Places to Stay

• By far, downtown Toronto and the harbor front will provide visitors with the most access to area attractions and things to do. Most hotels are downtown or in north downtown Toronto. Accommodations can range from five-star hotels to extremely budget-friendly hostels. There also are many bed and breakfasts in the area.
  
  

Performing Arts

• Toronto is home to many performing arts venues. Visitors will find the National Ballet of Canada, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, the Diesel Playhouse, the Young Centre for Performing Arts, as well as the Harbourfront Centre, which hosts premier dance companies. The Toronto Centre for the Arts has a 1,000-seat George Weston Recital Hall, which is home to the Toronto Philharmonic.
  
  

Sightseeing

• Located on the harborfront, the most famous structure in Toronto is the Cn Tower, which is the tallest freestanding structure in the world, standing 553 meters or about 1,800 feet tall. There is a glass elevator that takes visitors to an observation deck and a revolving restaurant. There are many parks and gardens in Toronto. The most interesting park may be Music Gardens, which is designed to naturally interpret Bach's First Suite of Unaccompanied Cello.
  
  

Attractions

• There are many amusement parks in the Toronto area. Bingeman's Big Splash Waterpark features a camping resort along the Grand River. There are more than 30 rides and attractions at the Centreville Amusement Park, which is open from May to September. The Fantasy Fair is Ontario's largest indoor amusement park with nine rides and a large play village. And The Wave Pool is the area's first and only indoor wave pool. There also is the NASCAR SpeedPark, which is a race-themed park that has five racetracks, an arcade and children's rides.
  
  

Museums

• There are more than 30 museums in the Toronto area. Among the most popular are the Gardiner Museum, which exhibits architectural art; the Hockey Hall of Fame; the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, which pays homage to the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust; the MZTV Museum of Television; the Ontario Science Center and the Royal Ontario Museum, as well as numerous historical houses that have become museums.