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When booking car hire, many people wonder about also booking child or baby seats at the same time, often they can’t decide whether to take their own or rent one from the car hire company.

The problem arises when they think that they can make a last minute decision and book a car seat on arrival. Because of course they can’t possible store enough car seats for every vehicle, some people may need one seat, some two and on odd occasions three will be needed.

Remember that in many countries if you have children under a certain age traveling with you, the law demands you use a child seat for them, so you need to be sure you have one.

In the States it can sometimes work out cheaper to actually buy one from somewhere like WalMart than to hire one, especially if you’re stay is over two weeks but, you do have to have something as soon as you pick up the hire car so this option is not always practical.

Many people choose to take their own baby seats as the baby can travel in it safely and be strapped into a plane seat (if they’re flying out on holiday) instead of having to sit on Mum or dad’s lap all the time. Child seats are another matter though and with the restrictions on luggage and the hassle of carrying so much ’stuff’ it makes more sense these days to make sure you book one at the same time as you make your car hire reservation.