Comfiest Birkenstock Style?

[yazzy85]

What's the most comfortable Birkenstock style? I've seen them recommended loads on here and need a pair for holiday. Madrid or Arizona? Or one with a back strap like Rio or Bali?

Mayari by a mile

Oops sorry cross posted.

Given all I wear in the summer

Ordered a pair of Kairos the other day because I needed new adventuring sandals. The thread is making me rub my thighs in anticipation. Oooooh yisssss.

I have mayari, gizeh & boston. It's pretty close, they're all lovely, but I find gizeh the best. Agree that it probably depends on the width/shape of your feet

Hurrah! Another satisfied Birkie wearer

Florida or Arizona. Slide on, stay on, slide off. No nonsense, no toe posts, walk all day.

I can't be dealing with all the flipping and flopping of a Madrid, and I'm not keen on my toes being involved.

The clog styles are also excellent but too warm for summer.

Birkenstocks make trumpy sounds on my feet as soon as they have got damp on a rainy day! From then on it's a nightmare! So embarrassing! Is it just that I should be wearing a different kind?!

My Mayaris were the only shoes I could get on my poor, swollen feet for the last four months of my pregnancy. I wore them nonstop every summer for four years until they expired last year

I'm going to say hang the cost and buy a new pair next payday. It's not like I won't get my money's worth is it?

My life was changed by Birkenstocks - they have me plantar fascietis that I've now suffered with for years (helped by changing to Fit Flops)!!

zizza are the fit flops better than the birkenstocks??

I prefer the styles that have ankle straps, as my feet feel more secure. My go-to style used to be Kairo, but my last pair gave me awful blisters on the soles of my feet. No idea why .

My favourites are Rio, Bali, and Odessa. I also have felt clogs for slippers! Now I just wish I could find the perfect solution to hot and wet weather, that isn't suitable for sandals!

I just had some Mayaris delivered & the straps are too short - I have high insteps & they won't fasten even on the last hole. & the toe strap is very tight.

Really disappointed - they looked much chunkier in the photo.

I have this white pair I got from
TKMaxx ages ago, which fit fine (they also fart, dragonflygirl - all the time )

I don't like the white though & I can't find this style anywhere either to buy a different colour. Can I dye them, anybody?

i love the madrids
they stay on really well even though they're single strap
no bothersome toe post
i walk miles in mine.

Ah I have fond pregnancy and labour memories of wearing Milanos
www.birkenstock.co.uk/Product/58/Milano-Birko-Flor-Dark-Brown-034701/
heroic indeed .

Yazzy - I loved my Birkenstocks but they're too flat for me. The FitFlops are a much better style if you have trouble with foot/heel pain.

I've got some like Tabora ( I think mine were Papillio ones), they have good straps but a nice design

Ah Tabora and Mayari are the same shape

I bought these yesterday [Alyssa [http://www.birkenstock.com/collection-en-category-seasonpapillioSS.htm#close]]

Can't make thread work... They're so comfy and because they have a wedge heel they more dainty... IMO

Relax

nicer shape than the Madrid

VodIsGod I bought the same style Alyssa after your recommendation and they are great! Nice to have two styles I really like, the gizeh toe post and alyssa with a strap. I just wish more colours were easily available, I had to settle on the brown suede from amazon.