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

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.

Best place in the region for cocktails. All of them I've tried are 10/10…read more Prices are also cheaper than others + service is amazing. Highly recommend this place.

Horrible experience. Will not be back! Mix up with a class we signed up for. No apology or care.read more

DO NOT BOOK YOUR WEDDING HERE! My first impression was great, the venue grounds are beautiful and…read moreeverything seemed so pleasing. After leaving my hefty deposit, they ignored my phone calls and emails for two weeks when having trouble securing hotels for my guests. They failed to mention that the weekend of my wedding is the Home Hardware Convention; ALL the hotels in the surrounding cities are booked. No one returned any of my calls or emails when trying to change my date. My trust with them diminished.They are not professional, educated or buisness-oriented. The owner spoke to my mother rudely and refused to compromise on returning some of the deposit given their lack of work on the wedding. I would rather lose my deposit than give them any more money. Brides and Grooms, RUN!

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.

I lived in Norfolk County for most of my life and I didn't know this place exists. I came here with…read moremy nephews just to check it out. It has a variety of flowers, plants, trees, and birds. I highly suggest putting bug spray on as it is swarmed with mosquitos. I would suggest coming here in the spring and summer just to see a variety of flowers blooming.

Hey! Hey you! Do you like peonies? Wait, don't walk away, I'm talking about flowers!!…read more Yeah, yeah, come back... I just found this place, it's really cool, and I wanted to tell someone about it. It's all the way, uh, somewhere, but it's worth your time, I promise! You know peonies right? They're flowers, sometimes they look a bit like a big papery ball? They got tons here. Maybe it's the biggest collection in all of North America! Maybe! Because it's never been independently verified! But they got a lot! This place is really a big garden behind a house, so it's not super big. Arghh! Wait, don't run away dammit! Just listen to me, okay... It's not that big, but it's packed with peonies. You'll see every variety you've dreamt of here! What, you've never dreamt of peonies? Urgg... This place is quite nice as is, but it's still under construction a bit too. I saw a bridge being made, and you can see them still finishing up some areas. So don't expect it to be as nice or as big as the Royal Botanical Gardens. But for the $13 I'd say it's totally worth it, especially if you love peonies... So, are you gonna go? *Looks around* Oh, I'm by myself... Guess they... Left... Uh, go to Whistling Gardens!!!

It's a nice waterfront park for an afternoon/morning walk. This 14-acre waterfront parkland is the…read morehome to "Paletta Mansion", a great location for weddings, corporate events and gatherings. The backyard of the mansion is a perfect location for wedding and seasonal photography. There's limited parking spots available if you're lucky and there's not events being held at the time you're visiting.

I attended a wedding here at the back of the mansion. It was so nice to be in the shade while…read moregazing out at the beautiful scenery. I've been to a couple of weddings where the sun was blazing in my eyes and diminished the nuptials just a tad. The main floor of the mansion was open after the wedding ceremony for guests to mingle and wander from room to room. Dinner was held on the second floor with the buffet set up on the landing. The tables were spaced out well so that there was room to move between them.