Advice on cheap cabin size pushchairs?

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We are going on holiday next month with 3yo and 1yo and need to take a buggy with us. We currently have an uppababy vista which is great but don’t want to take as it’s so bulky/heavy.
could anyone recommend reasonable prices prams they’ve taken on holiday? All Google searches recommend ones that are £250+

TIA

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I dont know how cheap you are hoping to go but for around 200 you could get a chicco goody plus or baby jogger tour 2, many websites have 10% discount codes. The stroller workshop done an in depth review of both.

I have a baby jogger for getting the bus and love its fold and never had issues with machine washing the fabric.

Usually you can take any buggy up to the plane door and then they take them and put them into the hold and you collect them at baggage reclaim. If you can manage to carry / get the 3 year old to walk to baggage reclaim then it will be loads cheaper to just take your normal buggy. The littlest could go on a carrier to give you your hands free and the 3 year old could ride on a trunkie which you can take on as her /his cabin bag. You can pick up a second hand trunkie for £20.

Normally you can take the pushchair up to the gate and then they put it in the hold, it’s dependent on airport as to whether you get it back at the gate or baggage reclaim (though we have recently flown several times and were given the pushchair back at the gate most times). Saying that, even when I have seen people with cabin sized pushchairs they have put it into the hold .

Pushchairs that are under £200 that should fit in cabin size:
silver cross clic for £150-£185 (colour dependant)
joie pact - approx £160
mountain buggy nano - £200
The new Zummi Eden (I’ve seen it referred to as the EggZ dupe as well) looks to be cabin sized, the dimensions show it slightly over but I imagine that it due to the bumper bar being included. Without I believe it would be cabin sized
Micralite profold is also meant to be good, I don’t know if it is cabin size however.

Get a second hand one, you'll get a better pushchair for the money.

I didn't get a Babyzen Yoyo - thought it was too expensive and bought something cheaper instead - but then regretted it.

If it's a good compact pushchair you'll end up using it for more than just travel.

Also recommend the Stroller Workshop (on YouTube), as mentioned by a PP, for their honest and helpful reviews.

A different idea:

Get an umbrella fold like Joie Nitro / Silver Cross Zest / Maclaren, or something like a second hand mountain buggy/old style Britax B Agile/baby jogger city mini (BJCM) and put it in the hold maybe?

You're paying for the convenience of it folding down to cabin luggage size, and I think if you get the cheaper ones they just tend to be not as well made and you're stuck with a tiny, uncomfortable seat. As long as they fold in one piece you aren't restricted to a particular size when you take pushchairs on the plane. You can often take it all the way to the gate.

I quite liked the GB Pockit but I think in general all of the cabin size buggies are a bit flimsy and a lot of them are expensive for something you'd use on holiday.

Umbrella folds are cheap and cheerful. The Mountain Buggy/Britax/Babyjogger OTOH are like carthorses. I've got an ancient one I paid about €30 for on Marketplace, what I like about these is that they have a really roomy seat. I've used it from around age 2 with DC2 and it survived him climbing all over it and standing in the seat, then from around 1yo with DC3 and I can still chuck the 4.5yo in it if he's being moany and sometimes I put him in it with the 1 year old on his lap. It's a bit heavy to push up and down kerbs like that but it works. With the three wheelers you can even sit the bigger child on the front wheel plate.

Def agree with stroller workshop too - they had a good guide to all the different micro folds recently:

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