I had side by side double prams for my DDs and TBH I loved them. Yes, they can be a monumental pain in the bum in some shops - don't even get me started on how I feel about Dymocks at Morley at Christmas time!! - but IMO so much better space and visibility for the kids and much better manoueverability. I hated the P&T's I tried out with my two and while I'm happy to believe the newer ideas are improved, I still think I would go a side by side if I had to do it all again - so much so I am only just now selling my doubles now that I'm sure I'm only having one this time.

I found a great shop in the US that was really helpful and had great prices for the Stokke, which was then beaten only in delivery amount by the UK place. Google baby on the run. The guy that runs it is fantastic and really helpful with any queries you have. On the website it has a price for the Donkey of uS$1,199 - not sure how that compares to here.

I got my Stokke through a UK buyer on eBay (hence part of my concern about it being too good to be true!) - just did a search of stokke xplory and ticked the little bit in the advanced search search about looking for items available to Australia and she had listings of stokkes. The only checking I've done is ebay reputation and comments so fingers crossed it will be all good. All of the actual "proper" stores in the UK say they don't do deliver to Aus, although maybe they could arrange something if you contacted them direct? There is an online store - google pram centre online uk - that sells Donkeys but it doesn't give the price. They had very good prices for stokke so might be worth an email to see if (A) they'll ship to Aus and (B) what price it is.

If there's anything else I can think of I'll let you know. Likewise if you've got any other queries hit me with them. I looooooove pram shopping!