Joie - Kava & Rue Travel System

We’re also going with the joie ginger for the exact reasons you mentioned. It seems easy to use, grows with baby, and looks just as nice as the other strollers but without the much higher price tag. We’re getting the rue instead just because our car situation is different and we want to prioritize a lightweight carrier. Also OP- Target is where we “tested” the joie too. Ours didn’t have the exact ginger + rue setup we were looking for, and they’re roped to a post so tightly you can’t push it more than a literal inch 🥲 So I feel you there. But they had the color we wanted and it was good to play with it a little and see the quality in person. Besides that we’ve just watched a ton of videos online of people testing them and just using them in every day life.

Joie travel system is made by the same company as Nuna. They are almost exactly the same thing. I love ours and we saved about a grand getting the Joie instead

I love my Joie travel system. It’s made by the same parent company as Nuna and it’s really nice and sleek looking but much more affordable. We bought it with our completion discount and saved extra money. It’s not a swivel car seat but it’s a latch car seat so it’s very easy to get baby in and out of car. I just bought a diaper bag from Target 🤷‍♀️ I think social media makes you think you need something fancy but really just any diaper bag works

I'm personally buying the joie ginger and rue travel system, and to be completely honest I chose it because I couldn't find an extra carseat base for the graco travel system I wanted 🤷🏾‍♀️. I spent months refining my registry and by the time I got to the carseat/Stroller I was just over it and picked one that had good ratings, was cute, had a video on how to put it together, and had an extra carseat base I could buy

Same! It's well priced, the bassinet converts to a toddler stroller seat, and it has the adaptors to use the car seat with the stroller. Plus good safety standards!

I have the ginger xl and rue!! Love them! I also bought the 360 car seat for when he is older! Just as stylish as the nuna but without the price tag

I just got the joie hazel and rue and really love it. I see a lot of similarities between the joie stroller and Nina stroller.

It’s going to be ok! It’s very overwhelming out there when it comes to strollers and car seats but what I learned is: 1. You NEED a travel system, it’s so important. Something that’s easy for you to take baby straight out of car and just snap into stroller and go. 2. There’s a really good travel system (great quality stroller & car seat at target called Joie) that I highly recommend because it comes with a car seat and a bassinet that converts into a toddler seat later on. 3. Only go for the convertible car seat once baby is past a year because it’s more convenient to be able to snap baby’s car seat into stroller while your on the go for that first year.

We LOVED the bassinet/pramette on ours. We got the Joie travel system - not a bad price! So sad when our son started rolling around and we couldn’t use that configuration anymore. ☹️

The bassinets are only nice for a maybe the first couple months? 4 months at most in my experience but it will depend on your baby and lifestyle. My sister’s stroller doesn’t have a bassinet mode but instead lays flat and her daughter still took great stroller naps a few times a week. We had a Momcozy Wiz for the first 11 months and didn’t use the bassinet mode once he could hold his head up when buckled. We recently upgraded to a Joie Kava. The biggest downside for me is that there’s no way to face baby towards you but again that’s a nonissue after 4/5 months. You could also see what you could find on Facebook marketplace!

I actually really like it! It doesn’t recline flat if that’s important to you. It does take some practice folding but it’s great for the price and I’d buy it again!

We have the Joie Kava! For newborns you do have to use the car seat attachment until they get better head control as it does not lay flat. It’s technically a full size stroller but it folds fairly compact (fits very well in my Honda CRV) and is manageable for me to use by myself. I’m 5’1” and most full size strollers are just heavy enough to be a hassle when I’m by myself but this one is light enough for me! The selling point for us was that you can fold it regardless of what direction the seat is facing, this seems pretty rare among reversible seat strollers and it’s such a great quality of life upgrade.

I got the Joie Ginger and Rue and love it. Also have a wrap carrier that I use if I want to run in somewhere quick