Bugaboo Dragonfly Plus

City families pick the Dragonfly because it keeps a real bassinet yet folds in one piece, one-handed, with the bassinet still attached. Parents in walk-ups and on the subway say that alone made the decision, and the push gets consistent praise, enough that some Vista and Minu owners regret not starting here.

On sidewalks, hills, park grass and light gravel, owners say it handles well. Owners split on carrying it: some take it up two or three flights or subway stairs without trouble, while one owner of a year and a half calls it heavy and unwieldy once folded. The front wheels are the recurring complaint, with leaves, twigs and sand jamming them for some owners and not at all for others.

For walk-up and subway families on paved routes, it delivers a bassinet without a big frame. Owners of the original Dragonfly say it gives up on heavy gravel and trails, and anyone whose daily walk is covered in leaves or sand should weigh their wheel-clogging reports. Every owner report here describes that original Dragonfly; the Plus that replaced it keeps the same patented one-piece fold, but no owner has yet written about the Plus itself.