Niagara Falls

I visited here on my recent trip to Canada back in October and part of me thought "it's just a big waterfall, how exciting can it be"? When I got there though that former thought was turned on its head. Although this was not the main part of my trip, since I had to fly into Toronto and I was so close I could not resist extending my holiday for a day trip to here from Toronto. At Niagara, there are three distinct sets of waterfalls spanning Canada + the US (the Horseshoe Falls, named because of their shape) and mainland US with Goat Island, a small island separated from mainland USA by the American and Bridal Veil falls. The last two sets mentioned ...  Read the complete review

This review is for the American side of the falls. I will be writing another review for the Canadian time in the near future.... So I'd had a great summer and had travelled many a mile and I thought the perfect ending would be a trip to Niagara Falls. I spent 3 nights on the Canadian side and 2 nights on the American side. So, the American side... oops. You are walking to the falls and the anticipation is growing, you can hear the mighty roar of the water, you get to the fence at the edge of the river and oh, you can't see anything. Such a let down. You can't see the horseshoe falls which is the main one, you can only see the very side and the top ...  Read the complete review

My husband and I were recently lucky enough to go on a tour of Canada. We stopped in Niagara Falls for a few nights and it was one of the highlights of our stay. First of all, I have to warn you, the resort of Niagara itself is very, very, very tacky. Think Blackpool (no offence mean't - who doesn't love Blackpool for it's tackiness?). It is filled with coffee shops, fast food restaurants and arcades. Strangely enough the falls is right slap-bang in the middle of it! The resort really doesn't matter as the falls themselves are trully breathtaking. If you do go for a visit don't miss out on the 'Maid of the Mist' boat trip. You donne a plastic ...  Read the complete review

Niagara has long been on my 'to do' list, so I was happy for my departure from Mexico to coincide with a stop-over in Toronto and, thus, a trip to the falls. I was lucky to be taken there by a friend I made on my Christmas tour of Costa Rica. As Toronto residents for about 6 years, she and her mother had been there before, but not for some time, and were happy to return. I had originally planned to take a one-day guided tour from Toronto, which would have cost about $70 and involved an early-ish departure. We left a little later, just after 9am, and this was a good choice since we missed most of the commuter traffic. The drive from the city is quite long - ...  Read the complete review

Breathtaking. Magnificent. Awesome. Just a few of the many words that have been used to describe Niagara Falls and all of them true. But Niagara Falls is such a spectacle that it's difficult really to try to sum it up in words. You just have to see it and feel it for yourself. Because it is so much more than a visual feast. I used to work in the travel industry and people used to say, when booking trips to Niagara, "I bet it's an amazing sight" and that's true, it is. But it's so much more than that; it's an invasion of the senses (which sounds a bit cliched I know) but I think people often forget about the sounds, smells, etc. of a place. ...  Read the complete review