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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. So we booked the tickets. We are flying Air France, with a 4:15pm departure from Dulles, arrival before 6am in Paris. I would have liked to have a flight more around 6 or 7pm, but that didn't work out with the connecting flights. We did not buy an extra seat - we just couldn't justify spending an extra $1,200 (it didn't look like there were discounts for infants on international flights). But we are flying on a Wednesday and off season (April), so hopefully the plane won't be full. Maybe we will get lucky and there will be an empty seat.

We have not reserved seats yet, and I am still wondering about the bulkhead. I wonder what the advantage of that would be if we can't use the bassinets anyway. The fact that you can't keep carry-on near you in those seats seems like quite a downside.

We are still debating which stroller to bring - the big heavy one with reclining seats, or the lighter umbrella stroller. I am leaning towards the umbrella stroller, if it's true that we can't gate check the other one, because we need at least some stroller in Paris during the layover. But one poster said that Air France didn't even let her gate check her single umbrella stroller, in which case we might as well take the big one.

I definitely bring lots of new little toys, iPad, snacks, and maybe some Benadryl. I also like the idea of dressing them alike (which we usually don't do) as one poster suggested. We'll bring the baby carriers so we can hopefully strap them to our chests for sleeping (outside of takeoff and landing). I am pretty confident that they will sleep, but don't have much hope that I will, especially since we are arriving in Paris before midnight our time (it's a 7.5 hour flight).

Sounds like a plan! Call air france and ask about the strollers. The other thing is that you can rent baby stuff in france very easily. Will you be in Paris
Now we just have to figure out how to get to the airport if we are not bringing our car seats... I think we'll either find a car service that has them, or try to find an offsite spot to park our car (any recs for that?). We are staying almost two weeks, so long-term parking at Dulles is too expensive.?

Thanks again to everyone for your helpful advice![/quote]

Will you be in Paris? We used this agency and rented a ton of baby gear. You could get this double stroller ?

http://babytems.com/out-about/detail/5-stroller-rental/flypage_location/25-graco-stadium-duo-stroller?sef=hcfp
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