A straight answer about the Canadian-side Niagara boat — and how it works if you'd rather be driven.
Yes. The Canadian-side boat formerly branded Hornblower Niagara Cruises operates as Niagara City Cruises. It's the same dock, the same Voyage-to-the-Falls boat below Table Rock.
Hornblower ran the Canadian-side boat tour under a licence until the end of the 2021 season, and Niagara City Cruises took over the same operation the following year. It is a rebrand, not a new location. The dock still sits below the Canadian Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Parkway, the route is the same, and the vessel still runs the roughly 20-minute Voyage to the Falls that carries you into the mist at the base of the cataract. Expect to get genuinely soaked, so keep phones in a pocket.
None of this touches the Maid of the Mist, which is the separate boat on the United States side at Niagara Falls, New York. We stay Canadian-side only and never cross the US border, so if you ride with us the boat you board is Niagara City Cruises, not the Maid of the Mist. That also means no passport is needed for the day, and no line at the international bridge. Tickets are bought at the gate, seasonally late April into November, and we never sell or resell them.
Our part is the driving, not the ticket counter. From downtown Toronto the falls are about 128 km, near 90 minutes each way along the QEW, and we run a private door-to-door chauffeur trip at a flat rate per vehicle with 13% HST already included, never per person and no deposit. Your driver drops you steps from the boarding queue, waits while you sail, and is ready when you walk back up soaked and smiling.
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