Joie - Spin 360 GTi

Well.. no obviously, using a car seat is. Getting a black cab is probably safer than a regular cab without a car seat like others have suggested. Black cab drivers are rigorously tested and excellent professional drivers, I would trust them to not get in an accident over a random unregulated uber driver :) If your question is what is the safest option it’s get a car seat. I can recommend the joie 360 we have it and have used it in multiple cars easily

I barely used our car seat in the pram. It's safest for baby to be flat so I decided that I didn't want to get into bad habits. I had the Joie360, but used the car seat that came with the pram for the early days. I found the spin really useful as I had a small 3 door and had experience of trying to get a car seat in the back, it wasn't that easy. But the spin meant I could have the seat facing me ready for baby then swivel her to rear face when she was strapped in.

Definitely think it's worth it - much easier to put them in and do the belts up safely with them facing you. We also had to turn our son forward sooner than we'd originally planned due to car sickness problems so it was good to have the flexibility and to decide for different journeys etc. The only thing I'd say is that we have the Joie 360 and it is AWFUL to clean - fine the covers are washable but that doesn't help with the many crevices and fact that stuff is basically funnelled into the bottom inside of the seat, major problem for us with travel sickness challenges! The only way we've found to clean that is to blast it with a shower, which is hard when it's huge and unwieldy, and then means it's out of action while you struggle to dry it for days!

I've had a joie 360 since birth and my toddler is now 3. It's been amazing, and so easy to get a squirmy toddler in the car. Also easy to tighten the straps enough!