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I 100% agree with the statement "Overpriced for sure, but the experience is awesome!"
The panoramic view of Niagara Falls was amazing!
The food wasn't as bad as everyone said it was, I guess I am just less picky?
But the 14% sales tax and 3% "tourism" charge was definitely BS! I'm never buying anything in Canada again haha
Observation tower & elevator: 5stars
Revolving restaurant: depends on what you get... Overpriced for sure, but the experience is awesome. Delicious French onion soup!! Kids meals are HUGE & include dessert. Chicken fingers are really yummy & real chicken breast chunks. Yummy brocolli & mashed carrots. I had smoked salmon on croissant- it was good. 2 people in our group ordered marinated salmon & said it needed lemon. Pork chop was reported to be good with a yummy curry sauce. Good service & really amazing views.
Okay, I agree, the food is mediocre. My husband and I spent our anniversary here and ate the early dinner seating with the reduced menu for $35.90, included a salad, entree, chocolate mousse and your trip to the top. I had the beef stroganoff and my husband had beef tips with Bearnaise. Both entrees were okay but nothing to write home about. The service was pretty good the only problem was one of the servers English was so bad we couldn't understand him and I don't think he understood us either.
Parking was $7.00 but there was plenty near the restaurant.
The 4 stars are for the view!! AWESOME view of the falls and it is worth the money to sit for an hour and just soak up the beauty.
I almost didn't do this thinking I couldn't get pictures at the top. Glad I did because they were some of the best. You can go between the open wire mesh at the top with a camera for great pictures. Other than the Skywheel the pictures above here are the best. You can't get the entire Falls in a shot like up here. The ride was cool and you get all the time you want. I'm glad I went but passed on the Dinner as the reviews weren't good.
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I've always wanted to eat in a revolving tower. Alas, I missed my chance again. We just went to the top for the view as part of a larger city tour. The view was great and we got some nice photos.
Note: there is a squished penny machine at the top!
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Best 360 view of the falls
I loved the view at the top...
It was really windy when I went and it made the experience more fun :p You're fighting against the wind, trying to stand up still to take pictures, and all you can do is laugh and enjoy it.
I liked this even better than the CN Tower. Even though you don't have the glass floor here, you get to feel how high up you are and you get an even more beautiful view here. Also, on a clear day you can see the CN Tower from here.
Definitely another must do when visiting the Niagara Falls. Remember to bring your camera, you will want to remember this view.
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We went to the Revolving Dining Room and it was amazing!! The food was soooo good and the view was great! I loved how we were rotating while getting a view of Niagara. After dinner we went to the observatory and took a billion photos. It was a really great experience and I would definitely go back!
My review is based on the observation deck. I didn't go to the restaurant.
Awesome views of the surrounding area, especially both the American and Canadian Falls and the Niagara River. Spend as much time as you want during operating hours. Don't forget your camera and video recorder. You'll take plenty of pictures- trust me on this!
Cool breezes are plentiful and especially welcomed on very warm days.
There is a gift store on the inside part of the observation deck which has lots of cool stuff!
The only downside- daffy tourists who are rude, have no manners and no sense of American and Canadian culture. Then again, many American and Canadian tourists were the same way. Don't let these bastards ruin your day. I didn't.
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My first meal in Canada in the province of Ontario. The food was mediocre but the view was simply breathtaking. I am giving it 3 stars because of the view and the 360 experience. My steak that I ordered was dry and the ice cream dessert was melting.
The waitress actually spilled salad all over my lap and didn't apologize. I was wearing shorts so I was drenched in Italian dressing was upset at the time but I'm completely over it. She came back later and apologize so no biggie.
Agree completely with Peggy C. My partner and I had a nice leisurely dinner on the rotating deck. Dress up a little if you go! View is amazing. All seats/tables have a view. Luckily, we got one right next to the window. Speaking of tables, the tables for two are rather small. With our entrees, bread basket, bread plate, wine glasses, bottle of wine, butter dish, and water glasses, I'm surprised nothing fell off the table! There are booths located a two yards from the window and raised to you can still have a nice view. The booth can accommodate 4 comfortably, 5 is kinda tight, esp if you are big peoples. Trying to seat a party of more than 6 is probably gonna get kinda hard..
Food is very good. Very pricey, though. I recommend the seafood medley (VERY good) if you can afford to splurge more than you already anticipated. We also had the french onion soup (good), escargot (ok), prime rib (very thick cut, medium-well was cooked til just pink in the middle, had quite a bit of fat on it, but still pretty good), and pecan pie a la mode (okay) for dessert. Our dinner cost more than our 2-night hotel stay!
I think the buffet offers more or less the same food that's on the menu, so if you don't care for the whole service experience, go for the buffet, it's WAY cheaper and I believe you can still go to the observation deck and check out the view and all that.
Service was okay. They were friendly smiles when they came around, but not particularly attentive (I don't recall they returned to check on us after we got our food).
They do need to clean this place up though. Really! For as much as you pay, I expect better. I mean, there were fruit flies flying around. Kinda gross. Also, fake flowers on the windows. Seriously, they ought to have real flowers or at least live plants. A small bud vase with a stem of carnations on the table wouldn't hurt either.
It's worth experiencing once. Recommend calling ahead for reservations to get the time you want, esp on busy holiday weekends.
Decided to splurge on a buffet dinner at the Skylon tower on our trip to Niagara Falls. It is $35 for all you can eat, NOT drink so beware each drink is charged separately. Ended up spending about $50 each after tips and whatnot. There was a VERY limited selection of food for a buffet with only a couple of proteins that I thought were even worth eating. The rest of the food was mediocre at best.
Buffet included prime rib (eh, but the best thing there), cold crab legs, bad chicken and cold salmon, pasta, noodles, salads and dessert. The best thing there was the fruit tart for dessert. YUM!
The best part was definitely the view from the restaurant! You get a panoramic view of both falls and the area surrounding the falls. GORGEOUS!!! The ride on the yellow "bug" elevator wasnt as bad as people say. I was comfortable the entire ride and not squashed at all.
I wanted to like this place. I'd been to the falls many times before, but I'd never been to a revolving restaurant. It had been on my growing list of things that I wanted to experience in my lifetime. I was in the area for a concert over at the casino, so we decided to make a reservation for dinner at the Skylon. Since we were going to the restaurant, we didn't have to pay for the elevator ride. (+ 1 star). We got up to the restaurant and sat down to check out the menu. We saw how expensive everything was, and decided to order appetizers instead. Our waitress told us that if our bill didn't reach a certain amount, we'd have to pay some sort of "atmosphere fee" (which would have been more expensive than anything on the menu that we would have ordered) We were trying to figure out how to solve that dilemma, when the manager came over and told us that he'd waive the fee for us. (+ another star) We went back to our original plan of ordering appetizers. I got french onion soup and shrimp cocktail. The soup was okay, but not the best I've ever had . The shrimp cocktail was delicious, but WAY overpriced for the size of the portion.
Nice view though. Too bad it was so foggy that night.
OK ok. So we were at niagra falls. you're probably thinking..."who really gives a flying *two cents." well, Listen up, you have know choice. It's the only restaurant I've been to that is high as hell which has an awesome view of the niagra falls. Also, the darn thing rotates so one can see all angles of the place. That to me was amazing. OK on the food though.
Yeah, you have ton eat in order to sit down. That's the bad part. Food was ok but it was a liiittle bit over priced.
My boyfriend and I vacationed in Niagara Falls, Canada, for our 2 year anniversary. We received as a gift a dinner at Skylon Tower.
We went in November, so it was freezing! But it was also nice because the sun set rather early. For the first 15 minutes we were there, the sun was still up. But before we even got our meal, dusk settled in, and it was a truly beautiful view to see the sun set from our lofty, spinning tower, and view the lights come on over the Falls. To be perfectly honest though, I don't remember a whole lot about the food. I had beef medallions & some type of potato. I know I enjoyed it, but it didn't stand out. The chocolate mousse dessert was quite tasty though. For almost $100 with no beverage, it was a fun experience, but not something I'd do again. I'm vegan now anyway so I probably couldn't.
yeah, agree with Jon, it's the only place UP there, rotates, with the best view! the food is really just OK... pricy... i think it's worth it though, for a tourist... a nice sit down place to enjoy the view and relax... maybe... just order something small or have a drink there so you wouldn't spend that much!
forgive me to just post the photos of the views from the restaurants, not the food... :)
We thought we made reservations for the Revolving Dining Room...no one said anything about it being closed due to renovations. Signs were still posted everywhere offering dinner in the Revolving Dining Room or the Summit Suite buffet. So we were seated in the Buffet dining area but given the menu for the Revolving Dining Room. The $39.95 that they advertise are vegetarian meals, all other platters start at $45. The food is definitely not worth the price. The apple pie is not recommended for dessert. It is all crust and crumbs.....
I probably would have forgiven almost everything above if we received good service, but during the course of our meal we had approx 5 different waiters and then we were left sitting ..
I recommend going to the tower to go out on the observation deck, but skip dinner.
Great view but food is not the best and really pricey. We got diarrhea after eating the steaks!! Service was ok at best. They first seat us right next to people about 6 inches away from us when the restaurant was empty, and finally moved us after I asked them. First the drink server ignore me when I told him we want to seat next to the window and after I ask some server who wasn't my server to move us she said that's not her job!! Rude yes!!
For the restaurant, the menu is limited and pricey. For the buffet, the ribs and crab legs actually make it a reasonable choice. No refills on non-alcoholic beverages, perhaps normal in Canada, but somewhat inconvenient for Americans. Nevertheless, the food is okay, but the view is excellent.
I agree with so many of the previous reviewers here.
The food is so mediocre that I doubt you will remember what you ordered much after a week from eating here. The experience is kinda touristy....ride the elevator, sit down, have a few drinks, eat some food, spin as you're doing it, gives you a panoramic view over the falls, etc. for a while, kinda interesting for the first few minutes then that's it. I have taken a few visitors here just because of that fact i.e. it's a bit different than your regular booth place, but the food is just so so, and way overpriced for what you actually receive. But I think this place is all about the experience of an elevator ride up to a rotating restaurant....to eat something when you're hungry. Your memory of which may be enhanced if you drink quite a few overpriced cocktails. Nothing much else to say apart from I agree...don't place your wallet, purse, sunglasses, hat, cell phone, or anything else you might want to keep..on the outside ledge as this doesn't rotate with you and it'll be an 1/2 an hour wait to see if those things actually make it back to you. If you're not opposed to spending too much on a so so meal just to gain a little different view of the falls then it's OK. But after being here once you will most likely not think about coming back until your next out of town visitor arrives... and you start racking your brains about where to take them that might give them a little different experience.
Why are we saying this is in New York? First of all it's in Canada. Second, it's Skylon, not Skylan.
Based on the food and service, I would have given the tower 1 star, but since it's sort of fun revolving slowly around, I give it a 2. Skylon Tower really isn't anything impressive though. I've never spoken to anyone who actually cared for it. It's way too expensive for what you get also.
If you do plan on going, here's a tip for you:
Don't leave your purse/hat/anything of value next to the window. If you do, you probably won't see it for a while since you're spinning and that part is not.
this place is almost always busy, al the time you see all them tour buses parked outside 'n has the least to offer but to complete your trip you should visit it
Expensive but obviously you're paying for the view, which is unmatched. The food was not particularly creative but everything was well prepared and the service was very good.
I live in the Falls and had dinner at the Skylon for my birthday. Food is very good, not spectacular. Certainly pricy but the view is awesome. Time it to go when the sun is up then watch the sun set, then enjoy the city and falls all lit up. I recommend it as something to do once...unique experience.
my husband and i ate here while we were honeymooning. i have to say that it was best scenery i've ever experienced while dining.... it was incredible to be up so high and see everything. the falls was lit up beautifully. the revolving dining room is really pretty awesome and we got a window seat. my only complaint is that it cost us over $200 (canadian) to do this.... $10 to park on top of it. i got the rack of lamb and he got surf & turf.... both of which were good but not nothing special at all. but good. i'd recommend doing this once but probably only once. i don't think i'll ever go back.
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