Baby Monitor in resort

[Cptnkirky]

Has anyone ever been able to successfully use a baby monitor at the Disney Resorts? We are in a pool front room, and hoping for the 1st floor so that we can put the baby to sleep and sit closely outside at the pool after she goes down. I am not sure if this will work or if we will get a lot of interference with other electronics or the walls of the building???

 

[lililoo12]

I had a pool view 1st flr and yes you could see the pool but not close enough for what you want to do. I took my baby and had her in her bassinet covered with us at the pool. Safer knowing she is right near me

 

[Skylarr29]

You can't be serious??

 

[staceycanada]

A pool area pool is still way to far away for me to be comfortable leaving my baby. It's kind of like leaving your baby in the house while you go down the street. How about the baby naps in the stroller or a pack n play?

 

[nchulka]

What the OP wants to do is fine. I'm assuming this is a baby that is going to stay put once they put it in a crib/pack'n'play, and not a toddler that could get up and into trouble. As long as it's a baby, it's perfectly fine. I have no idea if a monitor would work,I'd just go stand by the door from time to time and listen. Modern parents are so uptight about always being right with their children, never letting them out of their sight, it's really not healthy for the parents or the child. Put the baby to sleep, go relax by the pool, it will be fine!

 

[Happyjen27]

I hope this is a joke.

Remember that girl that got kidnapped from her hotel room?

You do realize that housekeeping has a key to your room, as does maintenance. Imagine their shock in addressing something because they have determined the room to be empty only to find a sleeping infant in there.

This is not your home. This is a hotel.

I have never judged anyone on DIS, but OMG, this is over the top. How can it be that you would leave a precious life alone in a hotel room? Just promise me that if something horrible and awful happens, you look right in the mirror instead of retaining an attorney.

 

[MariDisney]

Some of the resorts have rooms right at the quiet pools. I'm thinking of POR's bayou section and CSR specifically. I know at both of those resorts I could sit at a table at the pool and be just steps away from the room door, able to keep an eye on the door the whole time. In that case I would feel very comfortable doing what the OP suggests with a non-mobile infant and a monitor. If I couldn't see the door the whole time then I wouldn't do it.

 

[Cptnkirky]

Yes, I am serious, and the I HATE when people are so judgmental on this board. Calm down! If you can't answer the question at hand, DON'T COMMENT! Especially when you don't know all the specifics!! I agree that some parents are just too over the edge! People come on here with real questions and you are wasting everyone's time!!

This is an infant, not able to walk on their own. Once she is asleep, she stays asleep well, just rolling around here and there. We were not planning on swimming or being out of view of our door at all. We were planning to sit and play cards or eating dinner. We were taking our video monitor so we could see and hear all that is going on in the room. Since she goes to bed around 6:30pm, it was just an option for an hour or 2 at night if we are back at the resort by then.
I honestly don't know our resort that well, or how far away the rooms are from the pool, so that will definitely play a role in the whole thing. If we aren't close enough, we certainly wouldn't do it. If our baby would sleep outside with us (which she might because we haven't tried yet!) we would do that. It might be a little cold though, since it will be winter. It is all a trial and error for us, as we haven't traveled with her yet, out of her crib.
I appreciate those that did give helpful comments, I guess we will have to find out on our own.

 

[nchulka]

I hope this is a joke.

Remember that girl that got kidnapped from her hotel room?

You do realize that housekeeping has a key to your room, as does maintenance. Imagine their shock in addressing something because they have determined the room to be empty only to find a sleeping infant in there.

This is not your home. This is a hotel.

I have never judged anyone on DIS, but OMG, this is over the top. How can it be that you would leave a precious life alone in a hotel room? Just promise me that if something horrible and awful happens, you look right in the mirror instead of retaining an attorney.

Considering you had to back several years and across an ocean to remember that there was once a girl taken from a hotel room proves just how safe it is to leave the baby there alone! That case made international news because it was such an incredibly rare event. Leaving a sleeping baby in a room while you hang out in the pool area is very safe

 

[Kae]

We had a 1st patio room at the Poly and we loved the patio. We were not by the pool at all so we didn't swim. But we did play cards, Drink a glass of wine & one night did room service. On the Patio. I would think the 50's section at Pop 1st floor facing the bowling pin pool could be a good choice for a value, at CSR I know we were the Castias and the building (can't remember #)we were in was right there by a quiet pool. CR would not be a good choice.

As far as the monitor goes some work better than others. I know i could here my what went on in my neighbors house when she ran the sweeper & she didn't have a monitor in her house we used to laugh about that one.

Kae

 

[RubySlippers]

Some of the rooms at POR- AB section are VERY close to the quiet pool. You could very easily sit outside.

 

[Marionnette]

Yes, I am serious, and the I HATE when people are so judgmental on this board. Calm down! If you can't answer the question at hand, DON'T COMMENT! Especially when you don't know all the specifics!! I agree that some parents are just too over the edge! People come on here with real questions and you are wasting everyone's time!!

This is an infant, not able to walk on their own. Once she is asleep, she stays asleep well, just rolling around here and there. We were not planning on swimming or being out of view of our door at all. We were planning to sit and play cards or eating dinner. We were taking our video monitor so we could see and hear all that is going on in the room. Since she goes to bed around 6:30pm, it was just an option for an hour or 2 at night if we are back at the resort by then.
I honestly don't know our resort that well, or how far away the rooms are from the pool, so that will definitely play a role in the whole thing. If we aren't close enough, we certainly wouldn't do it. If our baby would sleep outside with us (which she might because we haven't tried yet!) we would do that. It might be a little cold though, since it will be winter. It is all a trial and error for us, as we haven't traveled with her yet, out of her crib.
I appreciate those that did give helpful comments, I guess we will have to find out on our own.

If you're staying in a deluxe or DVC resort, the ground floor rooms will have a couple of chairs and a small table. You can sit there and keep an eye on your baby quite easily. I would be wary about moving further away because those ground floor rooms have two entrances - through the "patio" and also from the hallway. You could be keeping an eye on that patio door from some quiet pools, but you're not going to be able to see the door that leads to the hallway.

The values and moderates are different. They only have one door and it would be easier to watch from a bigger distance. But I wonder how much you will be able to relax if you're watching the door the whole time.

I haven't tried using a baby monitor at Disney but I did try using one at a resort hotel years ago. It was an epic fail because the walls in the room were too thick and the signal dropped often.

 

[katdralion]

We did this when our son was a baby. We were in the Beach Club Villas at the quiet pool so the room was right by the pool. Our baby monitor worked fine but I have to admit I found it hard to fully relax with him out of view.....but I was like that anyway no matter what the circumstances!
When you arrive you will be able to check how long it will take you to get back to the room should she wake up. If the pool is right outside your room you should be fine! I would also take into account the noise levels at the pool to make sure you can hear the monitor clearly. Our pool was very quiet so it wasn't a problem. If you are on the 1st floor you can lock the room door from the inside and go out the patio door to the pool. That way housekeeping/maintenance won't be able to get in. Just make sure you don't lock yourselves out!

 

[danceintherain]

I have constant trouble with monitors (we went through three during DS's first year of life) so this would be something hard for me to do (even without my usual paranoia.

The monitor we used up until our last move though, beeped whenever it lost signal for any reason, so we would know if it wasn't working. I never tried it at Disney, so I don't know in that respect.

 

[bumbershoot]

Modern parents are so uptight about always being right with their children, never letting them out of their sight, it's really not healthy for the parents or the child. Put the baby to sleep, go relax by the pool, it will be fine!

Actually, modern families are the ones who leave the children all the time. Ancient, traditional, families had their families near all the time, and wore them constantly for quite a long time. If they didn't, then predators would get them. It's these last 100 or so years that we've started doing anti-intuitive things like leaving babies and small children with no supervision and expecting that they would be OK.


I personally would think of the possibilities of baby waking and being upset to be alone (isn't it a rotten feeling to cry all alone, even as an adult?) or baby rolling out of bed (DS once did this without crying at all, and I was not a fan of finding him like that), and I would start reconsidering. I would then try to figure out if a fire breaking out in a nearby room could be heard on a monitor, and if I could see smoke coming into the room on a video monitor's screen, and how long it would take me to figure out something was wrong and if that amount of time would be short enough for me to save the baby from smoke inhalation.

The monitor working to see the baby sleeping is one thing, but the monitor picking up everything that might actually happen is another. Especially if you aren't in the building and therefore can't smell possible smoke, or hear a thud of baby rolling onto the floor, etc.

 

[California Jenn]

Will you be carrying a smart phone with you? Although not as informative as a video monitor, several of the app stores carry baby phone monitor applications.

You can set your phone next to the sleeping baby and set it to call you on a separate number when it picks up a certain level of noise (your spouse's cell phone for example). This might save you the hassle of carrying a monitor with you -- then, you can try it and if it works, there isn't interference, etc. and you are close enough to be comfortable using it, great! if not, at least you won't have the extra monitor equipment to carry and store in the room.

 

[Schmeck]

I know the value resorts are poured concrete - so I'm thinking the walls are much too thick for a monitor to work? Of course, maybe monitors are much better now than the ones I had 15-20 years ago, LOL!

 

[lililoo12]

Yes, I am serious, and the I HATE when people are so judgmental on this board. Calm down! If you can't answer the question at hand, DON'T COMMENT! Especially when you don't know all the specifics!! I agree that some parents are just too over the edge! People come on here with real questions and you are wasting everyone's time!!

This is an infant, not able to walk on their own. Once she is asleep, she stays asleep well, just rolling around here and there. We were not planning on swimming or being out of view of our door at all. We were planning to sit and play cards or eating dinner. We were taking our video monitor so we could see and hear all that is going on in the room. Since she goes to bed around 6:30pm, it was just an option for an hour or 2 at night if we are back at the resort by then.
I honestly don't know our resort that well, or how far away the rooms are from the pool, so that will definitely play a role in the whole thing. If we aren't close enough, we certainly wouldn't do it. If our baby would sleep outside with us (which she might because we haven't tried yet!) we would do that. It might be a little cold though, since it will be winter. It is all a trial and error for us, as we haven't traveled with her yet, out of her crib.
I appreciate those that did give helpful comments, I guess we will have to find out on our own.

If you didn't want judgment and opinions why bother posting on a public forum. lol

 

[twinboysmom]

No judgement here. OP, I would bring it and give it a try if the room you are put in meets with your approval. Come on people, some of the rooms that are pool side are very, very close to the quiet pools (think CSR and I am pretty sure our BWV room was super close as well). I am sure the OP would not put her child in danger. Being 10 feet away from a locked room in view wi a working baby monitor is fine in my book.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

If you are sitting right outside your room, basically the equivalent of being on a balcony but in front, I'd think it's okay. Down by the pool itself, nope.