travel with car seat

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We had been avoiding the car seat issue on our travels, but are finally being forced to bring one (two if you count the sit-n-stroll) on vacation to Aussie.
Is there a place in HK that sells travel bags for car seats? Found them online in a US store, but that does not help here.
Are they really necessary?
Any other hints for doing this?
I'm really looking forward to having one more piece to carry around....
 
We got ours in the US at Babies R' Us so you might want to check with Toys R' Us. If not, then try the usual suspects - Eugene's and B2B.

I found it to be helpful as the carseats always get thrown around and I liked knowing that there was a little more protection on mine and that it was touching all the nasty stuff in the cargo area.
 
southside852 said:
I found it to be helpful as the carseats always get thrown around and I liked knowing that there was a little more protection on mine and that it was touching all the nasty stuff in the cargo area.
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I'm debating trying to pad the thing somehow as I do not think luggage is treated all that gently by the handlers and last thing I need is a broken car seat.
 
exactly. i meant to say it helps protect the seat from the grime back in the cargo area and since our son was sitting in it, i definitely felt better about it not being handled by all those different hands as well.
 
I can't really help with where to buy car seat bags, but the last time we travelled, we made our own by wrapping the car seat in an old blanket and putting the whole thing in one of those plastic garment bags (for storing winter clothes and the like) which zips up. The whole thing was put in another thick plastic bag by the airline and the airline actually made handles for us out of thick tape. It worked pretty well.
 
We are also worried about the car seat that we are planning to use on our trip to US. We have actually put the car seat in our suitcase which is big enough
 
I don't think it's even legal to use a sit and stroll as a car seat in Australia. It needs to have specific anchors to the car and I think the sit and stroll is just seat belted in right? I'm not an expert but I do know that a lot of car seats that are fine in the US aren't allowed in Australia.

We go back to Australia pretty regularly and we bought a cheap car seat over there that we just leave at my parents' house. But I'd hire/borrow one if I didn't go back very often...
 
The few times that we'd traveled with car seats, the airline (CX) provided us with the bags for the car seats. These are giant-sized thick plastic bags that wraps all the way around the car seats. I don't know if other airlines do this...
 
The costs of hiring the car seats was approaching the cost of buying one, so we bought it.
I don't want to hear the sit-n-stroll is illegal in Aussie. To go off on a tangent, I don't understand why they can't standardize seat laws. Even in the US every bloody state can be different. What works in one could be illegal as soon as you cross the line--ridiculous.
We are looking at the pack it in the suitcase option. As we are trying to also minimize the number of things we are hauling all over the world. Nice to know the airlines might help out, which is rather unbellevable these days.
 
Cathay gives u those huge plastic bags for your strollers as well and we have received our stroller in a good condition
 
We ended up using the suitcase option and it worked fine. The plastic bag was great for the umbrella stroller.

The car seats themselves, however, were a disaster. Due to a recently changed (1 March) law in Queensland, our seats were illegal. All foreign seats are illegal and, according to a driver, a good number of Aussie ones are illegal.
Seems Australia is going the way of the USA, every state with a different standard. You other countries need to learn to not follow the Americans everywhere. A lot of Americans have no idea where they are leading you.
In my common sense view, seats from a reputable manufacturer and a reputable country should be allowed in other reputable countries. You can't have a car seat for every country or every state in a country. Seems car seat manufacturer/rental lobbies are too powerful and not enough politicians have kids.
 
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