The Best Car Seat Travel Bag & Travel Car Seat Accessories

The Best Car Seat Travel Bag and Travel Car Seat Accessories

The Best Car Seat Travel Bag & Travel Car Seat Accessories

It’s the safest choice to purchase a plane ticket for your infant under two, and even if you need to book a seat for your toddler, if they ride in a car seat in a car, they should ride in one (an FAA-approved car seat) on the plane. With that said, it’s not always financially possible to purchase an additional seat for an infant, or you know your toddler will scream the entire flight if they’re strapped down. You’ll still need a car seat at your destination, so your best bet is to gate-check it as you would gate check a stroller, but make sure to protect it from sometimes less-than-gentle baggage handlers.

The Best Car Seat Travel Bag

This car seat travel bag plus some additional accessories will help you get through the airport easier, and protect your seat if it has to go under the plane.

The Ultimate Car Seat Travel Bag

J.L. Childress Ultimate Car Seat Travel Bag

This is the ONLY car seat travel bag available that has thick padding on all sides, plus additional padded “wings” inside to help protect your car seat. It fits the Britax Marathon, Boulevard, Roundabout, Decathlon, and Diplomat, and also fits Recaro, Evenflo, Cosco, Century, and Eddie Bauer car seats. The full compatibility guide can be viewed here. The Ultimate has padded, adjustable backpack straps for hands-free transport through the airport, and comes with a lifetime warranty. The Amazon reviews are highly favourable.

There are many car seat travel bags on the market, including alternate ones from this manufacturer, but if you’re going to invest in a car seat travel bag, the padding in this one protects the seat from more than just dirt or wear and tear.

If lugging your car seat backpack-style is not appealing, these additional travel car seat accessories might help.

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Traveling Toddler Car Seat Travel Accessory

Travel Car Seat Accessories

Traveling Toddler Car Seat Travel Strap

Those who don’t travel with a stroller might consider this strap. It allows you to attach your car seat’s LATCH and top tether to a rolling carry-on suitcase. And if your rolling suitcase’s handle locks, it can work as a temporary stroller for getting through the airport. I’ll be honest, this seems a little silly to me. But the Amazon reviews are highly favourable, so who knows?

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The GoGo Babyz TravelMate

GoGo Babyz TravelMate

I have always traveled with both a stroller and a car seat, and the idea of combining the two simply did not occur to me. But I know many families who swear by the the GoGo Babyz TravelMate. It is kind of a cart device that attaches to your car seat, converting it to a travel stroller so you can get through the airport and onto your flight with baby safely strapped in. It works with most available convertible car seats, but not the Cosco Scenera–which was my preferred travel car seat.

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BRICA Roll ‘n Go Car Seat Transporter

BRICA Roll ‘n Go Car Seat Transporter

This cart-type car seat travel accessory is similar to the GoGo Babyz above, but a little less expensive. And as with the GoGo Babyz, the idea is you strap your car seat on and it acts as a makeshift travel stroller, so you can wheel your car seat through the airport and on board the plane with your baby or toddler in it, and then store the cart in the overhead bin once you’ve installed your car seat on the plane. The Amazon reviews for this item are also highly positive.

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Yep. Plain ol’ bungee cords…

Bungee Cords

Call this old-school or most definitely inelegant, but plain ol’ bungee cords are how we transported our car seat through airports. We attached them to our rolling carry-ons, and all was well. This may not be ideal for bulkier or heavier seats, but it served our purpose just fine. If you intend on gate-checking your car seat, and are not thrilled about lugging the Ultimate Car Seat Travel Bag backpack-style, using bungee cords to attach it to your rolling carry-on suitcase will work just fine at a fraction of the cost. But don’t do this if you intend to have your child ride in it! This is purely for functional rolling only.

Do you have a gadget or piece of gear you can’t live without when it comes to traveling with car seats? Please share in the comments below!

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14 Responses to The Best Car Seat Travel Bag & Travel Car Seat Accessories

  1. What a great product for protecting car seats that need to be checked! I had no idea that such a thing existed.

  2. Great options for travel with little ones!

  3. Keryn at #

    You have no idea how much that carseat bag has saved us on multiple trips! LOVE it!

  4. Such excellent options – much appreciated!

  5. I wish all this stuff was around when our son was a baby!

  6. KS at #

    Thanks for all the tips! I like that travel mate one. It will be very helpful when gate checking. I wasn’t going to get it but will get it now. For gate checking I highly recommend the Bububee Elua car seat bag. It has a padded lining and quite attractive.

  7. Ged at #

    I was more than impressed with the made to measure service provided by Genesis Car Seat and Pram Travel Bags. This British company makes travel bags to measure so regardless of what pram, carrycot or car seat you have you can get one made for it. http://www.facebook.com/Genesis.Footmuffs these should be reviewed….where else can you get something made to measure and delivered next day?

  8. The GO-GO BABYZ MINI TRAVELMATE CAR SEAT STROLLER works great with the Cosco Scenera.

  9. Marne at #

    Do you know if you can put other things in the car seat travel bag and still gate check it? like additional diapers, life jackets, etc…….Thanks!

    • Corinne at #

      According to some of the online reviews, you can pack a few things in and around it. I wouldn’t stuff too much in though, in case it got too heavy.

  10. bhamini patel at #

    How much is this, where can I buy one from and can it fit the silver cross simplicity car seat?
    Many thanks

  11. Sara at #

    Hi i found this one on Amazon and i really love it!! check it out

    bit.ly/birdeebag

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