Meetings of Many Sizes
The resort is geared for meetings of 10 to 2,400. There are two boardrooms. A 24,000-square-foot event center, used for entertainment on weekends, can host a trade show, seat 2,400 people theater-style or be divided into four smaller sections. A smaller entertainment theater, the Bear’s Den, with 440 seats can be used for general sessions. Six small meeting rooms accommodate groups of 16 to 40. A mezzanine overlooking the lobby is suitable for receptions of up to 150 or small trade shows. The audiovisual team can provide anything from a single microphone to staging for a full production.
From Steak to Doughnut Holes
Ten restaurants ring the resort complex, from the upscale Western Door Steakhouse to Tim Horton’s coffee and Timbits, which sells doughnut holes. The Thunder Falls Buffet had an $8 million renovation last year. Other restaurants offer Italian, Asian and American fare. The resort’s restaurants can seat groups of 30; a banquet staff serves larger groups.
Off-site but nearby, the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute’s fine-dining restaurant, Savor, has a private room for up to 40. From May to October, Top of the Falls, a restaurant in the state park, has banquet space for up to 200 and can erect a tent for larger events.
Golf Links and Native American Dancing
The resort provides top entertainment several nights a week and football on a 43-foot high-definition screen in the new Stir lounge on game days. Its 18-hole Hickory Stick golf course, nine miles away and designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., was recently named by Golf Magazine as one of the best public courses to play in New York. Native American dance shows take place several times a day in a nearby venue that also features glow-in-the-dark minigolf. And an outlet mall with 200 stores just outside the city is reachable by trolley. Watercraft expeditions range from tame canal cruises to wild jet-boat rides on Niagara River rapids.
