The Mountain Buggy Protect capsule is recommended for parents who have leather seats and don’t want to position the carrier in the centre of the back seat — happy instead to have the carrier on the passenger or driver’s side.
🍼 Introducing the Mountain Buggy Protect Capsule
Mountain Buggy discovered that people want an easy-to-use travel system, which can be clipped into a capsule base easily in the car and then transitioned to a Mountain Buggy pram.
✅ Ease of use
The Mountain Buggy Protect capsule is very narrow, allowing it to fit into smaller cars — including the back seats of small hatches with wide wings on the seat, such as the BMW hatch.
Another standout feature is how easily the capsule releases from and clips back into the base — it makes capsules like the Maxi Cosi Mico AP feel like you need to be a bodybuilder to release from the base.
The base has a line on it, which we find more useful than the spirit-level bubble indicators used on other capsules to get the correct angle. As it’s a label rather than a built-in indicator, it may fade or come off over time — hopefully by then your children will have grown up anyway.
🪑 Leather seat friendly
Looking underneath the base of the Mountain Buggy capsule, you’ll notice a flat bottom — great news for cars with leather seats, since there’s less chance of the plastic marking the seat. The trade-off is that a flat bottom also means there’s no depth adjuster.
🔧 Capsule installation
The installation of the Mountain Buggy Capsule has its own built-in locking clamp to help keep lateral tension on the base. Once the seat belt is pulled tight, closing the locking clamp can be quite difficult — some people may find it hard to close. Time will tell whether the locking clamp holds up, or springs open at the slightest bump like the Joie Gemm baby carrier.
Despite the narrow base, the width of the carrier itself (at the handle) is still 43cm — meaning you haven’t actually gained any extra space on the back seat from the narrower base.
🍼 Capsule hire in Melbourne
Many parents find the cost of buying a baby capsule just too much when you can only use it for 6 to 12 months. TravelSafe solves this with baby capsule hire in Melbourne, offering Britax B-Pod Lite capsule hire for 3, 4, 6, and 9 months, alongside the Maxi Cosi Mico Plus.
Recommended
For parents with leather seats who don’t want the carrier centred and are happy having it on the passenger or driver’s side, the Protect is a strong pick. The ease of removing the capsule is genuinely delightful, and makes the Safe n Sound Unity and Maxi Cosi Mico feel clunky by comparison.
❓ Frequently asked questions
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