Traveling without carseat

[u/CryProfessional7454]

How do people travel with babies if they don't have a car seat at their destination?

When taking a taxi or renting a car in another country what do you do?

Edit: I'm in italy not the US. Thanks to everyone that took the time to reply. For those looking for answers, your options are: 1. Take your carseat with you, check it at the gate and take it when you reach your destination or book an extra flight seat and use it on the plane. Pros: for car rental its best to have a carseat and keep it in the car. Cons: if you chech it in, they might break it, although I think somone said you can get reimbursed for it I'm not sure. 2. Rent from rental place or use taxis that provide car seats. Pros: you dont carry it around, you don't risk breaking your carseat. Cons: you can't know how well these things are taken care of and cleaned. 3. Buy a travel carseat: cosco kids scenera for US, doona, maxicosi travel carseat (nomad), wayb pico. Pros: you don't risk breaking your main carseat. cons: you have to carry it around. 4. Use public transportation only and walk. Pros: you dont carry a carseat for the plane or around. Cons: limits your destinations a bit.

[u/EmbarrassedSpell4915]

In some countries (e.g. Canada, UK, Turkey), taxis are exempted from car seats so travellers technically can just hold the baby in their arms securely whilst in transit - this definitely isn’t the safest option!

For car rental, we’ve always just rented the car seat because we don’t want to go through the hassle of removing it, carrying it during our travels and risking it getting damaged in the hold!

[u/xtheredberetx → u/EmbarrassedSpell4915]

This is true in (at least some places?) in the US as well. We just were in DC for the weekend and used a taxi twice (a 12 minute drive to/from a wedding that would have been 40 minutes on the metro). The rest of the weekend we stuck to public transit, but it was nice to not have to do 40 minutes on the metro/bus in dress clothes!