The Paris Wincey Mills is a great market hall in Downtown Paris, within walking distance of Paris'…read more main street, Grand River St North. It's a historic building from 1889 that now houses several local vendors. Feel like having a pint? Try the Paris Beer Co. Interested in local meats and and sausages? Try the Link Street Sausage House. Fresh bread? Try the Good Bread Company, which sells delicious loaves, gourmet ketchup, and butter tarts. Fresh seafood? They have that too. I'm sure the vendors have changed throughout the pandemic but several mainstays include Cake and Crumb, and the Bird and Bee Vintage. I loved the wonderfully curated eclectic vintage items at the Bird and Bee. I wanted to buy so many things, from unique pins to clothing to candles and jewelry. While I resisted the urge to buy the delicious sweet treats that Cake and Crumb sells, there were several amazing looking brownies, macarons, and cakes that were whispering "eat me!" They also had beautiful market bouquets of flowers, and amazing Instagram worthy rainbow grilled cheese sandwiches from The Grilled Cheese Effect. We opted for the Lumber Jill grilled cheese sandwich with multigrain bread, peameal bacon, generous amounts of melted cheddar, maple syrup and lots of blueberry compote. It was like French toast and grilled cheese had a delicious (albeit messy) baby. I appreciated that they limit the number of people in the hall and conduct Covid screening and enforce the wearing of masks while in the market hall. The washrooms are clean. I also liked that there was some multicultural influences evident in the market, from pierogies to Arepa Love. Surprisingly there wasn't a place for coffee in the food hall at the time of my visit. Also since they enforce use of masks in the market hall, there really wasn't a place to sit and eat your food unless you went to an outside bench, or were seated at the Paris Beer Co patio. Paris Wincey Mills is a cool destination that I highly recommend to check out if you're in the Paris or Cambridge area.

Worth a visit if you're in Paris for a day trip. Not a lot of stores though so don't plan a trip…read moreout of it. It's rather small and we maybe spent 10 minutes there. There were some interesting shops, a coffee shop, gelato shop, meat shop, floral shop, bake shop, soap and natural scent shop, and maybe one or two others. They do have Public washrooms which were clean when we visited.

So my sister is getting married in a month, and her single request to me as she handed me my…read moremaid-of-honor cap was to organize some sort of pre-wedding, soul-sister-bonding, moon-howling, drum-circling, vegan-cookie-recipe-swapping weekend with her closest friends and relatives. It needed to be relatively close to Toronto, cheap enough for indy business owners' salaries, and big enough to accommodate 17 people, nine meals worth of food, and a heckova lotta love. No sweat, right? Thanks to this place, and Cindo, its chaplain, it really wasn't. Five Oaks is a large, sprawling retreat space comprised of smaller cabins, our own Chalet (in which our crew only occupied about 70% of the bunk beds), a pool, nature trails, wide open fields in which to play noodle hockey, and apparently God, although we didn't have much use for that element, and thankfully no one took notice. Our Chalet, while perhaps a little more industrial dorm than rustic cabin, boasted a sizable kitchen with new appliances and cooking utensils (pots and pans, etc), comfy bunk beds with clean linens, a gas grill, and a large fire pit onsite, only a quiet walk under warm, windy trees away. The staff was amazing: Cindo checked up on us like a warm aunt who is just so glad her investment of a summer cabin is paying off, and several others dropped by just to see how things were going and replenish toilet paper. The Chalet was a flat fee of $800 from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon, which, split between 17 people came to decidedly less than a few rounds of tequila and renting a male stripper. Plus, parking is a breeze and Paris (or Brant, apparently?) is only an hour drive from Toronto along the 403. But take our collective advice: if you happen to decide to do the drive during the dinner hour, don't pull off in Hamilton and eat here: http://www.yelp.ca/biz/lazy-flamingo-hamilton#hrid:p9QIe8av3kylFN0KU4Rh8Q/src:self. You're better served eating the sesame oil and dish soap we left in the kitchen for the next lucky group.

Very friendly owner. The farm produces and sell lavender cream, soap, moisture spray, and many…read moreother lavender related products. If you catch the owner at the right time, he provides free workshop and explain the details of the lavender oil and essential oil extraction process. The owner will also talk briefly about the history of the farm if you are interested. Feel free to take picture, look around the farm, and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Be aware they have a friendly cat and dog that love attentions. Other larger more commercialized lavender farm charge up to $13 for the entrance fee. This friendly family farm provide free workshop, I recommend visitors to at least do some small purchases inside their store. At the end, the family need to make a living :).

From the owner: A small family owned lavender farm that is perfect for a quiet get away on a beautiful sunny day.read more

Stayed 2 nights for a wedding weekend. The rooms are nice but there is no chair but the desk chair…read more Breakfast was ho hum. In my opinion overpriced by about $50 per night.

I spent the last two nights at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Brantford…read more It was kind of out in the middle of nowhere ... you have to drive to get to a restaurant. My room was huge! I spent the extra $10 a night for a jacuzzi in my room. The room was $129/night. The bed was comfy and I slept well. There was a mini fridge and microwave oven in my room. Parking was free as is WIFI (it's fast). There was a complimentary continental breakfast with hot options (I grab some yogurt and an apple to go in the mornings). There is a salt water pool but I didn't use it. There is no restaurant in the hotel and no options within walking distance. Last evening there was a reception ... free appies and drinks from 6pm to 8pm. It happens Monday to Thursday evenings. I checked it out. They set out bottles of wine, beer and pop along with veggies, chicken wings and pepperoni pizza (which I'm assuming they ordered from a nearby pizza place) and you helped yourself. I had enough wings and pizza that I didn't need to have supper (I'd had a big lunch). I liked the hotel, my room and the friendliness of the staff but I found it was a bit too isolated.

Went here as part of a school progect back in 2023. Every…read morething was eunique even having the items to tuch is always awesome, as many of the stuff are Brale, well most of them since it is across the street from Canada's only school for the Blind, Deffblind, and students with low vision, the W.ross macdonald school. It is a small art facility, easy to get around with a mobility cane, and is a charming destination on those cold and frigid days. I hope to come back soon as it was definetly awesome on days when I was in Hie school!

Do an amazing job with the grounds and everything is so beautiful inside ! Art is stunning !!read more

The rooms in the East wing are dated and dirty, worn couch and wing chair. I could only plug in to…read moreone outlet in the table lamp on the desk as the other lamps in the room did not have outlets. How do you charge more than one cell phone? We learned that our fireplace was not functional when we tried to turn it on, and Joanne Brooks, General Manager must be fully aware by now that the rooms in the East wing have non‑functioning fireplaces and the rooms are in poor, worn, dirty condition. The fireplaces continue to be listed as an amenity on their website in the East wing, which is misleading to customers and was not indicated at time of booking which is what was claimed we were told at reception. We doubt this is the first complaint, and it appears the fireplace photo for these rooms are actually from the Gretzky wing. We were provided an adjusted the rate and bonus points for the non‑functioning fireplace. Besides the one on the door, we did not see one NO SMOKING sign in the room next to the detectors as is the norm in other hotels in Canada. This would contribute to the evidence of smoking of cigarettes and marijuana observed from the hallways at various times of day. There are only heat detectors wired to the alarm system. The battery operated smoke/CO detectors can easily be pulled from the wall allowing smoking to go undetected. This is a loophole in Ontario law according to the Brantford Fire Department. We have stayed in the past at the other three major chains in Brantford, and all of these hotels are much newer and cleaner. We have never complained about these hotels as their standards appear higher despite being a budget offering. I can say at least the bathroom is clean though the door makes it hard to get in and out of the room. The pool area had a Grade B rating for the spa earlier that week when inspected by the Grand Erie health department. Everyone raves about the Gretzky wing, and there is no way we would ever stay in the East wing again unless it is fully renovated.

This motel is easy to get to, and has a wonderful bar and restaurant attached, so we didn't have to…read moreleave the premises. The room was nicely appointed and comfortable. The bartender was the server in the restaurant the evening we stopped in, and she was very efficient and friendly. The meal in Myra's restaurant was very good. The breakfast the next morning was one of the best we've ever had at a motel, and the staff again was extremely friendly and helpful. All in all , there was nothing negative about either the motel or the restaurant.