Some buddies and I went to TO for a stag, I know different crowed lol. But we went to Medieval Times and had a blast. Maybe not the best for the 2 yo...but lots of fun in general.
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The food scene there in incredible! So many great places to grab a bite to eat; Little Italy / Little Portugal, Kensington Market, Ossington and Dundas, just to name some areas. Aside from what's already been mentioned, when I lived there for a year, I always loved going for a run down on Martin Goodman Trail (along the waterfront), as well as Ontario Place an the East/West Islands. Go see a Jays game too!
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Some buddies and I went to TO for a stag, I know different crowed lol. But we went to Medieval Times and had a blast. Maybe not the best for the 2 yo...but lots of fun in general.
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Also, since you're downtown, take the TTC (so, Subway and streetcars). That's the fastest, cheapest and most convenient way to get around downtown (take subway to get to the closest stop to wherever you want to go and streetcars to take you east/west). Uber in downtown traffic will be tiring.
According to Niagara’s tourism board, and as one of 60-100 different spectacles that claim the same thing.
It’s not even natural! They designed it to look the way it does. There’s videos online and - get this - you can watch them without subjecting yourself to the hell that is the entire area around it.
Well, hey, I think it’s a really cool engineering spectacle, with still giving accolades to its natural past. To each their own. Mind you, driving in the car in GTA traffic with a young toddler does sound pretty intolerable haha. But… the Niagara Region is a gorgeous area, outside of Niagara Falls. Beautiful scenery with the vineyards, and it’s not completely developed unlike surrounding areas.
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Every time I visit family in southern Ontario we go to Port Stanley. No trip is complete without a visit to Mackie's for some medicore food (the orange drink stuff is okay) and then stopping at Shaw's ice cream on the way out.
EDIT: so I can be slightly on topic...I completely agree with NO rental cars in Toronto. You'll regret it very quickly. Just rent one when you're going outside the city for the day.
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I agree with no car, we stayed central and only picked one up when we were heading out to a cabin.
I think Pepsi free is wrong about Niagara, it is worth the visit to see the falls, walk along the river, go behind the falls, and take the boat ride. Then go see Clifton Hill, hate every moment of that, leave, and say you were glad you went but probably won’t go back. Honestly we enjoyed it, and yup would probably never go back.
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I found the HHOF to be hugely disappointing. First, it is in the basement of a downtown mall. Here is the service elevator, over here are the toilets, and in this corner is the HHOF. So lame.
Most of the exhibits are old jerseys and one hallway of hockey masks. The interactive exhibits include shooting on a video screen goalie and foam pucks shot at you from random holes in the wall. About the same as what you might find at Chuck E Cheese. Everything worth seeing was crammed into the big room with all the trophies and inductee wall plaques. The inductee plaques go from the floor to about 12 feet high, so you can crawl on the ground to see the ones at the bottom, or crane your neck to see the ones up top.
The NHL should be ashamed of this. It is embarassingly bad.
I found the HHOF to be hugely disappointing. First, it is in the basement of a downtown mall. Here is the service elevator, over here are the toilets, and in this corner is the HHOF. So lame.
Most of the exhibits are old jerseys and one hallway of hockey masks. The interactive exhibits include shooting on a video screen goalie and foam pucks shot at you from random holes in the wall. About the same as what you might find at Chuck E Cheese. Everything worth seeing was crammed into the big room with all the trophies and inductee wall plaques. The inductee plaques go from the floor to about 12 feet high, so you can crawl on the ground to see the ones at the bottom, or crane your neck to see the ones up top.
The NHL should be ashamed of this. It is embarassingly bad.
I was there about 20 years ago. Sure I was happy with a one and done, but enjoyed it. It was really cool seeing the Sydney Millionaires on the Stanley Cup in person.
The Chuck-E-Cheese type games the kids will love.
Plus, it's not that expensive. I'm cool with it.
Yeah, it's in a downtown mall/building. It's not quite in the basement, but no it's not a standalone pillar like you might expect.
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The food scene there in incredible! So many great places to grab a bite to eat; Little Italy / Little Portugal, Kensington Market, Ossington and Dundas, just to name some areas. Aside from what's already been mentioned, when I lived there for a year, I always loved going for a run down on Martin Goodman Trail (along the waterfront), as well as Ontario Place an the East/West Islands. Go see a Jays game too!
It's funny, lots of Torontonians defer to Montreal as the best food scene in Canada (and they may very well be right), but Toronto has such diversity that you can find just about anything from around the world here. I'll never not enjoy everything between Liberty Village, up to Dundas West, over to Yonge/Bloor and back down through to the Distillery District. I'm not even touching on Queen East, Yonge in North York, Scarborough or Markham.
One thing I will say if I think shawarma is better in Calgary. It just hits different .
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I was impressed by the library; every category of the dewy decimal system has its own floor.
Where I had lunch a table full of young marketing gurus were debating whether or not housewives in the west would buy margarine in a 3 pound soft, they agreed it was worth a try. That was in 1989, 3 pound soft containers are a common seller now - those boys were smarter than they looked.
It's funny, lots of Torontonians defer to Montreal as the best food scene in Canada (and they may very well be right), but Toronto has such diversity that you can find just about anything from around the world here. I'll never not enjoy everything between Liberty Village, up to Dundas West, over to Yonge/Bloor and back down through to the Distillery District. I'm not even touching on Queen East, Yonge in North York, Scarborough or Markham.
One thing I will say if I think shawarma is better in Calgary. It just hits different .
Koreatown on Bloor, Little Italy on College... It goes on and on, really. Fantastic food scene in Toronto and I think, better than Montreal due to diversity of food you can find in Toronto and number of options in Toronto. I also lived in Montreal for about 7-8 months right before covid.
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I found the HHOF to be hugely disappointing. First, it is in the basement of a downtown mall. Here is the service elevator, over here are the toilets, and in this corner is the HHOF. So lame.
Most of the exhibits are old jerseys and one hallway of hockey masks. The interactive exhibits include shooting on a video screen goalie and foam pucks shot at you from random holes in the wall. About the same as what you might find at Chuck E Cheese. Everything worth seeing was crammed into the big room with all the trophies and inductee wall plaques. The inductee plaques go from the floor to about 12 feet high, so you can crawl on the ground to see the ones at the bottom, or crane your neck to see the ones up top.
The NHL should be ashamed of this. It is embarassingly bad.
Wow. I couldn’t disagree more. I absolutely love the HHOF.
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