Would you take a Bugaboo Gecko on a plane?

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Sorry, this is a very non-important thread, but wanted some advice!

I'm taking my dc to Italy for 3 weeks. dd2 is 19 months and will need her buggy. I want to take the Gecko because it is so easy to push, and the area we are going to is very hilly. Also, it fully reclines so she could use it in the evenings if we go out and she needs a nap.

BUT, it folds down in two rather large parts- the wheels and seperate seat frame IYSWIM. I would need to buy the travel bag to store it in, to put it in the aircraft hold.

OR, I could take the Quinny Zapp which we have, as it folds down to hand luggage size. But it is not a very strurdy buggy, and doesn't recline at all.

Only problem is, my mum will be travelling back with the children on her own, and will have to negotiate the Bugaboo on her own, and she is not very technically-minded so I can imagine her struggling with the folding, taking apart etc. Although that said, she will prob struggle with the Zapp, too!!

Which would you take?

we took our bugaboo. And asked the airline for a bag. They have heavy duty bags you can put your pushchair in if you ask for it. We took the bugaboo to the gate and then the airline took the pushcair into the hold. We had no problems at all with this.

However, I know my mum would not have coped taking it apart either so I guess you may have to do some serious bugaboo lessons.

That's great to now- that they have suitable bags at the airport- never knew that! Although, flying with Ryanair, they will probably charge loads to use one...

Remember that even if you use the Quinny you won't beable to take the buggy on board the plane - you'll leave it at the steps of the aircraft and it'll be left there again when you arrive in Italy. I've flown with Ryanair lots of times and they just ask you at check in how many peices your buggy folds into so they can give you the correct amount of luggage labels to stick on it.

Whether you have a 1 piece or a 2 piece won't change the fact that you'll have to fold down the buggy and leave it at the aircraft steps. I've never been offered bags by the way. i'd take the Quinny for ease of folding.