RideSafer - Large Black

I used the ride safer vest with our almost 4 year old in a very similar situation, flying into Florida for a cruise! It was super easy to use and eliminated traveling with a car seat for us.

Under 2? Car seat on plane using car seat caddy stroller in airport. Over 2, check car seat or rely on family to pick up with a seat. We also have used this for older kiddos with a booster seat: https://a.co/d/cMCjgYw Edited to add: all options suck, kids suck on airplanes until they’re like 3.5.

The RideSafer vest is our method, once she got big enough to use it safely. It folds very small into our luggage.

Highly recommend this for short trips where you don’t want to bring a huge car seat https://shop.saferide4kids.com/products/ridesafer-travel-vest?wickedsource=google&wickedid=CjwKCAjwr8LHBhBKEiwAy47uUlGM_tjLZ0jwtqItmMvulB0GupMGPUOgRk3T6XZOo-kR2-QjdIzP3RoCyK0QAvD_BwE&wickedid=&wcid=19163175733&wv=4&wickedsource=google&wickedid=CjwKCAjwr8LHBhBKEiwAy47uUlGM_tjLZ0jwtqItmMvulB0GupMGPUOgRk3T6XZOo-kR2-QjdIzP3RoCyK0QAvD_BwE&wickedid=&wcid=19163175733&wv=4&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20622591769&gclid=CjwKCAjwr8LHBhBKEiwAy47uUlGM_tjLZ0jwtqItmMvulB0GupMGPUOgRk3T6XZOo-kR2-QjdIzP3RoCyK0QAvD_BwE

Ride safer vest for the 4 year old and wheel your carseat on a trolley for the 1.5 year old. We also have a cosco seat for our youngest bc it's so light, but you can definitely get away with not.

The size is based on fit, but my daughter is in this one now and started at 4.5: [https://a.co/d/7EYJKTC](https://a.co/d/7EYJKTC)

I’ve both used a rental car seat (in the US, rented a car) and brought a RideSafer Travel Vest (in Costa Rica, taking shuttles).

For the 4 yr old I would do a rider vest and the 1.5 yr old the Coso car seat, I was able to attach it to our stroller and push around both the kid and the seat at the same time. [https://coscokids.com/collections/car-seats](https://coscokids.com/collections/car-seats) If your 4 yr old is more avg size you could do both, I have a kid the size of a 6 yr old. You just shouldn’t do the vest in < 4 yr old.

We used the cosco car seat one year and it fit well into the little basket at the bottom of the stroller. Now that my daughter is a little older (3) we used the ride safer vest. It worked okay, I think I would have been more comfortable had she been even a year older but it was super easy to store for travel

RideSafer Vest! Such a godsend. We started using itwhen our LO was about 2.5, I think - as soon as she weighed enough to be considered "big enough." Just for travel, like you're saying, but it's also super helpful to have around for emergency Lyft rides or when the babysitter needs to take them somewhere; we still use a normal car seat in our family car. The vest is SO HELPFUL, feels very secure, packs into it's own tiny backpack that can fit in a diaper bag, and LO loves their "adventure vest."

We got the RideSafer vest and it is PERFECT. We started using it at 3ish, or really half a year before their minimum, because our little is extra tall and hit minimum height reqs. The vest is AMAZING, packs into it's own tiny packable bag. We have done multiple trips with it, within our city and outside the state and out of the country, and it fits in any car with no hassle. Clip kiddo into the middle seat and parents can cuddle both sides in a Lyft. It's their Adventure Vest!

I've used them a handful of times, they're certainly not the best and not the ones you would buy for your own kids given that you made this post but they're at least adequate. There are also travel car seats that aren't actual car seats and much easier to travel with like the ridesafer vest but I think that's 2+ year olds