SineSwiper wrote:Gray, are you free friday as well? I figure we can all meet up friday night and get dinner, go to a bar or something of the sort.
We're goin to the ROM friday (its free after 4:30) but we'll be free afer that.
We drove arond the area of the hotel a bit today....we are in a very culturally diverse part of town, but I cant find much of interest.
Anyway, we'll be checking the board a lot..we only have stuff planned mostly for the later parts of th days, so any suggestions on good shopping places, stuff to do, etc would be apprecciated!
(Seraphina)
You can check out Casa Loma, it's quite popular. There are tour buses that start out downtown (by Union Station) that will take you to all the good places. I'd seriously recommend that and it's cheap, about $20 or $25 a person. Check out
www.toronto.ca and see if there's things there. The hockey hall of fame is right downtown (Yonge and Front) and is walking distance from the CN Tower, which you gotta check out at least once. If you go there, eat at a place called The Marche in the BCE place (the hall of fame is in that building), it's awesome. There are also lots of plays going on downtown, check out
www.mirvish.com for most of the big ones. On Toronto.ca you might some package deals with dinner.
Yorkdale Mall is a great place to go for shopping. It's right off the subway line (University-Spadina line, look for the Yorkdale exit; if you're driving, it's east of the airport on the 401 and Dufferin / Yorkdale road). Vaughn Mills is the new enormous mall. It's at the 400 (go east on the 401 from the airport, then north on the 400) and highway 7.
I'd say catch a Leafs game since there's nothing like watching hockey in the center of the hockey world, but Montreal is in town this weekend, tickets are insanely expensive. But ifyou're around Saturday, it's fun watching it in a bar, especially at Gretzky's bar (99 Blue Jay Way, right by the Skydome/Rogers Centre).
As for culturally diverse places, there's Chinatown on Spadina (go to the 427 south then Gardiner East, then go to Spadina Ave exit and go north a bit) and Greektown on Danforth Avenue (ask the hotel conceirge how to get there). There's also a place up north a bit (at Steeles and the 404) called Pacific Mall which is in another asian part of town (without exaggeration, there's 3 or 4 Chinatowns, the one I mentioned earlier is the main one) that is basically a huge Chinese mall, full of all asian stuff, including burned games and dvds. Don't really know where LIttle Italy is, but if you ask the hotel conceirge, I'm sure he/she can help.
Toronto truly is an extremely culturally diverse town, you just have to go across town to get to the areas.
