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Help on transportation!! Anyone PLEASE!
My boyfriend's PIR is on June 4 and I have to go myself with my younger sister because his family can't get any vacation on that day. So i have a lot of question on how to get to the hotel from O'hare airport? Is there any shuttle bus to get to the hotel? Is it cheap? And how to get to the base? And how to get back from the base to the hotel? I never rode a taxi here in United States for my entire life, so I don't know what to do nor shuttle bus. I don't have driver licence yet and my sister is only 20, so we coudn't rent a car. We always do long drive with my family but then since Im going alone wit my sis. Can anyone help me please....
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Permalink Reply by DeniseInFla on
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I'd call the hotel you're staying at or go to the O'Hare website, they usually have that info here as far as a shuttle to the hotel.Some of the hotels have a free shuttle service to the base, some charge $3 each way per person. We stayed at the Ramada and their bus service back to the hotel stopped at 1:30 the day of PIR so beware of that if he is grad and go and has to go right back to his ship to pack. We waited two hours for our son to get back to us.
If you want to see Chicago you can take the Metra train, the station is right there outside the base, then you have to take a bus into the city. If you do that you'll have to take a taxi back to your hotel. We rented a car so maybe someone else can give you more details on transportation. Hope this helps some.
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Thanks for aLL your help. I inquire on the taxi and its 85 bucks from the O'hare airport to the hotel. And the hotel has free shuttle to the base @ 6:30am. Anyway thanks again for all the information.
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Permalink Reply by joyce on
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we were there April 23. A cab ride from ohare will be expensive. The shuttle from the ramada was free to pir. we were able to get the shuttle back to the hotel with our son after grad. he had to be back to the base by 7:30pm we had a rental. but im sure a cab wouldn be that much. Our son left from midway the next day. we were able to drive and be with him at the airport until he took off. to get a cab to midway and back will be alot because it is much further then Ohare. Good luck. I hope he is not grad and go so you have time to spend with him. Enjoy
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well yea hes not grad and go, so i will have more time to spend with him,
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