Baby friendly hotels in Italy?

When travelling abroad with a baby, do the travel reps provide car seats for the transfers to and from hotels?

• Answer:

  Even if they say they will, i would not use them or trust them to provide a safe, age appropriate car seat.You need to bring your own and use it on the plane. NEVER use rental seats. you do not know the history of them and therefore they are not safe. A car seat tech once went travelling and as she stood waiting with her 9 week old newborn, the car rental rep brought her a forward facing seat, old, dirty, twisted straps, no manual for her to use. For a newborn!! Babies should be in their own car seat on the plane. Its ludicrous that children 2 and under are not given the same safety considerations as everyone else, just b/c they are smaller. Tou will have to buy a separate seat for the baby when she's 2 years, may as well get used to it now. Kids do better when they have their seat on the plane, same as in the car. They are less likely to want to run around and such since they are used to being put in a car seat whenever traveling. And believe it are not, they are safer. Should turbulence happen, they are less likely to be injured or scared. Another thing to consider: will you be doing any traveling by car once you get to your destination? Then you will need the car seat anyway, or you will have to purchase one when you get there. Do not rely on a car seat from a rental company! Its dangerous. Car seats expire 6 years after the date of manufacture, and are not safe if not taken care of properly. It must never have been in a wreck, never dropped, include all the original pieces and manual, and be installed correctly, something the rental staff will not help you with. On that note, remember too, that it is better NOT to check car seats as luggage. Think of how your luggage gets banged around - well, if your car seat gets banged around, it is no longer safe to use. A car seat is only made to withstand being dropped/in an accident once! And if it gets dropped and you don't know about it, you unwittingly put your child in danger. Better all around to take the seat on the plane. And the airline is very unlikely to replace the seat if they do damage it. Just check to make sure that your car seat is FAA approved for aircraft use, should say so somewhere on a label on the seat. Also - if you are planning on having your baby as a lap baby, you should know the truth of what can really happen, check the links below. Flight attendants refer to lap babies as MISSILES!!!! That's right, b/c missiles is what they become when there is heavy turbulence or other problems or rough flights. They give the count as "127 pax (passengers) and 3 missiles". Is a missile what you want your baby to be?