Bugaboo Donkey?

[Cocolove]

Bugaboo have an international warranty and there is a website called babyshop you can buy the donkey from and it is only 26Euros flat rate postage...most of the ladies on the bugaboo pramaholics page have bought their donkeys there and had excellent service......around $1300 for the duo and I think under a grand for the mono.....just sayin........

oh and I ended up getting it for $1400 and 3 months layby!

[Bloom]

I am a big bugaboo fan! I have the old style bee and love it (though the newer ones look cool).

I sometime hope that I have twins so that I can justify getting a donkey... just had to get that out.

[Amy_jellybean]

oh and I ended up getting it for $1400 and 3 months layby!

Wow thats awesome TTB!!! Where did you buy it from?

I just had a look for baby shop and it keeps coming up with the Australian one so I think I must be looking at the wrong thing?

[Cocolove]

Wow thats awesome TTB!!! Where did you buy it from?

I just had a look for baby shop and it keeps coming up with the Australian one so I think I must be looking at the wrong thing?

I got it from Mother World in Geelong

[PumpkinZulu]

Just bumping this thread. It's with great sadness that I've almost conceded that we will have to sell our gorgeous, beloved Stokke, and in my hunt for a comparable double pram, the Donkey Duo has been the only one I would even remotely consider buying. I am pretty devo to be selling the Stokke, I live it to bits and I'll really miss having bubs up high, but it's just not realistic for me to imagine carrying either DD (who will be 18 months) or the newbie while the other chills in the pram.

Does anyone have the Duo? What do you think about it? How does it handle? Also, can the toddler seat face backwards as well?

[TeniBear]

Both seats can be turned either way I had fun playing with one a few weeks ago in Baby Bunting

[PumpkinZulu]

Good! DD and baby must be facing me, that's a biggie for me, so there's one tick for the Bug. I'll miss the height though (boohoo ). I like that it can convert to a single(ish) pram for when I am carrying piney, which will be a lot in the first months. Luckily the Stokke is quite new still, it'll almost completely finance the Donkey, although I'm not sure how much they are? The Stokke was $1600 new so I'm hoping to get 1k-$1200.

[Cassius2]

that should cover a huge whack of it!

we are also thinking about the donkey. although we are bug fans from way back lol.

my only concern is the width TBH. i am not sure that it will actually fit through our front door we live in an edwardian terrace and i have a feeling that it wont be a wide enough doorway in duo mode (we had a play with the donkey yesterday....TOTALLY fabulous lol). also, my other concern is that we live in northcote and we have all the dinky tiny street shops with dinky tiny doorways. i am thinking that i wont be able to even get in them

arrgghhhh! so hard! it is so beautiful and handles so fabulously, but if i cant actually get into my house...what will i do lol??!!

oh, and it doesnt have a transport bag we do alot of air travel i so dont want it to get smashed.

can someone tell me if their duo gets through doorways and what kind of doorways it doesnt go through?? TIA!

[Amy_jellybean]

PZ go onto the babyshop dot com website. I want the Mono and I looked last night and it was 900 euro so $1100ish AUD inclduing delivery to Aus. Lots of ladies have bought them from there and said they are great to deal with. It will end up saving me about $500ish on the mono so def worth checking it out for the Duo.

xxx

[melbel]

Cassius, the donkey will fit into the stokke pram pack if that helps.......just sayin......

[Miss E]

Does anyone have the Duo? What do you think about it? How does it handle? Also, can the toddler seat face backwards as well?

I've got the duo and I have to say I'm really, really happy with it. It handles fabulously as a single and as a double. You can face both seats both ways too.

my only concern is the width TBH. i am not sure that it will actually fit through our front door we live in an edwardian terrace and i have a feeling that it wont be a wide enough doorway in duo mode (we had a play with the donkey yesterday....TOTALLY fabulous lol). also, my other concern is that we live in northcote and we have all the dinky tiny street shops with dinky tiny doorways. i am thinking that i wont be able to even get in them

We live in an old Victorian house and I had the same concerns as you about being able to get it in the front door. But they are made to standard door size and ours just fits in the front door, and our house still has the original door. I've also not had any problems getting in and out of the shops in our area (old inner city shopping strips). They have the dimensions on the bugaboo website so maybe check the width and measure your door.

[Cassius2]

oh Miss E that is fabulous news!

melbel: haha, yeah the shop assistant here in the states told me that lol! but the stokke bag is like $80 more!! i guess i will have to suck it up and buy it though hahaha.

i have to buy a donkey now, as i won a bugaboo snack tray and my ol' gecko doesnt work with it hahaha.

[Arcadia]

Stalking with secret jealousy! I have a baby jogger city mini double which I LOVE but I wanted a pram where bub can face you...poor kids can only look out. But they love it and it's an awesome pram...

I find handling a double width pram tricky in small shops and I only take mine out to certain shops. If I'm going into the city I take the mclaren and a sling (or dd walks).

My double is also designed for standard doorways and its not getting into shops that's the issue, but often maneuvering around because small shops lack their merchandise in.

[Cocolove]

that should cover a huge whack of it!

we are also thinking about the donkey. although we are bug fans from way back lol.

my only concern is the width TBH. i am not sure that it will actually fit through our front door we live in an edwardian terrace and i have a feeling that it wont be a wide enough doorway in duo mode (we had a play with the donkey yesterday....TOTALLY fabulous lol). also, my other concern is that we live in northcote and we have all the dinky tiny street shops with dinky tiny doorways. i am thinking that i wont be able to even get in them

arrgghhhh! so hard! it is so beautiful and handles so fabulously, but if i cant actually get into my house...what will i do lol??!!

oh, and it doesnt have a transport bag we do alot of air travel i so dont want it to get smashed.

can someone tell me if their duo gets through doorways and what kind of doorways it doesnt go through?? TIA!

I took my Peg Perego Skate in when I went to buy the Donkey & it was no wider than that! Which fits through standard doorways without an issue!

Only issue was the shop assistant told me it would fit my Primo Viaggo capsule and it doesnt, so ill be using my skate frame occasionally too, mainly on weekends when I have 4 kids to lug around!

[Cassius2]

can i just ask how much the donkey (in duo) retails for back in Aus? They are selling them here in italy for $1000 euro which is roughly $1300AUD. but i am not sure that i wanna cart it back home...but for the cheapest price i will

[roses]

About $1600-$2000 depending on the store and sales etc. have known some girls who have bought it online in duo for $1350 delivered

[Miss E]

can i just ask how much the donkey (in duo) retails for back in Aus? They are selling them here in italy for $1000 euro which is roughly $1300AUD. but i am not sure that i wanna cart it back home...but for the cheapest price i will

We paid $2000 for ours, but that was when they first came out in Australia. You certainly can save a heap by buying it overseas, but be aware that it comes in like 4 boxes (we couldn't fit them all in the back of our 4WD). I have no idea how you'd go about lugging it back to Aus on a plane and you would pay a fortune in excess luggage. You could ship it, but you'd need insurance etc and I think it would be exxy. Somewhere in this thread someone was talking about an EU website that ships to Aus for free, that could be a better option.

[roses]

Babyshop - it's in Sweden I think