Best buggy for the kids ?

[swede]

Im taking both my kids this year, they will be 2 and 4 by the time of the festival. Was just wondering what the best type of buggy price wise is to get them about and also for them to have a decent place place to sleep once they are knacked.

[Milbert]

I don't have one to recommend it personally, but I've always thought a Mountain Buggy would be good for a big festival like Glastonbury. All the wheels are big and chunky. I'd avoid using something like my own bugaboo, where the front wheels are the small plastic composite types, and would bounce around like hell in the rocky paths, and the uneven fields.

Best bet would be look to on ebay for a used one, cos they're a bit spendy new.

[AnnaGrant]

A wheelbarrow. No, honestly I've seen lots of kids in wheelbarrows. They can cope with the uneven surface, and double up as a way to get your stuff on site!

[rainbow girl]

I would definitely recommend Alu-rax pushchairs - I've had a look on a well known auction site and there's one on there now...we had one for our two and it was perfect - very light and easily moveable, good through any muddy bits, big enough to use for years to come (we put ours in it when they were 8 and 6 - see Tort's pics for proof!) and if you have a puncture there's a bicycle repair shop up in the Green Field! We sold ours two years ago and downgraded to the single Alu-rax and our daughter who is now nearly 7, still uses it at festies. Buy some battery powered fairylights too to decorate it and people will see you coming so they move out of the way.

e2a: Alu-rax were sold by a well known shop which is never knowingly undersold - the company specialised in aluminium products and branched out into all terrain pushchairs but unfortunately went bust. This is why you won't find any new ones - we paid about £70 for ours and sold it for the same, so it was an excellent investment. They are a good rival to Mountain Buggy which is hugely expensive and too good to risk damaging at a festival!

Edited January 26, 2011 by rainbow girl

[Wanderlei]

I'd like to suggest leaving them at a kennel of some kind before you go to Glastonbury. I know people provide that sort of service for dogs so i assume you can do the same for kids.

[swede]

I would definitely recommend Alu-rax pushchairs - I've had a look on a well known auction site and there's one on there now...we had one for our two and it was perfect - very light and easily moveable, good through any muddy bits, big enough to use for years to come (we put ours in it when they were 8 and 6 - see Tort's pics for proof!) and if you have a puncture there's a bicycle repair shop up in the Green Field! We sold ours two years ago and downgraded to the single Alu-rax and our daughter who is now nearly 7, still uses it at festies. Buy some battery powered fairylights too to decorate it and people will see you coming so they move out of the way.

e2a: Alu-rax were sold by a well known shop which is never knowingly undersold - the company specialised in aluminium products and branched out into all terrain pushchairs but unfortunately went bust. This is why you won't find any new ones - we paid about £70 for ours and sold it for the same, so it was an excellent investment. They are a good rival to Mountain Buggy which is hugely expensive and too good to risk damaging at a festival!

[Jinno]

A wheelbarrow is excellent and fun for the kids. With rugs, sleeping bags or other soft stuff it doubles as a place to sleep and is right for the terrain. Alternatively a carp fishing trolley might do the job. Many pushchairs just aren't up to farmland and will restrict you to main paths if the weather is bad. Good luck and enjoy - the kids will love it.

[rainbow girl]

The beauty of a proper pushchair though, is that usually it has a rain cover so when the kids get tired you can draw the hood over, put the rain cover on and they will pretty much sleep through anything as it helps drown out the noise - last year my youngest, who was only just 6 then, slept the entire way round Trash City, Arcadia and all the pyrotechnics! I wouldn't have been able to get her to do that if she was in a wheelbarrow

[redrog]

A wheelbarrow sounds like far too much effort considering the amount of walking you'll do. Not to mention unstable.

Get a proper pushchair with wheels with a diameter of at least 6 inches and you'll be fine in all but the worst conditions. Look for ones designed for running with. Also worth looking at bike trailers if you can get one cheap enough.

[Cornflake]

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj67/mrpeevly/Glastonbury%25202010/trolley.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.php%3Fshowtopic%3D141533&usg=__jGsG_yTR0bh6UT-odChtRmGz5vQ=&h=453&w=604&sz=64&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=D3TbfArAzzwQ9M:&tbnh=126&tbnw=145&ei=pY1ATZzLEoep8QOo6pyGBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkids%2Bin%2Btrolleys%2Bat%2Bglastonbury%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1406%26bih%3D886%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=314&oei=pY1ATZzLEoep8QOo6pyGBA&esq=1&page=1th&ndsp=35&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&tx=84&ty=52

this with pillows cushions etc and ur own makeshift rain cover is prob best

[lilpixieuk]

We're taking our two year old son with us this year and I managed to get a 3 wheeler buggy from ebay. It's kinda like a mountain buggy to bring with us other than the ergo sling we'll use.