Accomodation Tips, Niagara

We had planned a three day trip to Niagara. I searched for the cheapest hotel rates and found a Marriots in the outskirts of the Niagara prime area. Abhi had received Marriots Gift cheques from Credit card loyality points and we decided to spend the cheques for this trip. The Courtyard hotel was offering rooms at 90 $ per day inclusive of continental breakfast facility. One needs to pay toll of 6 or 7 dollars to approach the Niagara Falls from the hotel. I was house wife at that time on H4 visa and was trying to save each and every cent. So the trip was carefully planned after a lot of rearch. The saving started from calling the resort and asking them for additional refrigerator in the room. I had cooked lot of Indian snacks and carried them to the trip. We breached the peak of cost cutting by even carrying the small microwave oven in the car. In this way, we saved almost 20 USD for each meal and also saved on the extra charge for kitchen facility in the hotel room. Over all it was saving of 150 USD. This was quiet bit of saving which could be used for next trip. :)