The Product: Portable Highchair

A portable highchair is a great thing to have for traveling, especially if you won’t be eating solely at restaurants where a highchair may be available. It’s also great to have for visits to relatives and for when you have friends with kids who are visiting your own house. There are two basic types of portable highchairs, ones that attach to the chair and ones that attach to the table.

Recommendation: Phil and Ted's Me Too Portable Highchair

The Phil and Ted's Me Too Chair is a lightweight, safe, sturdy, fully collapsible child seat that can go everywhere with you. It clamps on most tables to create an instant highchair, holds up to 40 lbs, yet weighs only 2 lbs. It also made of durable, easy to clean nylon. When not in use, the Me Too folds virtually flat, making easy to fit into a suitcase or travel bag. Given its price point, the Me Too makes a great shower or baby gift for something that the parents will really appreciate down the road. Our Me Too lives in the trunk of our car and we also take it everywhere we travel.

Two other popular options are the Healthy Care Booster Seat, which is a very well designed travel seat with a detachable, washable tray and the Cooshie Booster, a one piece booster seat is ideal for transitioning your baby from highchair to seat which can also be used for local travel. We used this to transition our daughter to a chair and kept another at our parent’s house. However, the Me Too is the best option for long distance travel because it will fit in a suitcase without taking up space.

Devil's Advocate:

A table based portable highchair will be more secure than a chair based model and will save you some room at the table, however it may not work in all applications, especially if the table is not sturdy or has a non-standard lip.