Chicco Polly

Like everyone else says, its naff as the food gets everywhere. when your busy enough with your baby, the last thing you want to be doing is taking the seat apart to wash (handy though as I often put mine in the wash). The only reason I haven't sold mine on is the price I paid! The ikea one looks much easier/clean to use. Plus what is the point in the height adjustable? I've never used it nor the 'handy basket' on the back. sorry but save your money and but the snack happy one if you really want a chicco.

Altogether too much fuss. Very big and cumbersome so difficult to store. Lots of nooks and crannies for food to get stuck in. I'm afraid I didn't like it at all and sold mine on eBay.

Really don't like it - the tray table is mega high and really really difficult to get on or off. DS was choking yesterday and I really struggled to pull the table out quickly enough to get to him! Really heavy and wide (though v stable)tried my friend's £11 IKEA high chair at the weekend and it was so much easier!

We bought a Chicco Polly 2 in 1 Savannah high chair. Somewhat pricey but worth every penny. Adjustments are very good, easy to clean, great parents tray on leg.

If I had to sum this chair up in a sentence, it would be 'the chair designed by sadists for masochists'. We were given this chair secondhand by someone who still has a young baby. After three months, I know why.

It has some pros - it's very adjustable and the padded seat insert helps you to sit a small baby in it. It's quite stable as well.

But the cons - oh, the cons ! It is a nightmare to clean. Every single surface contains a nook, groove, funnel or tube. The arms alone contain 12 separate holes / indentations into which your baby can poke food. The harness features special grooves which are exactly deep and narrow enough to make them impossible to wipe whilst at the perfect position for grubby fingers to grab hold of. Let's not get started on the seat linings (not easy to wash / take hours to dry) or the underlying honeyconb-like plastic seat which features a labyrinth of grooves and nooks designed to secretly ambush food spills and hold them hostage until they are rock solid. Another poster mentioned she cleaned the seat with a hose - we tried the shower but found that water got trapped in the hollow tubing of the legs and turned stinky and rusty before leaking out onto our kitchen floor.

Other lesser cons are that the tray is quite high for a baby less than a year; (so if self feeding, the food goes under the tray rather than over it) and the 'footprint' of the chair's quite big, though this does make it more stable. It is also not a quick job to detach the seat lining or harness for a clean - too much hassle to do it after every feed, for example.

So if you don't mind hours of cleaning or lots of old food sticking to your chair, this is the chair for you !