This is NOT that terrible O¨Hare airport
NO MORE.
Thats it. I didnt make a mistake, but it was bad again and I wont give them another chance. Strike Three. No benefit of the doubt.
I AM NEVER GOING THROUGH O HARE AIRPORT IN CHICAGO AGAIN. NEVER. Unless the price is super super good. And even then I will think twice.
I have been through many airports in Europe and you get them pinned down. This one is good, this one is good some of the time, this one (Heathrow in London) I will never go through again.
And then you have a limited amount of ways to get to your destination in the US. Philadelphia, Minniapolis, Detroit, Chicago.
This is the Boardman river NOT Chicago
Now, Chicago is strictly stricken from the list. It just is a bad airport. You know, bigger is not better. Bigger is just more chaotic and more time consuming.
Let me intervene and tell you how this connects with my general topic of dad 40 per cent at home.
See, you have kids you are taking along. It is more difficult if they are younger, but still even when they are teenagers you have to calculate time differently. If you have an airport which cant get your documents correct any time and it takes 20 minutes at the checkout counter, you get more stressed out (that always was happening to me at my first stop leaving vacation, what could I do?) If the terminals are far from one another, it is fast walking and more stress to stay together. How long a wait can you or they stand as a lay over. These and several other questions will decide which airport you go through if you have several choices. Please make no mistake, choosing the best airport... well is the best.
Bigger is not better. If you have a big airport, people are coming in from all over
This is my friends former house Not OHare
the world and they are all funneled into ONE customs area, coming into the US or leaving for overseas. One area. You want to know how long that line can be?
I suffer from anxiety, so the more barriers they throw at you at an airport, the more you freak out and dont want to use them as much.
But who would think that after my last glowing report on O Hare in Chicago, they would totally get it wrong again and totally piss me off and stress me out so my daugthers were saying, "its all right dad, we ll still make it, we will get through"
It started off at the customs again. How long have they existed and they still dont seem to have it correct? Man, you would think we were in Tel Aviv or some place with danger and they have to do a thorough border control. But the main thing is, they have a line that can stretch and wind for a kilometer or more. If you are making a connection and have to go through customs, you need more than an hour layover to get through customs. And that is pushing it. Two hours.
Our Lake NOT a customs line in O Hare
Granted the line did move along, not as well as when I wrote my entrance to O Hare a couple weeks ago, but it wasnt NOT moving, that would be Tel Aviv. And they dont really care when or where your flight is. They are not going to hurry up "for you". That is not their concern at all. Still, I dont know why they have to make a big fuss and time consumption for people GOING out of the US. Yeah, yeah, move along, you want to leave, no problem by us, fine, have a nice travel, go go go. But no, it is as fast coming into the country as leaving. Mmmm, a little faster leaving.
But really got my goat was the control for getting on the plane. Yes I know that the limit for water goods is 100 mililiters. No liquids. But sauces?? IN a can which cant be opened unless you have a can opener? A sealed tin can? What can I do with that? Really, couldnt they just have inspected it and seen that it was totally sealed? I am going to threaten the plane captain with a can of instant food? "Take me to Cuba or I will open this can of spaghettios, oh do you have a can opener so i can do that, and make a bomb and blow up the plane". I was so angry because it was a present for my daughter on her birthday in September and they were taking away a sealed tin can. Someone please give me a rational explanation for them taking away my sealed can of Spaghettios. Yes, they inspected it, they could see it was sealed. Did the man who supposedly made a bomb in the UK use liquids from what? Cosmetics or chemicals, but spaghettios? I can make a bomb from the liquid in spaghettios?
I am not sure if that had anything to do with O Hare, but yes it did, because it is
Busted. They took my spaghettios I was going to hijack the plane with
a big airport and they probably dont make a good paycheck, not that it is O Hare who is paying them, but its a big airport and lots of people yelling at them. If they can get back occasionally at some poor weak slob like me, it makes their day. I guess. Well, ok, but he ruined mine and O Hare lost several customers because no one in my family is ever going through O Hare ever again. Even my kids hate the airport. (Dad, why did you book us through O Hare, you know it is terrible).
I still want to contact them and ask them about this rule, and I will get the last laugh, because I am never going that way again. And since American Airlines goes through Chicago and not Detroit, that means I wont be booking with American Airlines anymore.
And lastly, I recommend to all my wonderful readers out there, all ten of you (plus 1000 Singaporeans of late) DO NOT go through O Hare. Parents travelling with kids coming into the US or out of the US..... DO NOT. You want to put up with your kids getting antsy in line waiting waiting waiting. And I dont blame them if they do, even I got really antsy. And then they start complaining and crying. O Hare is not parent or kid friendly. NO place to sit while at customs. No fast line for families with small children. No empathy or sympathy. Two hour layover is necessary just to get through customs. OHare, you suck.
For once and all O HARE is one if not THE worst airport I have been in and that is with about twenty airports experience. Thumbs down, stay away, find another way. As Grandmaster Flash says, d-d-d dont do it. O Hare in Chicago is
THE END.
I listened to Dylan's "New Morning" LP especially "Day of the Locusts" which is about how O Hare airport sucks. Well, in a way yes.
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