Chicco - Viaro Quick-Fold Travel System

I have a Chicco and it’s midrange at best and I wish I had gone with a more expensive one. I live in NYC so it would have been enormously important for maneuverability.

When we had our first kid we went with a Chicco travel system and it did the job without costing anywhere close to a grand.

We got a chicco and it’s like $350-$400 for the car seat AND stroller but they run frequent sales and we personally love ours! Swing was less than $100, we just at the moment cannot fathom a $1000 stroller/car seat combo.  Walmart sales, target sales, everything in between. Comparison will forever be the thief of things and I can say my baby will not remember things what stroller 

We love our Chicco car seat and stroller (the stroller handles amazingly well and is super easy to fold up/open) and the oxo dispenser is great too!

We did a Chico stroller and car seat combo for our first. Taking the car seat out of the car and dropping it right into the stroller was great. We took that thing everywhere, even thru airports, on planes, Disney, etc. used it for our 3 other kids as well and now it’s sitting in my garage shelf 9 years later. When we had #2 the UBs had come out and we went to test drive them..the 1x1 configuration made it so hard to turn we ended up getting a citi-mini double. Also have taken that to Disney, and Europe, and still have it. We did end up getting a UB Umbrella for when we didn’t need the double and for easier portability. Still got that one too! Yeah the UB is the BMW of strollers, but you might end up wanting / needing another stroller depending on your needs anyway, so save some coin and use it for diapers!

My toddler is 2.5 and we only have an umbrella stroller that we only use for Disneyland, other than that we just end up pushing an empty stroller around. We got rid of our bulky Chicco stroller soon after she learned to walk. The fact that you have a stroller just for the looks is so ridiculous, especially if you’re scared of dirtying it up. I’ve realized now that kids will somehow gravitate towards the items you hold dearest and break them or mess them up. I say you donate one of the strollers you don’t use as much or list it somewhere if you want some of the money back.

We had the chicco keyfit and loved it! Our daughter had no issue with it. We also got the chicco stroller that the carseat can just click in and out of. Our toddler is almost 3 and we still use the stroller regularly - it’s not too heavy and SUPER easy to set up and collapse. Pregnant with our second and doing the keyfit again.

For what it’s worth, I’ve had both a Chicco travel system and an Uppababy Vista, and I preferred the Chicco. The Vista was smooth but really big, sometimes to the point of being awkward to maneuver. I also preferred the Chicco’s folding mechanism.

A boppy pillow! That thing came in clutch for feeding and sleeping! She’s now 19 months and loves her pillow! She carries it around the house. I also got a free Chicco car seat and stroller and it’s great! I plan to get a second seat for my baby boy due in February. I got a lot of hand me downs for my girl and that worked well. They grow so quick and it was nice to not spend a ton of money on clothes that she wore maybe once. I joined a Buy Nothing group on Facebook and have been able to find quite a few things for baby boy as well. Hope this helps!

-Graco swing the one that sways it’s big but I loved it -Chico keyfit was our stroller with the matching car seat -Graco Turn 2 me , Black Friday sale lol