Baby Jogger City Select Double Stroller with Second Seat, Ruby

Update: I love it even more after some use. Spent the whole day at San Diego Zoo and this stroller is a dream. I'm not the only one, everywhere I looked there were a bunch of City Selects. The beauty of this stroller is when I lay both seats flat and my sons can both sleep. The boys love it, because it feels like a bunk bed.More positives:+ The wheels are really smooth. Pushing and going over bumps are very easy.+ Love, love, love, the handbrake. I will never buy a stroller without handbrake again. I never brake the stroller with my old chicco stroller because it's inconvenient. I now use the brake all the time with the city select and it works amazingly. It doesn't matter where I parked, uphill, downhill, the stroller locks up.One negative (has to do with the accessory and not the stroller itself):- The additional glider board isn't useful. Even when pushed all the way in, it still interfere with my stride. I wish Baby Jogger would imitate the Orbit Baby sidekick board, where you can fit two boards on the back wheels. That way it's out of the way and you can accommodate two children standing.Original: Just got it today and I'm amazed of how compact and easy to assemble it is.Set up. Pull out the frame, snap on the wheels, place the seat in, connect the canopy to the seat and straighten the footwell. Done. Took 5 minutes.Configuration. This stroller does it all. You can set the seat up anyway you like. You can also use this as triple by getting a Glider Board. I'm currently using this as a sit and stand for my 4-year old and 7-month old. But I can see myself using this for a long time with a third baby.Build quality and size. Excellent materials. Very compact once you remove everything. So on a quick run you just fold it up and throw it in the cargo area. The beauty is if you need to make space you can remove the seats, they can lay flat one on top of the other; remove the wheels, super easy with a release button; all that is left is a tiny compact frame.Handling. Excellent handling. The stroller is so compact that pushing it is no the different from other high quality single stroller. I love the handbrake, save myself from playing footsie.I regret not doing enough research with my first son. We saw our friend has a Chicco travel system and we love the idea so much that we didn't look at the alternatives. Chicco is cheap and clunky taking up all our cargo space. With our second child we now know exactly what we need and this City Select has it all.I was considering between the City Select and Uppababy Vista, but after reading the reviews on Uppababy and learned that it only has a two year warranty whereas Baby Jogger has lifetime warranty for the frame does it for me.I am not deducting any stars, but boy is Baby Jogger trying to milk us parents for every dollar they can get. This stroller comes with absolutely zero accessory. That's right, be prepared to fork out extra for the parent console and snack tray. I usually don't support companies that do this, but this stroller is perfect. I love the design. The frame design carry onto the seats giving it a pleasant look.Some features I prefer: include the common accessories mentioned above; make the stroller stand when folded.

This stroller worked well for our family when our second baby was under one year old. We used it with a britax car seat and attachment and it worked well. It fits into doorways easier than the side by side stroller and we used it quite often. But it is hard to fold because both levers (on either side) have to be pulled up simultaneously and it can be finicky and very annoying to fold. Another issue is that when you add a second seat and not car seat it cannot be folded with both seats so one has to come off before the annoying process of folding.The biggest issue we had was when the baby grew out of the infant car seat and had to be in the second seat there is only one configuration where both kids can face forward. My toddler wants to face forward all the time and eventually the baby wanted to see as well and when both seats are facing forward there is very little room for the kid on the top. It was hard to get her in and buckled because the canopy and top of the other seat are right there and she eventually just kept pulling and chewing on it. It worked for a while but we eventually switched to a side by side because both kids can face forward.It is also very long and maneuvering it in tight spaces is difficult (city, mall). When we would visit downtown Chicago we take two strollers because they maneuver much better and fold up if we decide to go into a restaurant. It takes up quite a bit of space when it is not folded. It is not super easy to maneuver even when walking on the sidewalk and it is hard to get up and down curbs/ non even side walks (because of weight). The wheels are small and it will take quite a bit of effort if you have to take it on the grass (such as when walking through a park to the playground). Works okay on smooth surfaces but that is about it.All in all it is an okay stroller but when the baby is out of the infant car seat we began to have problems. Also folding is a pain because the levers on the side get stuck and if they are not pulled up at the same time the stroller wont fold. It is a heavy stroller but not horrible and I was able to load it up into my car without a problem alone. Just be aware that as they grow they want to both face forward and that is not really comfortable in this stroller and a side by side will be better for that.It would work better as a single stroller (likely what it was designed for) and it didn't last too long for us because the kids didn't want to be facing backwards. I really like my Baby Jogger City Mini and still use it with both kids for the ease of folding and better handling on not so smooth roads. We took that stroller to Switzerland and hiked all over. I was hoping this would be similar but it was not.

Let me start off by saying I was in the market for a stroller that could convert from 1 kid, to 2 kids, and back to 1. I have a 2 year old now with a baby due in June. Previously, I owned a Graco jogger stroller, which worked fine for our first son, but now I knew I'd need something more. But I didn't want the awkward double stroller when our first born would lose interest in riding it. A convertible stroller just made sense. But the high cost and add-on products was a little much, we thought.Like most other parents, I spent a LOT of time doing online research, in-store research, etc. You name it, I probably considered it. A cheaper, comparable stroller at Babies R Us, the Contours, had a lot of the same features and included the 2nd seat at a price tag of $300.00. After testing it out in the store, we could immediately tell that it was a "get what you pay for" kind of product. The foam on the handle was already coming off (this was a store model), the feel of the entire thing felt cheap and the wheels were the standard plastic wheels.I was sold to the Baby Jogger when I saw that the 2nd seat was included in the $500.00 price tag. When it arrived in the mail - I had a few minor struggles - but after taking it out, I was more than pleased. My son loves it, it is extremely easy to steer and does not take up a lot of room. It's also slightly lighter in weight than my Graco Jogger stroller, and it takes up less room in my Ford Edge! Double bonus!It folds up quite easily, and you will never have to worry about filling the pesky tires up with air! The brake mechanism is great as it's easy to reach with your hand and stays in place.Overall - the quality of this stroller is worth the extra $200 over the Contours convertible stroller that I felt would have fallen apart before the 2nd child ever got to use it.