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First, this forum has been so helpful to me just reading other posts so thanks to all who post here. I am trying to decide what to purchase for an upcoming trip to Maui and wanted some input and advice.
We'll be flying about 5.5 hrs, then renting a car and doing moderate driving for 1 week (airport to hotel and back, a few day trips or drives to restaurants). This would be for our son who will be 4 years old; he is about 43-44 in. tall now (the trip is in a few months). He uses an Orbit Toddler car seat (FF) in our main car and Britax Frontier 85 in our secondary car. He has a younger brother who just turned 2 and is 36 in. tall, who is in an Orbit Toddler car seat (RF, probably need to switch to FF very soon) as well. We are trying to avoid bringing 2 of these big, heavy car seats and think the 4 year old will do better in the airplane seat without his car seat. We will bring one of our regular car seats for the 2 year old, which he will use both on the plane and in the rental car (leaning toward the Orbit since it is familiar to him, but if there are good reasons to bring the Britax instead I'm happy to hear them). So for our 4 year old, we are deciding between the following options, in order of what we are leaning towards, but are open to any alternative suggestions as well:
1. Safety 1st Go Hybrid that we could carry on in the travel bag it comes with.
2. Ride Safely Travel Vest
3. Bubble Bum booster (or some other backless booster)
Any suggestions as to these or other choices would be greatly appreciated! I am particularly interested in how each of these compare safety-wise. Note that we would not be using any of these as our regular seat at home, we would be sticking with the Orbit and Britax for that. But we would probably have it become our regular travel seat (1-2 trips per year). Also, our son has gotten car sick in the past, so the 1st and 3rd options have the advantage that he'd be more likely to be able to see out the window.
Thanks!
We'll be flying about 5.5 hrs, then renting a car and doing moderate driving for 1 week (airport to hotel and back, a few day trips or drives to restaurants). This would be for our son who will be 4 years old; he is about 43-44 in. tall now (the trip is in a few months). He uses an Orbit Toddler car seat (FF) in our main car and Britax Frontier 85 in our secondary car. He has a younger brother who just turned 2 and is 36 in. tall, who is in an Orbit Toddler car seat (RF, probably need to switch to FF very soon) as well. We are trying to avoid bringing 2 of these big, heavy car seats and think the 4 year old will do better in the airplane seat without his car seat. We will bring one of our regular car seats for the 2 year old, which he will use both on the plane and in the rental car (leaning toward the Orbit since it is familiar to him, but if there are good reasons to bring the Britax instead I'm happy to hear them). So for our 4 year old, we are deciding between the following options, in order of what we are leaning towards, but are open to any alternative suggestions as well:
1. Safety 1st Go Hybrid that we could carry on in the travel bag it comes with.
2. Ride Safely Travel Vest
3. Bubble Bum booster (or some other backless booster)
Any suggestions as to these or other choices would be greatly appreciated! I am particularly interested in how each of these compare safety-wise. Note that we would not be using any of these as our regular seat at home, we would be sticking with the Orbit and Britax for that. But we would probably have it become our regular travel seat (1-2 trips per year). Also, our son has gotten car sick in the past, so the 1st and 3rd options have the advantage that he'd be more likely to be able to see out the window.
Thanks!