for the day to get a better view of the horseshoe falls the mist from the falls was very thick and would soak you in seconds, lucky we took a brolly even though it was a hot sunny day. We had a nice meal for lunch in a nice but pricey ...
Niagra needs Viagra
... The drive was pretty boring. 2 ½ hours to London, onto Paris, Hamilton ( I could see Toronto from there) and then a bow south to Niagara Falls. It's like with so many things you see on TV. It seems so huge in pictures, movies, docu's etc. and then you ...
Played at the Falls
Marie had never visited Niagara Falls--the Thundering Water--and Jeff had not been there since he was two. Jeff came here on a visit to his Grandparents when they lived in Buffalo. We did all the normal tourist things--went behind the falls, rode the ...
One month to go
Well...just one month to go before we hit the trail again. This time we are doing things a bit differently. We are actually making a few separate trips, the first of which is to Trinidad and Tobago. The idea is to experience ...
Eventful travel day
... the airport at 5:30. Not knowing that there were three bridges to Canada, we ended up at the farthest one from Niagara Falls. Customs into Canada took 30 minutes, and the drive back to Niagara took another 30, so by the time we got to the ...
K Niagarskym vodopadom
... a domov sa jej nechce vracat. Oklukou sme sa potom presli este cely poostrov az ku Fort Erie a na severe sme boli az v Niagara-on-the-Lake a o 22:00 sme prisli naspat do Toronta. Teraz som akurat dopracovat na pracovnych e-mailoch a je 2:31 rano, ...
Crossing the border
... a finders fee!!! and they say the Irish are mad!!! But this place was so worth the trek to see it - totally breathtaking! Niagara Falls has definitely been one of the places i would recommend a visit - apart from all the commercial tat it really is ...

