babies on national express coaches

[cosmicdust]

Hi
I found a post a couple of years old that said babies stay on laps on the coach & you can't use a car seat. Is this still true or has it changed?
If you use a car seat, can you take the baby out on the journey if he screams, poops, is hungry etc.?
Thanks

I think the gist of it is that of course you can take a car seat, but you pay for the seat you are taking up with it iyswim. Have you looked into trains instead? I travel reguarly from Devon to Cambridge and it is the same price to travel by train as on the National Express but much less stressful

we were planning on the train, but I just looked into it and found that the train I was planning on is now a "scheduled bus" half the way.....grrr I love traveling at Christmas

Can you call rail enquiries? I have looked online often before our big trek up country and it has said that there is to be a bus replacement service, but it's never actually been true If you can get a train, it's soooo much easier with a baby than on the bus. I will have dd who is 4 and ds who is 6 months with me this time and even though there are 3 of us I only pay for me, and when ds is awake he will be on my lap and when he sleeps will either be in the sling or car seat. Having said that, if you do end up on a coach replacing a train, they can't make you pay for the seat for a car seat as you wouldn't have had to pay for it on the train?

Thanks littlelamb. We're actually in the US, but I just put my mum on the case to figure it all out. We'll make it some how! Our ds is just under 5 months and it's our first trip home with him. I'm rather stressed about the whole thing!

Tell me about it! Dd's grandparents bought her a portable DVD player in the summer which I was very about but it has been put away for train journeys and I am actually beginning to see the genius of their thinking