Twenty-two years in the plant. Then a docket on the web.

I am sixty-one. I kept lifts, doors, and weather lock-outs honest on Toronto's famous tower. I am retired. I am not a tour guide and I am not a blogger. I built this site because the questions I still get are planning questions, and the answers on the internet are mostly sales.

Gordie Hall · Retired maintenance engineer, twenty-two years on the plant

The tower shaft and main pod above Toronto — The plant from the street. I knew it from the hoistway and the mast. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons, local copy.

Crew years are not a brand. They are a stack of night calls: a door operator that would not cycle, a wind lock-out on the upper plant, a glass panel that needed a second look after a busy weekend. I was a maintenance engineer. I serviced the lifts that still do the lobby-to-deck run in about fifty-eight seconds. I knew the wind sway as a number on a drawing and as a feeling in the knees. I knew the lightning story because the tower grounds strikes — on the order of seventy-five a year — and the plant is built for that, not for a show.

I built Toronto Tower Ticket Guide as a practical planning guide in English. Genre: planning, not a journal. You get two sample half days, a weather veto, a gate explanation, and an engineer's view of the glass floor. You do not get a pitch. You do not get prices. You do not get me pretending the revolving restaurant is a bargain or that sunset is intimate.

Toronto Tower Ticket Guide is an independent planning guide. It is not affiliated with any attraction operator. We do not sell tickets and never process payments. If you want the operator, look for the operator. If you want to know whether haze will waste a timed entry, stay here.

I live in Toronto. Mail goes to a Station F box. I answer when I can. I do not staff a helpdesk for QR codes that will not scan — that is a gate problem. I do answer questions about whether the top pod is worth it on a milky day (it is not) and whether children should fight the glass-floor queue (usually they should not).

Gordie Hall · mill notes, not a ticket window