Dicount Dirty Dancing Tickets this Long Weekend

This long weekend, see Dirty Dancing for only $50 or $30.

Dates & Times:
Friday. August 1, at 8:00 PM
Saturday August 2, at 2:00PM & 8:00 PM
Sunday August 3, at 2:00PM
Tuesday, August 5 at 8:00PM

Top-priced orchestra or first balcony seats for only $50! (regularly priced $110)
Upper Balcony seats regularly for only $30. (regularly priced $69)

To book your discount tickets, visit http://links.mirvish.com/a/l.x?T=jimmnpoblommkojaaghagaelfd&M=1 or call 416-872-1212 or 1-800-461-3333 and quote the code SIMCOE

This offer is NOT available at the box office so you have to book online or by telephone. If you are from Toronto, out of town or out of country, remember that service charges do apply.

Additional Dirty Dancing promotion: throughout the rest of this week and all of August those coming to see Dirty Dancing are invited to join members of the company and special guests an hour before the shows on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings for FREE dance demonstrations and lessons:
Tuesdays at 7 PM: Tango without Treachery
Thursdays at 7 PM: Salsa for All
Fridays at 7 PM: Joyful Jive

All dance events will take place at the Royal Alexandra, in the Yale Simpson Lounge (downstairs). Lessons are limited to the first 50 people each night, so get there early and remember that you MUST have a ticket to the show to attend the dance lessons.

New at Backpackers on Dundas

Here at Backpackers on Dundas, we try to bring our International travellers closer together with the option of group outings and fun activities

Earlier tonight the guests at Backpackers on Dundas went down to Harbourfront Center to watch one of the free movies they offer every Tuesday night. Tonight's movie was the Virgin Suicides and we had a lot of fun!

Also showing for free tonight at Younge/Dundas Square was the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Younge/Dundas Square also offers a free movie every Tuesday night

Thursday we will be making a group trip to tour the Steamwhistle Brewery, and Saturday we will be getting a group together to go clubbing.

Another new addition to our hostel is the option of playing board games

Come check us out!

Today's Movie Choices

Every night at 9pm our International Travellers have the oppertunity to watch a movie chosen by vote.
Tonight's movie choices are:

-Dodgeball

-Analyze That

-Flatliners

-Ice Age

-Entrapment

We are looking foreward to seeing you in our Entertainment District (common room) tonight!

New at Backpackers on Dundas

As you can see our writing wall is filling up very quickly!

We engourage our long-term guests to write us a message on the wall.

That person could be you!

Also new at Backpackers on Dundas we offer deals on day trips to Niagra Falls.

Ask at reception. only $20 per person.

Today's Movie Choices

As you may know, every night at about 9pm Backpackers on Dundas turns on a movie for our international travellers to enjoy. Today's choices are:

-The Girl Next Door

-Major League

-300

-Breach

-After the Sunset

We are looking foreward to your votes and hope that you will join us in the common room tonight!

Today's Movie Choices at Backpackers on Dundas

As you may know, every evening around 9pm we watch a film chosen (by vote) by our guests.
Today's movie choices are:

The Matrix

Starsky and Hutch

Are You Being Served: The Movie

Dodgeball

Ocean's 11

We encourage everyone to join us in our very own entertainment district (the common room) at 9 tonight for our chosen movie!

Wakestock 2008 this Weekend!

Wakestock 2008 is taking place this weekend at Centre Island in Toronto.

Today's Movie Choices at Backpackers on Dundas

Every day we offer our International travellors the opportunity to choose from a selection of movies.

Today's movie choices are:

The Dukes of Hazzard

Basic

Breach

Mrs. Henderson.

The movie choice (by vote) will be shown at 9pm tonight. We look forward to meeting you in the Entertainment District (Backpackers on Dundas Common Room).

Kickin' it old school to bucket drums

Pedestrians outside Toronto Eaton's Centre taking some time out to dance to the tune of a "bucket drum" street performer.

:)

Air Guitar Finals at Lee's Palace in Toronto

So it is Friday night in Toronto and you are at home reading our blog? Geez, get out and live a little! Do what some of the worldwide travellers at our humble Canadian hostel are doing. Head over to Lee’s Palace for the Canadian Air Guitar finals! Even if you are not schooled enough in the sport of air guitar, I am assuming that watching the ten finalists rock out will be somewhere in between mildly entertaining and totally awesome.

For more information about Air Guitar Canada, check out their website. Oh, and for sure check out their rules page. Simply to ensure that your interest is sufficiently peaked, I will list the first three here:

1. The instrument of an Air Guitar player must be invisible, i.e. air.
2. An Air Guitarist may play an electric guitar or an acoustic one - or both.
3. Each competitor must participate in a qualifying round (excluding the champion of the previous year, who has direct access to the final) to compete for a place in the final.

So after you have checked out all of the links and decided to rush over to Lee’s Palace in time for the final round, make sure to keep an eye out for some of our Toronto visitors staying at our hostel.

Summer of Dirty Dancing

Free Hugs in Toronto

Free Movies at Yonge Dundas Square, Summer 2008

That's right folks, free movie showings are back at Yonge - Dundas Square every Tuesday for the summer. Thanks so much to MoneyCityManiacs for the heads up.

Here is the free movie schedule:

24 June 2008Gone with the Wind (part 1) 9pm

30 June 2008Gone with the Wind (part 2) 9:00 pm

8 July 2008Brokeback Mountain 8:45 pm

15 July 2008Romeo + Juliet 9:00 pm

22 July 2008Annie Hall 9:00 pm

29 July 2008Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 9:00 pm

5 August 2008Princess Bride 9:00 pm

12 August 2008Titanic 8:00 pm

19 August 2008The Notebook 9:00 pm

26 August 2008Casablanca9:00 pm

The theme this year is love stories, which is awesome. FYI, last year it was all sci-fi flicks.

Aside from free movies, there is so much going on in Toronto at Yonge - Dundas Square. Here is a link to the Yonge - Dundas Square Progrm Guide 2008. It is a printable pdf.

Backpackers on Dundas is Toronto's newest, cleanest and friendliest hostel, located within walking distance of Yonge -Dundas Square. We are offering introductory rates to celebrate our first summer in Toronto so contact us today for inexpensive hostel accomodations in Toronto.