To box my egg pram up to avoid airline damage?

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We are going to Spain from UK with easyJet when DC1 will be 5 weeks old. We will be taking our beautifully stunning and expensive egg stroller with us. I have read online that you can take it free of charge and it will be put in the hold but naturally, I'm really worried about potential damage.
Would it be ok to box it up and check it in properly when we get to the airport? would I have to pay to do this?

Any experience or advice would be gratefully received!

Before anybody suggests it, getting a cheap one to take is not an option I would like to explore.

Thanks

Get a Yoyo or babyjogger equivalent that can be taken in as hand luggage and are suitable from newborn.

Isn’t it a bit chavvy to own an expensive pram?... Icandy, bugaboo type brands

Oh the ‘I just pulled an old Maclaren out of a skip’ brigade are here.

Each to his own. It’s not exactly a crime to spend money on something you like and can afford.

And isn’t the C word banned on here?

No idea laurie But Icandy in particular seems to be pushed by the chavs round here, often taken out of their Audi or BMW

OP you are heinously up yourself, aren't you?

Your last reply is gobsmackingly awful.

'I'm sorry you struggled' is just about as nasty as it gets.

Babies give not a field of flying fucks which godawful expensive carriage they've got. They need their mum, that's it.

If you continue to treat parenthood like London Fashion Week, you will create one fuckton of unnecessary work for yourself and your children. Paying to fly an expensive buggy around is not benefitting your child in any meaningful way.

Good luck to you.

I took a pram on easyJet. I put it in a travel bag, padded with bubble wrap. It was fine on the way there, but it was badly damaged on the return journey. It looked fine but the frame was badly bent, so we couldn't even put it up. We didn't notice until we got home. We paid for the repair but were without a pram for over a week. I ended up buying a cheap one to tide us over, and used that for future flights.

@ the "I just pulled an old Maclaren out of the skip brigade"

So true.

We spent £1k on our pram and it's lasted 3 kids. The chassis has become damaged [twice] and it's been replaced quickly and without hesitation. It was a limited edition and is still in ok nick so I'll probably get a few hundred quid back for it when we are finished.

We spent so much on a pram as we didn't have a car (so pram was going to be used all the time) and we had the cash back then.

It's been an investment.

A few years ago I was very early for a flight from Orlando, the earlier Gatwick flight was boarding I could see out of my window all the prams being thrown down outside stairs some were literally bouncing 4 times before getting to the bottom,

Moral of the story take a cheaper pram

We took both our boys away when they were only 8-10 weeks old. First time round I bought a cheap McClaren. It was lie flat so suitable for a new born but he looked so uncomfortable I felt sorry for him for the whole 2 weeks.
Baby number two we had a Bugaboo at the time and I bought the travel bag and it was fine. It probably went on about 15-20 flights before I sold it and was never damaged. He was so much happier and looked comfier too.

And for what is worth I ALWAYS look at what pram a baby is in ! Not in a judgement way I just love prams ! With only 2 babies I think I had 12 altogether !!

It was a limited edition

A limited edition pram ??? 😏 😂😂
Whatever floats your boat...

You must realise that for most people there is a HUGE sensible middle ground between the £1000 designer prams and the 'just pulled it from a skip' prams.

‘arf at the Top

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‘arf at the Top Gear ‘turn on a sixpence’ and shrewd investor Limited Edition pram buyers.

It's very likely to get damaged. Get a cheap lie flat buggy. Your baby won't care.

Everyone know you don’t judge someone by their pram or car . It’s the house , always the house !

Just buy a cheap second hand buggy. Recycling centres so it dirt cheap.

Your newborn is fine to go in a buggy as long as it reclines backwards

If you're going home to visit family and friends, can you not ask them to source you a pram etc. for the time you're there? I plan on visiting my Aunt in Spain when the DC1 will be quite young but I'm hoping she can sort it out with friends to borrow what we need.

‘arf at the Top Gear ‘turn on a sixpence’ and shrewd investor Limited Edition pram buyers

If you want to bludgeon the stubborn McClaren with the wheels that keep sticking around corners, be my guest my love .

I don’t regret a penny I spent on a bugaboo.

Our car on the other hand is a mumsnet approved 9 year old battered Volvo.

OP, I really hope that your buggy survives.

If not, you may find you need to buy a replacement while away - or when you’re back - which could cost more than spending £50 now.

Each to their own ...

I have a silver Cross pioneer, didn't get much change out of a grand (my mother bought it for us) its two years old, looks brand new and will do any subsequent babies/toddler etc. I love/d it. I definitely, definitely wouldn't take it on a plane, because it will get thrown about and possibly damaged.

It's not so much about the pram as the sniffy way OP has responded. And how daft it seems to spend a load of money on buggy bags/packaging /excess luggage and not just get a less expensive buggy for this instance, but that's her choice. And the way she comes across with patronising arsey comments about other people's experiences of parenting when she's still gestating the one she's got and very clearly has not a clue about the reality of having a newborn.

Mine managed just fine in a McClaren Superdreamer, and then in a second hand Silver Cross double buggy, when ds2 came along.

I did have a proper pram for ds1 - I dreamt of. Silver Cross coach built prom, but couldn’t afford one, so I had a SC soft bodied prom. Ds1 hated it. I had visions of wheeling him round town whilst he napped, bringing him home, and him staying asleep - that was why I chose a really well sprung pram - sadly, despite all my careful preparation for all eventualities, ds1 not only didn’t sleep in the damn thing - he screamed solidly until taken out. He only went in it once without screaming, and I had to prop him up in a sitting position, which wasn’t safe for a newborn, so we put him in the McClaren instead - and once he could see around him, he was happy. He slept in there too - wherever I took him - until we crossed the threshold of our house, when he’d wake up as if he’d heard some sort of alarm.

All of which goes to,show you can prepare all you want - the baby may have different ideas.

Oh, and my poor deprived cheap-buggy babies survived their childhoods and have thrived with no immediately obvious lingering trauma from the cheapness of their baby-transport.

OP. I know you think you have everything thought our, many of us did but the reality is so very different when I was pregnant I thought by week 5 I would have it sussed, the reality was my baby was 2 weeks overdue so was only 3 weeks at the 5 week mark. She was struggling to feed and was very sick, she only slept 20 mins at a time and I was still recovering from from a difficult birth. Tbe most I could do was walk to tne shops, I could push the pram after I had been back to tne shop to replace it as the first choice didn't suit my needs. Yesp ore birth I had it all worked out, the reality was very different. Best advice I can give is don't over think things and just go with the flow after birth because your baby will be different to how you imagine now.

crunchymum I think I’d rather be in the ‘i got mine out if the skip’ brigade (I actually got it from a charity shop) than spending £1000 on a buggy that had to be sent back twice. And wtf is limited edition?!

Also, it doesn’t sound like a very crunchy mummy thing to do! buying 2nd hand is clearly better for the environment?

Solution is simple, buy cheap pram and this sticker...