Product Description

Protect the seat that protects your child. When you're packing up the car seat to take on an airplane or train, this carrier will protect your car or booster seat's safety features (not to mention the upholstery!) from the perils of travel. Plus, padded backpack-style straps make carrying it along easier than you would have ever dreamed. Finally -- one less thing for your busy parent hands to hold in the airport!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177 in Baby Product
• Color: Black
• Brand: J.L. Childress
• Model: 2100
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 16.00" h x 15.00" w x 19.00" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• Car seat travel bag
• Fits Britax Marathon, Boulevard, Roundabout, Decathlon and Diplomat, Also fits Recaro, Evenflo, Cosco, Century, Eddie Bauer, Graco, Safety 1st, most infant carriers, booster seats and many more brands and styles
• Recommended for use when checking car seat as luggage or gate checking
• Measures approximately 18 by 19 by 33"
• Mady of heavy-duty fabric

From the Manufacturer
With all-around padding, padded interior wings and a custom fit to ensure protection of the car seat's safety features, the Ultimate Car Seat Travel Bag from J.L. Childress lets you comfortably carry and protect your child's car seat while keeping your hands free for other luggage. Extra-tall to fit most popular styles, this bag includes an ID pocket with ID card and dual lockable zippers. Water-resistant, heavy-duty fabric cleans easily and protects car seat from moisture. Features padded, adjustable backpack straps for carrying comfort.

Customer Reviews

Highly durable. Well worth its price
Our Ultimate bag has survived multiple trans-Atlantic flights and 6+ Caribbean/European/US domestic flights per year since 2004 (it's now Aug. 2008). It has a few rips which are completely the fault of the airline (one looks like an actual knife cut it), which I've mended with duct tape, and still it keeps going. I absolutely cannot recommend it enough for its durability. By comparison, we purchased a 'cheap' alternative last year for our 2nd child. That thing was absolutely destroyed in one single trip overseas. The Ultimate Travel Bag is head and shoulders above its competition. I CANNOT RECOMMEND IT HIGHLY ENOUGH. If you want something with wheels - I see that's an alternate model now. I would warn, however, the "other" bag we bought, it had wheels - and those were the first things the airlines popped off.

Met my expectations
This bag is exactly what we needed for our Britax Boulevard. We didn't want wheels since our hands are already full pulling our wheeled luggage and pushing the stroller. So the backpack design was perfect. I wouldn't want to hike the Grand Canyon carrying it on my back, but for the walk to the ticket counter it was fine. Backpacks that are designed to comfortably carry heavy loads long distances are hundreds of dollars. I think this bag strikes a good balance between cost and comfort. Caution - I knelt down to the floor to get something out of my suitcase and almost toppled over like a turtle! The car seat is so large is definately affects your balance.

There is no sign of wear following our first trip with it. Construction seems sturdy and it is well paded.

We love it + Mom Tip for Travel with it
JL Childress Ultimate Car Seat Travel Bag

We love this back pack car seat bag and now own 2 of them. The bags have been through many trips and have held up very well. The bag fits many different types of carseats -- including our Graco infant seat & base and also our Britax car seat for the older child. It's pretty comfortable to carry on your back and wheel the rest of your luggage. When I was pregnant with our 2nd child, my husband put the back pack on and a baby carrier on the front. Both made getting through the airport escalators, etc. very easy. We don't use strollers on trips -- it's easier to travel without them.

Mom tip -- I like to use a clear zip bag (like the one you get when you buy a comforter or similar) to stow all their clothes, diapers, etc. in the same piece of luggage with the car seat. That way if they inspect that piece of luggage, they can see everything through the clear plastic & don't have to go through it quite as much (I also put small stuff in ziploc bags just in case they do so that they won't lose the pacifiers, etc.). Also, if you're going to put clothes in with the carseats, it's a lot easier to use a separate bag that you can quickly throw in on top of the car seat & take out as you're going to/from the airport.

Just make sure the backpack doesn't get too heavy because we've had to repair one of the bags after overloading it on several trips. Now we put anything heavy (like a Costco size can of formula) in our luggage. It's also smart not to weigh yourself down too much since you're carrying it on your back. I agree with one of the other reviewers -- the center of gravity is a little odd because of the car seat so it is possible to get off balance if you bend over to do something with it on your back so be careful!