Let's start with the good. The staff at the front desk were unfailingly polite and professional, and greeted us with cookies on arrival. The room was spacious and clean, and had a great view of the Niagara skyline and nightly fireworks, and everything was within walking distance. Now the not so good. We had to pay $35 CAD to park, nightly, go ahead and add that to the room fee. The inhouse restaurant , Buchanan's, was never open the whole three nights we were there, apparently "closed for a private event". To even enter the hotel, we routinely had to walk through clouds of cigarette smoke from staff taking breaks leaning against the building. There was a slightly alarming level of security all around the the inside of the hotel, which didn't stop us from being shoved out of an elevator by two very drunk women having a very public fight, which ended with them running screaming into the parking lot barefoot. The area around the hotel itself was a little sketchy, with empty parking lots and jersey barricades. To sum up, room, view, and staff were good, location and ambiance could have been better.