Help! Parents with toddlers...resort question

[Skroops]

What do you do about nap times and early bed times when you are staying in one room?
We've been to WDW three times already with our DS(2), but we have only gotten the cabin or the home away from home resorts so we could have somewhere to be while he naps and goes to sleep early. We'd like to try POP, because we know he'd love the kiddie pool area and we'd love the price, but how do you manage nap time and early bed time? Can you pull chairs out side of the door and sit while they sleep??? Just wondering how everyone does this....

 

[Disney_1derland]

We pull chairs out and read or people watch or play cards, whatever, nobody has ever seemed to mind. Also, we usually will split up some nights where one of us stays with the kid and the other one goes out for some alone time in the parks or at DTD. Dh loves disney quest, I could care less so he spends his time there and I go for a walk at DTD and shop or hit a park or resort hop.

 

[jwfla422]

When dd was that age I really used to go all out and rig a tent like partition in our room. We stayed at the S/D a lot and the first few visits she was in the crib and then went to an aerobed on the floor in the corner of the room toward the window area, but she wouldn't sleep if she could see us so....

I brought a clothesline and strung it from the metal bracket under the curtain valance across the room to where the pole stuck out behind the door to hang a garment bag, etc. In the corner rooms I was able to to tie the other side to under the other valance.

I brought 2 king sized sheets with us (since you can see through the white ones) and draped them over the clothesline. During waking times I just moved the sheets over like a curtain so they weren't in our way. At the WL I had to tie the clothesline to the door handle on the slider and the other side to a chair back and draped one sheet over-at this time she was on the floor in the aerobed (the crib would be too high to do this here).

Anyway, sounds like a lot of work, but it really wasn't and it worked out very well. As she got older it got to the point where she wanted to see me when she went to sleep and was able to fall asleep that way...but in her early years it worked out great for both naps and bedtime. We usually watched tv with the volume on low or sat on the balcony when she was falling asleep.

 

[horsegirl]

What do you do about nap times and early bed times when you are staying in one room?
We've been to WDW three times already with our DS(2), but we have only gotten the cabin or the home away from home resorts so we could have somewhere to be while he naps and goes to sleep early. We'd like to try POP, because we know he'd love the kiddie pool area and we'd love the price, but how do you manage nap time and early bed time? Can you pull chairs out side of the door and sit while they sleep??? Just wondering how everyone does this....

Go to Pop with your toddlers, that is what we did and it worked beatuifully. Request a room as close to the pool as possible on the first floor and put your kids down for their naps and bed while you sit at a table by the pool. We ate most of our meals outside on "our" table and sat in the evening having cocktails while I dks watched the bedtime stories and went to sleep. We kept a close eye on them and they did great.

We stayed in the closed room to classic hall on the first floor by the hippie dippie pool- it was perfect!the kiddie pool was great and Goofy's jet sprays (they pop up as the little ones run all over trying to find where the water will come up next) were all right there. A suite would be great bu why spend $200-300 when you can spend less, esp with little ones. And we did what some don't like to do- head back for lunch, nap and the pool most days. Then we'd head back to the park. It worked for us! Our kids were 2, 3, 4 at the time. Our family and friends thought we were crazy but we had the time of our lives. Good luck!

 

[sleepyone]

A couple of days, we went back to the resort to let the 2 little ones nap. I stayed in the room with them (pacing) while they napped while dh and dd8 went to the pool.

The other days, we just pushed them around in the double stroller and they fell asleep around nap time in the parks. We took our 2 smallest ones on rides like Haunted Mansion, Maelstrom, etc...while they slept.

 

[GailT]

wow, I almost forgot when I took my son there when he was going on 2, he fell asleep on the rides, when we changed rides he still slept then we went on another ride, of course we only had one but it worked for us and for him, he never missed out on a nap

 

[loles]

Sounds like all the parents know their kids well! I love the tent idea, have used that in the past with my DD. Second DD will be 18 months for her first trip next spring, and have wondered about that whole nap and early sleep routine myself. I hope she will be a good sleeper, napping in the stroller - it will be so much easier! If not, grandma to the rescue! We have 2 rooms and could always put the girls down in one while the adults veg out.....

 

[horsegirl]

oooooh, I love vegging out while dgm reads the stories and sits in the room! I forgot that trip we had dgm with us too! It was pretty great!

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

We did a studio at SSR earlier this month. Little one is 15 months old, and loves to party. For naps, he sacked out in his stroller. For bedtime, we set his crib in a corner and used the extra blanket to put a partial tent on it. One night I had to hide by the bathroom where he couldn't see me, but it didn't take long before I could get back to the comfy bed and couch. Another night he refused to go down and I had to rock and sing him to sleep. It put DH down too.

 

[beehive123]

Wow, I wish I had the energy you guys do, when my 3 & 4 year old take
a nap, so do I, and when it's bed time, I'm always right behind
them. That Florida heat really beats me up. I envy all you
guys that can keep going.

 

[horsegirl]

Wow, I wish I had the energy you guys do, when my 3 & 4 year old take
a nap, so do I, and when it's bed time, I'm always right behind
them. That Florida heat really beats me up. I envy all you
guys that can keep going.

We had no choice! All three of our kids stopped napping just about the second they hit 2 But we still went back and rested at our resort to change the pace and set a spell!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

I always enjoyed the trips back to the room for afternoon naps. I'd turn all the lights off and post on the DIS while the kids were sleeping. Also dh and I would take turns leaving the room to walk around the resort, etc. Usually we were pretty tired too so we'd lay down.

At night it was never a problem because we'd all pass out as soon as we got back to the room.

 

[cruiserkaren]

Wow, I wish I had the energy you guys do, when my 3 & 4 year old take
a nap, so do I, and when it's bed time, I'm always right behind
them. That Florida heat really beats me up. I envy all you
guys that can keep going.

This is exactly what we did and we only have one kid!!