These are the buggies we went through:
1. iCandy peach blossom twin - it was great for the first year. Having the single width and able to put carrycots on, was great for meeting mum friends in cafes etc. As the girls got older and they moved into seats it wasn;t long before the one in the rear started kicking the one in the front. It was great to be able to pop 2 car seats on to the buggy for quick trips out of the car.
2. Out n about double nipper 360 - we originally bought one of these from ebay and it was the version 1 so didn't quite fit through our front door, so we rapidly bought a v2 and this is the best buggy we have had, it fits through our front door, is the width of a wheelchair so it should fit through all shops with ease. We still use it now as we run with our twins (the girls are only just tolerating going in the buggy now though as they normally walk everywhere). They have tyres which can puncture but you can put in "slime" into the wheels which heals small punctures - you can get that in bike shops. I will probably get the single version of this buggy for this baby if all goes well.
3. A lot of friends had the bugaboo donkey. I am not a fan but they have really liked it, but have all complained about its width. It can be a struggle in shops/cafes etc. You can get good deals second hand on these (look out for local twin groups etc as there are quite often sale posts).
4. Mountain buggy duet - this is definitely the most popular buggy at my twin group, it is the narrowest side by side. The reason we chose the out n about over this was that we liked the 3-wheeler-ness of the out n about from a manouverability point of view.
5. City jogger - there are two types a side by side and tandem. The tandem looks better than the icandy i had as there is more space between the seats and so kicks between twins are less likely - unless they are long-legged!
There are lots of other newer things on the market now - I think obaby has released one for example, but i don't know much about these newer ones.
Definitely get stuff second hand if you can - being our "first (and second!)" I wanted to buy everything new and rapidly realised we'd get broke very quickly if we did that! SO many friends loaned us bouncy chairs - we had two downstairs and two upstairs and these were so helpful. We had a nappy changing zone upstairs and downstairs (you don't want to be carrying two babies up and down the stairs all day!). The other thing we found really helpful were morrck blankets for the car seats which meant we didn't have to battle with snow suits on and off the kids each time we wanted to go out.
From a local twins group we ended up with a deal with another twin mum that had twins daughters exactly a year older than ours that we would buy a bundle of clothes from her every 6 months. This was great for the basics and it meant we could then afford to get a few nice clothes for them as we weren't spending a fortune on the essentials.
1. iCandy peach blossom twin - it was great for the first year. Having the single width and able to put carrycots on, was great for meeting mum friends in cafes etc. As the girls got older and they moved into seats it wasn;t long before the one in the rear started kicking the one in the front. It was great to be able to pop 2 car seats on to the buggy for quick trips out of the car.
2. Out n about double nipper 360 - we originally bought one of these from ebay and it was the version 1 so didn't quite fit through our front door, so we rapidly bought a v2 and this is the best buggy we have had, it fits through our front door, is the width of a wheelchair so it should fit through all shops with ease. We still use it now as we run with our twins (the girls are only just tolerating going in the buggy now though as they normally walk everywhere). They have tyres which can puncture but you can put in "slime" into the wheels which heals small punctures - you can get that in bike shops. I will probably get the single version of this buggy for this baby if all goes well.
3. A lot of friends had the bugaboo donkey. I am not a fan but they have really liked it, but have all complained about its width. It can be a struggle in shops/cafes etc. You can get good deals second hand on these (look out for local twin groups etc as there are quite often sale posts).
4. Mountain buggy duet - this is definitely the most popular buggy at my twin group, it is the narrowest side by side. The reason we chose the out n about over this was that we liked the 3-wheeler-ness of the out n about from a manouverability point of view.
5. City jogger - there are two types a side by side and tandem. The tandem looks better than the icandy i had as there is more space between the seats and so kicks between twins are less likely - unless they are long-legged!
There are lots of other newer things on the market now - I think obaby has released one for example, but i don't know much about these newer ones.
Definitely get stuff second hand if you can - being our "first (and second!)" I wanted to buy everything new and rapidly realised we'd get broke very quickly if we did that! SO many friends loaned us bouncy chairs - we had two downstairs and two upstairs and these were so helpful. We had a nappy changing zone upstairs and downstairs (you don't want to be carrying two babies up and down the stairs all day!). The other thing we found really helpful were morrck blankets for the car seats which meant we didn't have to battle with snow suits on and off the kids each time we wanted to go out.
From a local twins group we ended up with a deal with another twin mum that had twins daughters exactly a year older than ours that we would buy a bundle of clothes from her every 6 months. This was great for the basics and it meant we could then afford to get a few nice clothes for them as we weren't spending a fortune on the essentials.
got it on offer and it still cost a fortune. I'm personally not into the tandem ones I wanted side by side.
