Dear All,
We are currently living abroad but plan a US holiday in two weeks :) We are staying in hotels in 2 major cities. My question: last year my little one was a toddler and fit in a small toddler crib thing. What kind of sleeping arrangements can I ask for to let him sleep comfortably and safely. At home, we have a child's bed with a saftey bar thing...
Thank you for input
Just get a hotel room with two beds and put him to bed in one. If you think
he might fall out, just throw some pillows on the floor.
I'm with Tori, I bet your little guy will be just fine without any help at all.
Most hotels will bring up a cot. You just might have to put it against a wall, and then a chair on the side to prevent roll out.
Or, perhaps the room has a couch? Or the couch folds out to a bed?
Many hotels have a couch that pull out to be a twin sized bed, that is where my kids sleep in hotels!
I would just get a room with two queen size beds (usually the same cost as a single king) and let him sleep in the other one. If you seriously think he will roll off and hurt himself then sleep with him, or let him camp out on the floor by making a "nest" out of the pillows and blankets from the other bed!
For our recent vacation we booked a room with a King bed and let our almost 4 year old sleep in the middle.
We don't co-sleep at home, but it worked great while we where there, and once back it was no issue for her to sleep in her own bed again.
Good luck!
When my daughter was that age (too old for a crib, too young to sleep on a bed without safety bars) we requested a room with a king size bed and she slept in the middle of us. Not ideal, but it gave us peace of mind. And she enjoyed mom and dad being right there as she was in a new/unfamiliar place.
Enjoy your holiday!
If my preschooler is too big for the cribs that the hotel offers but still needs rails on the side, I ask the hotel if they provide them (some actually do, you just have to remember to ask). But if they do not, I've been known to take all extra pillows and blankets and make my own barrier on their bed to keep them from rolling too far.
I bet your child will probably not roll out of bed if you didn't have rails. I was surprised at how well my daughter did when we were in a hotel, but as others suggested putting extra pillows (call housekeeping if you need to) or a chair would help. Cots are lower to the ground so that might help too...in case he does roll out! ;)
ask for a roll away bed to be brought up. that can be pushed up against the wall and the chair in the room can be put against the edge of the bed preventing him from rolling out. good luck. hope you enjoy your trip
We travel a lot and carry sleeping bags with us for the little ones. The room is safe if you don't leave things down they can get in to. You can buy doorknob protectors from Walmart or some builders supply places like Lowes or Builders Supply. They fit over the door knob and you have to press it just the right way to open the door knob. This way the toddler can't get in the bathroom and drown in the toilet. You just snap them off and pack them when you move to another hotel. The room door has a secure lock on it to keep unwanted people from entering so that keeps the child in the room...he can't fall off a sleeping bag in the floor.
We either do what the other posters suggested and let our little one sleep with us. We've done this with our daughter. With our son who just turned 3, we've been using this kids aerobed: http://www.amazon.com/L-L-Bean-Aerobed-Mattress-Kids/dp/B...
We put it next to the bed and in one case wedged it between a bed and a wall. It has bumpers on it and our son has never fallen out of it. It's not like there's far to fall anyway. The other nice thing about having it is we always have an extra bed bed when we stay over at anyone's house. It's takes weight up to about 150 pounds.
My son needs a rail also. We've tried without it and he falls out every time. In a hotel, we push a bed against a wall if possible and put a row of pillows under the top sheet and tuck it in, so that the pillows can't move and create a barrier against the side of the bed. If we can't push the bed, we'll do that on the other side as well, and use an extra sheet or blanket to cover him. It's worked every time, and we don't have to bring anything extra in our suitcase. Have fun!
You can back up a chair on each side of the bed.
