most comfortable booster?

mayamac · Jun 21, 2011

DD is 6.5 and has outgrown her radian so will be going to a booster full time. We have a couple turboboosters, but they seem a little hard to me. Are the other ones more comfy? I'm looking at the Recaro ProBooster High Back, Parkway or the Monterey. She is a skinny mini, is the monterey going to be too wide?
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steph_s · Jun 21, 2011

if she's skinny yeah the Monterey will be too wide. My skinny 7.5 yo still doesn't fit in one. My DS likes the pkwy sg, but he also likes the Turbo and never complains (and he's a complainer and picky about his seats) even on a recent 9.5 HR drive about the Turbo.

Carrie_R · Jun 21, 2011

How wide are her shoulders? I tend to disagree about needing width for the Monterey, but I'm one of the only ones. I love that seat, and was just attempting to sit in one in my living room tonight to see if I could ride in it... rofl.

Otherwise, I might try the Vivo, it fits skinnies well and IIRC it is comfy.

Or the Turbo, maybe the Elite since I think it has foam?

menfusse · Jun 21, 2011

Mine dd never complained about any of her boosters. She preferred her Vivo until she outgrew it though, over her Monterey. The seat is sloped downward towards the front of it, and it allowed her to have her legs rest on the seat and down into the floor. Sometimes, leggy kids complain if the seat hits their legs in a certain way, but the slope of the Vivo made a big difference for that.

All of that being said, she's backless now because she outgrew highbacks, and doesn't complain about her turbo at all.

mayamac · Jun 22, 2011

oh, sounds like the turbo isn't so bad. I guess I'll leave well enough alone unless I see a good deal on a vivo. She does say that her lizard in line turbo is more comfortable than her crawford turbo. I'll just keep the lizard as the main one.

Kat_Momof3 · Jun 22, 2011

I agree that skinny kids don't usually do well in the Monterey.

However, it IS one comfy booster.

the comfiest boosters for my kids that aren't so wide are the Vivo (and the probooster would probably be, too, but they haven't tried it), the combi dakota (so I assume the Kobuk is, too), and the clek olli (so the oobr should be wonderful for comfort)

of course, they never complained about less padded ones (even the least padded of all boosters, the cosco backless... which is just a thin piece of fabric to decorate a plastic seat)

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