The stroller and the trip were great. My family and I had a great time. My 6 month old and my 40" tall just turned 4 year old were very comfortable. The rip between the seats unfortunately was open again, but it really did not affect anything. There is a screw there, but my 4 year old who is awkward and in and out of the stroller every five minutes did not even notice it. I did not stitch it up because i had limited thread in my travel kit. To repair permanently, it needs a denim path underneath or a wrap of cardboard. If a new stroller is on the way, maybe the first person builing it can wrap some flat cardboard not the corrugated kind around that point and throw some packing tape on it, it rubs when the stroller is folded and unfolded, and will happen on the new one as well. I removed the metal shelf from the one seat and fashioned an identiacal repair to the seat internally with the paint sticks from epcot kidcot masks like a previous user did to the other seat and whip stiched both seat tops shut. I could have done a nicer job with an aphosltry needle, but we did not bring one. The stroller is in good shape now.
The seats break because the inside is fiberboard and the seat back catch on the sun shade when folding. The seat backs need to be upright and past the sunshade before folding or this will happen again, including the new stroller.
overall the stroller was great. I had to load in the back door on the old busses with steps, because it does not fit past the 5th seat in the isle, but it fit just fine on the new busses without steps. At one or two park entrances and our room at pop, you have to make a turn while passing the threshold and the stroller fits fine, but it will not roll straight through. It does fit everywhere we went though, and i did not have to take the 6 month old out to pass gates or enter the room.
Thank you all for participating, this is a great thing. I saw many a frustrated parent with the new rental strollers. They are smaller, especially the double, and the rentals are not a depressed well like they were before, the seat has very little sides to them. This makes it almost impossible to make an infant comfortable in them by padding around them because there is nothing to hold blankets or jackets in place.
It was record cold for the week we were there and it rained and the rain cover is amazing. It completely watertights the stroller and in the cold when we lifted the cover to get the kids, you could feel the temperature difference inside as compared to outside. We were stopped by many oarents asking where we got it and probably gave the disboards several new members.
On a chilly and sometimes wet week. this stroller made the difference of our having a great time compared to a wet and miserable one. Thank you all again.
We passed the stroller off face to face with the next group on the list, and got it from luggage services on our arrival. Luggage services did not find it at first, but i told them it was the stroller with a shelf strapped to it and they found it easily.