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Best Travel Strollers
Traveling with a baby is hard enough without a big, bulky stroller weighing you down. The best travel strollers make the experience (a little) easier by being lightweight to carry, quick to fold, and easy to stash in a hotel room, the trunk of a taxi or even the overhead bin on a plane.
While most families prefer a full-size stroller with more features, storage and maneuverability for everyday use, a secondary lightweight stroller may come in handy for more than just travel—especially once your toddler wants to walk more than ride.
While your regular stroller stays parked in the garage for walks and longer outings, you might keep your travel stroller in your trunk for errands and appointments.
In this guide, we'll cover the best travel strollers in multiple categories, looking at the lightest and most compact strollers, the top options for newborns, the best travel strollers compatible with car seats, and more.
Best Strollers for Travel
Strolleria's best-selling travel strollers are lightweight and compact while still offering features you'll find on larger strollers, like all-wheel suspension, car seat compatibility and high-quality materials like leatherette handles.
The Babyzen YOYO2, Bugaboo Butterfly, Joolz Aer + and UPPAbaby Minu V3 fold to a size that's carry-on-compatible for many airlines, helping you easily tote your stroller through an airport and sparing it from possible gate-check damage.
Despite being one of the smallest travel strollers, the YOYO2 is also the most versatile: The Connect accessory turns the YOYO2 into a double by adding a second seat and frame to the back of the stroller.
Meanwhile, the Doona is the only car seat on wheels that reduces the amount of gear you need for travel during baby's first year.
Strolleria's most popular travel strollers are:
Lightest Travel Strollers
When you're already lugging around suitcases—not to mention a kid—you'll want the stroller to help lighten your load.
The best travel strollers weigh less than 15 pounds, a savings of about 10 pounds compared with a typical full-sized stroller. Plus, travel strollers like the Babyzen YOYO2, Joolz Aer+ and Bugaboo Butterfly feature an incorporated carry strap so that you can wear the stroller on your shoulder.
The lightest travel stroller carried by Strolleria is the Joolz Aer+, at 13.2 pounds.
See What is the Lightest Stroller? for our top 20 lightest strollers.
The lightest travel strollers include:
- Joolz Aer +: 13.2 pounds
- Babyzen YOYO2: 13.6 pounds
- Cybex Coya: 14.6 pounds
- UPPAbaby G-LUXE: 15 pounds
- Silver Cross Jet 5: 15.87 pounds
- Bugaboo Butterfly: 16.1 pounds
- UPPAbaby Minu V3: 16.7 pounds
Most Compact Travel Strollers
The most compact travel strollers fold tightly enough to fit in the overhead bin on an airplane.
By bringing your stroller onboard the plane, you'll avoid the risk of it getting dirty or damaged during a gate check (provided that the airline allows you to consider your stroller as a carry-on.)
While several brands advertise strollers that fit in the overhead bin, carry-on luggage size restrictions vary by airline. Carry-on dimensions of 22" x 14" x 9" are used by carriers including American, Delta and United.
Your airline may not allow strollers onboard depending on the plane size and capacity, so prepared with a stroller travel bag to protect your stroller from getting dirty or damaged if you're required to check it at the gate.
Strollers that fit in an overhead bin include:
- Babyzen YOYO2: 20" x 17" x 7"
- Bugaboo Butterfly: 21.2 x 17.7" x 9"
- Cybex Coya: 20.5" x 17.3" x 7.1"
- Joolz Aer+: 21" x 17.7" x 8.5"
- Silver Cross Jet: 24.5" x 14.5" x 10"
- UPPAbaby Minu V3: 10” x 18” x 21.5”
Best Travel Strollers for Newborns
Not all travel strollers can be used for your first trips with an infant. Umbrella strollers, for example, don't recline flat enough for a newborn's developing head and neck, and they can't be used with a car seat or bassinet.
Almost no travel strollers are suitable for newborns as the seats do not recline flat enough for a newborn. Most seats are recommended for 3 to 6 months and up. However, the Silver Cross Jet 5 and UPPAbaby Minu V3 are the exception and have a lie-flat seat suitable for newborns!
But several top travel strollers can be paired with an infant car seat, which not only makes the stroller newborn-safe but reduces the amount of gear you'll need to carry. The Doona simplifies things even further—it's a car seat with retractable wheels that convert it into stroller mode.
The Joolz Aer+ offers a bassinet attachment that allows your baby to lie flat in a more comfortable and ergonomic position. The Babyzen YOYO2 offers two bassinet choices: the newborn pack, consisting of soft fabrics that fold with the stroller, and the bassinet, which has a hard bottom that allows for indoor use.
The best travel strollers for newborns include:
- Babyzen YOYO2 (using car seat, newborn pack or bassinet)
- Doona
- Joolz Aer+ (using car seat or bassinet)
- Silver Cross Jet 5 (using car seat or lie-flat seat)
- UPPAbaby Minu V3 (using car seat or lay-flat seat)
Best Travel Strollers Compatible with Car Seats
With the exception of umbrella strollers, most travel strollers are compatible with at least one type of car seat using adapters. Here's a look at the best travel strollers compatible with top car seats.
Travel Strollers offering infant car seat compatibility
All of these brands offer infant car seat adapters sold separately and allow compatibility with Cybex, Nuna, Maxi Cosi and Romer infant car seats.
The Bugaboo Butterfly adapters also allow compatibility with the Bugaboo Turtle Air Shield. While the UPPAbaby Minu V3 also offers compatibility with UPPAbaby infant car seats.
For a full list of infant car seat compatibility check out our compatibility pages:
The Cybex Coya stands out for its included car seat adapters.
Best Travel Strollers with Reversible Seats
With the reduced weight and compact size of a travel stroller comes a few trade-offs: Most travel strollers lack features you'd find on a larger stroller, like a reversible seat.
The Cybex Eezy S Twist 2 is unique in that its seat rotates 360 degrees. You can also easily remove the freestanding seat to swap it with a car seat, while other travel strollers require you to remove and reattach fabrics to do so.
As a car seat on wheels, the Doona allows your child to be parent-facing—as is the case when you attach any car seat or bassinet to a stroller.
The best travel strollers that are parent-facing include:
Best Double Travel Strollers
A stroller large enough to hold two kids isn't exactly convenient for travel, but a few options new to the market are lighter, more compact than others, and fold easily.
Strolleria's lightest double strollers are side-by-side double strollers with a one-piece fold that's easier than other doubles, which can require removing the second seat before folding.
New to the market in 2024 is the Silver Cross Jet Double and the UPPAbaby Minu Duo! The Jet Double weighs just 19.7 pounds, making it our lightest weight double stroller we carry! The Minu Duo weighs 27.4 pounds! Both the Jet Double and Minu Duo offer a one-handed fold, lay flat seats and accept an infant car seat making travel a breeze.
The Babyzen YOYO2 is the only travel stroller that converts from single to double with the purchase of the Connect frame, which adds a second frame, seat and back wheels to the rear of the main stroller. If one child no longer needs a ride, you can fold the Connect and hang it on the back of the YOYO2 for easy storage.
Best Travel Strollers with Ride-Along Boards
Traveling with a newborn and a toddler? Instead of hauling a double stroller around, consider a travel stroller with a ride-along board attachment.
When your older child calls it quits on walking through the airport, he can hitch a ride on the back of the Babyzen YOYO2, Bugaboo Butterfly, UPPAbaby Minu V3 or Joolz Aer+—some of the only travel strollers with a ride-along board accessory.
The boards for the Babyzen YOYO and Joolz Aer+ include a bicycle seat that's perfect for tired toddlers on the verge of a mid-travel meltdown, while the Minu V3 Piggyback board is positioned to one side so parent and standing child are side by side—giving you more legroom as you're pushing the stroller.
What is the best Travel Stroller?
We love all of the travel strollers included in this article! Brands like Babyzen, Bugaboo, Cybex, Joolz, Silver Cross and UPPAbaby deliver premium feature packed designs in these featherweight packages.
The best travel stroller is the one that is the best fit for your family and specific lifestyle needs. Deciding factors may come down to weight, folded size, available accessories or it may be just a personal aesthetic preference. Either way, with one of these options, your family will be traveling lighter and with ease!
Questions?
Strolleria is dedicated to making the baby gear buying experience less overwhelming for parents. If you have more questions about travel strollers, feel free to reach out to us at cs@strolleria.com.
