GoGo Babyz Car Seat Protector Bag Review

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(More customer reviews)This was a great quality, heavy-duty carseat bag. I felt that it did a great job of protecting my carseat when we flew recently. The bag DOES fit my Britax Marathon car seat with the Travelmate attached. I did have to make sure that ALL the expansion zippers were open and it was still pretty snug. It took some strategic tugging to get the slack in the lower, back area to shift and get the "wings" of the seat and the very top of the seatback tucked into the bag, but it is possible. I don't know if a carseat exists that is any bigger and bulkier thatn the Marathon, but if so, it might not fit. However, once you get the bag wrapped around the edges of the seat, there is still a good amount of useable storage space to pack extra stuff in as well. The bag has a heavy-duty zipper that goes all the way around the seat area so you can open it all the way and put your seat down into the bag and then have the whole area where your child normally sits to add more packables. I fit a regular pillow, small blanket, large stuffed Pound Pupppy and zippered vinyl bag (the kind bedspreads come in) with about a dozen size 5 diapers plus the baby monitor and sound machine all on top of the carseat and zipped the bag shut. It was pretty maxed out, but it saved me so much by not having to pay for or carry another bag and I was able to gatecheck the whole bundle. I did choose to take the large vinyl bag full of stuff out at airport security to got through the x-ray (and the carseat was too big to fit in the machine so it got hand wanded) but just sent the rest of the stuff through x-ray inside the bag.
My comments (rather than complaints):
1) I gate-checked the bag including the carseat and everything listed above both ways on a trip with one connection each way. Because the bag is black (vs. see-through or bright orange) the baggage handlers didn't always realize it was a carseat and needed to go back to the gate even with the neon gate-check tag. On one flight, a flight attendent went down and found it for me. On our last leg, it ended up getting sen with the checked luggage to baggage claim. This was fine for me but is something you'd want to be prepared for, especially if you were traveling alone or with more than one child and had to wait in the boarding area ebcause of the mistake.
2) I purchased my bag off eBay so I don't know if a new, direct-from-manufacturer bag comes with instructions or not. Mine arrived in its zippered vinyl packaging but had no directions at all so it was by trial and error that I figured out how to get my seat in and what all the zippers were for. It has two zippers around the seat area--one to open the bag and one to expand/contract the storage area--similar to expandable upright suitcases, but it took me awhile to figure that out so i could get my large carseat inside.
3) There are zippers to open for the wheels and the pull handle of the Travelmate to be acessible for use while the carseat is inside the bag. I appreciated this feature but had to guess on where the flaps needed to go in order to not interfere with the rolling wheels. I ended up tucking the flaps between the wheels and the seat because they kept gumming up the wheels if I didn't. This allowed me to easily push and pull the whole assembly, but the fabric got chewed up by friction with the axle and a seam holding one of the zippers to the bag is now torn. I don't know if there is a better way to work this without damaging the bag. Also, I had to make sure I had tugged the slack up from the base of the bagg before I pushed/pulled the apparatus because the portion of bag near the base of the seat back sagged and would drag on the floor.
4) There are 4 different straps on the outside of the bag that I wasn't sure how to use and/or keep out of the way. One is a detachable, padded shoulder strap.(You probably want to remove this before checking the bag so it doesn't get lost.) I didn't find it very useful because my carseat (even without all the other stuff I crammed inside) is very big and very heavy so that when I used the single duffle-bag style strap, the strap cut into my shoulder and the bottom of the seat kept hitting me in the back of the legs. I would not want to walk across an airport carrying the bag this way but could see using the shoulder strap to move short distances like when you have already collapsed the wheels and handle waiting in-line to board and drop it off with gate check. Even carrying the bag minus carseat, it is pretty bulky for the single strap to control. Two straps I assumed were for the baggage handlers --a handle at the top and a random adjustablestrap behind the seat-base area. A third strap adjustable with a side-release buckle is attached to the upper back of bag as if maybe to strap on your large coat or attach a another small carry-on/diaper bag to the top while you wheel things around. The lower strap dragged on the ground so I ended up looping the buckled strapthorugh it and clipping it up out of the way but it was a pretty awkward arrangement.
5) Also, there are sturdy plastic feet on the front of the base so the bag doesn't tip over forwards so you can leave it standing next to you without holding on while you hand over tickets or take care of you toddler.
6) I do recommend making sure that you have taken it out of the package and practiced before the day of your trip so you know what you are doing and get the straps and zippers all figured out.

Overall though, I wasvery happy with this bag and would recommend it to a friend. I really liked that it was large enough to fit my Britax Marathon carseat and even better that I could add other stuff after the seat was inside. Except for the wear and tear from the wheels rubbing on the bag, I think it would hold up to several trips on trains or airplanes. It is heavy-duty with waterproof looking interior with sturdy zippers and well-attached straps. No drawstrings, no lightweight nylon. I also loved being able to use the wheels and handle of the GoGoBabyz Travelmate (instead of wearing it like a backpack) without taking the whole thing apart--the combination of the two products basically converted my carseat into another upright, rolling piece of luggage. (NOTE: You would not be able to use the Travelmate as a stroller with child seated in carseat WHILE the bag was still attached--but that was an over-ambitious dream of mine. I guess that's what the shoulder strap is important for.)
And I imagine most of my problems would have been eliminated by either written instructions or an on-line video tutorial (or a call to customer service, if I had ordered it more than a few days before my trip.)

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Product Description:
Go-Go Babyz Car Seat Protector Bag The Car Seat Protector Bag from Go Go Babyz has been specifically designed to accommodate most standard car seats.In addition to working with most standard models of car seat it also works with the Go Go Kidz Travelmate.The car seat travel bag allows the Travelmate and car seat to stay attached while inside the bag.The heavy woven fabric helps protect the car seat and cushion when baby and mommy are on the go.It is a very durable car seat accessory. The car seat travel bag from Go Go Babyz features two zippered opening at the bommo of the bag for the wheels and velecro opening at the top for the handle to come through.The car seat travel bag is aperfect solution for parents of older children who do not want a car seat while on the plane but still need a car seat the final destination.It is a car seat accessory which is a convenient and safe solution for a variety of convertible car seats and toddler car seats.

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