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[Closed] Child on the Airport Transfer Bus: should we take a car seat??

GrahamS · 2012-01-31T16:35:56Z

Since threads on parenting and risk taking are [urlen vogue[/url]: The missus and I are off to Schladming (Austria) in a couple of weeks for our boarding holiday and we're taking our daughter who'll be 22 months by then. The rep has confirmed there will not be any child seats available on the transfer coach from Salzburg to Schladming (~100km). Arse! So... do we haul one of our (massive heavy) car seats all the way there just for the flippin transfer, or do we just risk it? It wasn't so bad last year as she was still in a baby travel system seat, but these days she's in a full size Group 1-2-3 toddler to 12yo seat like this: [imgWhich we'd need to haul along with luggage, pushchair and two snowboard bags. 8O Part of me says we should definitely take it and it's just not worth risking her safety over an inconvenience. But on the other hand, these seats are really designed for use in cars. It might not even fit with the coach seats and seat belts. Plus coaches are not in the habit of stopping suddenly in crashes anyway so it may not offer that much more protection over a lap strap. I certainly remember many 40hr+ coach holidays as a kid with no seatbelts at all. I realise that, as this is a parenting and a risk thread, I will be wrong no matter what I do. But I await your opinions anyway :D

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molgrips

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Konabunny, I was puzzled at the reasoning that other people seemed to be applying.

Why would anyone say those things unless they were trying to use it as justification that it was safe?

Posted : 03/02/2012 12:21 pm

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