Traveling with Kids

Traveling with children at HOU? Here are a few travel tips:

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CHILDREN'S PLAY AREAS

Enjoy our designated play areas for children while you wait for your flight.

  • Near Gate 4.
  • Near Gate 40.

SAVE TIME

Check-in online at the website for your airline.

MAKE YOUR SMARTPHONE SMARTER

Add the airport website to your phone: fly2houston.com. This way, for one thing, you can easily search the website’s Dining section for Kid-Friendly options while at the airport.

  • On an iPhone, pull up www.fly2houston.com on your browser, then click on the sharing symbol Image result for apple iphone browser symbols,  +Add to Home Screen, and then Add. From now on, you can easily access the website by clicking on the icon on your home screen.
  • On an Android phone, pull up www.fly2houston.com on your browser, tap the menu button and tap Add to home screen. From now on, you can easily access the website by clicking on the icon on your home screen.

PLAN AHEAD

Check real-time available parking and TSA security wait times here.

Familiarize yourself and your family with TSA Screening, and consider enrolling in TSA Pre✓ . See TSA guidelines for traveling with children here.


TRAVELING WITH BABIES

HOU offers a private nursing room for traveling mothers. 

  • Near Gate 4
  • Near Gate 24
  • Near Gate 46

Most restrooms also offer baby changing tables, including women’s, men’s, and family restrooms.


FIND YOUR WAY 

Print out airport maps .These maps include the locations of Family Restrooms, denoted by this symbol Image .

 

ARRIVE WITH EASE

Drop off your family and luggage curbside on the Departures Level (Level 2) and park in one of our convenient facilities: Valet Parking (also on Level 2), the Red Garage, the Blue Garage, or ecopark.

LOCATE YOUR GATE

Open the fly2houston.com website and enter your flight information. Select your flight and your gate information and flight status will be displayed.

FIND FOOD

Search for kid-friendly (or gluten-free, or vegetarian, etc.) and other dining options here.

LOVE MUSIC?

Check when the next Harmony in the Air performance in the Hobby Central Rotunda will be.

LOVE ART?

Check out Houston Airports' art collection at Hobby.

HAVE EXTRA TIME ON YOUR HANDS?

Check out the new west concourse - see gates 1-5 on this map.

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