Traveling abroad with 7 month old

Hi all, we are traveling to Majorca from UK with our 7 month old and was just wondering what everyone does about a car seat? We have a private transfer booked from the airport to hotel but won’t have a car seat for our son. We may also take a few taxi rides when we are there. What do people do??

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Normally the airlines will give you 2 infant specific luggage items on top of your normal baggage. So we took our car seat in car seat bag we purchased off Amazon and our pram as our items, our hotel provided a travel cot (I emailed them in advance).

Hey you could hire one when you get there. My husbands family have been going for years and use the same drive to pick us up from the airport and return, so when we were there last year when she was 4 months they kindly let us borrow it as they didnt have any bookings for it. Alternatively if you or your partner are comfordriving there you could rent a car with one which is what we did, they said they would've given it for free hut we had one already by then. Hope that helps x

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