Kids Night Out...anyone use it

[gwany1999]

Hi, my husband and I have a reservation for dinner for just us and want to get an in room babysitter. Has anyone ever used Kids Night Out or any other sitter services? If so...how did it go?

Jenn

 

[5stljayhawks]

where are you headed ? we had the kids in the peter pan at the poly. I think these are only at deluxe resorts. I wish we would of done this sooner in our trip, for both my wife and I and our kids. It was great they had a blast, safe controlled Disney environment.

 

[kmb584]

Experiences will vary but I used Kids Nite Out in 2011 as DD was only 15-months-old and I wanted to hit the headlining attractions (The Mountains, Soarin', EE, RnRC) at each park. Her sitter was a 22-year-old girl in her senior year of the Nursing program at UCF; that won huge points with me as I too am a nurse. She arrived about 15 minutes prior to her scheduled time of 4pm and I took that time to introduce her to the baby, go over the schedule I had made, and showed her where everything in the room was located. I returned at 11:30pm to a peacefully sleeping baby and a girl sitting in the dark studying via a book light. I had left the sitter money for dinner (as the "rules" state) but she only used the amount it had cost to feed the baby, the remaining change and receipt were on the table. She had a checklist of sorts of what they had done: playground, walk around the grounds, dinner, etc. Truly, she was wonderful and as I'm THAT Mom who doesn't like to leave her child in the care of others it settled my nerves that she was so well taken care of.

 

[Momoftwins+1]

We used them June 2012 for our three boys (5 and 8 at the time) and the lady was brave enough to take them to crafts in an area of CR and got them ice cream with the money we left her with and took them to the arcade. The 5 year olds were sound asleep when DH and I returned to the room and our 8 year old was yacking her ear off. All went well. She was polite and on time and left us with a detailed list of what they had done etc. I would use them again.

 

[emmiesmom]

We used them in April 2013 and again in September 2013. Both times my girls (8 and 2) did really well and loved the babysitters. We came back each time to sleeping children and a list of what they had down. The babysitters were prompt and brought age appropriate things to interest each girl!