Possible Chicago Option For Some Folks
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fangrrl_squeesI'm sharing these findings in case they help you, dear reader, make a trip to Chicago.
Air Tran1 offers some cheap flights to Milwaukee Mitchell airport (MKE) over Thanksgiving. For instance, a direct flight, SFO - MKE, is $182 r/t with taxes. Unfuckingbelievable.
MKE is, forsooth, about 80 miles away from the location of Chicago TARDIS. Ow.
A shuttle would apparently cost something like $60 each way, which takes a lot of the savings out of the equation.
But! If you can manage it, there is a train for $33 each way that departs from a station near the airport (free connecting shuttle, which proves that the transit authorities out there are far smarter than their counterparts in CA) and will drop you in Naperviille, IL, about six miles away from the convention hotel. Downsides: there's one train a day, departing at 3:30PM, the trip is the best part of two hours, and you have to change at Union Station in Chicago.
(even flying in to O'Hare or Midway, you're going to be spending approxmiately $25 each way on a shuttle, so that's something to bear in mind...)
But if you've got a friend who's willing to pick you up, either at MKE or at Union Station, going this route might be an option worth considering.
Another factor I'd worry about is how much more likely is MKE to get snowed-in than any of the other area airports, being a bit more further north and all - but I know nothing of the local meteorology...
Just wanted to share that with y'all.
1 - WARNING: These guys define cattle-car flights and, I understand, are leading the race to be the next airline to go under.
Air Tran1 offers some cheap flights to Milwaukee Mitchell airport (MKE) over Thanksgiving. For instance, a direct flight, SFO - MKE, is $182 r/t with taxes. Unfuckingbelievable.
MKE is, forsooth, about 80 miles away from the location of Chicago TARDIS. Ow.
A shuttle would apparently cost something like $60 each way, which takes a lot of the savings out of the equation.
But! If you can manage it, there is a train for $33 each way that departs from a station near the airport (free connecting shuttle, which proves that the transit authorities out there are far smarter than their counterparts in CA) and will drop you in Naperviille, IL, about six miles away from the convention hotel. Downsides: there's one train a day, departing at 3:30PM, the trip is the best part of two hours, and you have to change at Union Station in Chicago.
(even flying in to O'Hare or Midway, you're going to be spending approxmiately $25 each way on a shuttle, so that's something to bear in mind...)
But if you've got a friend who's willing to pick you up, either at MKE or at Union Station, going this route might be an option worth considering.
Another factor I'd worry about is how much more likely is MKE to get snowed-in than any of the other area airports, being a bit more further north and all - but I know nothing of the local meteorology...
Just wanted to share that with y'all.
1 - WARNING: These guys define cattle-car flights and, I understand, are leading the race to be the next airline to go under.
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Date: 2009-07-08 08:16 pm (UTC)Last year, I tried to figure out how to get from O'Hare to Lombard via pubtrans on a holiday and it was absolutely ridiculous - something like four hours end-to-end with three changes of train and lots of long, cold waiting.
At that point, spending $30 on the shuttle becomes worth it - but that means I'd be flying to MKE, taking a bus to Union Station (or whatever) and then trying to get a shuttle from there - it's almost as bad. Not entirely untenable, but damned awkward...
(besides, this IS still all academic. I won't know 'til late Sept if I can even manage the con...)