Quicksmart backpack buggy any good?

[FlamingGallah]

Aarrgghhh the joys of needing to push 3 kids continues.

Going on holiday soon, have a BJCM double which we will use for newborn and 20 months old. Our 3.0 yr old walks 90% of the time, but asks to go in the pram when tired or on long walks, and am thinking it might be useful to have something for rushing to gate at airports.

Saw the quicksmart backpack buggy and wondered if it could be a solution? It would only ever be an emergency buggy, but one of us could wear it, or maybe it would even fit in the BJCM basket. I've seen them secondhand for about £60.

Has anyone tried one, are they too good to be true? I can see it doesn't recline, that wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks in advance...

LOL Flaming Gallah! Well done for finding one to try. I assume they are now in the UK then?
Yes, I think they are overpriced for £300, but believe me, ours gets used pretty much every day. Its the one permanent pushchair in our boot.

Tiggy you are really really not helping! I'm having a wobble now and wondering if I should have got one! Yes, they were getting stock in yesterday.

I'm in the market for a yoyo now. Am going to be on a ship for 2 weeks next month and I need a pushchair that's extremely narrow but reclines and could possibly be used as a high chair. Think the yoyo sounds perfect!

Also look at the casualplay livi, it's a bit bigger, a bit sturdier, reclines more and costs less. Am awaiting bestbuggy side by side!

I looked at that, wasn't keen on the look of it. Might be cos the Yoyo looks a bit like the Bee and I miss my Bee. Anyway, I got a bit trigger happy on the paypal button about 10 minutes ago and bought a yoyo . I've never been good at patience!

Well done you! I hope you aren't disappointed. I put my YoYo and Bee side by side and if you ignore that the Bee parent faces, TBH they arent as different as I thought (yes there are some differences but in essence). I was actually quite bemused and shocked that in the end I came down feeling that they were alike when I thought originally that they were very different.

I'm watching with interest... I need to replace my 'car' stroller with something that preferably isn't an umbrella fold. The Yoyo is too expensive. Casualplay looks good.

Would be brilliant to have parent facing too.

I don't know anything genuinely tiny and parent facing, the bee is as close as it gets. The livi is great though. There is the joie mirus, but when parent facing you have the weird backwards steering and I think a combi one coming, not sure on the steering on that. Sometimes they have all swivel wheels and you just lock whatever is the back for the direction you're using.

I've just made DH watch the Yoyo video. He was 'ooh amazing engineering' so maybe there is hope!!

Wait for the Oyster Gem ;)

I have one here on test and its FABULOUS!! Teeeeeenyyyy tiny fold (not far off as small as the YoYo for the chassis), with a choice of parent facing and forward facing "framed" seat for LO's (but its small to store) and then a large fabric add on seat (like the Quinny in some ways but easy peasy to swap over) for older toddlers. My nearly 3 year old is parent facing in it fine - its LOVELY for him, and my rapidly heading for 5 year old (just for testing purposes) has loads of room in the big seat.

I think as far as parent facing goes it really will fill a niche in the market - its smaller than the Bee to store, looks great, has loads of options - not just the 2 seats but also the carrycot and car seat options. I think its going to be fantastic for anyone who has an upstairs flat - especially if you can work out how to put a carrying strap onto the seat unit because (hopefully) the chassis could be in one hand, seat slung on your back and baby in the other arm (although you do need two hands to fold and remove the seat). The bigger seat folds on the chassis.

So, in my car boot there is the YoYo (which lives in there), the Casual Play Livi (which has been used for the last week) and the Oyster Gem (being used this week) - three fab pushchairs - all small folding, all with pros and cons....but the Oyster Gem is more of a 'proper' pushchair IYKWIM. We got stopped by two people today to ask what it was!

Hi, Sorry to jump into this conversation from a while ago but I want to buy the casual play living, having already got the avant as option for when need more boot space and love fact I can still attach my casual play baby car seat to it... So my question is where did you buy from in Spain And is there any difference in the 2013 to 2014 models (noticed this from my search thus far, looks like just different colour options?)

Thanks
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