Travel and Tourism in Niagara Falls

Don't forget to print out the maps you may need too. They should makes things a lot easier for you. Or make sure you go to one of the information booths around the city that offer free maps, coupons and discounts on all the different attractions.

Directional Map to get you around the main tourist streets. Main thing to remember is that Victoria Ave, Ferry Street and Lundy's Lane are all the same street.

Or try the interactive map, it may be a little out of date but the majority of it is right.

Printing out the coupons are good as well but make sure you use them too!! Remember to check the front lobby of your hotel as well because a lot of the tourist attractions put brochures in the lobby and some of them have coupons in as well. And keep searching cause you'll find even more Coupons

Check for air flight and room accomodations together. Call the Hotel of your choice as well and find out if they offer any kind of special Tour rates with your room. Niagara Falls has many tour companies as well so check around to find the best price on Tours of the city too.

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Having lived here for about 10 years, I can honestly say this the best place in the world, in my opinion. If you're traveling here you may want to check into different places to stay and different sites to visit as well.

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What put Niagara Falls, Ontario on the map to begin with, other then the war of 1812 but I'll get to that later, was definitely the actual falls known as The Horseshoe Falls. But as times change, so does the city. Now there's also the tourist attractions on Clifton Hill such as the wax museums, Ripleys moving theater, the Skylon tower with the revolving restaurant, the midway and much more. However, there's also the IMAX Theatre, Rossi's Glass Blowing and 2 Casinos. If you're looking for dinner theatres there's Oh Canada Eh! and Greg Ferwin. Altho these things are not located on Clifton Hill, they are still in the tourist area with the except of Oh Canada Eh!. If you're looking for an enjoyable night out to dinner and live theatre, I highly recommend it, the food is great and the performances are awesome!

There's also the Journey Behind the Falls, The Maid of the Mist, The Helicopter Ride, The Butterfly Conservatory, The Jetboat Ride, The Bird Sanctuary. All of which can be costly too if you don't go with a package deal.

Some very good sites to check out for all the attractions.

Niagara Falls Tourism

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be sure to check out the Festival of Lights

Everyone seems to forget there's more to Niagara then just the falls. There's the museums, travel further up on Lundy's Lane and you'll find two of them as well as one of the historical battle sites from 1812, the floral clock, the wineries, along the parkway which is the perfect spot for a picnic and along the parkway you'll find a "self guided tour" of where some of the actual battles took place in the War of 1812.

And lets not forget about the casinos! There's the Fallsview Casino, with the Avalon Theatre and Casino Niagara don't forget YukYuks at Casino Niagara. Now I'm not much of a gambler and you don't need to be either, in order to enjoy the atmosphere in them. I do have to admit the newer one, The Fallsview Casino, is extremely impressive to see.

And of course don't forget MarineLand

Niagara Falls has over 100 souvenir shops. So if you want to buy souvenirs your best bet would be to look around first. Also, just so you know. Ontario has 2 taxes, a PST and a GST however the local hotels have acquired a third tax called a DMF tax and is 3%, what's a DMF Tax?? Well apparently it's a legal tax that the hotels/motels could add to your bill in order to help them with their costs of advertising outside of the local area. BUT!! it seems a lot of the restaurants and souvenir shops have decided they need this tax too, which simply goes into the owners pocket since there's nowhere else for it to go. Now according to our local paper there was an article on who was charging it and who wasn't and of all the local souvenir stores only one was NOT charging this tax. Jo-Ann's Payless Souvenirs So I suggest you have a look at the items and take note of the prices and when you're shopping around in other stores remember what they are here as well as the fact that you WILL NOT be charged the extra 3% that the others seem to think you should be paying.

Everyone seems to think that after Labour Day Weekend, all the stores and residents board up the windows, lock all the doors and hibernate for the winter. Ahhhhh how wrong that is!!!

Starting the first of November and going to the second of January is the Festival of Lights see their schedule here. Spectacular fireworks displays....to the animated characters down the parkway and around Dufferin Island.

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS