Stroller for travelling

abcd · May 31, 2011

We need a lightweight stroller. As I mentioned in my other thread, we are flying from the south to Hawaii. Thanks for all the input in that thread. I finally bought our ticket. It has only 1 layover (miami to lax then lax to hawaii). Our layover is about 2-2.5 hours.

So, we need a lightweight stoller. We have a travel system, but I don't think it's a good idea to bring that huge/heavy stroller. We are buying a Coccoro for the flight (and will be our secondary carseat for my husband's car).

Someone suggested the Combi Flare. I may stop by at BRU today to check it out, hopefully they have it in stock. Any other suggestion? I saw one of those $20 umbrella stoller at WalMart, but they look flimsy with low hadles.

vonfirmath · May 31, 2011

abcd said:
We need a lightweight stroller. As I mentioned in my other thread, we are flying from the south to Hawaii. Thanks for all the input in that thread. I finally bought our ticket. It has only 1 layover (miami to lax then lax to hawaii). Our layover is about 2-2.5 hours.

So, we need a lightweight stoller. We have a travel system, but I don't think it's a good idea to bring that huge/heavy stroller. We are buying a Coccoro for the flight (and will be our secondary carseat for my husband's car).

Someone suggested the Combi Flare. I may stop by at BRU today to check it out, hopefully they have it in stock. Any other suggestion? I saw one of those $20 umbrella stoller at WalMart, but they look flimsy with low hadles.

I would not get the $20 umbrella strollers because I don't think they would hold the car seat and the kid in the car seat. (which is what I want my stroller to do). Get the "next step up" stroller. I know we had a Chicco for a while that we could bungie cord our Marathon/Roundabout50/Evenflo Maestro in that we used to transport car seat and stroller through the airport. It was not made for that much weight and eventually (third car seat we used this way -- when DS was over 2/30 pounds) "broke" a little such that it was harder to push (but still worked). So I'd see about getting something off Craigslist. I had found mine at a consignment store for $10 and so was not too sad after it broke.

I replaced it with a Silver Cross Stroller that I used for our last flight. That was more expensive ($70-ish) and ended up being the only time we used it, so not such a great deal (DS is growing out of strollers and we had another one we preferred using). But it handled the Maestro and his weight in the airport fine.

newyorkDOC · May 31, 2011

What about a BJCMicro. You can find them for under $100 new as they're being phased out. They hold up to 50lbs and it folds with one hand. Or if you can find an old one for sale somewhere, the quinny zapp has the smallest fold I think. It comes with a backpack to put it in.

Jennifer mom to my 7 · May 31, 2011

How old and big is the child?

GoofyG · Jun 1, 2011

I second the baby jogger micro, I have 2 and love them!

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