Help - Car Seats,What do you do on holiday?

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We are off on holiday in 2 weeks taking our 3year old and 11 month old with us. I'm trying to work out what to do about carseats as we will need to travel by taxi and hire a car on the other side. We use a booster seat for dd which is pretty light but Ds's isofix number weighs a tonne. Can anyone help with ideas?

I have never had to take ds car seat with me but a friend of mine just used to give hers in at check in and she never got charged for excess baggage or anything. She had to take two seats on one journey too and never had any problems. If you are not sure I would give your holiday company or the airline a call for some advice just to make sure you dont turn up only to find you cant take your seats with you. HTH

Check with the taxi company, they may have car seats.

Buy a cheaper seat for ds and Ebay it afterwards.

Have hired a car with car seats at no extra cost for are hol in majorca, i think most car hire firms do this

bump for the daytime lot!

In the past we've booked a hire car complete with car seat to collect at the airport on our arrival. That way you avoid taxis.

We went to Florida and were told the car hire company would have car seats. They did, but they were old & knackered. When I looked under the cover, it really was just a plastic car seat. (no polystyrene stuff molded into the shape of the seat like on our Britax one) It was a stage one style car seat btw.
If we go on holiday again I will take our own car seats.

HTH

We've always taken ours with us. Get hold of some big clear plastic bags to put them in (to keep them clean) and they go through oversize baggage.

DB had hired one in Germany, flight was the last one in, got to the car hire place and the only car seat they had available had sick on it.

Another friend was given one in South Africa and no one knew how to install it in the car.

If you have bought a seat for the 11 month old, I would use the car seat on the plane too. Some old threads on here about safety.

We've done ok with rental cars' car seats in the past. Always in the UK, though, if that makes a difference.

And for our last trip, we used a really good minicab firm, who used some sort of minivan with built-in car seats. Very nice, very easy.

And when both kids vomited all over themselves on the way to the airport, it wasn't our carseats covered in puke .

I've flown with one serveral times. Never had it included as past of luggage allowance and never had to pay excess baggage for it.

Our local taxis can supply a seat if you request in advance and in the one we used home the other week(Ford Galaxy) there was an in built 5 point harness seat which flipped out (although I had to fumble with the fixing in the dark and eventually gave up)or they nronmally have a few to use at the airport taxi office. We hired a seat and booster with our hire car(Avis),and have done so in the past with few problems, outside UK at least.

Thanks for your responses.
Have just had a word with the airline and apparantly they can be taken free. So I'm taking ours.