Bubblebum - reviews/availability

[ladywotlunches]

Apologies if you've seen my post in the classifieds, but I thought it may be best to post in here, in case any lovely souls have a bubblebum car booster that I could borrow for a week!

My son is 133cm as of this morning, and we go on holiday for a week in 3 weeks time. The car hire company want ?60 to hire a booster seat. I've seen bubblebums advertised and a friend has one (but she's using it over the half term). They look good. Does anyone else have one and could you recommend? Even better does anyone have one they don't need anymore we could buy or borrow (we'd take great care) for the half term week?

Alternatively, recommendations for slim/foam boosters that we could put in the bottom of a case gratefully received!

Thanks!

[snowboarder]

We have the trunki boostapak which I think is similar - works well as a travel option for our 5 year old and he loves the novelty value of wearing it as a back pack...

[ladywotlunches]

Yep, we've got a boostapack on order for the littler one - just trying not to have to buy 2 for what will be one week's hols before he's at the magic number of 135cm :)

[etta166]

Which? magazine gave the bubblebum a terrible review, stating that it wasn't safe. My children are smaller (i.e. not into booster seats yet, still all rear-facing) so I didn't give it that much attention and can't remember the details. Might be worth checking out before you use one just in case. Halfords sell a very small and cheap booster seat, but I wouldn't have any idea if it was particularly safe or not.

[hazelnunhead]

I have one of these if you would like to use it.

[ladywotlunches]

Thank you! Have pm'd

[mrsbee]

I just used a booster from Halfords that was ?10. It easily fitted in our hand luggage (with Ryanair) so I'm sure you would have no problem getting it in a case.