Should we purchase airline seat for 18 month old?
In less than 3 weeks, we leave for our annual trip to WDW. We have purchased 4 seats for the flight from Detroit (non-stop), with the intent of holding our 18 month old in our laps. We will be DH, myself, dd-7 and ds-6, along with the baby. We have traveled with children under 2 MANY times, and have always held them in our laps. We have sometimes used the Baby B'air vests, and sometimes not. We've never had any problems.
I'm not sure what is different this time. Maybe that the older two kids are getting older?, but I'm considering purchaseing my 18 month old a ticket. I WOULD NOT bring on her Britax Roundabout carseat, even though I am aware it would fit. It would just be too much to lug on with the kids and everything else we need to have with us. I would just be getting the seat to basically have more room, sit her down to play, and have her off of us!
What do you guys think/do? :confused: It seems like I could come up with at least a thousand other places to put that money for the seat, but is it worth it for 5 hours (RT) of convenince?...this trip keeps getting more and more expensive...how is it that always happens to me???:blush: