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Crystal Beach Ontario Cottage Rentals — Accomodations for Romantic Getaways in Ontario

Published on November 12, 2009 in Hotels. 0 Comments



Look­ing for a great week­end get­away or a roman­tic get­away in Ontario, then escape to the beach. Con­sider Crys­tal Beach Ontario, right on Lake Erie! Read on about my mod­ern 3 bed­room cot­tage in Crys­tal Beach, great rates and avail­abily. This is a year round cot­tage for rent in Crys­tal Beach Canada.

This great beach is close to Nia­gara Falls, Fort Erie, and Buf­falo NY, with great shop­ping. Check out www.crystalbeachcottagesforrent.com

Crys­tal Beach is located along the shores of Lake Erie, south of Ridge­way and Fort Erie. Orig­i­nally the town was the site of an Amuse­ment Park. When the park first opened in 1888 it’s patrons arrived by steam­boat from nearby Buf­falo, New York.

The park was famous for a most intense roller­coaster for it’s day – The Crys­tal Beach Cyclone, built in 1927. A full time nurse at the unload­ing plat­form tended to nau­seous and uncon­scious rid­ers. The ride was closed in 1946 but many of the mate­ri­als were used in the con­struc­tion of the Crys­tal Beach Comet, another famous roller coaster with a slightly less intense ride.

Fol­low­ing the park’s clos­ing, the Comet was moved to Six Flags, The Great Escape & Splash­wa­ter King­dom in Lake George, New York where it still oper­ates today. The amuse­ment park at Crys­tal Beach closed in 1989 due to high oper­at­ing costs. The area where the Crys­tal Beach Ten­nis and Yacht Club, a pri­vate res­i­den­tial com­mu­nity stands is where the amuse­ment park once stood.

In the early 1920’s Crys­tal Beach would be the home of a new dance pavil­ion. The Crys­tal Beach Ball­room housed a 3,500 sq metre maple floor that could hold up to 3,000 dancers at once.

The Ball­roomt was so large that the orches­tras and bands of the time per­formed on an octag­o­nal stage dead cen­ter of the dance area.

Above the stage were eight curved-wood reflec­tors that directed the sound out toward the floor in order to have the music reach all areas.

Famous bands of that era to play Crys­tal Beach included Artie Shaw, Dorsey Broth­ers, Gene Krupa, Glen Miller, Guy Lom­bardo and his Royal Cana­di­ans, Les Brown, and Woodie Her­man .……(from Ontario Tourism web­site)

 




Niagara Falls — the Embassy Suites Niagara Falls, Canada

Published on October 23, 2009 in Hotels. 0 Comments



Nia­gara Falls is actu­ally com­posed of two sec­tions parted by Amer­i­can Falls on the United States side & Goat Island Horse­shoe Falls on the Cana­dian side of the bor­der. The Nia­gara Falls are famous all over the world for their beauty as well as a very valu­able source of hydro­elec­tric power.

Nia­gara Falls was dis­cov­ered in 1604 by a French­man Samuel de Cham­plain. He vis­ited the area dur­ing his explo­ration of Canada and described the spec­tac­u­lar beauty of Nia­gara Falls in his jour­nal. Nia­gara Falls is actu­ally divided into the Amer­i­can Falls & the Horse­shoe Falls. The Horse­shoe Falls are length­ier & drop about 173 feet (53 m).

The Amer­i­can Falls drop about 70 feet (21 m) before they reach a group of fallen rocks, deposited by a mas­sive rock slide in the year 1954. Horse­shoe Falls, the larger of the two is about 2,600 feet (792 m) in width, while the Amer­i­can Falls is about 1,060 feet (323 m) wide. The vol­ume of water that approaches the falls dur­ing the peak flow sea­son is about 202,000 cubic feet per sec­ond (5,720 m³/s), which in itself is amaz­ing.

The spec­tac­u­lar beauty of the falls is worth see­ing and to make this inci­dent extra mem­o­rable, we take the oppor­tu­nity to wel­come you to The Embassy Suites Nia­gara Falls, Canada. We offer Nia­gara Falls Pack­ages & Spe­cial Nia­gara Falls Wed­dings Pack­ages.

A sight of such breath tak­ing falls is at your own dis­posal, if you are a guest of The Embassy Suites Nia­gara Falls, Canada. We pro­vide a choice of Fallsview Suites & Fallsview Whirlpool Suites to suit your taste, with a chance to enjoy Fire­works from your own Suite.

Other choic­est pack­ages offered, include a 2-Night Pack­age, a Romance Pack­age, a Fam­ily Fun Pack­age, a Live The­atre Pack­age, a Water­park Pack­age to men­tion a few, with spe­cial facil­i­ties of Golf, Winer­ies and Casi­nos. The list includes a vari­ety of other pack­ages to make your visit to the place a mem­o­rable inci­dence for the rest of your life with off course an unquench­able desire to visit and revisit The Nigaras.