The Rainforest Café is located on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls Canada. There can be extensive waits to get into the restaurant during summer season due to the nature of the place. It is a jungle themed restaurant with animated elephants, gorillas and other jungle inhabitants. There is also a shark tank (yes with live sharks) and of course a gift store for you to spend more money.

It is very dark inside with shows every 10 minutes or so where all the jungle beasties come alive. It is a nice feature for the kids. Food quality is just OK and prices are moderate to expensive. Plan on spending upwards of $100 Canadian or more for a family of four people with elephant appetites after walking around all day. If you go there knowing you will spend at least $100, there will not be any surprises when the bill comes to your table. Otherwise pack the antacid for the stomach ache you’ll get after realizing how expensive it really was. Something has to feed all of those elephants I guess.

We have been there a few times, but each time we go, I become less and less impressed with the food quality; in fact we have decided it’s not worth it for us to go anymore because of the prices.

I recommend you don’t sit in the bar area next to the “rain storm” because the mist that is expelled is not controlled and floats all over the bar area, and seems to float right towards your face which gets rather annoying and proceeds to lay condensation all over the table of diners. We had to move tables because it was that bad – if it  means you have to wait an extra 10 minutes NOT to sit at a table in the bar area – wait the extra 10 minutes.  This can be asking a lot sometimes because we literally waited about an hour to get into the restaurant one visit while entertaining out of town guests.

Overall, it is a neat place to go if you have never been to a Rain Forest Café, but if you have been to another location elsewhere, you are probably not missing much.  But hey, you are on a Niagara Falls vacation, right?

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