Chicco TravelSeat Hook On Chair, Adventure

Comment: My daughter FELL from this chair. She was buckled in very tight too!!! I have 6 children... and have used the same clip on chair from fisher price.. until they stopped making it last year. I was so sad... but found this one, and decided to try it. Well... I would not recommend it to anyone! The fabric chair allows my daughter enough mobility to sneak her leg up and wiggle up to a standing position in this chair! Then she can climb out of the seat belt with lifting her feet one at a time... and she started this at 8 months! I have tried putting it on the tightest setting, and completely squeezing her rib cage.. but it doesn't help. I think they did not put the straps in the right place. Has this happened to anyone else? I am not a novice at these kinds of things.. like I said.. this is my 6 baby! But I have tested this thing... by putting her in it.. tight as can be.. and then i wait, watching to see how she does it, and Sure enough, she will wiggle out of it. It is amazing. So so scary. Then last sunday, as I was in the kitchen with her, and my other children making breakfast.. she wiggled out of it.. and fell straight to the floor. She had the wind knocked out of her, and a big bump on her head. Luckily my floors are not tile.. But, this should have never happened. So... I am sorry to say I would not buy this if I were you. I wish there was another safer option.

Comment: We used this with our 5 month old grand daughter at restaurants. Even though she was not fully sitting up on her own, we padded the two sides so she could sit up straight. Now she sits up and this is a perfect replacement for the yukky high chairs you get when going out to eat. We also used it at our breakfast and dining room tables. Excellent invention and I highly recommend it- perfect also for visits to gramas. Wish I'd have had it when my children were youngsters!

Comment: We bought this chair because there is very little space in our dining room for a free-standing high chair - due to the layout of the room, the chair would be blocking doorways or cabinets at any corner of the table. We considered this style versus a booster that straps onto a chair. We decided to try this because my SIL had one that she really liked.

I ended up picking this particular one mostly on convenience, as they had it in stock at Babies-R-Us; I also picked up a different (cheaper) style at Burlington Coat Factory and brought them home to see how they fit. I was worried none of them would fit because we have a table with a skirt and a hidden leaf, so there isn't much room to hook something on under the table.

This one fit our table perfectly, but only in one position (the hidden leaf makes the underside of the table asymmetric). The other one I bought could not attach at all, from any position, due to the skirt. The Chicco is very secure, and I don't worry at all about it detaching. My son (6MO) LOVES to sit in it, and will often sit at the table to play in addition to mealtimes.

A couple of drawbacks I've found...as others have mentioned, there is about an inch gap between the edge of the table and the seat, which is exactly where food is most likely to fall. I solved this problem by buying one of those placemats with the little trough on the front, the trough fits in the gap perfectly and catches all the food. A second problem we've had is that the safety strap can be a little hard to fasten and unfasten if you're not at the just-right angle (though this may just be our specific seat). Lastly, it's not quite as convenient to travel with as I thought it would be--you basically have to take it apart each time, which isn't really that hard, but just not quite what I've expected.

I should say that I've owned this chair for about a month and haven't yet had to remove the cover for cleaning (my son is an inexplicably neat spoon-fed eater, and isn't on finger food yet), so I can't comment on that. I'll come back for an update if washing the cover presents problems.

Comment: We bought this for a trip, and wound up using it every day at home too. We were able to use it when he was 5 1/2 months old, when he was first able to sit up on his own. We love the compact size -- no more tripping over the high chair in the middle of the kitchen! Our son likes being able to sit at the table with us at dinner. It installs easily, is very secure (we were actually surprised how stable it is), and the cover comes off and is machine washable. The clamps are deep enough to get around the trim under the table, and the rubber grips don't leave marks in the wood. It folds up flat for travel.
Downsides -- I wish it had a wipeable surface for daily cleaning. The clip for the safety strap often sticks, so we sometimes struggle getting him unhooked. The space between the chair and the table means more toys and food on the floor.

Comment: This is the only high chair that my husband and I have used for our 18-month-old daughter. When she first began eating solids, we loved it because this chair allowed her to eat right at the table with us. It also doesn't take up additional floor space, which is great.

After nearly a year of use, though, we now hate this chair. Our daughter is a fairly non-messy eater, yet the hippos, the metal parts, and the chair itself are always laden with gross food particles. The few inch gap between the table and the edge of the chair means that loads of food falls on the floor at every meal. Super gross. It is also ridiculously difficult to remove the cloth fabric from the chair frame in order to wash it. Worst of all, the frame part that locks onto the table will no longer unlock! Even my (quite strong) husband cannot get this thing off the table. When we recently moved to a new home, we actually had to move with the stupid hippo chair still attached to the table.

Like I said, we are still using the thing, but it's more because we can't get it off the table than any other reason. While it is really nice to not have the chair take up extra floor space, that's really the only benefit to this chair. If you were only to use it now and then while on the go (and if you could get it off the table again), then it might be worth considering this. But it is a real headache of a high chair if you want to use it for daily use. Unless you think cleaning food up from the hippos and the floor several times a day sounds like fun, and unless you savor the idea of having to wrestle the cloth part off of the frame... and the frame off of the table... then I really wouldn't recommend this chair. It may be durable and space-saving, but the extra mess and work created is really not worth it.