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Car seats for infants after air travel

JTsyo

JTsyo

Lifer
Do rental companies have seats to rent with their cars or do you have to check car seats on the plane?
 
you can check them or rent them from the car place or simply go to the kid store and buy new ones when you get to where you are going (if you can)

that last option is actually cheaper
 
buy the zip up travel cover for one and check it as baggage.

You can fit a bag of clothes on the seat, inside the cover, to save on the amount of bags you need to check
 
You can probably ship one UPS to your destination cheaper than checking one...not sure who would receive it though...
 
We rented them through both Hertz and Avis in the past. Was pretty easy.

Don't discount the advice to looking into buying when you arrive. When the kids got a little bigger we bought booster seats a couple of times for <$30 each, way cheaper than renting through the agency. We just left them in the car at the end of the week.
 
Enterprise has always had them available for me. It's around $5 a day and is about a wash price wise from checking them and easily more than worth the hassle of dragging another friggen thing with you.
 
well we probably won't have to pay extra since we have 5 tickets (4 adults, 1 kids, free infant) and are only going for a few days. I'll have to see if I can bundle the booster seat and car seat into one package.

For those that buy, how do you get from the airport to the store? Just hold the kid?
 
JTsyo said:
For those that buy, how do you get from the airport to the store? Just hold the kid?
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When they were old enough to sit up in a seat and be buckled in we bought boosters on arrival. When they were infants we just got them through the agency.
 
we've found the easiest way is to just check in the car seats. that way they are there at baggage claim and you know they are already adjusted for your kids and they are used to them. when ours were smaller they used to sit on them in the airplane seat.
 
I just put my kids in the truck of the rental car and let them have fun going over the bumps.
 
Why not take yours and gate check it? We always gate checked ours and/or the stroller. Easy to do.

Gate Check = checking it right before you board the plane.
 
D1gger said:
I just put my kids in the truck of the rental car and let them have fun going over the bumps.
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Watch out for exposed metal on the underside of the truck door. Last time my kids rode in truck hit a huge bump and bam! my kid's impaled to the underside. Luckily we stopped half hour later so wasn't that bad. Shocked me opening the truck cause his body lifted with the door and his neck bent back in awkward direction lol thought the door was stuck.
 
You can for free check in a car seat or any other piece of baby safety equipment; the airline will even put it in a plastic bag for you to ensure the seat belts don't get snagged on anything. Gate check your stroller so that you can keep your little munchkin in it until the last minute; note that it will need to go through the metal detector at security and the gate agent needs to put a tag on it for you before leaving it at the end of the jetway.
 
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