Recommend Me A Pram

[feeb]

I love my Phil and Ted Dash and bought with plan to have 2 kids close together!!!

Easy to stear, basket ok size, easy to fold just big in boot.

Cant fault it at all but have not yet used with toddler seat!

[~*lilla*~]

We have a valco 3 wheeler, and it's brilliant. It has great suspension, handles well in rough terrain and is very sturdy. It was a bit heavy to be lugging out of the boot after my 2 c/s, but once I got better, it was a fantastic pram.

[mzcatieboo]

thanks hun, well im sick of buying prams..so i wanna get a decent one with the toddler seat option as i dunno how close the next one after this one will be.. but i do like the phil and teds

[Laranna]

Sorry to hijack your thread mzcatieboo..I'm also looking at upgrading my pram and was wondering feeb is the P&T's really easy to fold? We went looking on the weekend and the shop assistant in the baby shop was demo'ing how to fold a P&T's to another customer so I was having a nosy and she either didn't know what she was doing or it was a real PITA. Had to pull the toddler seat off and unzip all sorts of things. It just looked so fiddly.

I'm looking at the P&T's Dash or Vibe and the Valco.

[feeb]

The Dash you need to take off the toddler seat and if in newborn position need to puch it up then its reallyy simple to fold after that, take very little time at all.

The vibe can fold with toddler seat on back but a friend had one and got rid of it as her DD was hitting her head on bar at top of toddler seat and not a super tall child.

[Laranna]

Thx feeb, the height was another thing. We sat DS in the toddler seat on top and his head was touching the sun cover (and DS is on the short side). I can't remember if that was the Vibe or Dash though.

[sas09]

Hi there,

We bought the P&T Vibe and while its not in practice yet I still love it. My SIL has a P&T Sport and I have used it with her newborn and toddler in it and I loved it too which helped with my decision to go with the P&T. I like the idea that the toddler seat seems mroe comfortable for a toddler to sleep in. I personally am not a fan of the toddler seats with no back support as I have seen kids attempting to sleep in them all hunched over. I guess in this case it depends how much you would use it... if its only for quick trips then this style would be ok.

Good luck... its a jungle out there!

[hipmummy]

We have the P&T Vibe. We love it! One of the other ladies was mentioning about the fact that the toddlers head was hitting on the bar? When the extra seat is used for the toddler (our little guy is 2) you push the back of the seat forward and over that bar. Then when the baby is older and goes on the bottom you push the back of the seat under the bar and then it will recline for the baby.

What sold it to us was:
the brake on the handle - so often i have seen toddlers undo the brakes (particularly the valco) and the stroller moving - not fun.

not having to remove the extra seat when folding it down. Imagine trying to pile 2 kids into/ out of the car while having to assemble the stroller - don't think that would be much fun...

The toddler seat on the valco isn't very comfy for the poor toddler - our son can sleep in the VIBE wheras he couldn't in the valco.

With the valco, when your baby is older (6 months) they can't stretch their legs out as the toddler seat is in the way...

HTH.

I know it is very pricey but felt it was worth it... and still do!

[PinkPalace]

Sorry to hijack your thread mzcatieboo..I'm also looking at upgrading my pram and was wondering feeb is the P&T's really easy to fold? We went looking on the weekend and the shop assistant in the baby shop was demo'ing how to fold a P&T's to another customer so I was having a nosy and she either didn't know what she was doing or it was a real PITA. Had to pull the toddler seat off and unzip all sorts of things. It just looked so fiddly.

I'm looking at the P&T's Dash or Vibe and the Valco.

yep super easy!!

i even put it together with one hand and baby in the other arm!

i like it. DD doesnt really like sitting in a pram anymore so i put DSin the big seat and DD stands on the toddler seat at the rear like a skateboard... not what it is designed for but hey it works

[youngmumof3]

e have a valco runabout deluxe and toddler seat and we love it if dd gets tired i just put ds3 in the carrier and dd can lay in the back and have a sleep

[Lisa]

I'm another who looooooooooooves the P&T Vibe. I love being able to fold it all up without removing the toddler seat, and definitely love the brake, although there has been some times where I have bumped it at inconvenient times (such as leaving a lift)

As for the toddler seat being too short, I did find that an issue at the beginning before properly using it, but now DS2 seems to fit in there with no problems at all. I don't know if my DH did something different or if DS has just adjusted himself to other, either way DS loves being in the toddler seat.