Mamas and Papas Aria

We brought the whole Mamas and Papas Aria system as we have a small car and it seemed like good value for money. However I must say that this is not a great system at all.

While you are using the car seat and fixing it to the buggy its not too bad. And the ease of attaching the car seat to the base in the car is great, there is no fiddling.

However as a buggy. Its shocking. The footmuff dont stay up it always falling down. The floating harness is fairly small. And as such I have been unable to use the sholder straps on my daughter as she would have no movement at all.

The hood on the car seat doesn't stay closed if you pull it closed, and the rain cover is just big and fussy.

In general the whole thing is alot of hard work and not worth the hassle.

I would not recommend this push chair or travel system to anyone.

I bought it in the Argos and was happy cause I received the buggy, car seat, changing bag, foot muff and rain cover for 269.00 euro. The only gripe I have is the harness. Other than that I would have gave it 100%.

I found the pushchair very good to use with the matching car seat but once my little girl was put in it without the car seat at about 8 months old, i have found the straps are very tight and they are at their longest length. Very disappointed with it and looking to buy a new pushchair as this one will soon be completely unusable! I have also found that the wheels seem to stick a lot, they spin to the side and then get stuck there (although this is usually in shops rather than outside, so may depend on flooring).

We took this pushchair on holiday abroad and it was great. However, we lost the toggle off the end of the recline cord which did cause some problems. Easy to recline when baby falls asleep, but not so easy push back up. Overall its not a head-turning pushchair but I've used this from 6 weeks to 12 months and its still going well at the grandparents house.

I stood my ground for a full refund on the basis that my son could no longer fit in the Mamas & Papas Aria pushchair, but the manager of the shop argued for a long time; first saying it was not faulty, then suggesting he send it away for testing, or that I buy a new harness.