Do you take your own booster seats with you when you fly to the UK?

[americanlife]

We have not done the UK trip with the kids yet who are 40 and 60 pounds a piece. Anyway we will be renting a car from Heathrow and the cost of booster seat rental is almost as much as the car. It seems more sensible to take our pretty light weight booster seats with us in our luggage. Just wondering if there is a similarity on the booster seat laws between USA and UK?
Any insights appreciated. I do not fancy paying 24 quid a day for two boosters for 17 days!

I may be wrong here, but was there not a law recently in regards to booster seats and high backed booster seats? I think there was a change in the weight a child had to be before using one without a back. I don’t think it related to seats you currently have, just new ones produced?

Anywhoos, off topic. As pp has mentioned, you can get inflatable ones.
If I were you, I’d actually order a couple of cheap boosters from amazon uk and have them delivered to the hotel you are staying in at Heathrow so they’re there for your arrival - cheaper than hiring them without the fuss of having to bring your own over (I’d worry about my own seats being damaged by airline transit).

Jammie bammie that is a great idea- get them delivered to the hotel- and then we leave them in the UK for the next trip and hope next time someone may be able to pick us up at the airport.

Boosters in the UK are really cheap - even high back boosters, you can get for about £30-40 in any Mothercare. And for a backless one you can pick them up in a large supermarket for £5. There are even cheap brands (£20-30 for a full HBB) I wouldn't trust for any other car seat stage whereas the boosters are fine and get good safety results.

If I were you I would drive straight to one of these places, the supermarket will be open 24 hours if it's big enough and the mothercare probably until 6pm or possibly 8pm if near a major city - buy them and strap the children in.

I have taken a high backed booster on a plane and it must have been chucked around because the headrest got bent and broken. Not what you want to try to sort out when you're tired and stressed from travelling.

I don't think Balloon is talking about the UK somehow!