We are planning to travel this summer and I am trying to decide my best plan for car seats. We will be flying (5 hour flights) and renting a car at our destination. Most days of the trip we will have 2 hours or so of driving, but 2 days will have 7-8 hours of driving during the day. My kids are used to being in the car, but of course are used to their own seats.
DD9 is 75lbs and 53" tall. She rides in a Recaro Turbo Booster. DD5 (5 and 11 months) is 40lbs and 46" tall. She rides FF in a Radian. She rides an hour once every 2 weeks in a Frontier 90 in Booster mode. She has also ridden twice for 20 minutes in a Bumble Bum. She has ridden in airplanes several times without her car seat in the last year and has always fit fine in the plane seat belt. She is tall and thin and I feel like she might be cramped leg wise in the plane in a car seat now. I do not want to check seats or even gate check them. I don't think I want to fly with her Radian either.
Should I have both girls use Bumble Bums as we already have 2? Or should we take those and use them to drive to Walmart and buy different seats for the trip only? Should I get 2 Evenflo hbb or graco turboboosters and take them with us by carrying on the nbb portion and packing the backs with clothes? Should I get a lighter harnessed seat for DD5? What would you do?
DD9 is 75lbs and 53" tall. She rides in a Recaro Turbo Booster. DD5 (5 and 11 months) is 40lbs and 46" tall. She rides FF in a Radian. She rides an hour once every 2 weeks in a Frontier 90 in Booster mode. She has also ridden twice for 20 minutes in a Bumble Bum. She has ridden in airplanes several times without her car seat in the last year and has always fit fine in the plane seat belt. She is tall and thin and I feel like she might be cramped leg wise in the plane in a car seat now. I do not want to check seats or even gate check them. I don't think I want to fly with her Radian either.
Should I have both girls use Bumble Bums as we already have 2? Or should we take those and use them to drive to Walmart and buy different seats for the trip only? Should I get 2 Evenflo hbb or graco turboboosters and take them with us by carrying on the nbb portion and packing the backs with clothes? Should I get a lighter harnessed seat for DD5? What would you do?