The flight was a little late leaving, I wasn't *quite* the last the board, but very close to it. My seat was actually backwards-facing, but it isn't really noticable except during take-off and landing. The food was nice, with a smoked salmon starters with salad with a caesar dressing. For the main course, I chose braised beef short ribs with caramelized onion, and to finish, I passed on the cheeses but had the chocolate cake. Just before arriving, in fact very close to arrival time as we were already descending before service was started, an afternoon tea was served with scones and strawberry jam and cream. In all of these all the plates were really plates, the knives were metal, the forks were metal, the spoons were ... entirely absent - we had a short plastic straw to stir coffees with.
Immigration at Chicago took rather a long time - about 1 hour and 20 minutes of queueing, although it only took around a minute to be processed by the official. It wasn't just the Visitor queues that were long, even the American queues were long. As it all took such a long time, all the flight's luggage had already come through and been collected up beside the carousel.
The trip to the hotel was simple and I arrived at around 6pm. I'm on the 9th floor with a "street view". I'm not sure what the alternative views are, but I can see the Hancock tower a few blocks away. My room is quite small, by American standards - it'd have to be a small cat if you wanted to swing one in it, but the bed is comfortable and the bathroom facilities are all present & correct, and the TV is quite nice too.
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