[Idyllchat] Chicago's O'Hare

[Amy Schaffner]

While we are on the subject of airports (which has been very educational), 
are there any comments on O'Hare?

We are paying extra to fly out of O'Hare to Zurich in summer '08 - I have 
never been to O'Hare.  On return, we are planning to stay overnight at the 
Hilton inside the airport.

Is it possible to take the train from the airport into Chicago to find 
pizza?

My TOP airports are: Albuquerque & Anchorage for culture, art, & ease.

Amy

>From: Irvjane at aol.com
>To: idyllchat at lists.untours.com
>Subject: Re:  [Idyllchat] airport
>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:03:49 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/20/2007 8:49:24 AM Central Standard Time,
>vmorrow at triad.rr.com writes:
>
> >
> > We are traveling to the Swiss Heartland this summer.  Which airport
> > is better to leave from.. Boston International or JFK?  Thanks
>
>Don't know the answer to your specific question, but Newark's EWR emulates
>most major European airports in that one can reach it via intercity train.
>Untourists living somewhere along Amtrak's NE Corridor could get a short 
>ride to
>their town's station and start their Untour on the train.
>
>Swiss Untourists reach their host village by train from Zurich's ZRH, and
>Provence Untourists can grab a TGV right in Paris's CDG terminal and get to
>Marseilles about as quickly as if doing the domestic hop by air. Go a day 
>early to
>see the town and stay at the Ibis Hotel across the street from the airport
>transit bus stop (if you cannot pick up your Idyll car at the RR station) 
>and
>across from a side entrance to Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles.
>
>Occasionally we have done the Gatwick-to-Heathrow connection via National
>Express Speedlink bus, and that apparently is easier than an 
>airport-to-airport
>connection in New York City.
>
>Our home airport is Houston's IAH so usually we take a nonstop to any of
>several European airports (just shifting the connection hassles to 
>overseas, of
>course).  But it's really nice on the return not to need to clear customs 
>as
>when touching down at an intermediate USA airport.
>
>Once on an Austrian train-riding trip with The Society of International
>Railway Travelers we connected on Delta in Cincinnati's CVG.  Our European 
>flight
>departed at the gate adjacent to that of our domestic arrival.  That was
>wonderful!  (Versus, say, connecting in Atlanta's ATL, typically from the 
>end of one
>prong to the end of another prong.)
>
>Finally, if you have an early morning departure (or a late-evening 
>arrival),
>consider the ParkSleepFly option.  For not much more than the cost of two
>week's airport parking, you can drive leisurely the night before to an 
>airport
>motel (not being overly concerned with any delays from, say, a flat tire), 
>spend
>the night and sleep an hour later the next morning, eat the motel's 
>breakfast,
>and then take their courtesy bus right to your departure terminal's door.
>Reverse all this when you return, picking up your car that's been left free 
>or
>at nominal excess-days charge in the motel's parking lot.  See
>www.parksleepfly.com
>
>Irv Smith
>Missouri City TX
>
>
>
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