Traveling is Hell. Getting to summer vacation part 1 during covid second summer

You know what? Traveling sucks. And if it is bad for me, imagine what it is like for kids. Boats, buses, cars and ESPECIALLY Planes. You know I have to call a warning out and tell people, DONT travel through O Hare airport in Chicago. This is the most unfriendly family airport or even place that I have ever been to. I dont understand why these airports just want to be bigger and bigger when becoming bigger just makes them suck more and makes people try to avoid them. Top Three airports to avoid when travelling: Heathrow in London. Terrible lines, no clue. JFK in New York. Dont know how to get from one point to another and sometimes you have to go to a completely different airport. Number one : O Hare airport in Chicago.

  Ok, to their "benefit" it happened to be one of the first days of the Afghan collapse and Chicago had many extra travellers from Afghanistan. But looking around, I think this influx accounted for about 10 per cent more. Not a whole lot more, some more, but by far not the most. The real problem was frankly that there were a lot more people traveling and they were unprepared for them at customs. But cmon, how long have they been in existence? I mean I can only give them the benefit of the doubt again that maybe they thought there wouldnt be any travellers because of covid. But they should have seen it building and been reading the news. It isnt rocket science. They needed more customs checkout counters. It was probably that simple.

Really, what airport treats the customers like this besides Tel Aviv airport that makes the incoming from overseas flight stand in a line that snakes around and around for maybe 2 kilometers or a mile. Seriously. If you had seen it. And this was pure terrorism to make people stand in this line, let alone kids. O Hare has been consistently bad rating in the top ten of long wait at customs, for many years as noted from this picture and accompanying article from 2013. 

 Which comes to my real beef as a daddy with young kids. There were no separate lines for families with kids. Are they that stupid to not make any accommodations? They think a 2 to 10 old can wait in a line for more than two hours. But seriously, they just did not care. That is the only explanation I can think of. That all people are equal and all people had to wait equally. That may work for adults, but not for kids. No, kids are not equal and cannot wait patiently in a line like adults. But the line checker had no mercy. She just made sure you were waiting patiently and told you which way to go and "sorry, no this is the only line". It is just cruelty to make kids under 10 wait in this line. Not to mention that most of the people were coming off overseas flights of at least more than 5 hours if not 9-12 hours. AND THEN they have to wait in line more? Cmon come on come on. What is that? I ll tell you what that is, cruel and unusual punishment.

 But on top of that, my youngest daughter, not yet 10 years old when this happened (august 10th 2021)

gets motion sickness. So she was throwing up every hour. She couldnt stand. She needed fresh air. The air in the airport is sanitized hospital air, she needed to get out and breathe outside air. BUT NOOOOOO. We had to go through customs first. Sure fine, everyone coming from another country overseas has to go through customs. But for the tenth time, give us a special line for us parents with kids. Or have a health line overseer who should help people or kids under stress. When we were still a kilometer away from the customs booths we could have used someone to help my daughter out just to get some fresh air. For lords sake, they had no garbage pails anywhere there (which I understand a little, they dont want terrorists throwing stuff in them... uh??? Maybe? ) so I had to carry my daughters throw up around for an hour before i just set it down in a corner.

 

This stuff really works

The result was that we missed our next plane that was going to get us to our final destination. This is not the carriers fault. This is quite plainly the airports fault. They should have given me a voucher, and for the Hilton on airport premises, straight out. Not the airline carrier. But it was up to me to try to get re imbursed for a hotel to sleep in for 8 hours. Oh my goodness, it was a nightmare of lines and waiting and throw up. I needed a vacation just from the travel to my vacation. But I have to say, it has been like that more and more in the past ten years. But even worse was this ordeal at O Hare airport. It wasnt weather. It was their terrorist activities towards travellers. It was their short sightedness on the number of customs officers they needed. It was their problem because hopefully now fewer people will go through Chicago. I definitely will never go through there again. Detroit is much much better. The lady in front of me in the line, said, "yeah its O Hare, you have to expect it might take three hours". This is not right, and they dont try to get better??

Ladies and gentlemen, AVOID O HARE AIRPORT. Especially if you have kids. The kids may very well die waiting in the lines at Chicago. This is the truth. And because of it, the carriers using Chicago as a hub.... I hope you have worse business because people dont want to go through Chicago. I know I never will go through Chicago. And if your carrier MUST go through Chicago then I dont think I will be travelling with you anymore. 

AND I AINT NEVER.... 

GOING BACK..... 

TO O HARE

AIRRRRRR PORT