The Toronto Traveler

Toronto is a city with appeal to many different groups and while there are many family orientated events that dominate the daytime activities within the city, Toronto also has a bustling nightlife that many single visitors to the city get to enjoy.  Toronto is not really known for its nightlife festivities, so many people are actually pleasantly surprised when they get to the city and see that there are many places they can go to party.  Not all of these places are created equal however and the Mink Nightclub is definitely one of the better ones in the city.
 
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Well, I figured I’d continue on with one more fun facts post, this time about the Rogers Centre (formerly known as the SkyDome).  Considering the number of times I’ve been there to watch a baseball game you’d think I’d know most of these, but to be honest most of the facts below came as complete news to me when I did the research for this post.  Check them out!
1) The field level of the Rogers Centre has a full exhibition space of 143,000 square feet
2) The ceiling is more than 300 feet above …read more

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The second addition to the blogroll at The Toronto Traveler is toronto.com, a website that has been around for a very long time and has everything you are going to need when it comes to knowing what is going on in Hogtown.  To give you a brief introduction to the website, let us take a look at the major categories that they cover.
Events: Chances are if it is going on in the city, then toronto.com already knows about it and has posted it on their website.
Attractions: Just like the Toronto Tourism Tendencies series that we did before, toronto.com also has things …read more

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There are a number of different places that you can go to get really quick information about the City of Toronto.  The best place (aside from this blog of course!) has to be Toronto’s Official website.  As far as an official website is concerned, http://www.toronto.ca is perhaps one of the best sources of Toronto centric information that you could find.  The website was slow to get started and for the longest time was little more than a poorly designed and rarely updated piece of information, but with the new push for tourism in Toronto the local government has done an …read more

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