- design + pretty&bold fabrics
- all-terrain air-filled wheels
- comfortable carrycot, car seat (clicked on without any adapters) as well as the seat unit
- heavy
- bulky after folding (in small cars, get whole car boot will be taken up by this stroller)
- popping up curbs is not the easiest
- the fixed handlebar is better for the taller moms (for me, 176cm, is adequate)
The GB Hardy took my attention me with the really low (sale) price for the entire 3in1 set - as well as with the bold design and the versatility of the seat unit that can be transformed into a pramette type of carrycot. However, since the full-featured, hard-bottom carrycot was also a part of the set, we did not use the 2in1 seat unit-to-carrycot feature very often. The full-featured carrycot was nice, firm bottom plus great padding over it perfectly padded. My little one was very snug in it. The same goes for the GB car seat, which had excellent - high sides and looked very safe and high-quality. The seat itself was spacious enough (and very spacious for a 2in1 type - some in this category are very small when the part converts to a seat unit). It can be positioned as a regular bucket-type seat unit, but also with a rear strap to a more "traditional" recline (like this, however, not to a full lie-flat) - we really used both, depending on how it suited our son at the time.
The chassis doesn't feature much of a suspension, but thanks to the air-filled wheels, the ride was, in my opinion, perfectly okay - we didn't miss a dedicated suspension. A worse kind of terrain didn't shake our little one in any non-pleasant way. The folded Hardy was not the most pleasant to load into the trunk - it is rather large and heavy. Because of the handle being non-adjustable, it may not suit everyone - and also, some force was needed to get the stroller up a curb (nothing disastrous - I had others with a much worse curb-popping ability). It pushed well, and my husband liked it very much. We only had a puncture once - actually thanks to my father-in-law who was pushing it a forest off-road (so I can say that it's actually a stroller good for off-road as well 😃).
For me - a nice, and for that price a very good stroller (system), also great for, for example, the countryside or a village life, where it is - in addition to functional - also stylish.