We booked a room at Howard Johnson's Victoria Ave. Niagara Falls Canada for 5/20/08. We used my debit card to secure the room and told them we would be paying cash. We arrived early on the 20th and were told check in was at 4:00. When we booked we were told 3:00. It was a beautiful day so we toured and shopped. We went back at 3:00 and they were checking in guests. When she ran my debit card she informed me it was declined. It was not a shock to me as I hardly use the card. I told her we would be paying cash and she then informed me we needed another $100 + dollars. I told her we would pay immediately and she could check the room before we left. That was not good enough. She suggusted I call someone with a card and other odd suggestions. This went on for about 20 minutes. They were rude and could care less. We left and the next hotel took our cash with no problem. We had a better room for less money. With the economy in its present state, I can't understand why Hojo's thinks credit is better than cash. Even if I used credit, I would never stay at Hojo's with their attitude. We have stayed in Niagara Falls many many times and this is by far the worst treatment we ever had!!!! Stay away from Hojo"s!!!!

If you are traveling with pets, this is one of the few places you can stay in Niagara Falls. Even fewer hotels accept cats than small dogs (we had a cat).

This is an average budget-priced motel, but being in Canada, the staff is remarkably friendly and helpful, at least this is how it appears to US travelers accustomed to brusque treatment at US hotels. We had to sign an extensive release form in which we agreed to keep our neutered male cat in a carrier whenever we were not in the room. Of course, we did not do this (we stayed five nights), and no one seemed to care. It seems an unreasonable request. This restriction on freedom only applies to neutered male cats (they won't accept males that are not fixed). The best approach with pets, we believe, is to always keep the Do Not Disturb sign in place and interact with the housekeeping staff each day to get new linens and supplies. That way no one has to worry about your pet in the room.

The hotel is in the seedier part of Niagara Falls Ontario (near Clifton Hill and it's plethora of haunted houses/wax museums) rather than the newer, more tasteful Fallsview area. But the hotel is clean and neat. Nothing special, but adequate and no unpleasant surprises. Like everyplace in Niagara Falls, they charge for everything they can. We had to pay to have a pet, pay daily to park, pay to have a second child in the room (these 3 fees added $28 per day to our room). The hotel didn't actually charge us all of these charges, though at the time of the reservation they said they would (they omitted the extra person charge). My kids (14 and 11) liked the pool and the little slide it had. They wanted to visit it every day. Denny's next door is a Denny's. The hot tub was out of order when we visited.

We had a very pleasant five day stay, but if I were traveling without our cat, I would have stayed over in Fallsview area. This is a great place with pets, however.

The hotel sfaff was great; very kind and helpful. They allowed us an early check in and store our baggage until our room was available. The honeymoon suite was very clean and the King bed was soo comfy. The heart shaped jacuzzi was wonderful but took about 20 minutes to fill up. The only problems we had were the toilet clogging and flooding immediately all over the floor and our TV remote didn't work. We had a maintenance person fix the toilet but the water was just left all over the floor. I would definately stay here again.

Wow... I have to say what a dissapointing stay I had at the hotel. I won't even get into all the problems I had but I will say this. My husband and I hadn't been on a trip in over a year and a half. We have 2 young children and this was suppose to be a relaxing stay. It wasn't even close. We were so dissapointed with our stay I wrote HOJO by the falls when we got home. I never even got a responce. That is so disrespectful!! Even if you don't agree with what I ad to say you should respond to a customers comments. I would not reccomend anyone stay there. At all. For any occation!