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Graco Passage Travel System in Clara
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Product Description
The Graco Passage Travel System offers the ultimate convenience for both parents and baby! The three-piece set includes the Passage Stroller, a SnugRide Infant Car Seat with a 5-point harness, and a Stay-In-Car Base. It features an all-in-one fold that stands when folded, eliminating the hassle of bending over to pick up the stroller. The lower and load storage basket allows easy access to baby gear under the stroller without rousing a sleeping child. The Passage Stroller also offers mesh canopy pockets for extra storage. The multiple-position, full reclining seat easily adjusts with one hand and is ideal for napping. The convenient parent organizer tray features two deep cup holders to accommodate large beverages and water bottles. The tray also includes an accessory compartment for items such as keys and cell phones. Children also have their own pivoting tray with a stationary cup holder, as well as an area for toys and snacks!
Passage Stroller:
- One-hand self-standing fold - no bending necessary
- Parent organizer tray with storage compartment with lid and 2 deep cup holders
- Pivoting child's tray with stationary cup holder
- Multiple-position, reclining seat
- Lower and load storage basket
- Deluxe footrest for your child's comfort
- Infant car seat locks
- Automatic storage latch
- Combination 3-point or 5-point harness
- Full-size arched canopy with peek-a-boo window
- Deluxe, padded seat
- Quilted front canopy panel
- Front swivel wheels with locks and suspensions
SnugRide Infant Car Seat
- 5-point adjustable harness
- Convenient stay-in-car adjustable base
- Removable infant head support
- Easy-to-read level indicator
- 180-degree rotating canopy
- Front and rear quilted canopy panels
- 2-piece chest clip
- Removable, deluxe seat pad
- LATCH
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #9916 in Baby Product
- Color: Clara
- Brand: Graco
- Model: 7G01CRL3
- Released on: 2005-12-15
- Dimensions: 18.10" h x 20.00" w x 35.40" l, 37.80 pounds
Features
- Includes the Passage stroller, the SnugRide infant car seat with a 5-point harness and a stay-in-car base
- Multiple-position, full reclining seat easily adjusts with one hand
- Convenient parent organizer tray
- Features 2 deep cupholders to accommodate large beverages and water bottles
- Stroller: less than 40 pounds Car seat: infants up to 22 pounds and less than 29"
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
Life gets busier and more complicated than ever when a new baby arrives, and you need all the help you can get. The Graco Passage Full-Size Travel System (Clara) offers the ultimate in convenient travel for parents and babies. This three-piece travel set comes with the Passage Stroller, a SnugRide Infant Car Seat that doubles as a carrier and snaps easily into the stroller, and a stay-in-car base that holds the car seat in place, making it as easy as possible to go places with your infant.
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The travel system allows you to shop at the mall, go for walks at the park, and enjoy day trips with ease: the car seat snaps easily in and out of the car base and is designed to fit perfectly into the stroller--you'll find this especially convenient if your baby has been lulled to sleep by the car and you don't want to disturb his nap! Simply snap car seat out of the stay-in-car base and into the stroller and go, sleeping baby undisturbed. You can also carry the car seat by its handle to easily and safely transport your infant. Purchase additional car seat bases for your second family car or for the grandparents' car as a cost-effective, convenient, and versatile travel option.
Versatile Car Seat Doubles as Carrier
The SnugRide Infant Car Seat is a standard, rear-facing car seat is designed for infants between 5 and 22 pounds and less than 29 inches tall, which allows use for most babies from birth through the age of one. The cushiony car seat is built with a five-point front-adjusting harness and EPS energy-absorbing foam for comfort and superior safety, and it includes removable infant head support for additional safety and security. The seat quickly and easily snaps in and out of the stay-in-car base. A sturdy handle allows the seat to double as an infant carrier, making it convenient and safer to transport fragile newborns and sleeping older infants. It includes a 180-degree rotating canopy to shade your baby from multiple directions. The car seat can be secured in newer-model vehicles with the LATCH system.
Sturdy and Versatile
Lightweight yet sturdy, the Passage Stroller offers roomy yet easy-to-use travel convenience that's perfect for short jaunts around the block to longer excursions to the zoo. Snap your baby's car seat into the stroller for easy, parent-facing transportation until your little one can sit up by herself; use the stroller without the car seat--with your child facing forward--from the time she can sit up (around 6 months of age) until she is 4 years old or up to 40 pounds in weight--so even when your child outgrows the infant car seat, you'll still be using the stroller for years to come.
The stroller is constructed with a durable welded aluminum frame, and it features a combination three- or five-point harness, an adjustable sun visor with a peek-a-boo window, and a four-position reclining seat that can lay completely flat for easy napping. A handy storage basket at the bottom is accessible even when the child's seat is fully reclined. The parent's organizing tray offers two cup holders and additional storage space, and a rotating child's tray in front can keep a cup, juice-box, or snack in convenient reach while on the go. The one-touch brakes and the locks and suspension on the front swivel wheels help make the stroller easy to maneuver and control. When not in use, the stroller's special one-hand gravity-fold design makes it simple to collapse for easy storage and transport.
About Graco
In 1942, Russell Gray and Robert Cone formed Graco Metal Products, in Philadelphia, PA. For 11 years, the firm fabricated machine and car parts for local manufacturers. In 1953, Gray left the firm, leaving Cone as sole owner. Cone decided to manufacture his own line of products, but had trouble coming up with ideas. Enter David Saint, an engineer, tinkerer, and stained glass artisan who worked for Graco. Saint, himself a father of nine, was intrigued when an associate told him how his wife would soothe their tired and cranky baby while swinging in a backyard glider swing. Acting on this inspiration, he went to the drawing board and 18 months of hard work later, the world's first wind-up infant swing, the Graco Swyngomatic, was born. Graco sold millions of Swyngomatics in the coming years, becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of juvenile products in the process. Today, Graco is a Newell Rubbermaid company, with 1500 associates worldwide. While a half-century has brought many changes to Graco, their dedication and commitment to designing and manufacturing top-quality products remains, and continues on.
What's in the Box
Passage Stroller, SnugRide Infant Car Seat, and stay-in-car base.
From the Manufacturer
Passage Travel System- 5-point rear adjust car seat
Customer Reviews
Great buy
We really enjoy this travel system. Having a car seat that fits into both the base and the stroller allowed us to leave our sleeping daughter undisturbed when moving her in/out of the car. Being off of work for 3 months, I didn't have to feel cooped at home when I could easily take my daughter to the store or the park. As big as the stroller is compared to umbrella strollers, we still prefer to take it, because the diaper bag and other items fit easily underneath, the seat-back folds down (allowing sleep or diaper changes), and it has THREE cupholders, 2 side pockets that can hold other items (burp cloth, bottled water, toys), and a little compartment for sunglasses or cell phone. The basket underneath is accessible hands-free by pressing up or down on the basket with your foot. The stroller fits in the trunk of our compact Saturn 4-door, or if necessary, in the front passenger seat (upside-down to fit in the wide wheels, which are anyway relatively easy to remove). The loaded stroller is easy to guide with one hand, so I can push it if I happen to be carrying my daughter. The stroller is sturdy and smooth enough to take down the street, on paved park paths, and we always use it on the packed sand at the beach (it even works over the brief path over the unpacked sand, if you go backwards). In her car seat in the stroller, she could get complete protection from the sun and light rain with the two canopies, although I found that a draped blanket allowed for more air flow. We took the whole system on a 10-day trip, which included a flight out of town, and I felt like our load was lighter than those we took before our daughter was born. At 6 months, she has just outgrown the car seat (but she's basically off-the-charts in her height/weight), but we still use the stroller now that she can sit up.
Drawbacks, all fairly minor: Not easy to close stroller one-handed. Wheels are wider than the carriage appears from the top, so I'm always banging the wheels on something. It takes a few minutes to remove/replace washable carseat cover, but this is probably necessary due to the straps. As with any carseat, we would suggest getting help by certified people with proper installation of the carseeat in your car; we had many questions on installation, particularly since our car lacked the LATCH system. We purchased a second base so we didn't have to remove the one in our car for our trip or for our babysitter's car.
Good stroller system
I put this stroller system on my registry and we've been using it since my son was born last year. He is now 11 months and still fits in the infant carrier. We like that the carrier can be used in multiple cars so we bought an extra base. The stroller height seems great for my husband (6'2") and for me (5'8"). We don't feel like we are hunched over when pushing it.
The stroller seems like it folds very compactly, but it still doesn't fit into my VW Cabrio trunk (the trunk opening is just a bit small). So we use it with my husband's car and we are thinking about getting a compact stroller that will fit in my car.
My major complaint is with using the stroller without the infant carrier. Now that my son is older and wants to see everything around him, he doesn't like to recline. The back is adjustable, but we can't get it to be fully upright, so he is always at a 20 degree angle recline. He has started pulling himself forward and leaning on the tray. It is OK for now, but I think he'll start to get annoyed and tired when sitting forward like this.
Overall I would recommend this stroller system.
Convenient And Quick
The Graco Passage Travel System is definitely one of the best stroller/car seat combos around. Once you've got the base installed in your vehicle (which did take me a little time), the car seat easily pops in and out. The 5-point harness is excellent as well. The stroller is great for two key reasons: 1) The car seat snaps into it easily and stays put. 2) Once the child gets a little bigger, the stroller can still be used to tote them around. The stroller is also set at a nice heighth. As another reviewer stated, I don't feel as if I'm hunched over to move the stroller. It also moves very smoothly, making the ride a lot nicer for the child.
The only knocks I have against this set is that the base was a bit hard to install in my car and the stroller doesn't collapse as easily as I was initially lead to believe. Other than these two miniscule problems, I'd have to say that this travel system is one of the best on the market.
I highly recommend it.
