The Toronto Traveler

If you’re planning a trip to Toronto this December, you should take a look at the special offer VIA Rail is running over at Tourism Toronto for adult regular fares.

50% off the adult regular fare in Comfort class or
25% off the adult regular fare in VIA 1 class

Your destination must be Toronto, travel must take place between now and December 19th or from December 26-30 inclusive. Make sure you use the code 11448 when you select "Other Special Discounts" on the "Passengers Information" screen.

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The Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest art galleries in the world and the current construction that is proceeding on the building will make it even bigger and better.  According to their website, when the construction is finished there will be over 110 galleries in the building.  While I’m not entirely sure how many were there before the construction started, I know from being there personally that it was nowhere near that amount.  The construction has been going on since October 7, 2007 and for the whole time that the construction has been proceeding, the gallery has …read more

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One of the things I haven’t talked that much about on The Toronto Traveler is the outdoors in Toronto.  Most of the things I mention are either places you can visit or things you can do inside one of the many buildings located in the city, but I have yet to discuss something that you can do outside if you’re just looking for some time to kill or want to get some fresh air.  Well, there are many great places that you can walk in Toronto, but one that should definitely get first mention because of its close proximity to …read more

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Toronto is a city with lots of fantastic artwork attached to it.  Sometimes, as in the case of the above photo, the artwork manifests itself on one of the walls of the city or some other such public place.  However, in most cases, to see great Canadian art you have to head to one of the many artistic venues in the city such as the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, which from now on will also occupy a place on The Toronto Traveler’s blogroll.
The MOCCA as it’s known for short is exactly what the name implies and between May 2, …read more

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Hot on the heels of the new Subway Sundays series at The Toronto Traveler is Media Mondays.  This series will take a weekly look at one news story from that week that I found relevant to tourists in the city, helpful to people that are new to Toronto or have not lived here for a long time or just plain interesting for one reason or another.  It’s my eventual hope that this continual look into current themes and goings on within the city of Toronto will help you connect with the city on a deeper level.
 
This week’s winner …read more

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Talking about the Royal York Hotel in the context of discussing places in Toronto that you can stay when you visit is actually a bit strange, not just for me but probably also for most people that live in Toronto.  The main reason for this is that to most people that grew up in this city, the Royal York Hotel is really a monument and a tourist attraction first and a place to stay second.  Even though the word hotel is right there in the name of the place, most Torontonians would probably associate the Royal York Hotel more with …read more

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Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons, published under the GNUFDL
Looking for a good place in Toronto to find some music being played?  Well, here are some venues in Toronto that are dedicated solely to music or alternatively that host music events on a fairly regular basis:
1) The Air Canada Centre
2) Exhibition Place
3) The Four Seasons Centre
4) The Harbourfront Centre
5) The Sony Centre for the Arts
6) Massey Hall
7) The Phoenix Concert Theatre
The Rogers Centre
9) Roy Thomson Hall
10) The Toronto Centre for the Arts

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The third and final Toronto Tourism ad is below. As you can see, the ads are somewhat repetitive in their content, but stay tuned for a full review of the Toronto Tourism website!

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Here’s the second of three advertisements created by Toronto Tourism in promotion of their website:

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Just for a change of pace I thought I’d talk about another one of the many websites focused on tourism activities in Toronto and do a review of the website for your viewing information. The website I’m going to talk about is TorontoTourism.com and in preparation for the review that will be on the blog later today, here is the first of three advertisements they’ve created advertising their website. When I first saw these three advertisements the immediate thought that sprang to my head was that they could have been more original, but the ads are mildly entertaining …read more

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