Strollers need trunk room and boosters a seat, so reserve an airport transfer with car seats in Orange County sized for both
An airport transfer with car seats in Orange County starts from two counts: who rides, and what goes in the back. Each child seat takes a rider seat, a folded stroller is 1 load point, and a travel crib in its bag counts 1/2 point with the carry-ons. From both counts the desk asks local companies for a car that size and replies in writing: one company's fixed fare when such a car is free at that hour, or word that none is.
- 7 items on the list
- Sedan
After your yes, the desk in Irvine sends the family's request to a single local car company. It confirms in its own name, drives you and collects your fare, and the desk gets its flat fee from that company once the ride is done.
Seats cost places, strollers cost points
Start with people. A sedan holds 3 riders at most and an SUV 6, and a child in an infant seat, a convertible seat or a booster is one of them: the seat costs a rider seat and no load points. State law generally requires a child under 8 to sit in a child seat in the back. Pick the seat in the child seat field, or "Two or more, see note" and list each child's seat in the note.
Then the load, in points, the desk's rule of thumb for asking and not a promise: a suitcase on the slider is 1 point, a stroller of either kind 1 point, a travel crib in its bag 1/2 point. Two parents, a toddler, two large suitcases and a stroller make 3 riders and 3 points: a sedan. That sedan, on a John Wayne Airport transfer from Irvine, costs at most $110 for the car, one way, for the ride itself. A seat the company brings at your request is added as its own line, and the whole written fare stays within $250 for the car.
| Item | Drawn to scale, seen from above | Typical size | Load points | Smallest car to ask for | Tell the desk this |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child seats and strollers | |||||
| Infant car seatrear-facing carrier | 27 × 17 in | 27 × 17 × 24 in | takes a seat | Sedan | Pick it in the child seat field; it takes a rider seat |
| Convertible car seatrear- or forward-facing | 20 × 19 in | 20 × 19 × 27 in | takes a seat | Sedan | Pick it in the child seat field; it takes a rider seat |
| High-back boosterbelt-positioning | 18 × 17 in | 18 × 17 × 27 in | takes a seat | Sedan | Pick it in the child seat field; it takes a rider seat |
| Backless boostercushion only | 16 × 14 in | 16 × 14 × 9 in | takes a seat | Sedan | Pick it in the child seat field; it takes a rider seat |
| Umbrella strollerfolds long and thin | 42 × 12 in | 42 × 12 × 10 in | 1 | Sedan | Count it as a stroller |
| Full-size strollerfolded, wheels on | 32 × 24 in | 32 × 24 × 14 in | 1 | Sedan | Count it as a stroller |
| Travel crib in its bagfolding play yard | 30 × 10 in | 30 × 10 × 10 in | 0.5 | Sedan | Count it with the carry-ons and small bags |
Crib, seats and stroller by the door
A company's free wait at the pickup address is 15 minutes, one of the conditions it accepts before it receives rides from the desk. With small children, have everything that rides in the back together by the front door before the pickup time:
- the stroller folded, standing with the suitcases
- your own child seats out of their travel bags
- the travel crib zipped into its carry bag
- one small bag with what the children need on the way
In the note on the form, tell the desk what the counters leave out: each child's age, the seat each one rides in, and whether you bring your own seats or want the company to bring one. The note goes to the one company you accept, so that it brings the right seat.
Coming home from the terminal with little ones
The ride back is a separate request with a written fare of its own; put the flight number in it. The company keeps that number on its trip record, and the free wait starts when the flight actually lands, then runs 60 minutes after a domestic flight or 90 after an international one.
At John Wayne Airport, pickup is on the lower level, at a white curb zone or the Ground Transportation Center; the company's written confirmation says which. You bring the bags and stroller out to the curb, and the driver waits at the car and helps load. At Long Beach Airport the pickup is the median strip facing the terminal, and the driver loads at the car the bags you collect.
A fourth rider, or a fourth point
Two counts move the request from a sedan to an SUV. One is a fourth rider: a second child in a booster makes four people, past the sedan's 3, and the SUV figure from Irvine to John Wayne Airport is $135 for the car, one way. The other is a fourth point, say two large suitcases, two carry-ons and a stroller. Each request gets one car, an SUV at the largest: 6 riders and 6 points, or 4 riders and 9 points with the third row folded, at the same figure.
A load past what that car takes, 6 points with 5 or 6 riders or 9 with 4 or fewer, goes in the note, and the written reply names a car size that holds it or says none does. If the count changes after the fare goes out, tell the desk: the car size and fare can change with it, and the company confirms the change in writing. Every town's figure is on the fares page; reserve through the request form once the count is ready.
Bring your own seat, or ask
With a parent along, the duty to seat a child under 8 is the parent's, so the seat still comes: your own, or one the company can bring when asked, priced on its own line of the written fare.
Fare figures set on September 27, 2026, from the fares that car companies in the area publish. A company's written fare for the ride itself, for the same town, airport and car size, is the same or lower; extras you ask for are listed on their own lines.
Where each child's seat goes on the form
The counters below already hold two suitcases, one stroller and three riders, the family from the first section; change them to yours. Each child's seat goes in step two, in the seat field or, for two or more, in the note.
Phone hours, Pacific Time: in the school year Monday to Saturday 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. and Sunday 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.; in summer, Thanksgiving week and December 18 to January 3, every day 5:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.
Already holding one stroller
Seats add no load points, so the size line under the counters weighs only the stroller, crib and bags; each seated child counts once, among the riders.