Child Seats and Renting Cars in Europe

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Hello

I am going on Holiday for a few days. Our Daughter is 11 months old and therefore needs a car seat. I am torn between paying the £36 to hire one for 3 days as an additional charge from the car hire company - or taking one with us and paying the additional baggage. I am guessing the car hire company provided version will be very basic.

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I am flying with Jet2 and they give a free 10kg allocation for infants. We have a travel cot to take and this is almost 10kg on its own.

Our baby is easily over 10kg [95th percentile of weight for her age] and therefore now is in a forward facing seat.

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Bought one of these from Asda last night. Cost £35 and its very light. They also sold a travel cot for £27 but we're sold out. I need to take a cot because we're visiting some family for 2 nights and they don't have a cot - then we're going to do a few night in hotels.

http://m.direct.asda.com/Nania-TeamTex-Trio-Car-Se...

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bint said:

Ryanair recently charged a friend of mine 60 eur to take a car seat to Spain! Rent when you're over there IMHO.

Ryanair also charge for infants - which is why I do not fly with them.