Which pram for rural/rough terrain & steep hills

[BeckyKyt]

Hi everyone, I'm having my first baby, due in May and looking for pram recommendations for a rougher terrain.

I live in Turkey but am from England and will be having some baby bits shipped over soon. I am looking at complete bundles/travel systems with carrycot, pushchair & car seat.

Where I live has a lot of VERY steep hills, uneven roads, uneven pavements, dirt tracks and cobbled streets so I'm looking for a travel system that works well in this environment. Will also need to have a uv cover because very hot & sunny in the summer.

A friend has recently purchased the Oyster 3 for her nearly 2 Yr old which she said is great (she's been through 3 other Turkish brand prams in less than 2 years - they all broke!). I thought my mind was made up and I'd go for this too, however someone then made the point that its not possible to convert this to a double buggy. I'm not in a rush to have a 2nd baby but I would like to 1 day and who knows when this will be, i might end up needing to change the whole travel system if I go for the oyster...

My parents had a look instore for me at the weekend and the store recommended the Oyster (they also highlighted the fact it can't covert to double bit said its a good system) Silver Cross wave and i Candy peach.

Silver Cross wave looks really nice, just quite a bit more expensive for the whole bundle - I guess you're paying extra for the fact that it is essentialy a double buggy and all the configurations you can use 🤔

iCandy peach looks nice but on the John Lewis website it says suitable for city living whereas the other 2 say city & rural... I know there is the iCandy peach all terrain, but not sure about the air filled wheels on this, some people says it feels bumpy when using on smooth pavements (nearby towns and cities have smooth pavements and we will visit regularly).

Has anyone used either of these systems, oyster 3, silver Cross wave or iCandy peach in a more rural environment? Or do you have any other recommendations which might be suitable?

Thank you so much 😊

I had a peach for a while when I had a baby and a toddler, it was lovely in town but not good off road.
One SIL had the oyster, I used to look after DN a couple of days a week and didn't like it much.
My other SIL had the silver cross and had to buy a different pram for country walks.

My favourite pushchair was the out and about nipper, it was great for town really smooth and coped brilliantly in the countryside. We're in Wales so very hilly often muddy. Really easy to push even with a heavy toddler and on one occasion a teen not wanting to get new trainers dirty.

The icandy all terrain... isn't!
It's a lovely pushchair but my grandson's got stuck in the mud every time we went for really off road walks... lovely for round town though!

It depends on how off road you are going? We bought our grandson a Mountain Buggy Terrain in the end.. (comes with both 12 inch and 16 inch wheels for town or country use). It's amazing.. incredibly light despite being big and goes through ANYTHING.
But it needs a decent car boot (so we have a little umbrella buggy for nipping to the shops)

I just got the baby jogger gt2 pushchair. It's brilliant. Goes over everything. Maneuvers really easily. I'm die they do the bits to add for a travel system.

Baby jogger City mini. I used mine even in the beach as well as fields etc. Plus it has a one hand fold. I could push it one handed plus goes from birth right up to large toddler.

Sure, not die!

Another vote for the Out n About.

Uppababy vista v2 - its great over all terrain and converts to a double. I tried the Silver Cross in John Lewis and found it to be really heavy.

I would get a Mountain Buggy as they are the only good all terrain 3 wheeler that can be parent-facing, with the carrycot plus.

We went for the mamas and papas Ocarro, it's dealt with everything we've thrown at it! Very easy to push over rough ground, smooth on pavements. It's a little on the heavy side but still manageable and it feels solid.

My DB and SIL went for the cheaper not all terrain version (name escapes me) and although it looks similar their wheels have seized within a year of using it and they had to buy something else for when they were going offroad.

I have an Out and About which I love, I find it really easy to push and fold but for really steep hills and rocky off road walking I prefer my Mountain Buggy as it has a hand brake as well as the more traditional foot brake. The hand brake feels weird at first but it is great for stopping the buggy running away from me on steep inclines.

Other options to consider

Id say Out n About Nipper like PP

Stay away from air filled tyres in hot countries... from bitter experience of exploding pram tyres!

Out n about nipper, you can change the tyres for solid ones rather than air filled if you need to. We wished we'd had it from birth, was the best one we used and so good for off road. Stupidly sold ours thinking we wouldn't have another baby, and now pregnant with number two, so will be buying another :)

Out n about nipper. Can't be converted to a double, but they do also do a double, so sell & buy second hand if you find you need a double in future.

Uppababy Vista for mountains / hilly regions. I bought it because when Covid started we were planning to take DS to the Rockies and it was recommended to us by a friend who lives there. While we haven’t managed to go there yet we have used it in the Highlands / Lake District / the Yorkshire Dales with no issues.

Silver cross wave is a beautiful pram. We've loved it. However, it is heavy and big and heavy with only one kid in it. With one in the seat and one in the bassinet it's a beast.
We've had an out n about nipper single and double and the wave. Love the wave for town as it has a big basket and now use it with a buggy board but the nippers are something else. There's nothing they can't handle and have been brilliant. Sold our double now and got what I paid for it (bought 2nd hand and sold on) but the double was ridiculously easy to push and the single also great. Can't recommend enough! Would avoid the stacking tandem prams tbh and just get a single and if you find you need a double cross that bridge when you come to it tbh.

Out n about nipper 100%

Out and about

Hi, sorry to divert slightly, I was just going to start a new thread but will ask here first - this picture is from a (20 year old) book, 'North Lakeland all-terrain pushchair walks' (charity shop find by my mum).

It's obviously fairly rough terrain in the pic, does anyone know whether the kind of ATPs people have suggested in this thread would handle this (or would I need something altogether more tank-like?! And does that even exist now)?

Also had young children in hilly/rough Turkey… mountain buggy or out and about but please please don’t get air filled tyres…it’s got to be your first thing to look for as to whether you can get solid tyres as you’ll quickly get a puncture and not a position you want to be in. Also make sure parent facing up to older (if in a wild dog area as I was and I had a stick down the side of my buggy), also the mountain buggies sell on well and go on sand.