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Baby Trend Deluxe Nursery - SkylarThe Baby Trend Playard w/ Bassinet in Skylar features beautiful light hazelnut, dark brown, light blue fabric with vanilla piping. The Skylar Playard comes with a removable full bassinet and canopy and flip away changing table. Features music center includes two styles of music, nature sounds, and an input for MP3 players. This features a one hand locking mechanism. It is a parent organizer and also has a toy/storage pocket.
Reviews
Good price, decent product
Although this item does not take long to put together, a couple of design features are rather cumbersome. For instance, the play yard mat has velcro strips that you have to feed through the bottom of the nursery center, which for a pregnant lady is difficult because you can't easily bend over the sides of the play yard, nor spend a lot of time laying on the ground trying to feel up through the play yard for the strips. Everything snaps on piece by piece, so whenever you want to move the play yard from one location to another (say, to grandma's house), you have to deconstruct and reconstruct the nursery center. It's not easily packable, but if you're planning on setting it up and hardly ever taking it elsewhere, I think it's a very good, functional product for the price. It offers more than a lot of other items in its class, such as a changing table, organizing compartments, the bassinet, and the play yard itself. Unfortunately the floor of the play yard is pretty hard, not very cushioned, but I suspect putting blankets or something down to soften the floor would fix that concern.
About Baby Trend's customer service. It is highly important that you don't waste time trying to call them! The music box that comes with the nursery center arrived damaged (no fault of Baby Trend I don't think), and I wasted 45 minutes on hold for their customer service department, only to be hung up on. I called back a few days later, and hung up on them after about 20 minutes of waiting on hold. I decided then to just go to their website and submit a customer service claim online. SO EASY! I received an email response the next day saying they would ship a brand new music box free of charge, and to not worry about having to return the old one. Sure enough, I received the music box via fedex about a week later.
Color isn't what it seems
This was a beautiful play yard. The only thing is that we were expecting to get the color shown on the advertisement (Blue with black & gray). Instead we received a greenish-blue color, almost like a teal but not as bright. I posted my own pictures so people can see what they will really get. In certain lightings the play yard is blue and black, but in reality it's tealish with chocolate brown. It is easy to set up and easy to wheel around the house as well. The canopy part is a little hard to fold up and down. All of the music is cute, but the volume control disappointed me. The lowest setting in the volume control is actually still pretty loud, so I don't even use the higher volume...you would need to have some serious hearing issues if you need to turn the volume on this play yard up past the lowest setting. The vibration feature needs some work, you can't feel the vibration as well unless the vibrating base is positioned close to the baby. The music, vibration, and control buttons runs off a base that hooks onto the play yard. The changing table works well, flips away for storage, but isn't leveled. When I change my son he starts to slide to one side, so that part needs to change. It has an MP3 input, which is cool but I haven't tried it out yet. It has a pretty big side pocket for extra storage, a place store diapers, wipes, and two more pockets for whatever else. We decided to keep the play yard because it still looks nice and sophisticated, our needs are met when it came to keeping our baby safe when we need a break from holding him or to get something done, besides that we live overseas so it would cost way too much to ship it back. When I called Amazon about the issues, they handled my complaint very well and refunded us a discount for the confusion about the product.
Baby Trend Playard
I purchased this for my baby on the way. I put it together all by myself at 8 months pregnant in about 30 minutes, as long as you follow the directions it's very easy to figure out. The color is lovely, it isn't true to the manufacturer pics but the pics that a customer posted here are spot on, thank goodness because that's the color I was hoping for : ) It seems very sturdy, I haven't had my baby yet, but I have had 3 other playards in the past for my other kids, and this one seems the best so far. The diaper caddy deal goes on easily and stays on, even though I have it full of items. The only 2 problems I had/have with this playard is that one of the snaps that you connect the changing table to was missing from the side. I went to the store and bought a replacement which my husband put on in about 2 minutes, I just didn't want to deal with the hassle of packing it all back up and returning it for something that was so easily fixed. Also, my ipod doesn't stay plugged in to the music box unless I fiddle with the plug a little, I don't know if a different plug would do the same thing or what. Otherwise excellent product.
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