Price: $31.99
(as of Dec 17, 2024 22:40:25 UTC - Details)

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BubbleBum

The Travel Car Booster Seat

Lots of Fun Designs

Optimum Seat Belt Position

Keeps seatbelt on the strongest parts of the body, preventing injury.

Federal Safety Standard

Meets & exceeds the standard. Crash tested under rigorous conditions to help protect your child in frontal, rear, and rollover crashes.

The Ultimate Travel Booster Car Seat - Unlock the convenience of the USA’s Original backless inflatable booster seat. BubbleBum is the only inflatable childrens booster seat for your car with a patented system to guarantee stability and comfort on every journey
Safety You Can Count On – BubbleBums patented ComfortMax technology exceeds all US federal car safety standards (FMVSS213) for booster car seats 40 lbs and up to 100 lbs. Your car booster seat comes with a seat belt positioning clip for optimal seat belt fit and comfort
Take Anywhere Travel Car Seat – Your inflatable carseat is perfect for everyday use, car rentals, taxis, vacations and carpooling. Take your new backless booster seat on all your school trips and adventures. Perfect for your little toddlers, girls and boys aged 4 to 11 years old
Practical Dimensions Fits a Car Load of Kids – The narrow, compact and slim BubbleBum booster seat is perfect for the middle seat, even small cars. It fits between 2 full-size car seats, allowing 3 kids across the back of almost any car
Global Award Winner - BubbleBum has won the ‘Mom's Best Award,’ and the ‘Parent Tested Parent Approved' award, plus dozens more. Ask our millions of happy car seat customers how much they trust the BubbleBum name. Your Bubblebum Car Booster Seat also comes with a lifetime guarantee
Reviewer: COREY M
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for travel
Review: Recently did a Disney (FL) trip with 2 kids in booster seats. I honestly felt bad seeing dads all over the airport carrying booster seats around. These fit into my carry on nicely and was matter of seconds to have them out and inflated once we got our rental car. The rental car companies wanted something like $10/day per seat. This made sense on every level. easy to use and affordable. As a bonus now we have them for future vacations!

Reviewer: Professor Khaos
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent travel companion!
Review: Excellent portable booster seat. This thing is fantastic: portable, easy to inflate / deflate, and most importantly it keeps me from having to rent a booster seat when we travel. We used it for a week in a rental car with no problems -- quick to inflate at the airport on arrival, stayed inflated all week, easy to deflate when we turned the rental car in. In New York, we had to carry it around for use in an Uber, so we kept it deflated until we called for the car, quickly inflated it (30 sec), threw it in the car, then deflated it, rolled it, and stored it when we arrived back to the hotel (30-45 sec). When you aren't traveling, you could keep it in your trunk just in case you need an extra booster seat for your child's friend. It's very compact. I highly recommend this product!

Reviewer: Slipstreampilot
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Convenient, lightweight, easily packed and fast inflation - currently the best designed booster seat for traveling
Review: This is an outstanding idea - and it's well executed. This booster seat is incredibly lightweight, it's easy and fast to inflate/deflate, it's very compact when deflated (folded or rolled up), it's made of quality and durable materials - and it's easy on the car's interior (won't damage your seats). From the functional standpoint, this seat is small and sits a little lower than more conventional booster seats. The belt guides are sturdy and made of quality materials that shouldn't damage seat belts over time. Overall - this is a great product.Nevertheless, I need to temper the positive aspects of this booster seat with the fact this type of booster seat (lap belt guide only) should only be used with a secondary type of restraint - like a safety vest that incorporates belt guides for both the lap and shoulder belts. A great example is the Ride Safer vest system by Safe Traffic Systems. The Ride Safer vest not only properly guides both the lap and shoulder belts, it's reinforced, padded and is designed to better distribute crash forces over a much larger area than what a standard seat belt is capable of. I think this is a two-way relationship as well, though. The best application of the Ride Safer vest is in conjunction with a quality (certified) booster seat like this one.I think it is important to frame an opinion, and help the reader understand the perspective from which a review is written - especially when that opinion is regarding safety equipment. I have a two-decade background in military safety, relating to both off-duty (ground) safety and aviation safety - to include mishap investigation. This experience includes investigating motor vehicle mishaps (there is no such thing as an "accident").Motor vehicle fatalities account for over 30,000 deaths per year in the U.S. (33,561 in 2012*). Children account for approximately 1,200 of these deaths. While this number seems tiny compared to the total number of fatalities - the number of child fatalities per mile is comparable to adults. The exposure rate of adults is simply higher (the number of hours the average adult is on the road when compared to children - and children account for only 1/6th of the population). The number of children injured in motor vehicle mishaps in the U.S. is however staggering - approximately 170,000 children per year.One of the biggest contributing causal factors for child injuries and deaths is the child being out of position relative to the restraining device - preventing the safety equipment from restraining and mitigating the forces of the crash properly. The only purpose a booster seat serves is to better position (elevate) a child relative to the shoulder strap, to prevent the shoulder strap from riding up a child's neck and face by ensuring the proper angle of the shoulder belt (relative to the child's shoulder and neck). This angle is critical for any occupant. If the occupant sits too high relative to the shoulder belt (typically an adult or tall child), a collision can cause geometry-related secondary spinal injuries (mid and lower back) caused by the shoulder belt transmitting too much crash energy to the mid and lower back. If the occupant sits too low (typically with a small child), a collision can result in the child sliding under the shoulder belt - which can severely injure the child's neck (and face).The biggest problem with using a booster seat that only guides the lap belt is in the assumption that booster seat will keep a child in the correct position relative to the shoulder strap for the entirety of your travels (and therefore safe). If you have a kid - then you know any assumption that your child is going to stay in one position is simply not even remotely similar to reality. Kids move and wiggle around a lot, and a booster seat equipped with simple lap belt guides is not going to do anything to maintain the proper shoulder belt alignment with your precious, perpetual motion, micro human. Unfortunately, the results can be tragic. This is why I strongly believe in a certified safety vest like the Ride Safer safety vest in conjunction with a properly designed booster seat.A certified and tested safety vest physically attaches (and therefore attaches your child) to the seat belt, and the vest's belt guides help ensure the child's position remains correct at all times - and the booster seat ensures there is not any excess force transmitted to the child's neck and head in a collision by providing the proper geometry of the shoulder belt relative to the vest's upper belt guide.This particular inflatable booster seat is the perfect travel companion - especially with a certified safety vest. While automotive safety vests and booster seats are not certified and should not be used for air travel, they can be easily packed and used in taxi cabs, and in the event the front seat is the only available place for the child. While not optimal (a back seat is considered safer than the front seat for children), a child can safely travel with the combination of this booster seat and the safety vest in the front seat of a car, truck or two-seat sports car - and this is also legal in most states (check your local laws for specific requirements and restrictions). If this is done, you should of course ensure the child is sitting as far back from an airbag (if so equipped) as possible, or if your car is equipped with an airbag deactivation device (many cars do this automatically based on the weight in the passenger seat), then it is recommended it be deactivated for individuals weighing less than about 65-70lbs. I would not recommend using this booster seat (any booster seat) by itself in the front seat. I would only recommend the use of a booster seat in the front seat when used in conjunction with a certified safety vest that meets Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS 213).This review and my mentioning of the Ride Safer safety vest in this review were both unsolicited by their respective manufacturers. I did not receive any compensation (in any form) for my review.*NHTSA DOT HS 812 011

Reviewer: Stephanie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for traveling
Review: These are great for traveling! Very compact and work well. Easy to use.

Reviewer: sweetreilly
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you take Ubers or travel, a must have.
Review: We travel quite a bit and in other countries, Ubers and taxis often do not have a car seat for kids. Great to travel with, easy to use and I'm comfortable with the safety ratings to use it for our 4 year old.

Reviewer: Jeff
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Our third one, BUT...
Review: This is our third Bubble Bum. We had to retire one early because a kid thought it was brilliant to poke some holes in it.The Bubble Bum's are very portable, wide enough to fit the kids, but a little narrower than the super wide plastic boosters, which is a big deal for us since on some days we sit three across in two rows of our van (total of six kids in back), and no one feels like they are being unduly squeezed like we saw with the chunky seats. They inflate relatively easy with one exception (talked about below).The kids all agree they are also more comfortable than the traditional plastic booster seats. Our five year old can buckle himself with this booster, including the recommended looping through the red guides/supports/whatever you want to call them on the sides. Overall, we are happier with these than the umpteen boosters we have tried over the years.Now for the down side. First off, when inflating, there isn't a one way valve, so you have to keep blowing in the silly thing while you close the valve, otherwise it deflates when you remove your mouth. That is a huge drawback, especially if you plan on deflating and re-inflating them all the time for the advertised portability. It does allow for easy deflation, but when inflated, they don't take up that much more space. They should have come up with a different plan so you can take your mouth off and not have the thing deflate.Second thing we noticed is that the foam on the underside of the cover degraded in just two years. It starts to come apart as a powder. It is not hugely noticeable, since I only saw it when I took apart the one with holes in it, but I would expect a longer lasting foam.Third thing is an annoyance. We bought the newest one at the end of October, 2021. I looked at the manufacturing date on the new one and it reads July 8th, 2019. Great. I just got a "new" product that has been sitting around for 2 years and 4 months. With something they tell me should only be replaced after 4 years of use, I am wondering what 2+ years in storage has done to it already...and under what conditions it was stored. Hopefully mine was just a box temporarily misplaced and most people are receiving fresh inventory, but I was not thrilled at all to receive something so stale.So, overall, we are happy with it, but those few drawbacks make it an okay product, kind of short of the excellence I was hoping for. Short of a new, better product out there, we would probably buy another one, not because they are so great, but because nothing else seems to shine as better.

Reviewer: HaniM
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Reviewer: Huong nguyen-real
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great for when you need to secure your kid in a taxi. My son loves it. But wouldn't say its 100% secured. However, it is definitely convenient for short journeys.

Reviewer: L
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: As per marketed, good quality and convenient

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Un excelente diseño para su portabilidad. Viajamos con una pareja de amigos que llevaron también a su nene y cargaron con el booster tradicional en el avión. Al momento de poner ambos asientos para los niños, el Bubble dejó claro que no sólo es estable y práctico sino también súper seguro, rápido de inflar y fácil de instalar.

Reviewer: Juan Antonio Castro
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Lo compré para viajar a Estados Unidos con mi hijo de 4 años, para ponerlo en el auto de mi cuñada. Rápido de instalar y fácil de usar. Mi hijo estuvo cómodo durante todo el viaje, el único comentario que creo que pudieran mejorar es la forma en que se ajusta el cinturón pues si el niño lo deseaba podía jalarlo y quitárselo. Tuvimos que explicarle varias veces que dejara de hacerlo pues era por su seguridad