Product Description

The ultimate travel system, the Primo Viaggio Car Seat / Infant Carrier serves several important functions, all designed around the comfort and safety of your child. The infant car seat with 5-point harness can be used as an infant carrier when you're not in the car. When you're ready to travel, simply secure the seat to the stay-in-car base (included, not pictured). When you get to where you're going, simply detach the seat from the base and lock it into the special car seat anchors on your Peg Perego stroller (sold separately). Stylish upholstery removes easily for machine washing. Accommodates babies up to 20 pounds.

Complies with federal NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Association) standards.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21458 in Baby Product
• Color: Black with Charcoal
• Brand: Peg Perego USA
• Dimensions: 24.80" h x 17.30" w x 23.60" l, 17.00 pounds

Features

• LATCH system keeps seat more secure in vehicles
• Adjustable carrying handle and deluxe adjustable hood
• Car seat attaches to 2001-05 Peg Perego strollers, except Aria Twin MT stroller
• Plush upholstery is washable
• Has 3-position adjustable shoulder straps

Editorial Review
A good infant car seat should offer four key features: safe design, comfort for the occupant, convenience for the parents, and a stylish appearance. The Chesapeake model from Peg Pérego comes through on all counts. It features a five-point harness system to keep young ones firmly in place, ample padding all around, and an additional halo pad to cradle baby's head (perfect for dozing off on long car trips). The seat is equipped with LATCH, a car seat system mandated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that requires points of anchorage on the top and bottom of the car seat base. Despite its firm anchoring, this car seat also detaches easily for toting. It's upholstered in a neutral gray fabric, and also sports a retractable canopy. --Alice Merritt

Customer Reviews

Best & Safest On The Market!
We recently purchased this carrier to replace our old Graco carrier (used with our first child). With that carrier, we were never fully satisfied with how securely the car seat was anchored into our car (and we had it installed by our state troopers). Also, our son's head was never held securely in place. With the Primo Viaggio, the baby is as snug as a bug in a rug. As it is somewhat heavier than other carriers, it does seem to be more secure (certainly more so than our Graco carrier), and the HALO head supports really hold the baby's head in place. As for the reviewers who are complaining about how quickly their children are outgrowing the carrier, I am a bit bewlidered because, almost universally, carriers hold children up to 20 lbs./26 inches. The growth rate of a child couldn't have less to do with the performance of a car seat. In any event, we are thrilled with the carrier and love that we can use it in both our Peg Perego Pliko and Tender XL strollers.

THE BEST INFANT SEAT THERE IS !!!
We have been using this seat for a year now (baby just turned one year) and its finally time to move him to a infant/toddler car seat. We have been very lucky with our baby to get such use out of this seat. He is actually still within the weight limit. From the start this seat has been the best. This is our third child so we been through quite a few and were never happy with them. Bringing him home from the hospital was actually pretty easy in this seat. I felt he was very safe on the ride home and felt that he was also very comfortable. It was also very easy to get him situated in the seat and to hook in in our truck. Our baby has really loved his seat from the start. He would actually be sleeping in this seat before we even put him in the car. That made those short few newborn months alot easier on all of us in the car. The seat is also made out of a very nice material and is charcoal and light gray. We have the matching perego atlantico stroller and the venezia carriage stroller and this fits in both strollers perfect. Just take the seat out of the car and right into the stroller. The baby stays asleep and the family can get some shopping done. I have also taken the cover off about every 2 to 3 weeks to wash it and it still looks new. The seat also fits great in shopping carts! That is very important because some seats give you trouble. Overall, We feel this is the safest and nicest looking seat out there and will miss using it. We look forward to purchasing this seat again for our next baby! I hope this helped with your decision . You and your baby will love it..... And Peg Perego Thank you, for another safe beautiful baby product!!!!

LJ
I have worked at a large baby retailer for a year now and everyone of my co-workers and my family members knows that I take my job very seriously. I spend tons and tons of time both at work and off the job researching the items that I sell so that I can tell each and every guest of my store everything they need to know about the products they are looking for. Here are some facts about the primo viaggio and also some opinions that I have gathered over the last year.
1) The primo Viaggio is currently #2 for safety in infant carriers,not #1 as several reviewers have stated. The Graco snugride has been #1 for the last 2 years plus.
2) The Primo Viaggio can NOT be taken on an aircraft without the base being with it. If you try to get on an airplane with it, you will not be allowed to board without first getting the base or checking in the carrier. This holds true with cars as well, you cant put it in a car without a base.
3) It is not really the heaviest infant carrier on the market. It only weighs 9lbs without the base and most carriers weight from 8 to 10 lbs with the exception of most cosco carriers which usually weigh between 11 and 13 lbs.
4) The car seat shade really is as bad as people say. It does not cover more than 3 inches of the car seat and allows tons of sunlight to directly hit your child. You dont want to have to put sunshades up on every window, especially since the only ones that are guarenteed to not harm your baby in a crash are the suction cup only type or the static cling sort. Neither of these will work very well if you live in a very hot place such as Arizona. Children under 6 months of age are not supposed to be exposed to direct sunlight but living in a sunny place, that is impossible without a pivoting car seat shade.
5) I know that many people recommend the primo viaggio because it feels sturdier and safer than the others on the market, but just because you feel something is the safest does not mean that it is. Do your research before deciding what is safest.
6) Children truely do out grow this car seat before most others. It says 26inches/20lbs like all the others but because of the way it is made, most babies no longer fit in it at about 17 lbs. Lenghth wise, it will last just as long as the others but once the baby gets so wide, they no longer fit comfortably in it. The nature of it does make it easy for a tiny baby to snuggle in but you can acheive the same affect using roled up recieving blankets in any other brand carrier, which by the way is an approved method recommended by the highway safety patrol, safer than even the headrest that is sold with the carseats.
make sure you do your homework before you buy an infant carrier. Do not buy one just because your friend told you which one to choose. It is human nature to think that what we have is the best so chances are that your friends who have these car seats will tell you that it is the best when what they dont know is that you can get the same features in another brand as well. For your own sake, allow your friends to give advice but come to your own conclusions about what to use for you and your baby.