Let it be known that I support clichéd attractions.
If you’re in Paris, go to the Eiffel Tower. If you’re in Australia, play tag with a kangaroo. If you’re in Dildo, Newfoundland – well this list is getting a tad long, isn’t it? Let’s just cut to the chase.
In Toronto, the brutally obvious tourist trap is the CN Tower. It’s staring you in the face wherever you go and you’ll probably snap at least a dozen photos of it, so I think it’s best if you just succumb to its colourful winks and go up the darned thing.
Now, you can pay $23.99 just to go up, or for about $30 more, you can make an event out of it and dine at the rotating restaurant, 360.
The dinner prix fixe is $55, lunch is $52 and, until December 24, there is a $52 holiday lunch menu. You can also order a la carte. All of these prices include your lift up the tower and the glass floor.
We tried the dinner prix fixe – for our mains Billy had the “Roast Half Chicken Breast Brushed with Lavendar Honey,” and I had the “Saskatchewan Chanterelle Mushroom and Butternut Squash Risotto.” Unfortunately I don’t recommend the latter, unless you dig a bland bowl of rice.
Dessert – a “Dark Chocolate Tower with Preserved Summer Fruits” was much better.
This was my second time at 360, and both times I emerged feeling that, while the food could be improved, the experience is worthwhile.
Staying for dinner allows you to slowly take in the view from 351 metres above Toronto. You will definitely complete an entire circuit during a three course meal.
Afterwards, you’re given access to the glass floor, which sounds pretty tame but really challenges your animal instincts. Every atom in your body screams: ”DON’T STEP ON THAT, YOU IDIOT!”
Recently, the CN Tower launched EdgeWalk, a scary stroll around an exposed ledge. But I think they could one-up themselves in 2012 by installing FiremanPole, an extreme way to access the Rogers Centre from this very spot.
This was #3 of 5 posts on what’s going down in Toronto this holiday season.
To see #1, “Christmas Cupcake Workshop,” click here.
To see #2, “A Euro Village of Our Own,” click here.
To see #4, “An Evening at the Toronto Temple of Cinema,” click here.
To see #5, “A Victorian Christmas,” click here.
SPECIAL DEAL: Until December 20, if you book a Toronto hotel package priced at $99 to $179 plus taxes, you will receive a Torontoland wristband worth 15% savings at more than 50 participating attractions, restaurants and retail locations, as well as a $50 gift certificate for The Bay. If you stay two nights, that gift card will swell to 100$. For more information, click here.
Travel arrangements courtesy of Tourism Toronto.
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lol re: Lone Xmas tree.
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