Best vehicle for 6 carseats

[playfelt]

If the whole purpose of this is to drive your son to school it seems to me he would be in the zone for bussing if it is too far to walk. This seems like an awful expense and hassle for the cost of a runabout stroller instead to walk to the bus stop.

That is a lot of buckling kids in and out of carseats if you have to put them in to get there, get them out to take son to his class/door/area etc, then back in for the trip home.

[Judy Trickett]

If the whole purpose of this is to drive your son to school it seems to me he would be in the zone for bussing if it is too far to walk. This seems like an awful expense and hassle for the cost of a runabout stroller instead to walk to the bus stop.

That is a lot of buckling kids in and out of carseats if you have to put them in to get there, get them out to take son to his class/door/area etc, then back in for the trip home.

Not necessarily. In my city you have to be 1.6 kilometers away from the school to get bussing. We are 1.2 kms away and when my kids were in school I had to walk with all the dckids that distance. And that is a LONG way for little kids back and forth at least twice a day.

[giraffe]

Yup what Judy said... we were 1.5 km (as in about 4 houses to close) from the school. So that was 3km per drop off and 3km per pick up, that is 6km in toatal... WAY to far for dckids to walk every day and that doesnt even account for snow or rain.

[torontokids]

I would be inclined to hire parent/student to walk my kid. By the time you pay for the vehicle, car seats, insurance this would be cheaper and way less of a hassle.

[Shannie]

I live in a small town that has a terrible playschool so I am choosing to drive her the 15km into the next town for school, no busing or walking options. I ended up going into sears last night and bought a Radian car seat. With that I can use my regular size car seat and booster in the middle of the back row. It's still tricky to buckle the booster so I might just leave it buckled all the time and loosen and unloosen it by the shoulder strap. Then the middle seat has 2 bucket seats so it's a tight fit but will work. (I can squeeze between the bucket seats to get to the back)

[playfelt]

I assume you have gotten parents to sign permission for the trips. That is 60 km a day they will be just sitting in the van. Hopefully it isn't every day school and only some days or that is a lot of downtime for them.

[Shannie]

I have full permission from all parents ( I can't imagine that someone wouldn't do that) and plans for fun things to do while in the other town. The play school is in a rec centre. That is why I chose it. And it is only twice per week.

[bright sparks]

You can fit three seats in the back of the the odyssey. I have it set up like that in my. I pull the door side middle row seat forward and the back flips forward. If the kids are able to then they go in and climb into their seat one at a time and when they are all seated, I climb in and fasten them all in and I'm not small by any means. It's not glamorous but not the end of the world by any means. It's doable and worth it if you've got to go out.