Hilton Niagara Falls/Fallsview Hotel & Suites {CAN}
#166
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I am Diamond, There are actually 3 properties, Hilton, Embassy Suites and Doubletree. Doubletree is the cheapest and also has the cheapest parking. Views at Doubletree are not that great not much in terms of upgrade. Embassy suites is nice $20 CAD parking but views are spectacular.
Hilton Free breakfast as Diamond (was excellent) Parking $20 CAD and upgradede to a JR Suite with a good view of falls.
My preference Hilton.
Hilton Free breakfast as Diamond (was excellent) Parking $20 CAD and upgradede to a JR Suite with a good view of falls.
My preference Hilton.
#167
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To add to gokeeper's post:
I'm dealing with the very same issue as the OP. Wife and I are visiting the falls in November and currently I have reservations at both the Hilton and the ES. Not sure where we will be staying but now we have a choice. The ES is a bit less expensive than the Hilton.
In addition to reading all the reviews of both properties here on FT, I also perused the documentation on TA. I noticed a review from someone who had stayed at the Falls ES recently and had some comments on parking at a nearby casino that I asked about in a PM. That person replied:
"The Casino is a block away. When you arrive at the Embassy they will let you park right outside the entrance door, go inside to check in and carry all of your bags up to your room. After that you can move your car to the Casino lot. We left our car there overnight and when we left the lot the next day we were charged $5.00 at the time of exit. We re-parked later that day and when we left again the following day we were charged another $5.00. $10 bucks total compared to the Embassy charging $20 per day. I didn't find anything un-safe about it. Everything was fine. Have a good time!"
We are also staying for two nights. One reason I PM'ed was because I wanted to know what the person felt about the security of the parking lot. Apparently it was not an issue.
Hope this helps.
I'm dealing with the very same issue as the OP. Wife and I are visiting the falls in November and currently I have reservations at both the Hilton and the ES. Not sure where we will be staying but now we have a choice. The ES is a bit less expensive than the Hilton.
In addition to reading all the reviews of both properties here on FT, I also perused the documentation on TA. I noticed a review from someone who had stayed at the Falls ES recently and had some comments on parking at a nearby casino that I asked about in a PM. That person replied:
"The Casino is a block away. When you arrive at the Embassy they will let you park right outside the entrance door, go inside to check in and carry all of your bags up to your room. After that you can move your car to the Casino lot. We left our car there overnight and when we left the lot the next day we were charged $5.00 at the time of exit. We re-parked later that day and when we left again the following day we were charged another $5.00. $10 bucks total compared to the Embassy charging $20 per day. I didn't find anything un-safe about it. Everything was fine. Have a good time!"
We are also staying for two nights. One reason I PM'ed was because I wanted to know what the person felt about the security of the parking lot. Apparently it was not an issue.
Hope this helps.
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Lots of good info here. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...hlight=niagara
#169
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To add to gokeeper's post:
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"The Casino is a block away. When you arrive at the Embassy they will let you park right outside the entrance door, go inside to check in and carry all of your bags up to your room. After that you can move your car to the Casino lot. We left our car there overnight and when we left the lot the next day we were charged $5.00 at the time of exit. We re-parked later that day and when we left again the following day we were charged another $5.00. $10 bucks total compared to the Embassy charging $20 per day. I didn't find anything un-safe about it. Everything was fine. Have a good time!"
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Hope this helps.
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"The Casino is a block away. When you arrive at the Embassy they will let you park right outside the entrance door, go inside to check in and carry all of your bags up to your room. After that you can move your car to the Casino lot. We left our car there overnight and when we left the lot the next day we were charged $5.00 at the time of exit. We re-parked later that day and when we left again the following day we were charged another $5.00. $10 bucks total compared to the Embassy charging $20 per day. I didn't find anything un-safe about it. Everything was fine. Have a good time!"
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Hope this helps.
And the afternoon snacks at the ES were great (chips, pretzels, fruit, veggies) and 2 glasses of wine/sangria/bottom shelf liquor and unlimited sodas. I didn't stay long enough for breakfast in the AM as I had a 6am flight from BUF.
#171
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Yes, casino parking is free with a player's card. See the post above with the link to the other thread.
I am an outlier here as I prefer the Doubletree. Yes, the views are not as good and it is a bit farther to walk to the falls and tourist stuff. As diamond, I usually get upgraded to a high floor, so the views are good but not spectacular. The rooms are nice and the continental breakfast is good, but it is not buffet. You order from the waitress. Odd.
I have stayed at the Hilton and the parking situation is a nuisance. I go to the area to work and have to take my tools to the room at night, and it is a bit of a haul from the casino parking to the hotel. The breakfast is good, but when I was there a convention group had taken over everything and those of us that were not with the group ended up in long lines for about everything or were put in out of the way locations. No EL either.
I have not stayed at the ES. It has always been a bit higher than either the Hilton or the Doubletree.
I am an outlier here as I prefer the Doubletree. Yes, the views are not as good and it is a bit farther to walk to the falls and tourist stuff. As diamond, I usually get upgraded to a high floor, so the views are good but not spectacular. The rooms are nice and the continental breakfast is good, but it is not buffet. You order from the waitress. Odd.
I have stayed at the Hilton and the parking situation is a nuisance. I go to the area to work and have to take my tools to the room at night, and it is a bit of a haul from the casino parking to the hotel. The breakfast is good, but when I was there a convention group had taken over everything and those of us that were not with the group ended up in long lines for about everything or were put in out of the way locations. No EL either.
I have not stayed at the ES. It has always been a bit higher than either the Hilton or the Doubletree.
#172
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I am Diamond, There are actually 3 properties, Hilton, Embassy Suites and Doubletree. Doubletree is the cheapest and also has the cheapest parking. Views at Doubletree are not that great not much in terms of upgrade. Embassy suites is nice $20 CAD parking but views are spectacular.
Hilton Free breakfast as Diamond (was excellent) Parking $20 CAD and upgradede to a JR Suite with a good view of falls.
My preference Hilton.
Hilton Free breakfast as Diamond (was excellent) Parking $20 CAD and upgradede to a JR Suite with a good view of falls.
My preference Hilton.
The ES has a "The Keg" in it and it's one of our favorite places to eat when we go south of the border (from the DTW area).
Bob H
#173
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Can also park across the street in the casino for free.
All you need to do is to play even as little as a dollar a day at the casino with your casino player's club card (free sign up).
It's very convenient too given the covered walkway. However a bit more complicated if you have heavy luggage as the walkway isn't very luggage friendly (steps and all at one end!).
All you need to do is to play even as little as a dollar a day at the casino with your casino player's club card (free sign up).
It's very convenient too given the covered walkway. However a bit more complicated if you have heavy luggage as the walkway isn't very luggage friendly (steps and all at one end!).
Second, with a not-so-heavy roller bag, how practical is the casino parking for the ES? (I know there's no walkway, but in terms of getting out of the garage and down the street?) I'm used (in other cities) to going many blocks from the train or metro station to the hotel with such a roller.
Thanks!
#174
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On the "play even as little as a dollar day": If I'm only going to be using the parking for one night, only a dollar either the day of arrival or the day of departure is enough? And can it be paid in either credit card or US$ cash? (I'm not that familar with casinos in general, and certainly not ones across the Canadian border, given that I live in SoCal and thus closer to Mexico!)
Second, with a not-so-heavy roller bag, how practical is the casino parking for the ES? (I know there's no walkway, but in terms of getting out of the garage and down the street?) I'm used (in other cities) to going many blocks from the train or metro station to the hotel with such a roller.
Thanks!
Second, with a not-so-heavy roller bag, how practical is the casino parking for the ES? (I know there's no walkway, but in terms of getting out of the garage and down the street?) I'm used (in other cities) to going many blocks from the train or metro station to the hotel with such a roller.
Thanks!
#175
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as i have small kids i am looking for a hotel at the falls with a nice pool-
the hilton one looks pretty good-can anyone confirm (or if there is a better one nearby)..im a hilton gold-was also considering the radisson as have a lot of points there
any thoughts/
the hilton one looks pretty good-can anyone confirm (or if there is a better one nearby)..im a hilton gold-was also considering the radisson as have a lot of points there
any thoughts/
#177
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parking attendant at casino claimed $20 play necessary to exit free!
I went into the Casino and requested the card. The explained to me that I wouldn't earn anything until I'd reached $20 of gambling, but that I could use the card to exit free before that. (That much jived with what I had been told here.)
I played somewhere less than $5. (I'm not sure how much because I found the machine I played second very confusing. I started out getting a $5 ticket for my US$5 bill. I played a machine that only cost 10c once but didn't want to play it again. I moved onto a more conventional slot machine that said it cost 50c, and played "2", thinking that would cost me $1, but the machine at the point spat out a ticket worth only 40 cents. So did I actualy bet $4.50? Anyway, I pushed some buttons, finally things spun, at some point then I pushed "redeem" or whatever it's called, and I got a $5 ticket back. So I now had one $5 ticket and one 40 cent ticket. Took that to cashier, but when I asked for US$, they only gave me $5 back. Oh, well, nothing gained but nothing lost either! I think this means I played $4.60 total, but I'm not sure.
Btw, half the machines would read my card, but I only played once they said they did read my card.
Anyway, I then left the parking lot, and the machine at the exit didn't like my card. So the attendant asked that I hand it to her. She than said that I hadn't played $20, and thus I needed to pay $5 to exit. I told her I'd been told the contrary when I got the card. She just repeated what she'd said before. She repeated it like a dozen times after that. I told her to call the PAC desk but she refused. Finally she said "I'll take down your number so you can't do this again" and let me out. (This was after about 5 minutes of arguing!) Fine, I don't plan to be there again anyway (but I didn't tell her that!).
But is this really the effort that it takes to save $5 on parking there?!? (As a non-gambler, there's no way I'd want to gamble $20 just to save $5 on parking!)
(There was no other exit lane open, and I couldn't think of anything to do to avoid paying the $5 other than to continue arguing, seemingly endlessly, with her!)
Btw, I was staying at the Embassy Suites a couple blocks away, not the Hilton. But I could see how very convenient the casino park is to the Hilton. It does seem easy enough to just cross the street, I'm not sure (unless there's bad weather) why you'd need to bother searching for some walkway (which I didn't see).
#178
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I've never heard of the "must play at least $20 rule" to get the free parking in the casino's garage, as we always spend five or six hours playing at the casino, so that "rule", if it's real, doesn't affect us. But you don't have to pay more then $5.00 in any case, even without the players card, to exit the parking garage. There are payment machines in the casino's main entrance lobby near the garage elevators where you can pay the $5.00 (or $10.00 at busy times) in advance before you get to your car to exit the garage. Also same payment machines on the fifth level and either the seventh or eighth level of the garage as you exit the elevators. The card readers at the gates seem to often be finicky, as many times I've had to insert my or my wife's players card three or four times before the gates opened. Don't understand why the gate attendant tried to charge you $20 when leaving.
If you've used the parking entrance off of Fallsview Ave. just AFTER the main casino entrance (and not the parking entrance on Murray, or the main casino entrance), there's the fifth level walkway across to the Hilton or the elevators down to the casino and attached hotel. See my explanation on post #133 of this thread. There are three gated lanes from this garage, with an attendant to help if the gates don't open.
Easiest way to walk to the ES from the casino parking is to take the elevators down to the main casino level, make a left in the lobby to exit the casino towards Fallsview Ave., then a left on Fallsview (you'll walk under the walkway to the Hilton) then about a long half-block to the ES. Shouldn't be a problem if you're used to walking farther with your rollaboard but it's slightly uphill along Fallsview at that point.
OT- Trip to the Hilton last week, they were renovating several floors in the South Tower, so we didn't get the usual room we'd requested. Corner room higher up was fine though. So possibly some of the dated furnishings will eventually all be replaced. Still comfortable now but very 1980's style. North Tower, for now, is your best bet for the newer layout.
bj-21.
If you've used the parking entrance off of Fallsview Ave. just AFTER the main casino entrance (and not the parking entrance on Murray, or the main casino entrance), there's the fifth level walkway across to the Hilton or the elevators down to the casino and attached hotel. See my explanation on post #133 of this thread. There are three gated lanes from this garage, with an attendant to help if the gates don't open.
Easiest way to walk to the ES from the casino parking is to take the elevators down to the main casino level, make a left in the lobby to exit the casino towards Fallsview Ave., then a left on Fallsview (you'll walk under the walkway to the Hilton) then about a long half-block to the ES. Shouldn't be a problem if you're used to walking farther with your rollaboard but it's slightly uphill along Fallsview at that point.
OT- Trip to the Hilton last week, they were renovating several floors in the South Tower, so we didn't get the usual room we'd requested. Corner room higher up was fine though. So possibly some of the dated furnishings will eventually all be replaced. Still comfortable now but very 1980's style. North Tower, for now, is your best bet for the newer layout.
bj-21.
#179
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I've never heard of the "must play at least $20 rule" to get the free parking in the casino's garage, as we always spend five or six hours playing at the casino, so that "rule", if it's real, doesn't affect us. But you don't have to pay more then $5.00 in any case, even without the players card, to exit the parking garage. There are payment machines in the casino's main entrance lobby near the garage elevators where you can pay the $5.00 (or $10.00 at busy times) in advance before you get to your car to exit the garage. Also same payment machines on the fifth level and either the seventh or eighth level of the garage as you exit the elevators. The card readers at the gates seem to often be finicky, as many times I've had to insert my or my wife's players card three or four times before the gates opened. Don't understand why the gate attendant tried to charge you $20 when leaving.
At that point, there wasn't an option any more to go pay the $5 in advance (my car was already at the exit gate). And why should I have tried to pay $5 in advance when I was told both here on FT and at the PAC desk (half an hour earlier) that it didn't matter how much I played that day, I could use the card to exit that day.
If you're going to play "for real" (and thus probably at least $20), I don't see an issue. But the casino parking has been promoted here (on FT) as "free" if you "just gamble $1 or $2" (ie, for people who don't normally gamble but just want to pay even less than $5!), and that's what my experience didn't quite match.
#180
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Hilton niagara falls hot summer sales: great deal but how could I book it twice ?
Packages including breakfast from 159$ per night. http://www.niagarafallshilton.com/pa...?camp=SUMMER12
BUT Packages may be reserved for multiple night stays, but package components will be issued for 1 night only.
May I try to book the package 2 times under different names and do the check-in/check-out twice to receive the breakfast vouchers twice ?
BUT Packages may be reserved for multiple night stays, but package components will be issued for 1 night only.
May I try to book the package 2 times under different names and do the check-in/check-out twice to receive the breakfast vouchers twice ?