Bags for travelling with High Backed Boosters?

[TheGreatestAtuin]

Any advice on how best to package/wrap high-backed booster seats to go into the plane hold please?

We have hired a car but not the car seats as they were £70 (per seat) to hire, which I think is mildly ridiculous given I could buy a new seat for less than that. And the last time we travelled and did hire a seat it was the most rickety car seat I have ever seen, absolutely filthy too.

As we can check the car seats into hold for free, I've decided to take our own.

But trying to work out the best way to package them. I'd prefer not to spend lots of special bags for them if possible. I was thinking of getting some super large clear bin bags and cable tie the top?

No idea but have the same question so bumping this for you!

We did buy actual bags for ours which I’m sure were £20-30 each. They could also be carried on your back which was bloody uncomfortable, to put it mildly…. I have heard of people wrapping towels round them, etc, but we took no extra precautions and it was fine.

Order the car seats online, keep the boxes they are delivered in and use that. Bring some parcel tape in your luggage to seal the boxes at the airport and a biro or pair of nail clippers with the little nail file attachment thing to open them at the other end.

I did once put a high back booster through airline baggage with nothing protecting it, and it got damaged. The queue for complaining about it was totally ridiculous, we were exhausted with an exhausted hyperactive 6yo in tow and it was just a £30 seat so we used it for the drive we were about to do (broken side facing away from the door) and then replaced it. Annoying, so I would try to protect them a bit if possible.

You could look into folding ones, so that they are a bit more protected because the parts can't move around as much. Maxi Cosi Tanza i-size looks good for this, albeit more expensive than £70, but it could be used for future holidays too.

If you are wanting a recommendation for a sub-£70 car seat though I'd get one of the Graco i-size booster seats. The Eversure i-size is a copy of the Joie i-Trillo LX, and the others are based on the more basic Joie Trillo, I believe.

Most people just hand them over at the gate, unwrapped. They go in a special part of the hold and don't seem to get damaged. In fact if you did wrap one in anything not transparent they would probably want you to unpack it, to stop CFs taking other stuff as an extra baggage allowance.

Thank you for the posts/suggestions. In the end I wrapped them in those big blue Ikea bags and used cable ties to secure them around the seats. It was fine and the seats came out unscathed.