Yes especially with the bassinet attachment. We almost didn’t get a stroller with a bassinet attachment but it got tons of use so I’m glad we did. We found out my baby was growth restricted at 36 weeks and was born small so we couldn’t leave the hospital until he passed the car seat test. Maybe he would’ve passed in it but I don’t know. We have a convertible one too and it just looks so big. We got the Joie ginger and mint and I love it. The latch system is incredibly convenient. I can’t imagine going straight to a convertible car seat and losing the convenience of his travel system
I also have the Joie Ispin 360 and its a great seat. My daughter has used it from 7 months. She's now 2 1/2 years and will last her for another couple. It's rear facing and forward (from mine 15 months but I did longer) uses an isofix connection (different model of car seats use different isofix bases by the way). Also it spins so helps getting them in and out of the car.
We've been very pleased with our joie ispin 360 so we bought another one for baby 2. Spinning is really helpful for getting kids in and out easily - don't write it off.
We got Egg 3 pram/buggy and used the car seat attachment absolutely loads when baby was small.
It was really handy if taking a quick trip in car to shop etc, just lift baby out and go. Our car seat also rotated out to face us so very handy.
We got a BeSafe GoBeyond which fit the Egg adapters. It extended out to allow baby to be a bit flatter when in it.
If you aren’t going to be in and out of the car much, then you won’t have much need for it.
We’ve just upgraded to Joie 360spin car seat which is also great and goes up to 4y.
Theres a couple
Maxi cosi halo - being replaced with the raia (same seat different name). I have this one and love it, it’s extended rear facing, my roughly average 10 month old hasn’t hit the first marker yet so I’m quietly confident it will last rear facing for about 4 years.
Joie 360 - not extended rear facing as per the manufacturer but the marker measurements are close to seats that are so there’s a lot of speculation it would last quite some time in rear facing mode.
Nuna 360 (dunno the actual name) - nuna have pretty bad reviews for head flop caused by the positioning of the head rest, I’ve only looked at it and it looks a lot like their other seats so I would be cautious that it has the same issue.
There’s a couple of fb groups dedicated to AUS car seats - some are a bit full on but I’ve found them overall helpful in terms of getting the harness fit right and install if that’s something you were curious about.
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