Ramada Coral Resort in Niagara Falls
Quite nice and handy location away from the tourist mess and all the construction closer to the Falls.
It certainly isn't as nice as the Sheraton in Hamilton with their big "divine" beds, here I am feet stick out beyond the bed since I'm 6-2 but comfortable and I think these regular beds are better for being with an escort than the big fluffy ones at Sheridan unless you just want to cuddle all the time!
I am paying a lot more in NF $CDN71/weekdays for far less quality than at the Sheridan Hamilton $CDN55. But the Sheridan was via Priceline (normally way over $100) and there are no hotels in Niagara Falls that participate with Priceline. Seems they don't need to have the discounted rates since the quality hotels are plenty busy. In NF the rate is well over $100 on the weekends. Those darn tourists! I looked hard at many hotel options and this one seemed to have the best price for the quality along Lundy handy location. I very much do not want to be downtown will all the traffic like I was at the Hamilton-Sheridan.
I like being on ground floor and car just 30 seconds away vs long walk to underground garage and pay extra $7.95/day just to use the garage in downtown Hamilton. So here I pay more for less quality but far more practical location.
Now the Internet connection on the other hand... very slow. At my favorite hotel in Mississauga (Radisson) where I only paid $US37, their high speed connection is free, at the Sheridan Hamilton I had to pay an extra $14.95/day but both were outstanding connections even faster than by cable at home.
But here at the Ramada only dial up, can only connect at 24.6kbps and everything takes forever to come up. I assume it is because this is an older area with old phone lines since I can usually get about 48k+ connections from my laptop dial up in most U.S. cities. Getting mail -its coming in about 3-6k. When I first connected, I was about to give up with mail coming in at 300-600 cps....that is without the k. Reminded me of the old days when 300cps was standard and newsgroups used packet readers. It seems after a few hours the speed increased but never more than about 3000-6000 cps maybe after some router gets going... I am too use to mbps speeds not k's or below! i can get some reading done as web pages load its so slow.
I am tempted to try another provider.. but doubt if it would make a difference, assuming its the rusty old phone lines in the ground that are the problem. I am connecting via a St Catherines phone number (local call I'm told, it better be) using surfbest.net which I've used for years as my traveling option since it has lines all over Canada besides the U.S. I've had slow connections in old parts of U.S. cities before but this is the worst I've had.
On the plus side the phone connector has a duplex jack so easy to plug in laptop modem, and has good voice messaging which is handy since I tie up the single phone line being on the Internet so long. Local calls are 50 cents so I stay connected many hours at a time.
Back to the Ramada - has a couple nice restaurants connected, front desk has been very helpful and friendly and since I am a very late night person often not going to bed till 4-5am, and so sleep till about 1pm no problem getting afternoon maid service.
For the value vs other NF options it seems ideal, older but OK room, ideal location my biggest issue is the slow Internet connection.
Quite nice and handy location away from the tourist mess and all the construction closer to the Falls.
It certainly isn't as nice as the Sheraton in Hamilton with their big "divine" beds, here I am feet stick out beyond the bed since I'm 6-2 but comfortable and I think these regular beds are better for being with an escort than the big fluffy ones at Sheridan unless you just want to cuddle all the time!
I am paying a lot more in NF $CDN71/weekdays for far less quality than at the Sheridan Hamilton $CDN55. But the Sheridan was via Priceline (normally way over $100) and there are no hotels in Niagara Falls that participate with Priceline. Seems they don't need to have the discounted rates since the quality hotels are plenty busy. In NF the rate is well over $100 on the weekends. Those darn tourists! I looked hard at many hotel options and this one seemed to have the best price for the quality along Lundy handy location. I very much do not want to be downtown will all the traffic like I was at the Hamilton-Sheridan.
I like being on ground floor and car just 30 seconds away vs long walk to underground garage and pay extra $7.95/day just to use the garage in downtown Hamilton. So here I pay more for less quality but far more practical location.
Now the Internet connection on the other hand... very slow. At my favorite hotel in Mississauga (Radisson) where I only paid $US37, their high speed connection is free, at the Sheridan Hamilton I had to pay an extra $14.95/day but both were outstanding connections even faster than by cable at home.
But here at the Ramada only dial up, can only connect at 24.6kbps and everything takes forever to come up. I assume it is because this is an older area with old phone lines since I can usually get about 48k+ connections from my laptop dial up in most U.S. cities. Getting mail -its coming in about 3-6k. When I first connected, I was about to give up with mail coming in at 300-600 cps....that is without the k. Reminded me of the old days when 300cps was standard and newsgroups used packet readers. It seems after a few hours the speed increased but never more than about 3000-6000 cps maybe after some router gets going... I am too use to mbps speeds not k's or below! i can get some reading done as web pages load its so slow.
I am tempted to try another provider.. but doubt if it would make a difference, assuming its the rusty old phone lines in the ground that are the problem. I am connecting via a St Catherines phone number (local call I'm told, it better be) using surfbest.net which I've used for years as my traveling option since it has lines all over Canada besides the U.S. I've had slow connections in old parts of U.S. cities before but this is the worst I've had.
On the plus side the phone connector has a duplex jack so easy to plug in laptop modem, and has good voice messaging which is handy since I tie up the single phone line being on the Internet so long. Local calls are 50 cents so I stay connected many hours at a time.
Back to the Ramada - has a couple nice restaurants connected, front desk has been very helpful and friendly and since I am a very late night person often not going to bed till 4-5am, and so sleep till about 1pm no problem getting afternoon maid service.
For the value vs other NF options it seems ideal, older but OK room, ideal location my biggest issue is the slow Internet connection.