Pushchairs: Compare features & prices Graco Quattro Tour Deluxe review http://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-child/baby-transport/reviews/pushchairs/graco-quattro-tour-deluxe/review/

I love this pushchair! I spotted it as a budget option after I'd fallen in love with the Phil and Teds newborn cocoon. Husband lost his job when 14wks pregnant so huge budget issue. Got a special I love my bear version through Toys r us - very good price. £260 (in Oct '09) for carseat, pushchair, soft carrytot, auto-carbase, footmuff and raincover. Liner of footmuff is designed as bear head for cushion and two paws out the side, my daughter now pulls these around herself like the bear is cuddling her!It's lovely to push, though not quite one handed once my daughter hit a year old, about 9kg. Carrytot was great for transferring in and out of home, used to put her in it inside her big cot in first few months. Car seat is still spotless, all covers washable, heavy in first few weeks with stitches but that's what hubby was for!Daughter now 18mths and I use this pushchair daily on the buses. Once you have the knack, on and off is easy, even when the bus driver hasn't lowered the bus or missed the stop. Came off backwards but had lovely tight turn around the bell-pole in disabled/pushchair park on First's double deckers, have had several complimentary comments when I turn it tightly. Only gripe on buses is the back wheels sticks out a fraction further than the front and sometimes catch on things, and it's so long, if have to share parking space the handle is out into the gangway enough to catch on people's shopping and people tempted to grab it on way by. Still shorter than most of the other travel systems or doubles we see. A folding handle would solve this as chassi isn't that long. We live in first floor flat and used to store it upstairs, it is really heavy in this situation - but I could do it without straining once my birth stitches had healed. We now keep it behind the door, lose about 4inches of opening space but saves leaving daughter in cot whilst going back for pushchair, I manage that with her on my hip now. One hand fold is genuine, so speedy it gets a couple of second glances when you do it at the busstop. Think because it looks too big to move like that!Only issue we have now is 18month old in cosytoes is a little cramped, we're looking for a longer one; and their is no calf support once her legs reached over the end - she can't reach foot rest yet. This might be due to ToysRUs and not Graco. The stroller lies fully flat, used it both ways from birth, but now her poor little legs hang down while she's asleep.Big wheels and lots of bounce made it great off road walking dogs, we do stony riverbanks, mud, snow, the lot! Raincover is lovely fit once you get the hang of it, and fits over carseat too if walking somewhere. We got a separate carseat raincover for when using the car alone. Sunshade flips both ways, which is brilliant, but doesn't quite cover her. We tried a clip on parasol, but no good as the chassi tubes are large ovals, not round. Now have Koo-di's universal shade and sleep net. It's black which looks a little odd, but fits perfectly, is spf50, and she can see out (i sat in pushchair to check, comfy and chunky!), you just have to lift an edge to see in, and it packs into it's own pocket and hangs on the handle. Parent tray is ace, as my husband demonstrated at his rugby club, you can walk over stud-studded grass with a pint in each side if you sip the tops of first. Ahem.And the shopping basket, wow! I did several heavy 4 bags and a 12 pack of diet coke trips back home on the bus with it. Daughter normally asleep in the flat position by now, so just drop the basket down to get it all in. We are looking to get a simple umbrella fold to keep in the car now daughter is walking, but I haven't found anything with the wheels and basket off this pushchair - not sure I can cope without them!Yes, there is an awful lot of plastic, but this is a budget travel system! If you expect a finer aesthetic touch, you'll just have to pay for it. We knew if would be bulky but the pros outweigh the little niggles I have with it.If you need a travel system and are stuck for cash get this, you won't regret it if you've done your research on it; if money not so much of an issue, pay a bit more for something fancier.We area expecting to use this for at least our next child if not also for my sister's!

We bought this pushchair for my first born child when I was 6 months pregnant. We were chuffed that we'd found a pushchair that came with everything we could possibly need at such a low price, but in time we learned that you really do get what you pay for!Since owning the Quattro Tour Deluxe, just one word springs to mind when I think of Graco: Plastic. Everything that they can make plastic, IS plastic. But I'm a reasonable person who's willing to overlook the cheap materials used providing the product is satisfactory, but alas... the product is anything but.When my son was newborn, everything was fine(ish). He'd go in the carrycot and if we were just popping into the shops from the car then I could pop the carseat onto the pushchair with ease. Unfortunately, the pushchair doesn't have an adjustable handlebar meaning my husband would have to stoop down in order to push it. (he's 6ft, hardly a giant)Although easy to fold, it's still so big once folded that it's a struggle to get it to fit in most car boots. And heavy too!At around the 3 month mark, my baby was too long to fit both the carrycot and the carseat (when it was on top of the pushahir) meaning my only option was to have him facing outwards with the pushachair in stroller mode. However, the stroller function is only really suitable once the baby is 6 months old rendering this pushchair completely useless from the ages of 3-6 months. Not exactly the value for money I had in mind. All I wanted from a pushchair was something that would be easy to use and value for money and I got neither of these from the Graco. I'd argue that Which's review is far too generous and I would warn others to steer clear of this pushchair. Do yourself a favour and save a bit more money to invest in a better quality travel system. You'll save yourself a lot of money in the long run.

Bought in Dec 2007 but not used until March 2008 - and in February 2010 a set of the front wheels broke off! On approaching the company we received no help other than the suggestion that we buy a replacement set of wheels at the cost of £18.50. We expected that a pushchair should last more than 23 months especially at this price.