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Chauffeured travel into the United States through the Peace Bridge, Queenston Lewiston and Windsor Detroit crossings. Regular runs to Buffalo, Niagara Falls NY, Rochester, Syracuse, Detroit and New York City, with a chauffeur who knows the paperwork and the wait times.
Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Oakville and Burlington as standard, with long distance travel to Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Kingston, London, Niagara, Blue Mountain and Muskoka. Same vehicle and same chauffeur the whole way, door to door.
This is the one trip on our list where the car is not the point. Everything else we do is about getting you somewhere. A day in Niagara is about the day itself, and the driving is simply the part that would otherwise ruin it. Nobody wants to spend an afternoon tasting wine and then work out which member of the group has to stay sober for the ninety minute drive home.
Niagara Falls is about ninety minutes from most of the GTA on the QEW, running through Burlington, over the Skyway and down past St Catharines. From Mississauga and the airport it is closer to an hour and fifteen. We collect from home, from a hotel or directly from Pearson, which makes this a workable day for visitors who have only one free afternoon and no interest in renting a car.
The last stretch is worth doing properly. Rather than dropping straight into the town, the Niagara River Parkway runs along the gorge with the whirlpool, the glen and Queenston Heights on the way. It adds a little time and it is the most pleasant twenty minutes of the journey.
The wine region splits into two quite different halves and they suit different days. Niagara-on-the-Lake sits at the mouth of the river, flat and warm, with estates lining the roads between the town and the parkway. The Twenty Valley and the bench above Beamsville and Vineland sit on the escarpment slope, higher up, with the views and a rougher, prettier landscape.
Most estates now require appointments for tastings rather than taking walk ins, so we book the stops in advance and build the timing around them. Three or four in a day is comfortable. Five is possible and usually a mistake. Lunch at one of them is generally better than trying to fit a restaurant in between.
If you buy, and most people do, the cases go in the vehicle rather than on your lap. Winter visitors should ask about icewine specifically, since it is what this region is genuinely famous for and the season for seeing it made is short.
The falls themselves take less time than people expect and are best approached without a schedule. Table Rock puts you directly at the edge of the Horseshoe. The boat tour to the base is the one thing worth queuing for. Journey Behind the Falls, the White Water Walk and the aero car over the whirlpool fill out an afternoon if the weather cooperates.
Evening is the better half of the day. The falls are illuminated after dark, there are fireworks through the summer season, and the whole parkway is lit through the winter festival months. Staying for the evening is what turns a sightseeing stop into a day worth remembering, and it is much easier to do when nobody is watching the clock and thinking about the drive back.
Clifton Hill and the casino are there for anyone who wants them. We will collect you from whichever end of town you finish in.
If the falls are not the draw, the town is. Queen Street is one of the prettiest main streets in the province, the Shaw Festival runs a full theatre season, and the whole place is built for walking slowly with no particular plan. A matinee, a late lunch and a couple of estates on the way home makes an extremely civilised day out.
We treat this as an itinerary rather than a booking. Tell us roughly what the group wants and we will propose a shape for the day, hold the appointments and adjust as the day runs, because these days always run long somewhere.
Sedans and SUVs suit couples and small groups. Sprinters handle eight to fourteen comfortably with room for coats, bags and whatever you buy. Corporate groups, anniversary trips, birthdays and airport layovers with a long enough gap are all regular work for us.
Reserve online, by phone or by email, and tell us your date early. Weekends between May and October book out well ahead, and so do the icewine weekends in January. Long distance trips are quoted individually so you know the full picture before the day rather than afterwards.
