Hi everyone,
I'm new here, have done some reading in the past when deciding on a carseat for DD but only now registered to ask for your advice. DH, DD and I are flying to Poland next week (eek!). Some info about DD in case it helps: she's 6.5 months old, weighs around 21 lbs or so, not particularly tall just chunky.
At home we use a Radian and we have a Cosco Scenera at the in-laws (they are a plane trip away so it's easier to not bring our seat). Sorry, I don't know all the brand acronyms! Anyway we are flying to Poland (LOT airlines) and family will be driving us from the airport to our destination. I only yesterday (dumb me!) found out about what carseat they are planning to bring for us to use for DD - it belonged to my youngest sister who turned 16 years old this year, eek! I clearly recall that it only had a 3-point harness plus of course the age of it is ridiculous. I can't believe they even have it around still (and clearly think it's just fine to use).
So my options as I see them are:
1 - take the bus instead of accepting a car ride (this means some of our plans while there would need to change due to no car travel, plus a polish bus + baby + stroller + luggage is not my idea of fun)
2 - bring our Radian and hope we can bring it on the plane (we don't have a seat for DD) as I really don't want to check it since it's our full-time use seat
3 - buy a Safety 1st Scenera LX (currently on sale for $60 BUT it comes in a bag, no box)
4 - buy an Evenflo Titan (currently on sale for $80 and comes in a cardboard box)
We're in Canada so these prices are the lowest of the low IMO. I don't want to spend more than necessary since this is an unexpected expense. Also, I'm not sure if we will bring the seat back to Canada with us or leave it there for someone to use or for us if we come back perhaps (not with the Radian of course!). The car that we'll be using there is a late 80's model WV Jetta, I'm currently trying to find out if it has lap/shoulder belts in the back seat or just lap belts.
My plan was to go with option #3 but DH was very concerned that it doesn't come in a box and it could have been compromised even during shipping to the store. There is a possibility that we will need to gate-check the seat, though we booked the two aisle seats out of the center 3 hoping no one will want to sit in the middle of 2 people with baby if they can help it.
Sorry for the info overload - just wanted to make sure I include all pertinent info.
So which option would you choose? Something I'm not thinking of perhaps? Please help!
I'm new here, have done some reading in the past when deciding on a carseat for DD but only now registered to ask for your advice. DH, DD and I are flying to Poland next week (eek!). Some info about DD in case it helps: she's 6.5 months old, weighs around 21 lbs or so, not particularly tall just chunky.
At home we use a Radian and we have a Cosco Scenera at the in-laws (they are a plane trip away so it's easier to not bring our seat). Sorry, I don't know all the brand acronyms! Anyway we are flying to Poland (LOT airlines) and family will be driving us from the airport to our destination. I only yesterday (dumb me!) found out about what carseat they are planning to bring for us to use for DD - it belonged to my youngest sister who turned 16 years old this year, eek! I clearly recall that it only had a 3-point harness plus of course the age of it is ridiculous. I can't believe they even have it around still (and clearly think it's just fine to use).
So my options as I see them are:
1 - take the bus instead of accepting a car ride (this means some of our plans while there would need to change due to no car travel, plus a polish bus + baby + stroller + luggage is not my idea of fun)
2 - bring our Radian and hope we can bring it on the plane (we don't have a seat for DD) as I really don't want to check it since it's our full-time use seat
3 - buy a Safety 1st Scenera LX (currently on sale for $60 BUT it comes in a bag, no box)
4 - buy an Evenflo Titan (currently on sale for $80 and comes in a cardboard box)
We're in Canada so these prices are the lowest of the low IMO. I don't want to spend more than necessary since this is an unexpected expense. Also, I'm not sure if we will bring the seat back to Canada with us or leave it there for someone to use or for us if we come back perhaps (not with the Radian of course!). The car that we'll be using there is a late 80's model WV Jetta, I'm currently trying to find out if it has lap/shoulder belts in the back seat or just lap belts.
My plan was to go with option #3 but DH was very concerned that it doesn't come in a box and it could have been compromised even during shipping to the store. There is a possibility that we will need to gate-check the seat, though we booked the two aisle seats out of the center 3 hoping no one will want to sit in the middle of 2 people with baby if they can help it.
So which option would you choose? Something I'm not thinking of perhaps? Please help!