Help with bringing a baby walker onto flight

[gigi1313]

before you rely on a "medical/VIP clean" to keep your child safe, i will warn you that we request them each and every trip (ever since we found peanut m&ms under the bed, and ds has peanut allergies among others) and only once did we notice a difference (and that difference was the smell of clorox)... the room was no cleaner, there were still cheerios where there should not have been, etc even w/the allergy clean request...

not that i am telling you how to parent, or whether or not to bring your walker, just sharing my experience over the last dozen or so trips...

 

[Ceila]

We never used a walker, but we brought a pack-and-play with us whenever we stayed in hotel rooms. We just checked it with our other luggage. Maybe that would be an option for you?

 

[deegack]

There is a pnp in every room at kidani

 

[momto2js]

Just a thought. If you are concerned about allergy issues I would discuss the possibility of some preventative treatments with your doc. My son has a life-threatening type allergy to walnuts and some more irritating environmental allergies.

When we travel we use benedryl to prevent allergy symptoms. We never know when we go to a new place how he will be impacted. If we pre-treat it takes less meds to maintain his quaility of life. He is especially sensitive to mold and when we visit a place that is humid we try to pretreat as much as possible. We also have an epi-pen for the more serious issue.

On the jet blue policy, you may want to consider the person you asked may have assumed you were refering to a walker (you know the kind for mobility??) and not a childs toy. They may have refered to the policy with out considering the context.

 

[delmar411]

On the jet blue policy, you may want to consider the person you asked may have assumed you were refering to a walker (you know the kind for mobility??) and not a childs toy. They may have refered to the policy with out considering the context.

I'd pretty much guarantee they thought it was a mobility device. And if you gate checked a baby's walker it would be trash when you retrieved it on the other end. They pile ALL the strollers and wheelchairs on top of each other and many people's strollers end up broken, not to mention people's wheelchairs that are broken.

And I agree that I wouldn't bank on the room actually being VIP clean. Those are DVC rooms and housekeeping barely cleans them as is so if it was an allergy issue, I would make sure to walk the room with housekeeping before accepting it. We've never had a DVC room that didn't have random trash in it by the curtains or under tables or under the beds. We don't have allergies but I do a check to make sure no one has dropped any medication that didn't get picked up.

 

[Leajess99]

before you rely on a "medical/VIP clean" to keep your child safe, i will warn you that we request them each and every trip (ever since we found peanut m&ms under the bed, and ds has peanut allergies among others) and only once did we notice a difference (and that difference was the smell of clorox)... the room was no cleaner, there were still cheerios where there should not have been, etc even w/the allergy clean request...

not that i am telling you how to parent, or whether or not to bring your walker, just sharing my experience over the last dozen or so trips...

Wow, we have stayed in 4 different resorts and had the VIP clean every time. Now at Ft Wilderness in the Cabins it was not done at first and we had to wait for them to do it and then they had to re-do it the next day due to a computer glitch but otherwise no real problems. You still have to check but the rooms generally don't smell of clorox either as some individuals are allergic to that as well. In some instances the only thing they can clean with is extreme hot water unless they know that the individual is not allergic to cleaning supplies. This is all information that was given to us by the Housekeeping Manager at Ft Wilderness. I have to say that he was great about everything and got the cabin taken care of even if it did take an extra day. They also traded out the refridgerator and Coffee pot incase of nut allergy so the coffee pot was new and the fridge looked new.