As chicco/Artasana only sell the set as a whole it is impossible to get spare parts, e.g. I tried to order another chassis (white) and they told me that it was only sold as a set.

I brought the Living Trio speacail edition white label, for my unborn baby that is due Jan 2012. I am a bit dissapointed due to the description, The Buggy and everything is supposed to be all white with silvery trimmings, when it arrived the silvery trimmings were actully a dusty pink! This Buggy will be no good if I have a boy! I would like to have known it was pink before my purchase. Also the instruction are very difficult to read so you do have to take a good 15 minutes to leave to assemble thing by youself On the good side its a beautiful pushchair for a little girl and the materal is white but cleans up easily with a damp cloth. I do love the system as it is easy to assemble, it closes with no difficulty, and even came with a bonus baby carrier. would recomemend this to a friend!

THE CHICCO WAS THE BEST PRAM I EVER BROUGHT!! I BROUGHT ITIN 2008 FOR MY SON AND IT HAD EVERYTHING THE CARSEAT THE CARRYCOT ETC. IT DID GREAT GETTING OVER ALL TYPES OF SURFACES. IT NEVER GOT STUCK IN THE SAND, IT WOULD GET ARCOSS WET GRASS, IT COULD DO ALOT. IT FITTED IN THE CAR VERY WELL. THE ONLY TINGWAS THE WHEELS WOULDGET DIRTY AROUND THE BRAKES BUT THEN I FOUND OUT CAN TAKE THE WHEELS OFF AND CLEAN PROPALY WHICH IS GREAT KEEPS THE BRAKES GOOD ASWELL.
I GOT PREG 1YEAR AND HALF AFTER I HAD MY SON AND I STILL USE THE PRAM NOW, AND IT STILL LOOKS NEW, AND ITS STILL AS GOOD AS THE 1ST TIME I USED IT, I WISH WOULDV GOT A DARKER COLOUR INSTEAD OF WHITE AND GREY, APART FROM THAT I WAS VERY HAPPY WTH THE PRAM AND I WOULD BUY THE NEW LIMTED ED.

Overal very disappointed had to buy another stroller for our six month old.
Wheels fall off, frame rattles, hood keeps falling down,too narrow for our baby at five months, and heavy. Chicco just blame the retailer when you try to give them feedback when its a poor design. Wouldnt recommend, stay well clear at £500 a rip off.

Chicco Trio for me: excellent pram, although it needs an umbrella since the hood is a bit small. very convenient hood of stroller seat. bag of satisfactory size. too small front wheels. hard handles. a little too heavy when the baby faces the mother. it looks light and handy but it's a bit tough to maneuver. no absorbers. the bag under the seat is not easily accessible. very heavy car seat - difficult to use as a bouncer - with a too little hood. generally not convenient if it is to be used for long every day.

I bought the chicco trio for me as I liked the design, my daughter has Down syndrome so I wanted a pushchair that would provide her with enough support if it took her longer to sit and walk.
Sadly this pushchair has been a waste of money. The design is great but the manufacture is appalling, the wheels have fallen off in town, the frame is rickety and it is not up to the job. I walk every day with the pram and would expect it to be sturdy enough for this, but now at less than two years old it is falling apart.
My daughter is nearly two and not walking so I need a buggy for a good while yet and the chicco was sold to me as it would do up to 4 years, again the design would but the quality won't. Very diappointed.

I bought the Chicco Trio 4 Me due to it being apparently light weight and simple to use. I REGRET buying it and at this moment would get rid if I had the money. The pram/cot part was good enough but the brittle plastic holding the hood up snapped and the store (and Chicco alleges the store) could not repair it without the hood being permanently jammed in the upright position. Also the chassis part is very very flimsy and cannot even take a tiny bump up a little raised pavement. I have to stop and tip the pram backwards to get about most of the time. After a caesarean this is not what you want to be doing. It's like a childs play pram. The pram rain cover (bought separately) leaked at the seams. The cheap carseat raincover I bought on ebay for the car seat was fine. I am now using the buggy part and this is even more cheap and nasty. Trying to fold down, lift and get in the boot of the car is not simple with the buggy attachment. My biggest gripe now is the raincover provided for the buggy. It is absolutely the most useless "raincover". It doesn't actually cover the buggy, sides, babies legs or the canopy (which leaks). It doesn't even protect from light showers. I am on the internet this evening trying desperately to try and find any raincover that will actually protect my baby from the rain. I just can't wait for the winter when the cosy leg warmer part will get soaked. What an absolute waste of money and I would never ever recommend to anyone. My advice would be: "do not buy it, even at half the price"

i have had my chicco for over a year and love it. As someone who has no strength i choose chicco as it was light weight and easy to lift in and out for the car and for me the best overall as its the car seat, pram and buggy all in one. Also great value as my parents only paid £300 from Kiddiecare.
I understand the reviews that this is not a ideal "walking" pram but if like me you are walking pavements, paths etc i found no problems. My son is now 13 months and i still use the buggy section Chicco where as my friends with similiar aged kids have bought another buggy as their larger 3 in 1's are now too heavy.

I had similar eperiences - i totally agree with all the negitive comments made. my buggy squeeks constantly and the hood isnt easy to clean either.
Wouldnt recommend after payin £500 u atleast expect to get a carry cot rain cover & 1 for carseat would be gd too aslo dont think the shoppin basket is practical either!!!!!!!!!

The chicco trio for me is flimsy and rickety, its awkward to get the car seat on the pram frame as you have to set it down to move the handle and as the frame is so rickety the pins never line up to the slots where the go. Getting the stroller seat on and off is fiddly as well. The raincover for the buggy doesn't seem to fit although the carrycot raincover is fine. There is no raincover for the car seat and when the baby is young thsi is the mian part you use, making it useless for bad weather. Plus the hood on the car seat is flimsy and pathetic and bent all out of shape - useless. The onyl good thing is the way it folds up quiet easily and reasonably compact but for a £500 travel system definitley not worth the money.

Don't really understand the review below. We love our Chicco trio for me travel system and you have everything you need. The carry cot is adjustable so you could raise the base so baby is almost sitting up or down so that its flat for baby to sleep, so don't know why reviewer below hasn't adjusted the base so it isn't 'sloping'. Also, the rain cover that comes with the travel system is for the stroller function so you have to buy the carrycot rain cover separate... and it fits like a dream. Maybe the reviwer below was using wrong raincover?

It is tricky to put together because the instructions are terrible, and it can seem flimsy once everything's clicked in but that's simply because the pram is quite flexible. Folding down is easy, just pull back two release catches and use your foot to catch at the base and draw up. To put back down just pull on the release catches again and pull the handles towards you.

Had absolutely no problems with carseat. Fits in car fine (corsa). I'm now using the rear-facing stroller and baby looks very cosy inside. Movement of pram is smooth and easy because of the front swivel wheels. You could turn it on a fifty pence piece.

We travel a lot in the car and had no major problems, except partner once put carseat in the wrong way on the pram... and we had a horrible time trying to get it out. You do it once and the carseat might never get back out lol. The only other thing I would say is when you want to put the carseat on the pram, you have to take carseat out and set it on the ground so you can re-organise the handle and clips (which are hidden away when not used) to click in the pram. But really, it's a minor inconvenience for a great travel system!

I got the trio for me pram as a first time mum when showed to me in the shop it seemed to be be perfect, compact etc, After about 1 week noticed that the wheels constantly squeek, the handle bars are wobley and rattle aswell, cannot get into the shopping basket, car seat has very little head supportand it hard to fit onto the frame.

Would not recommend it to anyone,rip off at £500.

The Chicco Trio Travel System is compact for a travel system and comfortable for baby. It's perfectly safe and comfortable for the little one but very impractical for the parent. I still have to ask random strangers every once in a while to help me fold it...Difficult to steer
Difficult to fold
Difficult to recline

Chicco Trio Travel System. easy to open, strong, small, it's not in alluminium or it would be perfect. I would recommend this