Taxi with car seat

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Anyone have any recommendations for a taxi firm that has car seats for transporting our little one home later this week? Just a short journey from the Island to Kowloon...
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Having lived here most of my life I've never heard of or seen such a thing. I don't think it exist.
 
It's not very safe, but we put our baby in a sling and I wore a seatbelt. I think you have to have your own carseat. Maybe you can get a used one on Asiaxpat.
 
taxis dont' have carseats. if you want to be the safest possible when travelling by car, you will have to buy your own car.
 
If it's just for one trip, maybe you can ask someone around you who has a baby ? a neighbour, a collegue ? or maybe get a second hand one on Asiaxpat, Geobaby or at Ecomaman.
 
Yes. If you often take taxis I really recommend buying a travel system, because then you can put the baby in the capsule, throw the wheels in the boot of the taxi, then click them together when you get out. You might find one in the classifieds. I didn't have this with my first baby, and really regretted it. With no. 2 we bought a quinny zapp cheaply on ebay which we could use with the maxi cosi capsule we already had. What a difference it made to my life! Still have never used the actual stroller of the quinny as I love our original stroller, but because we bought it second hand it didn't matter. If you put the baby in a sling, be sure to put the seatbelt between you and the baby, as if the belt is in front of you both and there is an accident you could crush the baby.
 
Great news - never heard of this service. I had heard that the YWCA hires out portacots so they would have been my suggestion for hiring a carseat.
 
To be honest, it's irrelevant whether the belt is between you and baby in a sling, or around you both. In an accident, you're likely to jackknife and crush your baby regardless of seatbelt position. Believe me, I've experienced the jackknife effect, having been in a taxi that rammed into a line of traffic in front of it. Thankfully, this was years ago, pre-children. I was in a neck collar for 3 months, had physio on my neck for 6 months, had a full body bruise in the exact shape of a seatbelt - I wasn't even badly injured, but if I'd had a child on my front, I'd have killed it for sure with my G-forced body weight.

It is infinitely safer to have your young baby in a capsule seat, and an older child on some kind of booster (and now that the supremely portable BubbleBum is available, there's really no excuse for saying it's not practical to carry a booster around). We've used capsules, junior carseats, boosters, sit n strolls - anything to protect our children. And yes, it's inconvenient. But if there's an accident, at least they stand a chance.
 
To be honest, it's irrelevant whether the belt is between you and baby in a sling, or around you both. In an accident, you're likely to jackknife and crush your baby regardless of seatbelt position. Believe me, I've experienced the jackknife effect, having been in a taxi that rammed into a line of traffic in front of it. Thankfully, this was years ago, pre-children. I was in a neck collar for 3 months, had physio on my neck for 6 months, had a full body bruise in the exact shape of a seatbelt - I wasn't even badly injured, but if I'd had a child on my front, I'd have killed it for sure with my G-forced body weight.

It is infinitely safer to have your young baby in a capsule seat, and an older child on some kind of booster (and now that the supremely portable BubbleBum is available, there's really no excuse for saying it's not practical to carry a booster around). We've used capsules, junior carseats, boosters, sit n strolls - anything to protect our children. And yes, it's inconvenient. But if there's an accident, at least they stand a chance.

Yes, I could not agree more. I had my first car accident last year when a car pulled straight out in front of me and we hit it at 30mph - it broke my Dad's collarbone and all of us had abrasions from the seat belts. Car accidents do happen and there is no way I would carry my newborn home in a sling after going through this... the chances of an accident must be thousands to one but how could I live with myself if it did happen?

On the YMCA service - very easy - just $20/day rental fee and a $200 refundable deposit. You don't need to be a member or take any documents.. just turn up and walk away with the car seat 10 mins later. Highly recommended.
 
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