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!

I know you said no side-by-sides, but have you looked at the [Valco Baby Twin Slim](http://pyLRJWIwYLZyX36g7i15n9UMWbEPfkgOvO)? It is only 26 inches wide, weighs only 24 pounds, and has a max weight capacity of 45 pounds per seat. It is also compatible with 1 car seat, but I am not sure which car seats it is compatible with. It is decently expensive to buy new, but you could probably find a used one for a good price. I have the Valco Trend Duo, which is a bit bigger, and I love it! I have zero problems getting it through doorways, between aisles, etc. Valco is very good at making strollers narrow enough for daily use.

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

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!

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

Valco baby trend duo. I hated the vista and stopped using it too

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!

Correct, most side by side doubles fold in one piece with one or two steps (ie push a release button then grab a folding strap, or similar mechanisms). My Valco snap duo trend folds with one step that takes one hand- it’s great. Some are bigger than others when folded, some heavy duty double joggers especially can still be pretty big when folded up. But with limited trunk space (I need the third row up in my midsize SUV) my double is much easier to fit than frame + 2 seats.

Re: car seats I’m a NICU CPST and I really dislike the way the Mesa V2/V3 position infants. For an Uppababy stroller I’d do a Nuna Pipa (any), Clek Liing, or Chicco Keyfit Max. All have better infant positioning and (in my opinion) a better user experience than any Uppababy car seat. As far as ring adapter vs post adaptors, I used a Nuna Pipa Urbn for my last baby and waaay preferred the ring adaptor over post style adaptors. It was much easier to pop things in correctly in one shot, vs fiddling with both sides to line it up perfectly with both posts. Re: strollers I’m a twin mom and hoped that a vista style stroller would be my one and only. LOL. It was great in the infant car seat days as basically a very fancy frame stroller for their Liings. Aaaand within like 48 hours of switching them to convertible car seats I ordered a side by side stroller (Valco snap duo trend) with rush shipping. 😂 Double mode with two stroller seats meant unfolding the frame, attaching both stroller seats, then unbuckling the babies from their car seats and re-buckling into the stroller. And reverse the process to get back in the car. It felt like it took forever. A relatively lightweight side by side stroller with a one-piece/one step fold was a huge upgrade. So get the vista if you like it but be prepared to need something else for a new sibling if you find the double mode to be as inconvenient as I did lol. My daily stroller is a Bugaboo butterfly, which is technically a travel/compact stroller but is hardy enough to comfortably handle anything I’ve thrown at it, except like gravel or grass. Broken sidewalks etc are fine. The car seat adapter situation is a small drawback (see: post adapters) but I love the stroller itself enough that I still put up with it (or just laid my baby in the reclined stroller seat from early on for longer outings). So I’m partial to the versatility of a well made, high quality compact stroller that can handle heavy daily use - the Minu may or may not be as hardy as the butterfly but that size is what I like best.

No, there aren’t any convertible car seats that attach directly to a stroller like infant car seats do. When we travel I stack our lightweight travel car seats on top of the butterfly but they aren’t attached to anything - and then the kids walk/I wear the baby. But there are a ton of different hacks for lugging car seats through airports and different people prefer different options (my sister has a little cart that she straps her car seats to and pulls my nephew around the airport like he’s another suitcase lol) - I just have a million kids and usually fly alone with them, so a lot of the cutesy solutions just don’t cut it for us. With the butterfly, I can roll it directly down the aisle onto the plane (unless it’s a very small plane), install car seats, and then fold the stroller and put it in the overhead bin before they’ve started general boarding. 🤪

Yes, I have used it for 2 kids- one of my twins is disabled so he used it after his twin stopped riding in the stroller, from age 2.5-4ish and then I now have a 1.5yo who has used it daily since birth. My twins’ double stroller was the Valco Snap Duo Trend which I also LOVED - it’s a full size double with all the features and smoothness etc that you’d want, while still being very lightweight for its category and easy to maneuver, fold/lift into the car, travel with, etc.

Valco baby trend duo + bassinets. Newborn up to 4 years old. Lightweight, "Disney compliant", super easy to collapse and unfold. Best decision. No regrets.