Chicco Liteway Plus Stroller, Equinox
From Chicco
| Price: | $261.50 |
Product Description
Build your own travel system with the 2-in-1 Liteway Plus stroller. This lightweight stroller conveniently converts from a toddler stroller to an infant car seat carrier for on-the-go parents and babies. The child seat features innovative forward-fold functionality to accept your KeyFit infant car seat with an audible click. For use in toddler mode, the enclosed seat also features 5 recline positions for sleeping children. The Liteway Plus has a compact 3D fold and carry handle for easy travel, plus trendy colors, modern tailoring, elliptical tubing and technical fabrics for a fashion forward look and feel. Other features include rear wheel suspension, toe-tap locking brakes, adjustable leg support, removable canopy with peek-a-boo window, storage basket and parent cup holder. Recommended for children up to 40 pounds.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #23790 in Baby Product
- Color: Equinox
- Brand: Chicco
- Model: 06079317450070
- Released on: 2013-02-11
- Dimensions: 40.80" h x19.50" w x35.30" l,15.00 pounds
Features
- 2?in?1 Lightweight stroller and KeyFit car seat carrier
- Seat folds forward to attach KeyFitinfant car seat with an audible click
- One?hand adjustable seat recline with 5 positions
- Adjustable, removable canopy with zip?off rear panel and peek?a?boo window
- Compact fold and carry handle for easy travel and storage
Most helpful customer reviews
53 of 53 people found the following review helpful.Note: Updated July 2013 after the arrival of 2nd child, as I can update fully on using the Liteway Plus in stroller frame mode.We have a 3 year old and a newborn. With our first baby, we did what the book Baby Bargains recommended new parents NOT do: buy a travel system consisting of a stroller with an infant car seat. The statement made in the book was that travel system strollers are simply too big/unwieldy and don't necessarily meet the needs of an individual family. Instead, the authors suggested getting an infant car seat and stroller frame such as the Baby Trend Snap N Go EX Universal Infant Car Seat Carrier, then shopping for a stroller with specific desired features after the baby had arrived.Like I said, we ignored their advice. Our choice was the Chicco Cortina KeyFit Travel System with the Keyfit car seat (22 pound weight limit) and Cortina stroller. We had the Keyfit recommended as an infant car seat by several friends and relatives and figured that we liked the stroller well enough - as it turned out, the Keyfit was indeed an excellent infant car seat but the Cortina was too bulky. My daily driver is a crossover SUV and the folded Cortina occupied 90% of my cargo area! We can recall using it less than a half-dozen times before giving up and resorting to babywearing or lugging the Keyfit on its own. When our daughter was 8 months old we bought a Baby Jogger City Mini which was a big improvement over the Cortina in virtually every respect, but still bulkier than a stroller with an umbrella-style fold. As we continued wearing our daughter in wraps and carriers until she was around 2 years old, our need for a stroller was not as great as many families.Then I got pregnant. Our older daughter was nearly 3 when our second daughter arrived, and was already past both babywearing and frequent stroller riding. We have long since sold our Cortina to the local children's consignment shop, but we decided to upgrade our Keyfit from the seat with the 22 pound limit Chicco Keyfit 30 Infant Car Seat and assumed we'd either get the Chicco adapter for the City Mini or buy a secondhand stroller frame. Then in January I saw a video about the Liteway Plus stroller on the Chicco website and we decided to check the stroller out in person.When we went to the store to try the Liteway Plus, it was set up for use as a stroller. Our older daughter immediately hopped in and went for a ride, liking it so much that she initially refused to get out! After we convinced her to climb off, it was a simple matter to convert it to the stroller frame. We grabbed a Keyfit from the car seat section and it snapped in and out easily, just like docking into the car seat base.What sealed the deal is the fact that the Liteway Plus is both a stroller frame and a toddler stroller. It simply offers better long term value than buying a stroller frame AND a compact stroller. Do the math: a Keyfit Caddy plus a Chicco Liteway stroller have a combined MSRP of $240, while a single Liteway Plus handily accomplishes both functions for an MSRP of $180. As a mechanical engineer myself I looked at the Liteway Plus and thought, "Why did no one think of this sooner?"A summary of our impressions after using the stroller for 5 months for both a toddler and a newborn -Assembly: Easy - all you have to do after unboxing is snap the front wheels on and attach the canopy and cup holder.Maneuverability: Good although not quite as effortless as our City Mini. The front wheels can be fixed or allowed to swivel depending on terrain and preference. Like any compact/umbrella stroller, this is not a stroller you're going to use for serious offroading but would be perfectly fine at the soccer field or park.Parent features: A cupholder is about it. The basket can hold a smallish diaper bag or jackets/light coats. Our Patemm Pad fits easily but my Vera Bradley baby bag would not. While it has an umbrella style fold, the Liteway Plus is bulkier when folded than most less-expensive umbrella strollers including other options from Chicco. It still fits nicely in the backseat footwell of both our Chevy Equinox and Toyota Camry - so nice to not have the cargo area/trunk occupied by a stroller!Folding: OK. I admit we're very spoiled by the City Mini's fold. Unfolding the Liteway Plus is similar to any umbrella stroller and involves releasing the side latch and pushing down on a small foot pedal until the stroller locks open. Folding it involves actuating a foot release and then pushing up on the small foot pedal. There is a carry strap on the side.Conversion between modes: Easy and quick, involving two parachute clips, two sliding pieces for attaching the seat to the frame, and a zipper. Conversion is faster without the canopy in place, and I removed the canopy entirely while using the Liteway Plus as a stroller frame. There's a nice protective boot/cover that folds out from the foot rest to cover the seat back when folded forward into stroller frame mode.Use as stroller frame: Good. When out and about with our newborn running quick errands, I often click the Keyfit right into the Liteway Plus, which can be easily maneuvered through the store with one hand while the other hand holds a shopping basket.Use as stroller: Good. The canopy seems small compared to the City Mini and was relatively ineffective on a windy day. It has a "peekaboo" window in it to see your child. It's simple to change seat recline and harness adjustments, but we found the harness buckle to be an annoyance to fasten and unfasten.Child comfort: In stroller frame mode the child's comfort is by default that of the Keyfit, so I'll focus on comfort in toddler mode. Our very verbal 2.5 year old (at the time we bought the stroller) gave it her seal of approval! The seat offers 5 recline positions and adjustable leg support. The harness straps are adjustable in height at three positions, with the highest spot still offering plenty of growing room for our tall older daughter. The recommended upper weight limit in toddler mode is 40 lbs, which may not be sufficient for a very big toddler but is more than adequate for her at 29 pounds.Pros:~ Excellent long term value due to the 2-in-1 functionality~ Easy, quick conversion between stroller frame and toddler mode~ Good maneuverability and child comfort features~ Far more compact than a Chicco Cortina or other comparable travel system strollerCons:~ Not as compact when folded as a smaller basic umbrella stroller would be~ Annoying harness buckle in toddler mode (fabric covers the buckle and has to be pushed aside to actuate)~ Skimpy canopy
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.This stroller is very easy to collapse and install the carrier. One tip from lessons learned fold the sun cover back before collapsing, the plastic hinges will bend and weaken if you don't fold before before collapsing to store.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.The Chicco Liteway Plus Stroller, Equinox is the best stroller we have in our inventory. We have a total of four strollers - two "2-in-1" baby carrier/stroller combos a really light weight "Good Baby" stroller and Chicco Liteway Plus and the Chicco is the most useful and most often used by far.The baby carrier/stroller combos (which the Chicco Liteway is as well) are sturdy and heavy framed. They are also extremely bulky and eat up all of your trunk space when stowed. Since our baby is now a toddler he doesn't need the carrier anymore and a lightweight but sturdy stroller is desired for our arrangement and the Chicco Liteway fulfills that order very handily. The Chicco is lightweight but sturdy, the wheels spin smoothly ( a MUST for long walks, the handles are angled in a surprisingly comfortable position and the straps that hold baby in place is strong but comfortable. A nifty cupholder is also included and the sun shade works quite well and on many occasions, we've tipped it all the way forward to shield baby from strong gusts of wind as we walk outdoors.Every piece of the Lightway Plus feels like a quality product and not some flimsy, budget, corner cutting affair (which we suffered through with the "Good Baby" lightweight stroller from China.) With quality concentrated construction, assembly was a breeze and pieces snapped together with ease and the manual was easy to follow. Evrything reeked of "competence" and that's something that's missing from most of today's consumer goods.Folded, the Chicco Liteway Plus Stroller took up about 40% less space than the other "full-sized" strollers/carriers and that is also something that we have cherished now that we have it. More space in your trunk for groceries! Hooray!Very, very recommended!
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