O’Hare Oasis Travel Plaza

Made a trip here because my Groupon was expiring. I haven’t even stepped foot into a krispy kreme for a number of years, but I came out a happy customer. The service was standard and the donuts were just as I remembered them.
I was able to split a few of them with my wife and the classic glazed is always awesome. Throw it in the microwave for a few seconds and it’s pretty much the best thing ever. I also got a filled one. The insides weren’t just crème but it tasted like vanilla cake frosting. If this place was closer to my house I might go here for the rare occasion I’ve got a hankering for some glazed pastries.

Review for the Starbucks here.
Normally, I would never review a SBUX since they are all pretty similar, and I’m not expecting anything fancy. However, the service here was terrible! I ordered a toasted bagel with cream cheese and a berry hibiscus refresher. Nothing crazy, both things are on the menu.
1. The cashier asked me maybe 4 times to repeat my drink order. It was not loud or anything in here and she kept saying, «I can’t understand you, what do you want??»…“Grande Very Berry Hibiscus Refresher, easy ice” «what? I can’t understand you» «Very Berry hibiscus refresher???» «I still can’t understand you» «…a refresher? berry hibiscus?» «huh?»
She had to call someone else over to listen to me order. Seriously? I’m pretty sure at this point she just didn’t know what a «refresher» was, but if you work there you should at least know the menu that is posted behind you.
2. Bagel came to me cold and hard. I asked them if they could toast it, and the lady gave me huge attitude and was like, «psh, we don’t have no toaster here!». Really. You could have told me that when I ordered it.
Very disappointed and I really wasn’t expecting much.
ETA: I also forgot that she was going to give me sour cream instead of cream cheese for my bagel… I didn’t even know that Starbucks had sour cream for anything?

I stopped for gas at the Ohare oasis gas station late after my shift ended at the restaurant where I work. I earn tips in cash as a living, so I had a lot of singles on me from the night’s tips. I went in to pay for gas and cigarettes, and when the cashier saw how I was going to pay, he said, «Ma’am, do you have a card? I am too busy to count this. Next time, please don’t pay like this.» I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that you would have such a hard time accepting cash from a paying customer! I’ll do you one better sir, I won’t come back, so you will have plenty of time to do whatever else you were such in a hurry to get back to. I’ve never written a Unilocal review, but this experience was so agitating I had to do something more than speak my mind to that impatient, unwelcoing attendant.

Good place to wait while waiting to pick someone up at O’Hare. The bathrooms are relatively clean.

This is a review for a new restaurant called Mediterranean eats. I tried their beef shawerma wrap and it was very tasty… I really liked it, it was also priced right. will be back for sure.

Great stop to relax and grab something to eat. Always clean and a lot of restaurants. There is always good coffee and some pretzels. Great view o the 294. Will stop again!

I love the idea of an oasis over the «rest stops» that were available when I was on family vacations as a child. A clean, indoor facility is ever sooooooooooooo much better than the old outhouses with their flies and horrible smells.
There is also a dog run, outdoor patio, and plenty of room to stretch your legs. Plenty of truck drivers take advantage of the truck parking, to rest. There are a variety of fast food offerings and a small shop that sells sundries that you might stock up on to continue your road trip. This might be the shop that I have seen people from the surrounding homes walking away from, with a shopping sack of «stuff».
Easy on and off, but they get you on gas prices.

Review is for the KFC.
Should give them no stars.
This is my third try as it is the nearest drive through off 294.
All 3 times the wait for my food was over 10 minutes, no one in front of me either. The biscuits are hard and dry, chicken fried to jerky toughness.
This time, my order was taken, the screen doesn’t work so no preview that the have taken the order correctly. The order was interrupted, when the employee came back I had to start over. I waited about 15 minutes.
My order was wrong, chicken with bacon and chicken taco neither did I order.
Here is the weird stuff; I pulled the sandwich from the box, it had two buns that were smashed like pancakes. They were burnt black inside. There was copious amounts of an orange disgusting sauce and the chicken was cold and so overcooked I could not bite into it. Scary. It looked like someone had stepped on the sandwich, garbage, inedible slop, I threw it out. I innocent bite was too much God only know what I ate.
Really no matter how late I work or how hungry I am this KFC drive through will not get my business.

Whoever came up with the idea of an «oasis» is pretty smart.
I had to stop here as I was running low on gasoline. They have good gas here. The ability to get on and off the highway without using an exit and winding about saves a bunch of time. It is kind of like a NASCAR pit stop. Let’s see how fast you can fuel up.
Gas may be a pricier but that is what you pay for convenience.

The only reason you would call this place oasis is if you had a services that are open at least till 10pm but most of the stores are closed at 8 pm. And for a frequent traveler like me that oasis is just a bathroom with a McDonald’s.

Pit Stop… I guess I’ve got nothing better to do than write something redundant about the O’Hare Oasis. The O’Hare Oasis is among the places I stop and take a little break from driving (without having to exit off the tollway). Taking a break, you know, like going to the bathroom (is that too much information?), getting some coffee, grabbing a bite from one of the fast food restaurants, txt’n, talk’n, whatever… There’s wifi here but I’ve never used it. (If you missed stopping here at the O’Hare Oasis, there’s always the Lake Forest Oasis to the north, the Belvidere Oasis to the west, and the Hinsdale Oasis to the south).

Five stars because this is clean with many food options… AND because I left my purse here and didn’t realize it until after I had passed the Hinsdale Oasis. Eek! Called and the cleaning crew went out of their way to lock it up until I could get back to get it. Can’t thank them enough!!!

I come here for two reasons — Either I pass the Rockford Exit and need to get un-​ticked off or I need to pick someone up at O’Hare and I’m early.
This oasis is clean, spacious and feels like a really safe place to stop if you need too. Bathrooms are clean and stocked too — awesome.
There’s so many choices of snackage here too– Subway, KFC Express, Starbucks, Saborro, Aunt ‘something’ Pretzels and a McDonalds to name a few. Better yet, if you are traveling through, there’s a Best Buy Express vending machine in the middle of the place. It carries phone chargers, headsets (Bluetooth and wired) and other little gadgets too.
I don’t know why… but I like the little bar style tables against the windows overlooking 294, watching traffic roll on by as I eat my sammich.
Oh — BTW, there’s a 2 hour parking limit. Not sure if it’s enforced, but it’s posted.

This place is always a safe, clean location to make a pit stop while on the go. The bathrooms are spotless, always, and the food choices are varied. I get snack here every now and then. Skip the gas, though, because it’s quite overpriced.
If you have a pet, there’s a nice little dog run. There’s also picnic tables, but I prefer to eat inside and watch the cars.

Can I mention that I love the term «oasis» used in the context of a highway rest area? When I drove the 1,000 miles here from Boston, I wondered what an amazing area I could be moving to if it featured oases among the landmarks of Chicago, and even when I realized it just meant a glass pedestrian overpass peppered with fast food shoppes and those little claw arcade games where you try to win a stuffed animal, I was still in awe.
Yes, this oasis is simply a really. freaking. cool. rest area complete with a Starbucks and KFC and whatever else suits your fancy. Sit with your coffee and count the number of vehicles lacking two working headlights while waiting for friends to land at O’Hare Airport, or just stop by for the hell of it, I’m not going to judge.

Nice… alot there if you need to travel and a pit stop is required.
KFC was good here. :) And I forogt to mention these oasis… oasises (oasi?) have free wifi.

Spacious, Sunny and Clean.
Picking up a friend at the airport? The perfect place to kill a little time if you are early. Its an easy 5 minute drive from the Oasis to the O’hare arrival terminal. Chill over some Starbucks :)

Convenience is the name of the game. Need a bathroom break? Need a cold drink? Need an escape from road conditions? The good old reliable Oasis is there for you. They never close, they are fairly clean and very predictable. Also a good place to people watch.
It isn’t the Howard Johnson’s of my beloved childhood memories, but in this fast paced, mediocre loving times, it will do just fine.

2 stars.
Slow service at all the food vendors inside.
Gas stations don’t have lottery. Boo!
It’s really just a suped-​up rest stop, IMO.

Illinois: The land of many oasises.
Seriously. I didn’t realize there was more than one, it was always only ever Lake Forest.
But guess what? THERE ARE MORE.
I like them, and I’m not quite sure why. I mean sure, you may need some gas or a Subway foot-​long or a new cell phone case or whatever, but it’s really just a mini-​mall of a rest stop.
I think I like it because it’s built over the highway.
Fast, convenient, get what you need and keep driving. Four stars!