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.
9 comments:
Sounds fun! I've never been to Niagra falls or to a casino, but the falls pictures are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Neil Diamond - A Beautiful Noise is in Toronto in the spring. I am thinking of taking a bus trip to see the show. I like Niagara Falls too but as you say pricey.
I haven't been to the falls for quite some time. Even though I lived in Buffalo as a young kid, I don't recall going then. The pics from the casino are great...and your gambling prowess is about the same as mine!
Ah, the falls. At least the Canadian side is far nicer than the American side. At least I think so.
There is always in a reason to go to Toronto for me! One of my top 5 cities. Enjoy
The first time I visited Niagara Falls was on a New Years' Day. At least it wasn't busy! Still, it's a special place.
Harvey had never been to Niagara Falls so our visit there this fall was wonderful. I loved the look on his face as I pointed things out to him.
God bless.
This looks like just a wonderful time. I havent been in ages but I loved the photos (casino especially!)
It must be lovely to see the Falls.
I enjoyed seeing your photographs.
All the best Jan
Haven't been to Niagara Falls since the boys were young. We wanted to take one 'big' family trip before they were too old to want to go anywhere with us. Well, they were totally underwhelmed by the whole thing. We took them to the Ripley's museum as well as the wax museum - underwhelmed by those too. The only thing they liked was the mini golf course we found - and we could have done that just a mile or two from home!
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