We will be traveling to Greece with our 2 year old son at the end of the month. We are going to gone for 3 weeks. Our son eats all his meals in his highchair. We are already bringing the pack n play, stroller, carseat, but now I need to find a good, compact booster chair or high chair. Even though we will have a "base" condo in Athens, we are going to be traveling to the islands, so we need something that we can take with us. Any suggestions? TIA!
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Thanks so much for the suggestions. We are going to buy the fisher price one. For those that said to just let him sit in the chair, i know my son. Mealtime is not pleasant that way:-)
I also traveled w/the fisher price portable booster. I took it to PA from TX for my son. It's hollow plastic and is pretty small, so I packed it in my luggage and stuffed the socks, underwear, etc. inside it so it didn't take up room in the luggage. It worked out very well :)
We bought just the basic (read: cheap) Fisher Price portable booster. I looked at Babies R Us and just picked it out. It's fabulous! We've had it for both my kids and it works really well. My son is 21 months and is off the charts for height and weight and he can still use it. It straps onto a regular chair and is easy to clean, use and carry. It comes with a tray that you can use or not use. You may just push your child up to the table and he can eat from the table, it does have a seat belt so you needn't worry that he can climb out.
I would recommend that he eat in the stroller while you're just out and about, but I totally understand the need for a high chair! We usually just carry on this booster when we travel by air, but I have shoved it in my giant suitcase before when flying by myself with the kids. Have FUN!!
I just bought this for my 1 yr. old: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=fisher+price+hea...
It actually folds up and has a carrying strap and a cover for the tray.
Walmart and Target both sell it. In our area it is $24.
Have you ever seen the fabric things that look like a back pack kid carrier with straps that hook over the back of the chair? Its all fabric so it would fit in your purse, and just slips over the back of the diningroom chair, and has a pouch for the child to sit in so the chair can be pushed up close and they are up a big higher. But I was wondering,, dont restaurants in Greece have high chairs for customers like we do here in America? Dont they expect visitors to have children with them? I cant believe you even need to take all the other gear since people in Greece do have babies and use those things themselves. Id think they are available there also. Or, let him sit on the chair. hes 2, he can do it.
At 2, I just had my daughter sit in a regular chair. It was a little challenging, but worth it to not have to pack an extra item. After about the 2nd day she got used to it and was fine eating in a regular chair. And we hand not problems putting her back in her booster chair when we got home. We were gone 10 days not 3 weeks so it may have been easier to get her back into her booster at home. My friend had one that hooked onto the table that folded up pretty small. This was for her 11 month old though so I don't know what the weight limits are on those, but it maybe something to look into. I just googled it and saw a bunch on Amazon ranging from $18-$45.
Not sure this would fit in a back pack and it might be a little bulky but it would be "light" but one of the smaller bean bags filled with the poly-foam has worked for many meals for me... You might be able to even take one and design it yourself by re-sewing the stuffing beads into a more compact one. I just know that when you sit in a bean bag it kind of grabs you to form to your body so it would be safe in the way of not slipping etc... Just an idea... like I said you might be able to re-design one to be more compact... Hey we may even come up with a new invention! I get first dibs at the royalties. LOL!
Have him eat in his stroller or sit on his knees to eat. He is 2 he should be fine.
We just came back from a two-week trip to Germany with our 14-mo-old. There was no way I was going to lug a booster seat all the way over there. Most restaurants will have a high chair for you to use. When we ate at "home," we had her in her stroller. It worked fine. Believe me, there's enough "stuff" you have to schlep over.
either have him eat in his stroller(that's be one less item to pack), if that won't work for some reason, i'm looking for a link to a travel booster we used to have - if/when i find it, i'll edit my post :)
this isn't the exact one we had, i think our's was a "the first years" brand, but it's similar:
