Niagara Falls, Canada Travel Blogs

Niagara's Fury!
Jun 6, 2008 (1 photos)

... 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 on ...

Basil Fawlty and Manuel
May 5, 2007 (8 photos)

... 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. ...

Natural Wonder
Mar 5, 2007 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

A cheap way to get from Toronto to Niagara Falls..
Jul 24, 2006

... 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...
Jul 24, 2006

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 ...

Table Rock
Oct 2, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Big water and bright lights
Sep 15, 2008 (35 photos)

... 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 were ...

Canada
May 14, 2006

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Frozen Falls
Feb 17, 2007 (17 photos)

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 and ...

Legends of the Falls
Dec 31, 2005 (6 photos)

Crass tourism. And lots of water
Nov 8, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 state, ...

Niagara Falls, Canadian side!
Jul 24, 2006 (11 photos)

... 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 got into ...

Leaving Toronto didn't grieve me.
Aug 8, 2003 (8 photos)

... , 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 ...

Niagara Falls
Jun 24, 2005 (15 photos)

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
Jun 24, 2008 (11 photos)

... 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 first duo& ...

Thursday 3 July
Jul 10, 2008 (11 photos)

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 wet ...

No mousse but plenty of bubbles
Mar 4, 2005 (1 photos)

... . 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
Jul 18, 2009 (11 photos)

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 ...

Jim & June's Odyssey 090510
May 10, 2009

... 1, 2 or 3 miles in advance of the upcoming exit but not here. It's a crazy, cheap way to direct traffic. NIAGARA FALLS, ONT: Although there are several very nice hotels overlooking the Niagara and American Falls, the most dominant one is the Skylon ...

NIAGARA FALLS - $3,020
Jun 16, 2006 (1 photos)

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 the ...

Niagra needs Viagra
Oct 20, 2008

... 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 walk ...

Played at the Falls
Sep 27, 2005 (4 photos)

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
Dec 30, 2007

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 Carnival ...

Eventful travel day
Jun 15, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 falls ...

K Niagarskym vodopadom
Apr 13, 2004 (31 photos)

... 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, tak ...

Crossing the border
Oct 5, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Church and catching up with old friends
Dec 25, 2008 (3 photos)

We are going to go to church this morning at 11 a.m. so we have to wake up early. Keith gives me a guitar for Christmas (I can't believe I forgot his present in Ottawa!) At church, the new priest is a little fruity and weird, but it's funny I guess. ...

Boxing Day at Aunt Anne's
Dec 26, 2008

We don't wake up until 9 a.m. and mom has breakfast ready for us already. For some reason, Keith thinks it would be amusing to look at MY BABY PICTURES. It's totally embarrassing, so I try to ignore it by reading a book and looking the other way as they ...

Day at Niagara Falls
Jul 8, 2009 (3 photos)

Hi, Today we spent the whole day doing the Niagara Falls attractions.  We started with the Maid of the Mist boat trip up to the falls, which was a really fun....wet trip.  We then walked up to the top of the falls and went on the Journey Behind ...

mix up in the pictures sent today
Aug 3, 2006 (1 photos)

OOPS!!!!!!!!! the picture of route 66 is wrong it is showing an adobe style house in Santa Fe, I am now attaching the picture of route 66