| UPPAbaby Vista Stroller, Silver Mica | 
| Brand: UPPAbaby
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $669.99
Buy New: $668.00
as of 9/6/2010 09:15 CDT details
You Save: $1.99
Seller: GOODIES FOR KIDDIES
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 24,785
Color: Silver Mica
Maximum Weight Recommendation (lbs): 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 35.6
Dimensions (in): 18 x 22 x 35
MPN: 0054-MCA
Model: 0054-MCA
UPC: 079713300004
EAN: 0079713300004
ASIN: B001I848QU
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ready to take you to a new level of enjoyment | | • | Eco friendly company | | • | Creating a better environment for our children | | • | Eco inspired organic bassinet | | • | A blend of organic soybean and cotton |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
With DNA consisting of 50% sports car, 50% super-utility vehicle and 100% performance, the Vista stroller system is ready to take you to a new level of enjoyment. UPPAbaby's inspired achievement redefines the smart stroller category, bursting with innovations and improvements. Features: - 2009 model
- Suitable from birth up to 50 lbs.
- Eco-friendly design, made with all-natural cotton and organic soybean fibers in bassinet
- Pram and reversible seat modes
- 3-position seat angle adjustment
- Optimal sun and rain protection with included weather-shield featuring an easy zip attachment to canopy
- SPF 50 pop-out canopy extensions
- Reassuring seat and bassinet attachment with Red/Green successful attachment indicator
- Welded and formed aluminum alloy frame
- High-performance aluminum spoke wheels
- Shock absorbing front and rear suspension for a comfortable ride
- One button telescoping handle adjustment with elevated "no-kick" rear axle for comfortable pushing
- More storage space with a full size easy access spring arm basket
- Easy to keep "like new" appearance with stainless steel hardware, and removable and washable fabric
- Rubber coated tires never go flat
- Quick change harness loops for easy harness adjustment
- Frame Weight: 18.4 lbs.
- Seat Weight: 5.9 lbs.
- Bassinet Weight: 8.6 lbs.
- Folded Dimensions: 36" x 24" x 17"
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 33
 Love the Pram, but not worth the money since you spend more time using the child seat September 3, 2010
Patrick's Mom
This is the first review I have ever written for anything but I really wanted to communicate my experience with this stroller. First, as another reviewer mentioned, when selecting a stroller make sure you read reviews from parents with a couple months/years experience with the product- not expectant moms and dads. I made that mistake. I also went and tested the stroller myself at a store while I was expecting and loved it. It is beautiful, eco-friendly, has a great basket, pretty colors and drives really well.
Now that I have a three month old I realize that this stroller does not fit our needs. It is a shame that I spent all of that money (plus bought attachments and the travel bag) and I am considering selling it. For my review I would like to point out that I live on an island with poor sidewalks, strong sun and high humidity. I am not going to tear the stroller apart, but there are some things I think you should know before buying this stroller.
What I liked: This pram attachment is excellent for an infant. It is flat and this is recommended for a young spine. Plus at that age they are napping so often it is great to have such easy access to a flat surface. We used this to take walks and even around the house. I was also able to navigate it (without my husband) to the beach! There is a great basket under the stroller that will hold a ton of stuff. I loaded it with all of my beach gear including a beach chair and umbrella tucked underneath and the basket worked great. The wheels handled the slightly packed sand very well. (not the super fine sand by the dunes, but please show me a stroller without an engine that would do that!) The tires have been great. I also can navigate stores very well. The turning radius has been a pleasure and I am not worried to go into a china shop with my Uppababy. The pram mattress is soft and firm for an infant and the pram top will come down to get a better look for the baby. I purchased the 2009 model and wish it had more sun protection. I have read the 2010 has an extended sun shield. In my case, I was able to buy a $15 sun shield to tie onto the frame for added protection. There is also a handle on the top of the pram that allows parents to hang a toy or mobile. I did not realize how handy this would be as an expectant mom, but after Patrick arrived, we loved it because he enjoyed looking at the chimes we hung for him. The fabric on the mattress was organic which is nice, but it was very hot for our climate. A standard cotton pillow case fit very nicely over the mattress and was cooler for our son. Overall I have great things to say about the stroller while you are using the pram attachment. The problem is, your baby will only be in this attachment for a couple months. My son was 10 pounds at birth and grew appropriately for his size. Therefore, he outgrew the pram within 10-11 weeks. At this point, I moved him into the attachment for the older child. This is where I started wishing I would have done more research about the Vista. Before I go on, I would like to point out that my attachment was broken and I did not realize it until we started to use it. I called Uppababy and they have been great about getting me a replacement frame for the older child attachment- no questions asked. Excellent customer service!
What I am not so crazy about: The stroller attachment for the older child will be used much longer than the pram, so I should have investigated this more thoroughly. In addition, I planned to buy the rumble seat and use this with my next child, but you can not use the rumble seat and pram together, so for baby #2, I may not even use the pram. This is upsetting because this was my favorite part of this stroller investment. So back to the the stroller attachment... The biggest problem that I did not think about as an expectant mom was that the seat never goes flat. Why is this important? Three reasons.
1.) My son's spine and back muscles are still not strong enough to support him upright at 10 weeks. Even the reclined position it too high for him and he falls over. He looks so uncomfortable. He is too big for the pram and too small for the stroller.
2.) If you are out and need to change a diaper or clothing, it would be very convenient to have a fully reclined chair that you can use to change your baby. The Uppababy does not fully recline because the child's legs are at a 90 degree angle so it is really hard/unsafe to change in the stroller. With the Uppababy I have to take the baby out and find a location to change him- sometimes when you are out and about, this can be a challenge.
3.) One tip I picked up from reading about sleeping babies is to always put their down first when you are transferring them while they are sleeping.(Expectant parents-remember this!) In other words if your child is asleep in your arms and you go to put him/her down, put them down feet first. This prevents them from feeling like they are falling. This is so true with my son, but it is impossible to do this with the Uppababy Vista bc the legs are permanently at a 90 degree angle. With the stroller I can not seem to put him into the stroller without waking him up.
This next points may not be important to everyone, but they were to me. The frame's bars are more of an oval in shape. Living in a hot/humid climate, I am unable to attach a clip on fan and clip on umbrella to the stroller. I know this may not matter to some people, but in the hot weather this was important for me. Also, the stroller does not have anyplace to hang a mobile or toys above the head of the child. That is a shame because the longer I can keep my son entertained, the longer I can be out. There is a bar that goes in front of the child by their hands but I find this bar very hard to open and shut. I am not sure if this is bc it is broken or just poor planning. Finally the colors are beautiful, but the material is very hot and my son literally leaves sweat marks in the stroller. He wakes up very sweaty and unhappy. He is only 3 months and I can not imagine how he will feel when he is older and larger.
Some of these points may not relate to everyone because all parents will have different needs, but the most important thing to remember is how will this stroller treat your child. I think many parents look for strollers when they are expecting and don't think about some of these things bc we are not used to thinking about baby yet! It is important to think about how it will effect the baby. Trust me, if baby is not happy you will not be using the stroller so what good is it then! Don't get too caught up with the great pram but think about the stroller because that is a much longer piece of this investment.
 Great Stroller August 8, 2010
JessAnn
My husband and I are really enjoying this stroller so far (baby is 2 1/2 weeks old). We live in an area with sidewalks that are very bumpy, where people leave trash cans/recycle cans on the sidewalk so you have to go in the grass, etc. to get around and this stroller has been SO easy to push and maneuver (going up and down curbs, etc.). We have the green stroller and the color is really pretty and seems like it will hide dirt well. The bassinet piece has been really great. We have used it not only with the stroller but also for the baby to sleep in at night. We just put it in the "pack-in-play" and the crib because it just seemed to work better then putting the baby in the big crib, etc.
The two cons to consider with this stroller in my opinion is when we first got it (and even now) it takes some practice to really understand how to get all the seats to fit in the stroller and then click out of the stroller and what "buttons" to press. The other con is that I wish the stroller would lock when folded up (there is a lock but it doesn't work well when lifting the stroller in and out of the car).
Again, overall my husband and I are extremely happy that we spent the extra money on this stroller within the first 2 weeks of our baby's life because we love to walk the neighborhood and this stroller does not slow us down.
 Nice features, poor engineering May 23, 2010
Ezhik V Tumane
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We have the 2009 version of this stroller. Pretty much everything about the Vista is great-- it's comfortable, the storage basket is AMAZING and you can fit practically your whole life in it, and the bassinet/seat combo is really nice. If your stroller is perfectly constructed, you've got it made. The problem is, it doesn't seem like many of these strollers are perfectly constructed; in fact, ours has had a number of problems, and I doubt that the cheap construction has changed in the 2010 model.
We originally chose to buy a higher end stroller because we put a lot of miles on it, and we were expecting to have it last through two children. However, our warranty will expire in half a year, and given our history, I don't know if the stroller will make it much past that.
When we first got it for our newborn, we were quite happy. The bassinet was great, and as our son got older it was nice to be able to switch back and forth easily between the bassinet and the seat. We also really liked that the seat easily switches between forward and rear facing. When rear-facing, the stroller is less maneuverable because the weight is distributed to the front wheels rather than the rear, but this is not noticeable until your child is a bit heavier.
We had some minor problems with the screws that hold the seat together loosening (one actually fell out and got lost) and received a replacement kit for them. We've had to occasionally tighten the one we didn't replace, but haven't had problems with the replacement.
One of the plastic ribs on the canopy (the extendable sun canopy is a great feature by the way) has torn through the fabric. We were offered a replacement canopy but that seemed overkill for something that could be repaired relatively easily-- but still shouldn't have happened in the first place.
The real problems started about 6 or 9 months in, when we had to replace the front wheels because they were clicking and creaking loudly. This may be due to the construction of the wheels, which has been changed for the 2010 model. (Our current replacement set is the new 2010 "star wheels," and if those end up problematic too, we'll update.) Shortly after that, we replaced the rear wheels because the rubber had worn through all the way to the underlying foam core. Subsequently, over the course of the next 6 or 9 months, we replaced both sets of wheels twice more for the same reasons.
Finally, just this past week, the frame of the stroller broke. Not some plastic piece that holds something together, but the joint where two aluminum bars (the bottom horizontal bar and the rear "leg") are welded together. It BROKE APART. This is appalling. Their website says this stroller is constructed of "Welded and formed aircraft aluminum alloy." I really hope UPPAbaby is not planning on getting into the aircraft business.
Every time we've had a problem, UPPAbaby's customer service has been great-- prompt, friendly, and accommodating. All of the parts have been replaced under warranty. I've noticed other glowing reviews of UPPAbaby's customer service, too. However, I really feel like with a stroller in this price range I shouldn't even HAVE to contact customer service.
Overall, our son likes the stroller and it would be great for our city sidewalks-- if it weren't constantly breaking. The saving grace is the warranty-- but we hadn't planned on throwing down this kind of money on only a two year investment.
 A truly great stroller. May 19, 2010
S. Wheeless (Houston, TX)
I have used this stroller for nine months, and I have to say it is a great piece of equipment. It is heavy, but easy to fold and maneuver into the back of my car. It is big, but even with a smaller car I could fit it and a weeks worth of groceries in the back. I loved using the bassinet at naptime, and as a changing table when my son was tiny. The carseat bracket was great when he outgrew the bassinet. Now I use the toddler seat with great convienience. The sunshade also gets a lot of use in sunny Houston. The wheelbase takes some getting used to, but it's worth it. One of the best features is the huge basket. I can stuff all the extra stuff into it that needs to come along with no difficulty. It's very sturdy and won't tip over with the diaper bag slung over the handles, even if my son isn't in it. Yet it bounces like a pram does if I jiggle the handle, which is nice when my little guy is fussy. The one-handed steering is also a big plus. If it's within your budget, this stroller is worth every penny.
Only Complaint...difficulty collapsing the stroller to put in car. March 12, 2010
C. Zonneveld (California)
I LOVE my Uppa Baby Vista Stroller! However, I do have one complaint...it is very difficult to collapse the stroller when you put it back in your car, etc. They show a video demo of have to do it on their website..which makes me think they have had lots of phone calls about it. But, even after watching the video and reading the instructions and practicing and totally knowing how to do it...it is not easy. It takes a few tries EVERYTIME to collapse it which is pretty annoying especially when it is not a cheap stroller. I have heard others say the same thing.
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