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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
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In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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Our PIR experience - Nov. 22nd PART TWO
I'm adding things I forgot to mention in my first post.
Our hotel in Waukegan had a restaurant/bar inside, but I never went in. The hotel also had a small room next to the check-in with restaurant pamphlets, vending machines, and a computer and printer. We only stayed one night. My daughter's friend was staying in Gurnee. It wasn't that much further, but the hotel was MUCH nicer: newer beds, continental breakfast, ELEVATOR! ;)
There were also many more places to go and see in Gurnee. I don't believe this hotel had a shuttle since my daughter's friend used the Sarge's taxi (I think).
If you are there for more than one day, I DO highly recommend renting a car if you did not drive to Illinois. We took our Sailor back to base 3 times and picked her up twice - VERY early. The traffic to get into the base gets extremely congested. I'm not sure if the road was east/west or north/south, so in terms of looking at the front of the entrance, if you are coming from the right side, make sure you are not on the extreme right lane -- that one ends. We didn't know this and for some reason, most of the drivers taking the soldiers back were VERY aggressive and would not let us in. That was sad considering we all just wanted to get our sailors back on time.
Our daughter left for A-school on Saturday and had to be at O'Hare at around 1 in the morning, so we tried to go see her off. Fortunately, O'Hare airport was practically empty at this hour. Our plane would be leaving from Midway at 8:25 am. Since our daughter could only check us in to her departure area at around 4:30 in the morning, we decided to head out to Midway instead. It was a GOOD thing we did, Midway was already full of people travelling on Southwest. If our flight had been earlier, I don't think we would have made it.
Oh, also, if you are planning on a rental car from Midway airport, make sure you have reservations or they will try to gauge your eyes out... one place was charging like 800-900 PLUS tax for the 3 days. We ended up renting online for pick-up in Waukegan the next day and it was something over 200. Also, there is a shuttle that takes you free to the car rental building with all the rental agencies. It is NOT walking distance.
If you are asking why we had so many days with our Sailor, it was because she graduated the day before Thanksgiving and left for A-school until early Saturday.
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