Review

Graco Quattro TourDeluxe TSB in Air (Grey)

I love the Graco Quattro Tour Deluxe because it’s a great off-roader and travel system in one. It’s very versatile, feels sturdy, ultra comfortable, and extremely easy to use on Public Transportation. If you want a reliable, good value pushchair and you don’t mind it being heavy and bulky, this is definitely a suitable Best Buy.

Graco Quattro Tour: The Pros

First off, you’re getting a lot for your money. Included in the package are your: Pushchair with hood, large shopping basket and apron, carrycot, baby safety base, and junior Graco autobaby car seat. As mentioned earlier because it comes with a car seat it also forms a travel system.

The safety base just remains inside your car, attached to the passenger seat. This enables you to conveniently get your baby in and out of the car with the least fuss possible.

The Graco autobaby car seat fits easily into the pushchair. It’s suitable from birth to 13 kg and comes with a head hugger to support your newborn baby’s neck during those early crucial months. What’s brilliant about it is that it can also be used as a feeding station and a rocker – very handy especially when you want to conveniently send your baby to sleep. It also has an adjustable hood and a level indicator that lets you know whether or not you have fixed the car seat at the proper recline angle.

The soft carry cot come a skirt of fabric that attaches via a zipper onto the hood of the pushchair to extend the hood to cover the carry cot , allowing you to use it like a pram with the baby facing you.

Now let’s talk about the pushchair. It has a foam-covered, ergonomically designed handle positioned at 107 cm in height. The hood has a mesh viewing window which also provides good ventilation during hot days. The mesh window can be closed and opened up by a flap that can be rolled down or up and secured by velcro.

The pushchair also has a well-padded seat for luxurious comfort, an adjustable 5-point harness, and what with it being an off-roader buggy, it has rubber wheels to give a more comfy ride and all-round suspension, too!

Yet another great feature of the pushchair buggy unit is the play tray which can be easily opened up and taken off, and the calf support can also be set in various positions and can even be tucked in to offer more support and stability to the soft carry cot when it’s in use (see video).

On top of all that, the pushchair can easily and conveniently be folded with just one hand, and the back support of the seat can easily be adjusted to recline up to 5 different positions (from completely flat to completely upright). The brakes are easy, too – just push on one side to lock or unlock.

But the best thing that tickles my fancy about the Graco Quattro Tour DeLuxe is the uniquely adjustable shopping basket. As you probably already know, accessing the shopping basket whenever the pushchair’s seat is fully reclined is awkward, if not impossible. Well, not with this pushchair, because the basket can be put up or down, allowing you to easily get things in and out of it without disturbing your sleeping child. How brill is that!

Other pros worthy to note:

• lockable swivel wheels
• freestanding when folded
• sunglasses case
• bottle holders
• clock
• temperature gauge
• a pocket for your small bits and bobs like house keys or mobile phone

Graco Quattro Tour: The Cons

The only downside to the Graco Quattro Tour is its weight and size. Even when folded, it’s still a chunky good-sized pushchair that will easily occupy the boot of a medium sized car leaving not much room for anything else.

Weighing about 13.5 kg, some parents find it rather heavy and especially difficult to carry up and down stairs. So if you want this travel system but live in the upper ground floor flat, well you better get ready for some good exercise!

Conclusion

The Graco Quattro Tour DeLuxe TSB is an excellent off-roader Travel System with lots of great thoughtful features and useful accessories all included in the package. It gives an absolutely comfortable ride for your child, it’s so easy to use, simple to fold and unfold and is reasonably priced, too. I would recommend it to anyone who wants an all-in-one package that can be used from birth until toddler years but doesn’t mind a heavy and bulky pushchair.

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Specifications

Graco Quattro Tour Deluxe: Specifications

Graco Quattro Tour is Available in Colours:

• Air
• Fudge

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Accessories

Pushchair Accessories Included in Price (please check before buying):

• Apron
• Carry cot with detachable fabric hood
• Large hood that adjusts to several positions
• Graco car seat
• car seat base

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Alternatives

If you’re not too happy about the weight and bulkiness of the Graco Quattro Tour Deluxe, there are lighter off-roader travel systems that you may want to check out such as Mothercare MY3 and Mothercare MY4 but they are considerably much more expensive (by as much as £135 more), and only lighter than the Graco by a few kg’s.

If price is what’s causing you to hesitate from buying the Quattro Tour Deluxe, then you may want to consider the Graco Mirage, Graco Mosaic One Travel System, Mutsy Spider and Hauck Apollo RS Travel Systems.

Review

Graco Stadium Duo Midnight

The Graco Stadium Duo is a great all-rounder tandem pushchair , designed for 2 children of different ages. Affordable, feature-rich and practical, it also transforms into a Travel System when a Graco car seat is attached to the rear seat.

Graco Stadium Duo: The Pros

It’s called “stadium” because the rear seat is higher so that the child on the rear can see over and beyond the front seat’s hood. It means that as the younger child grows they can get a good view of the world around them. And because the rear seat is higher, it’s also closer to you, making it easy to check up on your younger child. Each seat has a max capacity of 15 kg.

It comes with 2 hoods, both of which are easily adjustable. There are also windows on both hoods, positioned to let you to easily see what either of your kids are up to.

Both seats are well padded, soft and very comfortable as well as having an easy, simple recline mechanism. Both seats also have an easily adjustable 5-point harness.

There are height adjustable shoulder restraints, allowing it to suit your fast growing babies, but some parents find the buckles a tad fiddly. There are play trays at front of each pushchair, which comes handy for toys and food. However, when placing a child in the seat, you may want to take out the play tray first as it’s easier that way.

The front seat has 2 recline positions and is suitable from 6 months to 3 years, and comes with an apron. The rear seat on the other hand has 4 positions, from flat to completely upright. It also comes with a head support for newborn babies. Another feature you’ll find really useful about the seats is the removable and washable seat covers.

For a tandem, it is actually easy to fold and has a self-catching clip. It folds in a concertina style and can fit in the boot of most medium sized cars. It also stands on its own when folded, making it easier to store.

The storage basket is fairly large, can hold up to 5 kg, easy to access when the rear seat is fully upright.

The brakes are easy to engage and disengage in a single motion. The front wheels are swivel wheels that can be locked when going over rougher terrains.

Graco Stadium Duo: The Cons

Note that when buying tandem pushchairs, there will be issues inherent to this type of pushchair because of its structure. Tandems are supposed to accommodate 2 children, so naturally its length will be longer than average pushchairs, and it will be heavier, too.

So for the convenience of having one stroller for 2 children, you may have to learn to put up with using a pushchair that’s bulky, heavy, difficult to carry, more difficult to manoeuvre than a single stroller, and harder to push.

If you anticipate that you will need to lift this tandem pushchair up and down stairs regularly, be prepared to always have someone to help, as it can be heavy. It will be trickier for the person holding the front of the pushchair to carry it as there’s nowhere to get a really good hold on the front of the stroller, but on the bright side there’s a carry handle that one of you can use.

One thing about its design that could annoy you is that accessing the basket when the rear seat is fully reclined is awkward, if not impossible. However there’s space in between the seats that you can use to access the middle of the basket. If this is too much of a hassle for you, you can always purchase pushchair accessories designed to give you more storage solutions like net bags that you can hang on the pushchair’s handles.

The Stadium Duo weighs 14 kg (30.8 lbs), so you can imagine how heavy it might feel for you. It can also be difficult to get up kerbs – remember that your older child is sitting on the front – however most pushchairs with the combined weight of two children would be difficult to get up on kerbs anyway so it’s unfair to blame this factor on the Pushchair.

Lastly, it doesn’t come with other useful accessories like a compatible car seat, rain cover, or changing bag. However this is reflected on the price so if you want these accessories you can just get them as extras.

Conclusion

The Graco Stadium Duo isn’t the lightest nor the most compact of pushchairs out there, however the price, comfort, practicality and features make it a very good option for anyone looking for transporting two children of different ages, especially those on a budget. It is by no means the perfect stroller but it does the job and is very good value. It’s obviously not as easily steered as a single stroller and can at times feel like a tank, but it is manageable.

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Graco Stadium Duo: Specifications

Graco Stadium Duo is Available in Colours

• Midnight

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Accessories

Accessories Included in Price (please check before buying):

• Play trays
• Cup holders
• 2 hoods
• 2 footmuffs

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Review

Graco Mosaic One Travel System in Chocolate

The Mosaic One as a Travel System is suitable from birth to 3 years of age. It comes with a Graco car seat, but you can buy the Mosaic One as a stand alone pushchair.

Graco Mosaic One: The Pros

It’s not very bulky and folds down to a small enough size to fit in any medium sized car boot. For your convenience, you can easily remove the wheels to give you more storage flexibility. It has a lightweight aluminium frame with oval tubing, weighs only 9 kg and can even fit in a Corsa boot no problem. It folds in an umbrella fashion and relatively easy to fold with one hand, but better to fold it with two.

It gives a smooth ride, and is very easy to push and steer, but be aware that although it has all-round suspension, the Mosaic One is NOT an off-roader so don’t expect it to remain super smooth when used on rough terrains. I’ve read reviews from parents who bought strollers without first understanding which types of pushchairs are best for what purpose, and then they moaned when the model they bought was inappropriate to their lifestyle. Please don’t be one of those.

The front wheels are swivel ones with an autolock mechanism, and it has 6 wheels for extra manoeuvrability. The brakes is operated with a single on/off cable braking system. It’s quite easy and simple to operate.

The seat reclines in a multi-position, continuous way and you can simply adjust the back support with one hand.

Another thing I love about it is the pocket on the back of the hood – very handy when you need an easily accessible place to store your mobile phone and other personal effects.

Thy raincover is a bit fiddly at first, but once you get used to it, it’s no bother. It also fits over the pushchair even with the car seat attached to the pushchair. When folding the pushchair, it’s advisable that you remove the raincover first.

Actual owners vouch that it’s very easy to use, the car seat attaches very easily on the pram, and it’s no bother getting on buses with it or using it in public transportation facilities.

The car seat attaches via a one-click technology which means that the car seat locks automatically onto the pushchair – so no need to disturb your sleeping baby. It can also be used as a rocking chair, but you can also stabilize it with the handle so that you can use it as a feeding station. It’s got an adjustable hood, and it is a group 0+ rearward facing seat with a maximum capacity of 13 kg, which is approximately 9 to 12 months old.

Other Pros Worthy to Note:

• Foot muff keeps baby warm and fits all the graco pushchairs
• There is a window at the hood for ventilation, and it’s also removable and washable
• Bumper bar is easily removable
• Adjustable Calf support
• The seat padding is removable and washable

Graco Mosaic One: The Cons

Even though locking the swivel wheel is simple and easy, it does require you to reach down where the wheels are and so there is a risk of touching the wheels sometimes (especially when it’s covered with mud) and so can get your hands dirty (good thing you always have some wet wipes!)

Another thing we’ve noticed when we tested it is that the back support doesn’t let your toddler sit completely upright. This may not necessarily be a bad thing – that is, unless your little prince or princess prefers to sit straight all the time.

As we have mentioned before, the Mosaic One when used as a pushchair, is a regular buggy so don’t expect it to be an all-terrain pushchair and give a very comfy ride when used off-road or on bumpy grounds. On the plus side however it’s easy to steer and maneuver around obstacles and on kerbs.

It has a fairly sized shopping basket which can hold up to 5 kg, but it’s not accessible when the seat is fully reclined. This however is a common issue with many Baby Pushchairs.

When you fold it, the hood can easily touch the wheels, so make sure you prevent this from happening, especially if the hood is light-coloured.

The foam-covered handles aren’t adjustable and may be too low for taller users. So it’s perfect for short people, and I wouldn’t recommend it for taller people, or for couples with a big height difference between them.

Lastly, if your car seat gets damaged for some reason, you wouldn’t be able to buy it on its own.

Conclusion

Over-all, the Graco Mosaic One Travel System is a great, nippy, lightweight all-rounder. If you don’t have much room in your house or boot and want a lightweight, affordable pushchair that you can use from birth until your darling baby’s toddler years, the Mosaic One does tick all those boxes.

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Graco Mosaic One Travel System: Specifications

Graco Mosaic One is Available in Colours

• Chocolate
• Ocean (Blue)
• Air (Black)

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Accessories

Accessories Included in Price (please check before buying):

• Raincover
• Hood
• Car seat
• Footmuff
• Head Support
• Sun/wind canopy

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