BubbleBum Inflatable Travel Booster Seat for Car, Portable Booster Seat for Car - Backless, Foldable & Narrow Slim Fit -Travel Car Seat for Kids 40-100 lbs - Black

I ordered this for a trip to Chicago with my family. My daughter is 6 years old and 48 inches tall. She still needs a booster, and I needed a portable option for uber-ing around the city. This was perfect! It positioned the belt perfectly across her lap, and the shoulder adjustment was super easy to slide from side to side for different cars (I do realize it needs a slight adjustment in this pic, which I did but did not retake photo). It also fit in small middle seats between two adults, including the center seat on the third row of a mini-van. My child needed help from an adult to buckle in properly, but my 10 and 12 year olds were able with some coaching to figure out how to help their sister buckle in. It doubled as a “booster” in restaurants with deep chairs. My daughter loved her seat and said it was comfortable. It easily inflated with just a couple breaths, and easily deflated. It helped to close the valve to keep it deflated because it will partially inflate when you open it. Once rolled up and in its bag, the booster fit in my Kavu bag with a little room to spare for other items. This seat was absolutely perfect for our trip, and I plan to keep it in my van for spontaneous play dates. The only thing I would change is to make the drawstring on the carrying bag more substantial or add a loop so that you can easily hang it from a bag with a caribiner. I ended up tying loops in the drawstring and attaching it to the outside of my bag because some days I needed the space in my Kavu for kids’ jackets. If I took a smaller purse to dinner, my husband just carried it in his hand, so some kind of handle would have been nice.

This is perfect for having a few extras in my backseat for when we bring a friend or two home from kindergarten. Easy to inflate, yet helps boost 5 and 6 year olds to safe riding heights.

easy to use and very useful for travel

I purchased this seat to travel with after a plane trip. It was light weight and easy to pack. The seat is soft, but it slid a little bit when my 5 yo grand daughter climbed onto the seat, making the seat belt buckling challenging. The seat slid over the buckle attachment every time she climbed in, so I ended up pulling her to the side to access the buckle. We put her in the center of the back seat of a Subaru Forester. The seat feels comfortable enough to carry into restaurants to use as chair booster.

Needed as front-facing for my 2-year-old which took up more space and had two more car seats fri the 5 and 7 year olds. To gain the extra space I needed, I got the BubbleBum inflatable seat for the 7-year-old. Love it! I got the extra space and my girl is happy! Very easy to use.

I am giving this five stars because it does what I think it is designed to do: serves as a stopgap measure when no other option is available. This is no way is adequate for anything other than short rides when you cannnot carry a proper booster seat. We used it for four cab rides - one to hotel from airport, one back to airport from hotel and two short urban cab rides while in city we were visiting. It does not boost very high, slides easily and can position seatbelt appropriately with some care and attention while child focuses on not moving around much. Both the seat, and the child on the seat, and the belt positioner move around easily and children need to focus to make sure everything is in the right place. If you cannot carry a regular booster seat with you this is a good tool to make sure that rides are safer. But you should never consider this a replacement for a booster seat for regular travel that extends beyond short trips. Our son is eight and about 58 pounds and still requires a belt positioner to have everything at the correct height. I included picture from three cab rides. The belt positioner should be lower in third picture. It was the first time I used it and did not have height correct. Good for travel conundrums or very short rides where regular seat is difficult or impossible to manage. Requires help by adult installing seat and positioning things correctly but also cooperative child who will sit still.

Got the seat and blew it up. It is basically an air seat that raises the child up to fit the seat belt better. This is great for traveling. We are going on a 5 city vacation and will save the space and hassle of carrying a full size seat especially when going in and out of uber and walking around. Fits nicely in the backpack. Dont know how long it will last but if it makes it through one or 2 trips it is well worth it.

This was recommended by our pediatrician as a solution for seating our kids three-across in the car. We have it next to a standard Graco booster and a Diono Radian car seat in a Dodge Journey. My daughters take turns riding in it. Oldest is almost 9 and weighs about 70lbs. Her butt fits in this booster, but I wouldn’t buy it for a child any heavier than she is. Normally I encourage my 6yo to sit in it since there other booster is wider. I like that it can be deflated and packed away for vacations, or even to squeeze into a backpack if the child is going to be riding home with someone else. It would be nice if there was a way to inflate the seat without using your mouth. That would make it easier and more sanitary for grandma to inflate after the child carries it to school.

I had my doubts initially but decided to order this for a trip with our five year old. I’m so glad I did! It worked great and was super convenient. It collapses quickly and is light so I carried it in my carry-on bag and then was able to quickly inflate while waiting for our ride share. It positioned my child appropriately for the seat belt and I was especially impressed with the shoulder strap positioning, which is not even a feature on many normal backless boosters. It was so helpful to not have to worry about ordering and waiting for a car with car seats/boosters.

I like that this product is very, light, easy, and very handy. We used it when we travel and needs to use uber or lyft. What i dont like it is its too low a little higher and bigger would have been great. By the way my daughter used this when we went to Disney world and had to wait for the parade. She was able to use this to seat on the pavement.