where does your toddler sleep when you travel?

[taramoon13]

i have been searching online for toddler travel beds & there are some, but all well over $50! i was really hoping to find something for around $30. i have no problem co-sleeping, it's just that if we are in a hotel dh & i might want to veg out on cable tv (which we don't have at home) and ds is not the deepest sleeper, so it'd be easier if he were in a corner of the room. i was thinking of just putting a sleeping bag on the floor, but it just doesn't seem that comfy, i dunno, maybe ds would think it was fun?!!? ideas!?!?? TIA!

[rightkindofme]

Kids are fine on the floor. Don't sweat it.

[ShyDaisi]

We are co-sleepers, so we just do that...I know that isn't much help for you though.

[puffingirl]

We have a play tent from Ikea (paid about $10 for it). When we stayed with friends over New Year's, we set up the tent in a corner of the room, put a folded sleeping bag inside to make it soft and cushy and let her sleep in there. We told her she could "camp out" for the night and she thought it was great fun.

[Pyrodjm]

We cosleep, so she sleeps with us.

[Belia]

Depending on the hotel where you stay, they may have cribs you can borrow. We did this in December when we stayed in a Drury Inn while visiting relatives. It didn't cost anything, and DS slept fine.

When we moved onto the ILs we borrowed a pack & play. That was a disaster- DS had a tough time getting to sleep.

DS is a crib sleeper, though, so it wasn't as big as a transition.

[taramoon13]

Originally Posted by Belia

Depending on the hotel where you stay, they may have cribs you can borrow. We did this in December when we stayed in a Drury Inn while visiting relatives. It didn't cost anything, and DS slept fine.

When we moved onto the ILs we borrowed a pack & play. That was a disaster- DS had a tough time getting to sleep.

DS is a crib sleeper, though, so it wasn't as big as a transition.

ds is a half crib sleeper, half co-sleeper and we've stayed at numerous hotels that had pack & plays for ds to sleep in the past, but he's outgrown them now. i've never seen a hotel that had an actual crib though. i will check with the hotel we are staying at.

[waiting2bemommy]

I don't trust the cots/fold out beds they give you at cheap hotels (the only kind we ever use, lol) and no way in the world would ds allow himself to be put in a pack n play, so I cosleep and just lay him on the floor on a bunch of pillows if needed. Usually he has to fall asleep in the bed, and then once he's sound asleep, I move him to the floor, and then before we fall asleep for the night I put him back in the bed.

It's not as uncomfortable as it sounds....he doesn't even stir.

[lifeguard]

Ds always just sleeps with me. In many hotel rooms they have two beds & you can turn the tv towards one or the other - so you can settle lo in one bed & then turn the tv away from that bed to watch from the other side.

[matey]

we dont co-sleep anymore, ds sleeps in a crib, but I dont borrow cribs at hotels, seems gross to me. I always bring the pack in play. We can usually convince him to go to sleep in it, but he usually wakes early or wakes in the night and joins us in bed. He doesnt even like to co-sleep at home, but if we are away at home, he is ok with it. I hate going to hotels. We would love to veg out on tv after he hits the hay, but that never happens, so we usually let him stay up a little later and we go to bed a little earlier.

[gbailey]

The first time we traveled DD slept in the hotel crib at Beaches (we brought our own sheets from home and sanitized first) but only one day. The rest of the time she slept with us. On our most recent trip the hotel provided a pack n play but we didn't use it and DD slept with us. At home she has no problems sleeping in her crib but away sleeping with us is the only way she'll sleep.

[Rowansmama]

Kids are fine on the floor! When I was a kid, sleeping on the floor was always like camping out...an adventure. But if yours won't do that happily, you can buy fold out travel beds for toddlers. They're low to the ground and have a mattress. I've seen them for about $30. Only problem is that they all seem to be character related (Disney princess, Dora, etc) but they do in a pinch.

That said, we only rent suites if staying in a hotel (separate living room and bedroom). I put DD to bed in one of the beds with pillows on either side. Sometimes I bring our side rail. She sleeps in there until we're ready for bed, then we either get in the other bed, or one of us gets in her bed.

[kcstar]

We cosleep.

We've tried using the hotel cribs before. Most of the hotels we've asked had an actual rolling crib, white metal bars. Once DS outgrew the bassinet part of our Pack-n-Play, he refused to sleep on the bottom of one. Same goes for a crib. If he feels me bending over to lay him down in one, he wakes up... and if he sees that he's "caged in", he cries.

For that matter, we've moved his toddler bed into our room and for a while we were encouraging him to start the night there. If he had any indication that I wasn't going to sleep there / stay there until he fell asleep, he gets sad and starts to cry.

[Ruthie's momma]

We most often cosleep. DD has also chosen to camp-out on the floor. She loved it! We have also used a couple of hotel cribs. I didn't have any problems with them (both were clean and safe).

[ASusan]

We co-sleep, so DS goes between us, whether we're in a hotel or visiting friends/family. We prefer a hotel suite, so DH can watch TV more comfortably in the evening, but we can do without. The Ikea tent sounds neat, if DS would actually stay in it. Maybe when he's a little older.

A sleeping bag on the floor would be fine with me.

[blizzard_babe]

I used to BEG to sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor as a kid.

When we travel and stay at a hotel, we generally co-sleep, but because NONE of us sleep well when it's all three of us in a bed, we either get a room with a king sized bed or two doubles.

When we stay at someone's house, I'm comfortable with DS on the floor. For some reason, hotel floors ook me out (and I'm probably the least easily ooked out person about everything else... just not hotel floors ).

[hakeber]

I bring a blow up mattress for ds and set it up on the floor in the bathroom or the foyer by the closet, sometimes they even have a fan that I can turn on for the white noise. Depends in the lay out of the room.

I have aslo pushed two bucket chairs together to make a mini bed for ds...he LOVED that!

[Tizzy]

I usually bring a pack n play for one of the boys and the other either sleeps on the floor or in bed with us.
For my last hotel stay, they had complimentary pack n plays that you could request, or a full sized crib if you wanted. So I could put one kid in each playpen, but it worked out best to have the older one in bed with me.

In a pinch, they have shared a playpen quite happily, but they often have "sleep overs" in eachother's beds at home.

[ShadowMoon]

We cosleep or I make a bed on the floor. Ds will wake up a few times during the night if we're sleeping someplace new, no matter what he's sleeping on.

[tmwmommy]

We co-sleep but I asked for a crib at the hotel we stayed at last month. It was basically the same thing as a pack n play where dd naps at home. She still slept in bed with us though but I wanted somewhere safe to put her in case we had to put her down for a few minutes.