You do know those checks don't really make you any more secure, right? Only a pothead would be dumb enough to hide something in their shoe. It's still pretty easy to get something through, as tons of investigations have proven.
Anyway, you actually went at the perfect time. While it is occasionally somewhat cold in October, it's also sometimes hot. If you go in the summer however, it's literally unbearable. You can easily get heat stroke. You'll end up buying several of their EXTREMELY overpriced bottles of water.
Do not suggest.
Always go in the off season. Never go in the summer.
I'd still rather have them check everyone properly rather than just letting people through cause the sniffer dog didn't pick up anything. In Australia we never have to take off our shoes so I agree the whole shoe thing is dumb.
Yes! I definitely wouldn't want to go in Summer. Yeah we noticed how expensive everything was, it was a ripoff.
We do a lot in America to make people feel safer, while not actually being that much safer. Like taking people's bottles. Because technically you could put some kind of explosive in there. Never mind that humans need things like water, and forcing them to buy new shampoo every place they travel is asinine.
Yeah I understand why they do it but at the end of the day it's annoying!!