best pram/buggy for two

badgerhead

hi, can anyone reccomend good tandem/or twin buggy. we've pushed a few round mothercare but thats no substitute for 6 months of pushing the kids round etc.

she's dropping around end of may, so we'll have a newborn and 12 month old to get in it.

cheers

Counting_Pennies_2

For your age range, you will be fully using a double for at least 2 years, so for that I would suggest a side by side, as opposed to one in front of the other.

I cannot recommend the Mountain Buggy more. I have had so many friends with twins, and those who do have raved about it, and those who have immitations I hear complain about cambers, heaviness etc.

So don't go thinking a cheap own brand is the same.

They are rarely in the shops for demos, they sell on their own recommendation, you may be able to find a few shops to sell them.

They really are the top of the range pushchair, it is also designed to be the width of a wheelchair, so it will fit in all the door ways.

I sold mine recently to a friend whose immitation buggy broke, she simply loves it and can't go on enough about it.

hth

http://mountainbuggy.com/en/buggies/double/duo
http://www.kiddicare.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10751&categoryId=14601&fcd=set&pageView=&dm=filter&N=439&langId=-1&top_category=&parent_category_rn=&Ns=NumberSold|1&storeId=10001&rw.cm=Google,ppc,mountain+buggy&cm_mmc=icrossing-_-Google-_-Mountain+Buggy-_-mountain+buggy&OVMTC=Phrase&site=&creative=6456519853&OVKEY=mountain%20buggy&url_id=12966790


http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=mountain+buggy+double&_sacat=0&_odkw=mountain+buggy&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
It will take a carrycot attachment, car seat etc.

mum2twinsx2

I recommend baby city jogger mini double. Its fab, ive have few doubles since having my first set of twins. this by far has been the best.

SkintGypsy

I have a nipper 360 single, and have heard wonderful things about the double version. Like a mountain buggy, only cheaper. Lies flat from birth, pushes like a dream, but doesn't parent face.

jamsandwhich

SkintGypsy wrote: »

I have a nipper 360 single, and have heard wonderful things about the double version. Like a mountain buggy, only cheaper. Lies flat from birth, pushes like a dream, but doesn't parent face.

We have the nipper double - fantastic and can't praise it enough - the Out N About customer service is fab too, we lost one of the fasteners off the side of the hood (our fault) and they sent us another and a spare FOC on next day delivery.

Really easy and manouverable and nothing compared at the time (3 1/2 years ago) It folds flat with all wheels on and goes into the smallest of car boots, very lightweight too - ours has been everywhere and has been used beyond the normal, still going strong although starting to look a bit tatty!! It is easy to push and manouvre with one hand and can fit a surprising amount of stuff/shopping in the two under seat compartments.

Get yourself some puncture repair stuff though - I have had a couple, one going on a country walk up a big hill and another in M&S:cool: and it is a monster to push with a flat tyre:D. We only keep ours now as a 'just incase' the girls walk mostly everywhere and I only have it if I have a quick trip into town and need to hurry round with them.

Counting_Pennies_2

Forgot to say, you can get puncture proof tyres on the Mountain Buggy. Never had a flat in all the years of pushing it!

angchris

i have the maclaren twin techno http://www.kiddicare.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10751&langId=-1&productId=76438&source=froogle&cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Shopping%20Sites-_-CPC-_-Froogle
there is 14 months between my two little cherubs and so far (baby is 9 months)it has done us proud. we found that some of the pushchairs just were not tall enough to support our sons head and his head lolled back over the back of the chair which was just plain ridiculous!
my other half and i are both tall and find it nice to push as handles are high enough, it folds down nice and small for storage and chucking in the boot of the car to go out.
last week we went for a walk/picnic to the forest of dean the pushchair handled the muddy track well all things considered and after my son had eaten choccy cake the pushchair was minging all over so we stopped off at a garage on the way back and used a jet wash thingy to clean it, after letting it stand on my patio for just over an hour the pushchair was dry and sparkling and you would never have known the torture we had subjected it to a few hours earlier!
maclaren have tried to incorporate everyting you might need into the design and i would definately buy another.

money_saving_diva

jamsandwhich wrote: »

We have the nipper double - fantastic and can't praise it enough - the Out N About customer service is fab too, we lost one of the fasteners off the side of the hood (our fault) and they sent us another and a spare FOC on next day delivery.

Really easy and manouverable and nothing compared at the time (3 1/2 years ago) It folds flat with all wheels on and goes into the smallest of car boots, very lightweight too - ours has been everywhere and has been used beyond the normal, still going strong although starting to look a bit tatty!! It is easy to push and manouvre with one hand and can fit a surprising amount of stuff/shopping in the two under seat compartments.

Get yourself some puncture repair stuff though - I have had a couple, one going on a country walk up a big hill and another in M&S:cool: and it is a monster to push with a flat tyre:D. We only keep ours now as a 'just incase' the girls walk mostly everywhere and I only have it if I have a quick trip into town and need to hurry round with them.

Another vote here for the Nipper double buggies. I have less of an age gap and so I don't use mine that much so I got a Nipper InStep side by side double REALLY cheap off of ebay and I love it :T I have friends that use doubles more and they all got the Out N about 360 and they all love them. I would have gone for this if I was going to use it more. The front wheel swivals on the 360 - it doesn't on mine.

What I also do is wear my baby in a sling and push my eldest in a buggy. That is much better when you only want a stroller with you. I don't know what single buggy you have now but if you have a travel system and the baby is asleep in the carseat and you want to put the carseat on your travel system to keep baby aseelp you could sling the eldest easily at 12 months. There are toddler carriers that you can get or you could look at woven wraps. I carry my 9 month old in a woven wrap a lot. Many babywearers carry toddlers much older than your eldest.

flora48

Take a look at the O Baby zoom. It has many configurations including a carry cot and pushchair option for the early days. Also is narrower than the side by side buggies so goes through a standard doorway.

badgerhead

thanks for your replies dudes

do_it_today!

flora48 wrote: »

Take a look at the O Baby zoom. It has many configurations including a carry cot and pushchair option for the early days. Also is narrower than the side by side buggies so goes through a standard doorway.

I've got one of these and Im really happy with it! Its great that I can use a car seat or carrycot for the newborn and also have them facing either way - its abit long but im loving it sofar! :j