B Vaughan wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:43:09 -0400, sechumlib
> wrote:
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>>On 2007-06-08 19:41:14 -0400, "garciyalater@hotmail.com"
>> said:
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>>
>>>On Jun 8, 2:48 pm, "HeatherD" wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>>My family is planning a 2 day trip to the American side of the Falls. Any
>>>>personal suggestions on HOTELS (3 star) and above to stay close to the Falls.
>
>
>>>There realy is nothing to recomend on the US side of the falls. Okay,
>>>a couple of things, but it sure isnt worth staying over there.
>>>
>>>We just stayed at the sheraton on the falls canadian side, 2 story
>>>suite for 200 bucks a nite. Well worth it, but there are several
>>>other fallsview motels with considerably cheaper rooms.
>>
>>Heather should keep in mind that the city of Niagara Falls in the US is
>>a broken down old rust-belt industrial city with a past but probably no
>>future. It was, among other things, the nearest urban area to the
>>famous Love Canal scandal of the 1980's.
>>
>>The Canadian Niagara Falls, on the other hand, is a schlock-filled
>>tourist trap. Not great, but at least it has lots of hotels & motels.
>
>
> Niagara Falls New York has a very nice park in the area of the falls.
> Nicer than anything on the Canadian side, I would say. The rest of the
> town may be the pits, but I wouldn't miss the park, especially the
> Goat Island walk up to the very edge of the falls.
>
> There are also some very inexpensive hotels on the American side,
> within walking distance of the falls. We stayed at the Econolodge
> several years and were quite satisfied with it. It was very close to
> the park and an easy walk to the falls. We didn't need to deal with
> the rest of the town at all. Best of all it cost less than half what a
> hotel on the Canadian side would have cost.
>
> There is a better view of the falls from the Canadian side, but if
> someone has visa reasons for not going to Canada, you can get the best
> view of all from the Maid of the Mist boat. It's no reason not to go
> to the Falls.
>
> By the way, one of the reasons the view from the Canadian side is
> better is that the Canadian government has allowed all those high rise
> hotels to be built right up to the edge of the falls. If you're on the
> Canadian side, you're looking at the falls and the American park,
> whilst if you're on the American side you're looking at the huge neon
> signs in Canada.
>
> My husband, neither American nor Canadian, but Italian, didn't even
> want to go to the Canadian side when he saw what they had allowed to
> be built in such a beautiful spot. He said that he had thought that
> only in Naples would such a travesty be allowed. I convinced him to go
> there to see the better view, but in the end we passed on it, because
> all of the parking lots anywhere near the falls were full, even the
> distant lots with shuttle buses. So we saw the view from the Canadian
> side while we were stuck on bumper to bumper traffic trying to get to
> a far parking lot. When we found it full, my husband said nothing on
> earth would induce him to go back to try to find something on the
> other side of town, so we went on our way.
>
> Every time this comes up, everyone says that there's nothing at all on
> the American side, but we enjoyed our stay very much. We walked to the
> falls from our hotel twice, once in the daytime and once in the
> evening, to see the lights. (There wasn't much to see as the mist was
> a bit excessive that night.) We spent several hours in the park on the
> American side, walking along the Niagara river and standing above the
> falls. The river is so calm above the falls that it's a real shock to
> get to the edge and see all that water plummet into the gorge below.
> We also took the Maid of the Mist ride, which is the one must-do thing
> at the falls, in my opinion.
>
> The Canadian side is such a tourist trap that I would actually prefer
> to stay on the American side. I would never, on principle, stay in one
> of the high rises with a falls view. However, the next time I would
> walk, not drive, to the Canadian side at least once to get the better
> view.
>
There is a nice walking park along the river on the Canadian side.
With regard to parking you might park at the Butterfly museum and get a
day ticket for the shuttle. The butterfly museum lot is rarely full
when the lots near the falls are overflowing.
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