Kalencom Potette Plus 2-in-1 Travel Potty Trainer Seat Red
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Jeremy Neff
19-11-2024Must have!!! This is simple, easy to store & clean & sturdy. Its nothing fancy but it gets the job done for road trips, games, shopping trips, dirty restrooms, ports pots, etc. I have boy/girl twins & they both have no issues & like to use it. I dont bother buying the replacement bags I just keep old grocery bags & a roll of paper towels in my SUV & simply grab a bag put in a few sheets of paper towels to absorb & it works great. When done I tie the bag up & throw out. My twins are almost 4 & still use it, my daughter refuses to use porta pots & this has been great for outdoor outings for her.
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Paola
> 3 dayThis is a great seat to use with the liners and to have in your car. But when put on a toilet it is a very large opening and no splash guard and not very comfortable. Since the opening is wide, it was difficult for my 2year old to sit for any long period of time. We took it on our vacation but probably wont be doing that again. Its going to live in my car and used for roadtrips and emergencies. On vacation Id still take another more comfy seat that will stay in the hotel or the fold up kind to use in my diaper bag. The liners are great tho!! Nothing else out there like this seat plus liners.
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LEF
Greater than one weekThis is the perfect little potty for our uses: emergencies and on long car trips. I love that it can be used as a seat on a big potty, if you have that option, or on its own with the bags. I have bought the liners that this company makes to go along with this potty because I like the ease of knowing there wont be spills or leaks if I were to use my own. I also like the ease of not having to carry around both grocery bags and something to put in the bottom of them (although thats a great idea in case I ever find myself without one of Kalencoms liner bags!). We are using this as an emergency potty for our kids ages 9, 6, and 2, although the 9 and 6 year old are able to hold it until we find an actual bathroom better than the 2 year old.
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revreader
Greater than one weekWhen I started potty training my son I was looking for disposable potty seat covers to keep in the diaper bag. Luckily, I stumbled upon this seat before I wasted my money on those. I cannot say enough good things about this seat and I recommend it to all of my friends potty training their kids. It folds up nicely and fits well in all of my diaper bags. Im not saying its tiny. In fact, I actually thought it was going to be smaller. I now appreciate its size, though, because the seat itself doesnt have to fold so there are no seams to pinch his bottom. Some reviewers have said its too small, but my 2 1/2 year old son is 33 pounds and fits just fine. Ive used the seat both ways and its great! We used it as its own seat on the beach and at the pool both with the bags it comes with and with a grocery bag. Both ways work great. I keep Clorox wipes in the bag that comes with it to wipe the seat down when hes done. Its quick and easy! Its also extremely sturdy. I have no doubt that it will last for my second son. We dont leave home without this seat. It makes my son much more comfortable going potty when were out and I dont have to hold him on!
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Megan
Greater than one weekIve had this item for a few weeks now for my 2yo daughter, and I just cant imagine trying to potty train without it. It is very sturdy and it fits into my very small backpack that I use as a diaper bag/purse and we use it ALL the time. I have a potty seat with me at ALL TIMES, people! When we go in the car for longer rides, I put it into the chair configuration on the back seat with the baggie in it and we are ready to pull over and go potty if we need to. Folding it out and back down into its bag when we are out and around takes all of 10 seconds. It fits really well on every size/model of toilet weve tried it on, which is nice for nervous beginner pottiers that it doesnt jiggle or move. I would say this potty chair is the single most useful child-related item I have bought so far. If you are wavering on it, please just go for it, you wont be sorry! (We have the PEENK one, it is very pink and cute if you have a child who is impressed by pink things that are pink. I have one of those girls.)
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mabcat
> 3 dayI love this thing. It was well worth the money spent. We use it all the time. It will adjust to fit any toilet and my daughter feels safe and secure using it. I hate using public restrooms, but this thing makes the whole process a little more palatable. I leave it in my car in a small bag (along with a little container of antibacterial wipes) and it goes into the stroller when we are the zoo, mall, church, etc. One of my favorite features---and one that you definitely cant tell from the image shown---is that when it is folded out, there are little handles for the kid to hold onto. My daughter loves that and I love it that she isnt gripping a public toilet. We havent had to use it in the stand-alone position yet. Circumstances just havent required it. But someone said that you can make your own bags for it by cuttting a sanitary pad in half, sticking it in a plastic grocery sack. The pad absorbs liquid and you just tie it up and toss. Sounds fine to me. I have a couple in my car in a little pouch for the time when that happens. Very happy with this purchase.
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L. Alvarez
> 3 dayI found this product while searching on Amazon for a portable potty seat. My 2 year old is pottying training, and while she does ok on big potties, sometime public ones can be pretty gross (public parks, beaches, gas stations, etc) and sometimes the seats are way too big. I was initially looking for one of those little quad-folding plastic seats but after reading a lot of negative reviews of those (too flimsy, slippery, etc) , the Potette caught my eye. This review is of the Potette Plus, which I understand is different from the original Potette in that the seat is designed to do double-duty as both a self-contained portable potty (used with the accompanying plastic bag attachments) OR as a small potty seat (placed on top of a regular toilet). Im not familiar with the original Potette seats but my understanding is that they dont have this secondary function. I was a little confused at how it worked, and it didnt look all that portable in the pictures but the price was right and I thought I would give it a try regardless. When I got the product in the mail I got a better feel for how it works. It consists of a small circular molded hard ring (the seat itself), with two half-moon shaped legs that fold either completely inward for storage, straight down to function as legs on a potty chair, or flanged out to function as a potty seat. When stored, its certainly bulkier than a quad-folding potty seat but its still actually surprisingly compact. It slips easily into all my diaper bags and its certainly smaller than lugging along a separate small potty chair, which is what we had been doing before I got this. Figuring out how to put it on a big potty was a little awkward at first. It doesnt fit neatly on most potties so it felt a little slippy but I found that I was trying to place it too far forward and if I slid it back just a little bit it would nestle in between the two halfs of the toilet seat pretty nicely. The plastic seat itself is VERY sturdy. I think I could probably run over it with my car without even scratching it. It seems very comfortable for my daughter to sit on. It does occasionally slip a little side to side/back and forth since it doesnt anchor onto the seat like some home potty seats will, so you have to hold it and your child steady on some toilets (which is a good idea anyway). But Ive never worried shes going to fall through or into the water. My daughter never blinked at sitting on this and in fact shell tell me she wants to go potty on the red (one)! She is very comfortable with the product. I hadnt had a chance to use it as a self-contained potty chair until this past weekend when we went to the beach and she suddenly declared she needed to go. The nearest public bathrooms were really far away and I didnt trust we would make it. Thinking on my feet, I grabbed the Potette out of my backpack, set it up in the sand, opened up a diaper and set it underneath it and she immediately used it without any hesitation. (I would have used the accompanying plastic bag but I hadnt remember to bring any). Ive read a couple criticisms of the size (i.e. the seat is too small) and the sturdyness. First, a disclaimer that my daughter is petite. Shes barely two and shes on the small side, so size is not a concern for me. Its actually perfect for her, but but also I think that even a much larger toddler would be fine. Its a smallish ring (Im guessing about 9 in diameter at the widest part) but they really dont need to have something that big if you think about it. Even if their bums hang over the edges it still serves the purpose fine (much as our grown up butts hang over the sides of adult toilet seats). Regarding the legs, to use them the potty chair position, you do have to push them in and click them into place. If you dont do that then this would be very unsturdy, true. But clicked into place they feel VERY sturdy and I would have zero concerns about my daughter falling. I suspect I could stand on it without it even wobbling, though I dont of course recommend that! It comes with a thick plastic bag that you slip it into that has been great for storage. I keep a bag of flushable wipes, and a spare bag insert in with the ring. These bag inserts, by the way, arent that much to speak of. They are a big like a plastic grocery bag with a small very flat square of what Im guessing is absorbent material like what you find inside a diaper glued in place in the middle. I havent used one to see how much liquid it would hold but it doesnt seem like it would trap very much moisure. It looks like you could substitute a grocery bag in a pinch as others have suggested but Id want one that doesnt have any holes! Bottom line is that I couldnt be more pleased with this purchase and wouldnt hesitate to recommend this heartily to anyone who is traveling with a child or who is looking for an easy-to-tote potty seat for being out and about in public places. This is going on the list of things I recommend to other moms (and dads)!
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Michael Deering
> 3 dayWhen my wife bought this I thought it was a bit silly, but it has proved invaluable for a family on the move. First the toilet is very compact, easy to use, and amazingly been far less messy than potty time at home (go figure). We use a diaper in the catch and as soon as the boys complete their business we roll it up and dump it the same way wed change our toddlers diaper. Finally the fact that when the little ones tell us they have to go we save the hassle of looking for a bathroom, the unbuckling and dismount process, and that final 100 yard pee pee dance/run, not to mention not using public restrooms. Now on our road trips we just pull into the gas station, let the kids use this portable potette. No more using those dirty bathrooms, just using their trash bins. Highly recommend this product.
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Melissa S
> 3 dayI was looking for a portable potty that I could easily take with my when potty training my 2.5 year old daughter. A friend of mine had this potty (although the older version that doesnt sit on the toilet seat) and I thought it looked really handy. I searched the reviews online and they were mostly good so I bought it. It works really well for when you dont have quick access to a restroom as it turns into its own small potty, but also this version (the potette plus) has the additional feature that it can turn into a potty seat to put on the adult toilet too (the legs fold out to sit on top of the seat). I liked this feature especially as I planned to carry this around in my diaper bag to use when were out and we needed to use a a public restroom. It is a little large to fit inside my diaper bag, but it slides perfectly into an open side pocket so I carry it around that way. It has its own plastic carry pouch too, so that is a nice feature. For using it as its own travel potty, it has plastic bags with an absorbant pack in the bottom. They really do work well to soak up the pee so you arent carrying around a bag full of pee to the garbage. I havent used it this way as much as I was trying to save the bags for when they were really needed as they are more expensive, but a regular plastic bag could be used in a pinch. All in all I like the product very much and it is very convienent. I would buy it again.
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A McGowan
> 3 dayI bought this potty seat shortly after my daughter was potty trained in anticipation of the day she would have to use the bathroom while we were out and about somewhere. I have never used it as a stand alone travel potty with the liners, but just as a travel seat to use when not at home. I use it in conjunction with potty covers that I first line on the seat and then I put this on top of the potty cover to cover all contact surfaces. Having this potty seat gives me peace of mind. It does come with a carrying bag which is useful because it is the size of the seat and has a drawstring, but its just a thicker plastic bag and wont last forever. The only downfall for my purposes is that I always have to travel with some type of backpack to slip the seat and my covers in, although I usually dont leave home without an extra set of clothes for my daughter anyways in case of any mishaps, so it all works out.