Morocco - carseats

[Beautifullettuce]

Travelling to Morocco in 5 weeks. Been warned very unlikely to find taxis with carseats for 7 month DD or 3 year old DS. 'Happy' to have son on knee, but think I should take carseat for our baby. Thing is, don't want to risk our decent seat in the plane's hold, considering buying cheap one to take instead (there's a £25 in Asda at mo). Anyone done this before? What did you do?

Hiya

We took a Britax First Class Si to leave in Syria when we flew there two years ago. BMI told us we could put the car seat on the plane and have DS sat in it as they couldn't guarantee use of their car seats. When we got there, they would't allow us to take it on the plane so we just wrapped it up and it went in the hold - it arrived fine.

Be prepared though for the fact that a lot of the taxis may not even have seat belts in the back - I found this in Syria. This is because a lot of the taxis are old or if newer ones, the common practice seems to be to tuck the seatbelts down into the seat so now I only go in family cars with seat belts for the car seat or use a taxi firm that has a new fleet with seat belts in the back

Have you thought about taking a booster seat for your DS? Ok, its not as safe as a high back booster as it doesn't thread the seat belt, but at least its got to be better than him not having anything and its a major risk to have him on your lap. In an impact, your weight will be behind him - doesn't bear thinking about