advice on cosleeping and travel?

[cww]

Our daughter is 3.5 months old, and at about 4 months, we will be traveling for a few weeks.  We have been cosleeping so far in a king size platform bed, with a rail on the side.  We bought a snug tuck pillow but have never used it, since we could never get it tight enough to stay in place and eliminate the gap between pillow and mattress.  My husband and I are both over 6 feet, so it seems impossible to cosleep in a queen bed or smaller (and those king size beds in Europe are often really just two twins pushed together with a wooden gap between them - uncomfortable for grownups and dangerous for baby!). 

For those of you who cosleep, what do you do in hotels?  (We'll be in Europe, if that makes any difference.)

Any other general travel advice?

Thanks in advance!

[Altair]

Does she sleep in between you now or on the edge?  We just booked rooms with king beds and put him between us, or if we could only get 2 queens we'd push them together or I'd sleep in one with him and the other side would have something blocking it (wall, table, even order a crib and wedge it next to the bed as a rail).  We travel a lot and have never had an issue.

Our other strategy if we just had the 2 queens was to wedge a pillow or 2 under the sheets as the rail, then baby, then me. 

[cww]

I typically switch her back and forth between me and my husband and me and the side of the bed - I don't feel comfortable sleeping with my back to her, so I switch the side on which I end BFing, and in that way can spend half the night sleeping on each side. 

We've definitely been in those hotel rooms where the beds don't move at all - the base is built into the wall/floor.  If you get a crib or something to push up against the side of the bed, you don't worry about it slipping or sliding away from the bed, or have problems with it creating gaps?

[Magali]

We usually move furniture and pillows around to create a block for the baby.  Not 100% secure of course, but good enough.

[Chloe'sMama]

When we just had the 1 DD, we put a rolled up towel under (making a large bump) the sheet on the edge of a bed and I would sleep there with DD and DH would have another bed.  Now with 2, we try having DD1 with DH and me with the baby in the same manner, although, DD1 usually comes in bed with me and the baby and I just put a towel roll on either edge and then me in the middle.

[chel]

With just 1 infant dh and I would all sleep in a queen. Once that got too crowded, you might be there now, we get 2 beds and dd1 would sleep with one parent. Nw with 2 kids, each adult takes 1 kid. Once dd2 is willing, we will have the kids sleep together.

[osker]

We've slept in a double bed with DD in between us.  I would never have it for our permanent solution, but it worked for travel.

[cww]

Thanks for the tips everyone.  (Sorry for the long time to reply - I seem to periodically have this problem where I can't login to the website b/c I keep getting an "internal error" message. 

I had been contemplating just putting the mattress on the floor (hopefully there will be room?) - has anyone tried that in a hotel?

(I know myself well enough to know that I will be too paranoid to sleep with just a towel or something at the edge - even if it seems unlikely that she would fall off...)