- Birth to 22kg (approx 4yr old)
- Weight: Heavy (15.5kg)
- Manoeuvrability: Medium
- Folding and converting: Easy when you know how
Recommended by Jane Johnson
If your baby’s safety and comfort is your priority, this is your pram. But if you’re looking for something you’ll push effortlessly through busy city streets, it is not.
It looks beautiful, all curves, glinting silver and snuggly soft furnishings – the hexagon-shaped quilting inside the chair is particularly pleasing, like a cosy, secure womb – and my little one loved snuggling up inside it. That’s a big plus, as she’s at the climbing out stage (which is why I’m not reviewing the best high chairs.)
The seat can face the world or face you and it sits up or lies down with the flip of a small handle. I felt super proud to push the egg2 down my smart high street. But pushing up hills was a bit of a chore. The chassis, seat and wheels weigh 15.5kg, and then add a toddler on top. Along a busy high street, this lady’s not quite so easily ‘for turning’. That said, I love the chunky puncture-proof wheels and it mounts kerbs nicely.
Putting it together wasn’t quite the Krypton Factor challenge many buggies are. It’s quite intuitive, once you watch the instruction video. (Basically, one-handed, you pull up a handle inside the shopping basket, which I would never have guessed, and putting the brake on is a kind of flick motion on the pedal rather than the usual push down and click.)
There are some natty design features, like the adjustable footrest hiding a handy sun-shade and the ventilation net hidden behind the UPF 50 + hood. Improvements over the original Egg include larger, higher seat, easier-to-adjust harness, bigger basket size (although I would like even bigger) and new bigger wheels. With additional parts, it can also be converted into a tandem buggy.
In the same range:
Meanwhile there is a smaller, lighter egg, called the eggZ (£399) which I also tried. This is much nippier and not so heavy. It folds down easily into a handy free-standing position and has an easy magnetic harness buckle; very helpful when you are wrestling to get your toddler to go into the pram. It’s got a good-sized basket, an extendable hood with a UPF of 50+ and looks nice and smart, although it it doesn’t have the luxury feel inside the seat. It’s a great little runaround and, at £399, more affordable than the egg2.
