Valco Baby - Snap Duo Trend

I recommend a side-by-side stroller. Inline strollers like the one you have pictured, tend to be difficult to steer because the weight of one child is directly over the front wheels. I have the Valco Baby Trend Duo and I LOVE it! You can buy car seat adapters and a bassinet. I personally never used either as the seats lay back flat, so I just used the newborn insert they sell on their website and strapped my baby in. My toddler loved getting to sit next to their sibling! My friend traded her mockingbird single-to-double for a Zoey twin and is much happier.

I have found that side-by-sides are not nearly as large as people expect them to be. The Joie Chive double stroller is 25.5 inches wide. My Valco Baby is 29 inches wide, so its only 3.5 inches wider.

Inline strollers like the Mockingbird tend to be difficult to steer because the weight of one child, usually the older child, is directly over the front wheels. I recommend looking into side-by-side strollers. I have a Valco Baby Trend Duo and love it! I also know people with the Zoe Twin who love it!

They definitely do make double strollers where both car seats can be attached at once! In fact o think that has been the case with basically every double stroller I have looked at. It just usually involves some sort of adapter(s). Personally, I am leaning towards getting a double stroller to use with bassinets and regular seats (currently leaning towards the Valco Trend Duo), and then a separate basic frame stroller for the car seats, something like [this](https://www.target.com/p/baby-trend-snap-n-go-double-universal-double-stroller/-/A-14237532#lnk=sametab). The Valco stroller I’m looking at, as well as a few others I’m considering, just seem to be a bit clunky with car seats, and I can get the second stroller I linked for like $50 on facebook marketplace.

In Australia we used the snap duo but looks like in the usa its called trend duo. Was an amazing pram and I loved it more than the vista we are currently using for baby 3. Doors are made to a fire standard so we never had a problem fitting in anywhere and the wider wheel base made for better manuvering.

We love this one too! It’s one of the lighter options as well

Came to recommend this one too! Love it for my kiddos

I have a 22 month age gap and love our Valco trend duo. We bought the bassinet attachment for when baby was little and the ability to unattach it and bring it inside so baby could stay asleep while I got my toddler inside and settled was awesome. Now it still works well at 3.5 and 22 months old!

Valco baby trend duo. I hated the uppbaby vista, too heavy

For your usage, please check out the Valco Baby trend duo! Lighter than the Baby Jogger and easier to maneuver in every way (including loading in/out of car if you’re solo) I live in an old historic city with horribly uneven side walks and I cannot recommend this stroller enough. I did a ton of research too. And if you walk a lot on uneven / nature walk type terrain, you can get the air tire package or the full sport edition.

Check to see if the Valco Baby Trend Duo is avail near you. I went from guava roam single (all terrain jogger) to Valco Baby double and SUPER happy with it. They now have a ‘sport’ version which is even more geared toward all terrain

I started with a tandem that I used with car seat adapters. It was great for that purpose- basically a fancy frame stroller! Unfold the frame, pop both car seats in, and go. Aaaaand less than a week after my twins graduated from infant car seats to convertible car seats, I went and purchased a side by side stroller (Valco snap duo trend). It turned out that the process of using the tandem stroller with the actual stroller seats was a huge pain for me. In double mode, both seats had to be removed to fold the stroller. So loading the car meant removing both seats and folding the frame, unloading involved unfolding the frame and clicking both seats in then unbuckling the babies from the car and buckling them into the stroller. It felt like such a long, tedious process and I hated it. So I went with a relatively lightweight stroller with a one piece/one step fold and I have LOVED it. A side by side is easier to push and mine is only like 3” wider than a vista or other tandem (because the frame is basically under the seats and adds no width, rather than being outside/next to the seats making it wider). Also noting that I skipped the donkey because it’s heavy and wouldn’t have met my one piece/one step fold requirement (I used it as a nanny and loved it for the walkable city we were in, but avoided putting it into a car at all costs lol). Otherwise it’s a really nice stroller!

For the first year, a used Uppababy vista with adapters for two car seats, making it essentially a frame stroller (skip Uppababy car seats, the strollers are nice but the car seats suck) After the infant car seats were outgrown, a lightweight side by side double with a simple, one step/one piece fold (Valco snap duo trend). Turns out removing both stroller seats to fold the vista frame was not my cup of tea and I liked the side by side WAY better - it also felt like a big time/convenience saver not to have multiple folding/unfolding steps with each load/unload from the car So in hindsight I wish I’d spent less time searching for my ideal color and condition of Vista, seeing as we used the pretty gray stroller seats for about a week before I impulsively, angrily upgraded to the Valco lol

What’s your price range? The Uppababy Minu Duo is probably my favorite Uppababy product and their best executed stroller imo. I have a Valco Snap Duo Trend that I looooove - same situation as you, I was sick of my modular stroller and wanted a side by side that was lightweight, one piece/one step fold and long lasting for tall/heavy kids since one of my twins is disabled. 5 years ago the Snap Duo Trend was the best cross between full size/full features for heavy daily use while still being relatively light for a double. It was our workhorse for years until we finally dropped to one regular stroller rider about a year and a half ago. The Joie side by side double is solid for the price. Some people love Zoe strollers but they’re not my personal favorite - I just prefer something heavier duty. And if you need *really* heavy duty, Baby Jogger has lots of great products and the Bumbleride Indie Twin is a workhorse too. If you’re willing to wait for Black Friday and/or shop around the used stroller markets (Facebook, Mercari, GoodBuyGear etc) you could get a good deal on something relatively fancy!

15 month gap here. I really like our valco trend duo. Nearly flat recline for the baby with “bassinet mode”(or you can buy a bassinet for it), and toddler fits well. Each seat has its own bar that opens on its own vs both seats opening if that makes sense. Kinda heavy but not sure on the weights of other double strollers.

I don’t personally own a Zoe Twin but have used one of my family members and I did not enjoy the experience personally 😅. Like you said, terrible on bumpy sidewalks or ant uneven surface. To be fair you can upgrade the wheels and they did not have the upgraded wheels, so I can’t speak to if those make a big difference or not! Overall though the stroller felt very cheap and I just didn’t really like it. For a travel stroller it would be awesome but for an everyday stroller I am glad it’s not what we purchased. If you are able to find a Valco Duo Trend second hand or on sale somewhere, I’d highly recommend that instead!!! It’s very similar style wise but it’s a lot sturdier and comes with better tires. We’ve really enjoyed it so far overall! It is pricey brand new though so I understand wanting something cheaper.

If cost isn’t an issue I would highly recommend the Valco Baby Duo Trend over the Zoe Twin!! Although I will say that it sort of depends on your day to day or what you plan to use your stroller for. In my opinion the Zoe Twin is perfectly fine for trips to the grocery store, well kept sidewalks, etc. Any rough terrain or even bumps in the road make the stroller very annoying to use (again, just my opinion). We almost bought one but went with the Valco instead. My sister in law has the Zoe Twin and they are currently visiting us and we’ve used it a handful of times and I can’t stand it 😂. It feels very flimsy (to be fair it’s a travel stroller) and anytime it hits a bump it derails the stroller hahaha. They do make upgraded wheels which might help! The Valco baby has been great so far and seems to be much more durable yet still very very lightweight. We push it around our yard all the time and it has no problem on the rough terrain. There are a few little things that I don’t love but it’s light years ahead of the Zoe when it comes to what we personally need for our family :)

FWIW I've been shopping for double strollers lately. Took a look at a Vista V2 thinking it would be THE ONE but I was not impressed with the handling and configurations in double mode. It's very long and heavy, and in double mode with toddler+baby, you need to have the toddler up high and the baby down low further away from you, which is the opposite of what I want. Also, I found the seats to be a bit small for my tall 2 year old. I ended up purchasing a Valco Duo Trend side-by-side double with a bassinet attachment for newborn

This is the one we recently got for our 26-month age gap, love the bassinet attachment and the toddler seat seems to be working really well for our tall 2 year old. Will probably purchase the car seat adapter to go with our Cybex car seat for the first time we fly with both kids

I’ve been considering the Valco Trend. It has the option for a bassinet but it’s actually newborn ready and the actual seat has a built in bassinet mode. The canopy on it is massive and the entire back of the stroller can be lifted away so that the baby has ventilation in the warmer months. It’s also phenomenal on different types terrain. https://valcobabyusa.com/products/trend-duo-2025?srsltid=AfmBOoqyt-1eupzWwEfUEaEXCL6E1Nl4ofizPItzLVjkhYZ409iC-aBm EDIT: Seconding the Silver Cross if you want the option to add a second child later on. This was our first stroller and I would never consider getting a different inline stroller. We got ours in 2020 and it’s still amazing. It’s not as popular as Uppababy here in the states but I do feel that the quality and stroll are superior.