A stokke Xplory?

They are lovely, I would love one bit I'd need a tiny baby to go in one really

Was just coming on to say Stokke Xplory!

Went to look at one the other day, have to say I'm not 100% taken on the looks but I just love the idea of having my baby up high and facing me like that while I'm pushing it around. And then can think of dozens of benefits when they're toddlers.

And they come in lovely colours!!

I think it looks like an office chair DH saw one for the first time the other week and was gobsmacked!

I think they look like high chairs you push around

lovely colours though

They're hideous, but far and away the best buggy you can get IMO if you live in an urban environment. My 2 year old still loves his - the thing's massively adjustable so it grows with them, so to speak. Keeps him well away from car fumes and strange dogs, too.

I really feel like this is the emperor's new clothes of buggies. urban envirnoment? have you ever tried to take this thing on a bus? or carrying it to get on a tube? or folded it for the boot of you car? or walked it along an uneven pavement? it also has no decent subshade and very little storage space! i consider it impossible to lead an urban life without doing these things on a regular basis, and the stokke isn't very good at any of them. the bugaboo bee is a great urban buggy, as is the maclaren (xt and quest) and the BJCM.

I always felt it borrowed something, design wise, from a shopping trolley or hospital drip

I have one. Admittedly it looks very odd, but I couldn't care less about that. It's a brilliant position for the baby. No problems with it here, but we're not very 'urban'. Do use buses though with no trouble.

Can I (before I make the mistake of selling mine and then wanting it back again), how does it work with a toddler ? My concern is lifting them into the seat, I think my boy is going to be huge frankly and the thought of having to raise him that high with legs kicking as they do is a concern.

i had one. and sold it for more than i paid for it. it is brilliant for urbanity as it is very nippy and narrow, no getting stuck in doorways.

mamatomany you can lower it so he can get in and out by self and you won't have so high to reach. outward facing i mean.

i kept it till ds was about 3, when i got a second hand cheap thing, i expected him to walk by then.

"I really feel like this is the emperor's new clothes of buggies. urban envirnoment? have you ever tried to take this thing on a bus? or carrying it to get on a tube? or folded it for the boot of you car? or walked it along an uneven pavement? it also has no decent subshade and very little storage space! i consider it impossible to lead an urban life without doing these things on a regular basis, and the stokke isn't very good at any of them. the bugaboo bee is a great urban buggy, as is the maclaren (xt and quest) and the BJCM."

Um, yes. DS is 26 months and I've had it since a week before he was born. It's going strong. I had cripplingly bad SPD as long as I was BF and it was a complete lifesaver for me, as it was easier to walk pushing it than it was without. We use buses all the time without any issue, and we have 8 stone steps up to the front door which he has been bumped up every single day without any issue. I've dismantled it regularly to fit into a car, which is a faff, but no more than the Cameleon, and Cambridge/Cheltenham don't have the most even pavements on earth so I certainly don't agree that it's hard to push on those (unlike the Mclaren, which IMO is utter hell). As to no decent storage space - huh? The bag is huge and the nappy bag straps on as well to the stem and takes a hell of a lot - snacks etc as well as a change of clothes. It fits loads more than the Maclaren, which we got for a holiday as we didn't want to risk trashing the Xplory. Now that is an awful biggy - stupid little wheels kept getting jammed in cobbles, no storage to speak of because anything stowed under stuck into DS's bum, handles so low down it hurt my back, and DS (who is happy as a clam in the Xplory) hated it as he was front facing and low down, so he couldn't see anything or talk to us.

Agree the Xplory is shite on the tube, though, it's the major downside. It can handle a few stairs no problem, but the tube tends to be a lot more than a few! The Bee is what we'd have chosen for London, as you can carry it over one shoulder.

PieMinster - I think it looks like a bastardsed office chair, made into some supposedly hi-tech gadget, on a really cheap sci-fi made for some satellite channel with hardly any viewers. It is undeniably vile to look at. But... it really is a fab buggy, IMO.

My mother was so opposed before we got it. Now she says it's the single best thing we ever bought. I love it, and so do most people who get them, it seems... though apparently not all!