Had a night away on Friday. We were in Niagara Falls. We stayed at the Wyndham Garden Hotel, just along the road from Fallsview Casino. The hotel itself is very tired looking, but for the price and the location it's great value for money. It's a five minute walk to the casino.
The casino/resort is on the hill above the Falls. If you go out the back of the casino, you look over towards the Falls. The next few photos are from there. By the time I took these photos, it was dusk around 5pm.
I am not an expert in casino's as this is the only one I have been in, but it does look lovely all lit up at night. This was the main entrance area.
We're not big gamblers, but we went in to spend some time playing the slots. I watch Brian Christopher Slots, every day while having my lunch. Now our biggest bets were $1 a spin!! I will say we left the casino after an hour, having a great time, out of pocket by $10 between us. We would have been up by 55 cents, but we went back in and spent $10 between us on another game, and that was why we lost the $10.
Now the whole reason for going to Fallsview, was to see this show: Tina, Better be good to me! This was in the Avalon Theatre.
She was pretty good; obviously not as good as Tina, but good all the same. The show was around 2 hours long and we enjoyed it. We saw The Tina Turner back in 2008, you can read about that here.
I will say I prefer going to see the shows downtown Toronto. The acoustics are better, as are the productions.
I personally don't like Niagara Falls, it's overpriced. It annoys the heck out me how they charge the tourist tax, just don't get it. However it is a busy place and I do like to look at the Falls.
It made a nice change to go away, and Niagara Falls is only a couple hours drive from where we live.
Looking at booking tickets to see this show in Toronto next.
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