Pearson Airport to the Fallsview Casino Hotels

How do I get from Pearson to the Fallsview casino hotels?

The district exists because of the Fallsview Casino Resort — the casino floor, the OLG Stage theatre, the restaurants — and its guests are a particular kind of Pearson arrival: couples from Vancouver, Montréal and the northern states for a concert weekend, groups of friends for a birthday, conference delegates at the Scotiabank Convention Centre across the road, and the coach parties that a chauffeur is the private alternative to. The Pearson-to-Niagara route page covers the QEW; this page is the hotels and the evenings.

The hotels, and the loops the chauffeur uses

Fallsview Boulevard is a one-way loop on Saturday nights with coaches, taxis and hotel shuttles competing for the curbs; the chauffeur enters from Stanley Avenue at Murray Street or from Portage Road depending on the hotel, and stops at the door rather than in the queue. The Niagara Parks attractions — Table Rock, the Journey Behind the Falls — are a ten-minute walk down the hill from every tower.

The show, the floor and the evening

The OLG Stage at Fallsview hosts touring artists most weekends; the casino's own theatre and the Avalon Ballroom the rest. A couple flying in for a Saturday concert books the transfer from Pearson on the Friday, the chauffeur for the Saturday evening — dinner at a Fallsview restaurant, the show, and back to the hotel or to Clifton Hill afterwards — as an hourly block, and the return to Pearson on the Sunday timed to the flight. The event transportation page explains the pickup at an agreed door after a show; at Fallsview the chauffeur waits on Murray Street and is at the theatre door two minutes after your text.

From the hotels: the Falls, the wineries and the day

Attractions. The Falls are beneath the windows: Table Rock, the Journey Behind the Falls, the Niagara Parks Power Station and its tunnel, the boat in season, the illumination every night and the summer fireworks. Clifton Hill's arcades and Ferris wheel are five minutes; the Whirlpool Aero Car and the Butterfly Conservatory ten along the Parkway; the Skylon Tower and the Fallsview waterpark are in the district. The private Niagara tour — the Parkway, Niagara-on-the-Lake, three wineries — starts at the hotel door at ten and is back for dinner.

Stations and the other airports. Niagara Falls' VIA and GO station is ten minutes north for the train to Toronto; Buffalo airport is forty minutes across the Rainbow or Peace Bridge for a US fare, a cross-border transfer with passports for everyone; the Niagara Falls airport on the Ontario side takes charter and private aircraft; Hamilton airport is fifty minutes back up the QEW.

Conferences. The Scotiabank Convention Centre on Stanley Avenue brings delegations that land at Pearson in waves; the group shuttle moves them in Sprinters and mini coaches on one manifest, and the corporate account invoices the organiser once.

Groups, birthdays and the Sprinter

A group of eight friends for a casino weekend is the Executive Sprinter's natural booking: one vehicle from the Pearson curb, everyone facing each other, the luggage behind, one fare for the vehicle rather than eight seats, and the same Sprinter for the Saturday evening between the restaurants, the show and the Hill. The fleet page has the class; the stretch limousine is available for the birthday that wants it.

Booking the transfer

Enter the hotel as the drop-off with the flight number, the date and the vehicle class; the fare is fixed for that door and shown before you pay. The return to the right terminal — the finder settles which — goes on the same booking through the departures page. Winter tyres from November to April and the chauffeur's 511 check before the Skyway are standard.

The Fallsview Casino Resort's own hotel

The casino's own hotel rises from the complex on Fallsview Boulevard, with its rooms above the gaming floor, the OLG Stage and the Galleria of shops and restaurants — the address for guests who want to walk from the show to the room in a minute. Its porte-cochère is off the boulevard within the resort's own drive, separate from the public drop-off, and the chauffeur enters it from Murray Street. The resort's guests are the concert weekends, the high-rollers on the casino's own programmes, and the couples on a two-night package; many arrive at Pearson from Vancouver, Montréal and Halifax on Friday-evening flights and leave on Sunday afternoon, which is the booking pattern we see most: arrival Friday, an hourly car Saturday evening, departure Sunday, on one confirmation.

Casino Niagara and the Clifton Hill end

Casino Niagara on Falls Avenue is the older, smaller casino at the foot of Clifton Hill, connected by walkway to the Crowne Plaza — the historic hotel whose General Brock's dining room looks over the American Falls — and surrounded by the Hill's hotels: the Sheraton on the Falls beside the Hard Rock Café, the Doubletree Fallsview at the top of the Hill, and a dozen mid-range hotels along Victoria Avenue. The Hill is five minutes from the Fallsview towers by car and a fifteen-minute walk down the ridge; on a Saturday night the chauffeur takes the Victoria Avenue approach and stops at the side-street doors, because the Hill itself is a pedestrian river. Clifton Hill publishes its attractions; the chauffeur knows which hotel takes a car where.

Arriving for a concert: timing the Friday drive

The OLG Stage's headline concerts start at 8 pm on Fridays, and guests flying in for one land at Pearson between 3 and 5 pm — the worst hour of the week for the QEW through Mississauga and Oakville. The chauffeur reads the traffic feed before leaving and takes the 407 to the QEW at Burlington when the Gardiner corridor is stalled, which costs toll and saves twenty minutes; guests are at the hotel by 7 with time to change. A ticket bought for a Saturday show gives the whole of Saturday for the Falls and the Hill, which is the schedule we recommend when the flights allow it.

Winter and the Festival of Lights

From November to February the district is lit: the Winter Festival of Lights runs along the Parkway and through Dufferin Islands, the Falls are illuminated in colour, and the casino weekends fill the towers as they do in July. The QEW in January is the consideration — our vehicles run winter tyres, the chauffeur reads Ontario 511 for the Skyway and the Niagara stretch before leaving Pearson, and a drive that cannot be made safely is rescheduled rather than attempted — and the reward is the Falls half-frozen beneath the windows. A chauffeured evening drive through the Festival of Lights with the car warm and the children asleep afterwards is the winter version of the Saturday-night block.

What the fare includes

The Fallsview fare is fixed by vehicle class for the hotel's address and includes the chauffeur, the vehicle, fuel, tolls, taxes, curbside pickup at Pearson's pre-arranged area and the included waiting — sixty minutes international, thirty domestic. Meet and greet inside the terminal is the add-on; gratuity is never added; the Saturday-evening block is priced by the hour with the three-hour minimum explained on the hourly page.

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