Guava Family - Roam Crossover Stroller

Love the guava, use it almost daily for the past two years on some pretty rough terrain and it has held up. Airless tires are the best.

We had the Chicco cleartex infant seat and now have the Chicco cleartex rotating seat and love it! If you decide to go with a jogging stroller, we are obsessed with our Guava stroller! Have used it twice a day for over a year and it is still good as new!

We have the Guava and love it! We had the car seat attachment as well and it worked out great for us. It’s supposedly the smallest of the jogging strollers, and it does fold up nice and neat, but it’s still quite heavy and cumbersome to fold and carry around, so we still ended up getting a compact travel stroller (a Zoe), especially because I don’t think the Guava would be practical for air travel. Just want to point out that you definitely don’t have to get more than 1 stroller to start! You can always get a jogger and see how it works for you, and then add a travel stroller if you feel you need it later. If I had to pick just 1, I’d definitely pick the Guava over our travel stroller for everyday use though. 

You can buy a stroller frame that's essentially a car seat holder on wheels for very cheap. There are lots of options.  For myself, I love the Guava stroller for easy travel and slightly more amenities. It comes with a car seat adapter for newborns. Honestly don't bother with the bassinet.

Depends how your going to be using your stroller. If your going to be walking/jogging down that dirt road regularly or be in rural areas a lot, your gonna want some sort of jogger stroller or something with inflatable wheels. If your going to keep it in your vehicle and use it for when your going shopping in the city, going out to eat, and use it for an urban sort of lifestyle, with tad bits of times you walk the stroller on gravel, grass, etc, maybe a good all terrain full stroller with good suspension like Uppababy Cruz, Nuna Mixx Next, Bugaboo Fox 5. If you want something more budget friendly in this category maybe the Chicco Corso or Bravo stroller,Graco Modes Nest 2 grow. Jogger strollers include BabyJogger city mini gt, Thule Urban Glide, Guava Roam, Uppababy Ridge, etc. A carseat is 100% necessary, so no matter what, that should be the 1st thing you look at. Find 1 you like, then look at what strollers its compatible with (usually you might have to buy a separate adapter if you use a different brand of carseat from the stroller). You can always look at what strollers already come as part of a bundled travel system with that carseat. But before you even get started looking at carseats, you need to make a decision ifbyour going to use an Infant Carseat (pill bug looking seats), or a convertible carseat (the big ones that stay in a vehicle), or both.

We got the guava roam and we have loved it so far. It folds up nicely, even though the wheels are giant.

In my opinion, yes! We also have the guava roam for when she’s old enough. I prefer a jogging stroller, but I felt like we needed a regular stroller for daily use for shopping and other things, especially with a bassinet feature.

I cannot in good faith steer you away from the guava roam. I have tried a few different ones when I was a nanny and it’s by far the best in my experience if you plan on using it often.

Are you looking for a single or double? True jogging or just all-terrain? If a single, the Guava Roam folds a lot more compact than a BOB! I don’t think it will fit in a backseat though if you’re looking for super small. I have a Thule Chariot (single) and yes it does come apart and fold kind of flat but it’s still a huge footprint especially if you’re using the jogging attachment. It’s not terrible to take apart and put back together but I wouldn’t want to use it for regular errands and such. I love it but it is not small especially if you mean the double. It’s also quite heavy to load and unload. This might sound crazy but if you really have to pile into one vehicle with the dog on occasion maybe look at hitch-mounted cargo carriers that you could strap a stroller to or something lol (you would need a hitch on your car though). I could see the Chariot working with that when it’s folded down.

I had the exact same mindset as you and I have a Guava Roam as my only stroller! I use it daily with my 3 month old with the Chico car seat attachment. It’s the most compact of the major jogging strollers. It’s easy to fold up and doesn’t take up that much space. It fits in the trunk of my Subaru crosstrek, and I’ve heard other jogging strollers don’t fit in the back of smaller suvs without putting the seats down. The wheels are rubber so they can’t deflate. Recently we had a huge snowstorm and I was able to push it through some pretty thick slush and snow/mud when I needed too. I haven’t jogged with it yet but another feature I’ve heard people like is being able to lock the front wheel from the handlebar, which is important for jogging on rocky or uneven ground.

I really like the Guava Roam that we got. Airless tires, shocks, easy fold up, can go on trails, durable.

We had a cheap gracias one and I hated it wheels would get stuck all the time it was very frustrating. If you’re looking into higher end I bought the “guava roam” and love this thing. He’s almost 4 and I still stick him in there when I get the chance.