Where do your toddlers sleep when you travel?

[CrzyforPiglet]

For the first couple of trips we took with our son we had him sleep in a pack and play with few problems. But now he seems too big for it and is a restless sleeper who moves around his crib quite a bit. When we went to WDW last december we just had him sleep with us since it was a short trip, which he loved but I didn't sleep the greatest. Recently we went to Conn to visit my family and my mom rented a crib which he did fine in half the time and the other half he started off in the crib but ended up in bed with us.

Our next trip is to the World 7 months from now but it has me thinking of where we should put him. I think he'll definitely be too big for a pack and play by then (he'll be 23 months) so I'm guessing he'll be with us but before I resign myself to a week of interrupted sleep I thought I'd ask some other families where your toddlers sleep.

Thanks - Laurie

 

[Monkeyfeet]

She sleeps with us.

Will there be an extra bed where you can lay down with him as needed and then move to your own?

 

[macmahony]

It depends on where we travel to, at disney two sleep in a bed, the third in the pack n play, but since then the little one is now in a bed, and won't sleep in the pack n play. So, at christmas at my moms, they took turns with a sleeping bag on the floor,they loved it. My older one (5), thought it was great to sleep in her sleeping bag on the floor of the closet. The next time we go to disney, we will be too big for value, and will probably stay deluxe, and they have the couch bed, so one will sleep there. Although, my kids dont' mind sleeping on the floor, my oldest has a loft bed, and spends more time sleeping on the floor under the bed than on top of it.

 

[staley7580]

My dd is 23mo. and when we travel she either sleeps with me or in the other bed by herself. We co-sleep at home, my dh works nights so its just something we are used to! Try letting your baby sleep alone in the other bed, if you worry about him falling out I think you can get portable badrails....but dont quote me on that!

 

[flynnmnstr]

That's a tough age. Our boys would never sleep in a pack and play. When they were younger we would use the crib that the Swan/Dolphin had in the hotel (small crib with metal bars). As soon as they hit 18mths or were climbing champs (as was the case in DS #2) we would rent a crib from A Baby's Best Friend (abbf.com). Well worth the $$. They give you all the bedding, super clean, delivered to your hotel, and easy to set up. DS 2 should be in a bed by our next trip so we won't need to use them. Oh how I will miss the days of confinement.......

 

[CrzyforPiglet]

Just for added clarification we're taking a disney cruise and then a couple of days at the world and I think the only other bed in both spots would be a pullout. I was thinking we'd put up bed rails on the main bed for naps during the day but I don't know how comfy he would be at night on a pullout.

 

[Disneyolic]

My daughter would not sleep in a crib since she was almost 2 years old. She went straight to a toddler bed. On vacation, she will be sleeping with me or on the trundle bed at POR. We are still trying to figure out our bed strategy for our family of 5.

I believe the resort will provide bed rails on request.

 

[jodifla]

Bedrails will work at WDW and on the cruise. The DCL sofa has a true mattress and is very comfy and low to the floor.....

DS is a tosser and turner...we don't get much sleep when he sleeps with us.

 

[northriver]

Great question!

We are staying at the Poly with 5. I am bringing some blankets for DD 21m and honestly might put her on the floor to sleep. I don't mind sleeping with her, but she adamantly sleeps with no covers and we fight at night - I am trying to stay covered and she is trying to kick them off. My parents are in 1 bed, my teenager has the daybed and if DD wants to sleep with me fine, but she might like the floor for the novelty of it. She sleeps in a big girl bed at home so falling out is not an issue for us.

 

[bbmommy]

For the first couple of trips we took with our son we had him sleep in a pack and play with few problems. But now he seems too big for it and is a restless sleeper who moves around his crib quite a bit. When we went to WDW last december we just had him sleep with us since it was a short trip, which he loved but I didn't sleep the greatest. Recently we went to Conn to visit my family and my mom rented a crib which he did fine in half the time and the other half he started off in the crib but ended up in bed with us.

Our next trip is to the World 7 months from now but it has me thinking of where we should put him. I think he'll definitely be too big for a pack and play by then (he'll be 23 months) so I'm guessing he'll be with us but before I resign myself to a week of interrupted sleep I thought I'd ask some other families where your toddlers sleep.

Thanks - Laurie

We are going to experiment with this this summer. DS 21 months (never tried to climb out of a crib, but DH put him in his bunk bed) we bought the readybeds for our trip...He has Cars and DD has a princess one...sleeping bags with the air matress and blow up in minutes. We are driving to WDW and booked king beds on the way and they can sleep in their ready beds, we are staying at a timeshare so each kiddo will have their own bed, but not sure how that will work, so we will have ready beds as a back up. He sleeps on a mat at daycare so he has adjusted well to not being in a crib.
Hope it helps!

 

[Princess Roo]

DS 23 months hates sleeping, so we're keeping him in his crib as long as possible before switching to a bed, since he likely won't stay in a bed! He sleeps fine in a pack & play. (Last time he did it, two months ago, he was 37" and 32 lbs.) He will NOT sleep with us...I've tried for naps at my parents' house and at then our house when he was sick and he just won't sleep.

I think the air mattress or ready bed is a good idea if that's an option. Or rails on the regular bed if he's used to being in a bed. Or, another thought, if he doesn't keep DH awake, he could sleep with DH and you could sleep in the pullout.

 

[Elmo888]

DD2 was 26 months when we went in Jan., and she slept in a Pack N Play. She was almost 38 inches and around 29 lbs or so. She did fine in the PNP (she isn't a climber).

My first DD was in a crib (at home) or PNP (at my parents' house) until she was 3, and I plan on the same with my second DD.

You can always rent a full sized crib at the resort, as the other poster mentioned, if a PNP won't work. I just think that toddlers are safer if contained, esp. in a strange place (again, if they aren't climbing out). We left DD2 in the PNP even while we dressed in the morning, but she is used to a PNP (she plays in it while I shower most weekdays). Maybe that is why the PNP at WDW went so well. Who knows with those crazy babies!

 

[Gillian]

On DCL you can do the pull out bed - it's more like a real bed than a sofa bed. It should be very comfortable, and I'd think they could leave it made up as a bed for you during the day for naps.

My son, now 6, likes to sleep on the floor. I'm thinking of an aerobed for him for our next trip. He & DD 3 are restless sleepers and no one wants to sleep with them.

 

[TJA]

My twins are 3 yrs old and we request real cribs at check-in. I'm not sure if all resorts have them. We've received them at BC and Poly.

 

[MALE*RN*777]

In the camper it is us and the boy in the king bed and the girl in the pack-n-play. At Disney it was us in one bed the boy in the other and the girl in the pack n play.

 

[Sarah7401]

Usually on trips DH, me and DS4 all sleep in a king bed; however, I guess that isn't allowed at Disney so I'm not sure what we will do this trip.

 

[LaraK]

DD sleeps with DH and DS sleeps with me....DD is getting a little old to sleep with dad, so we will switch places at some point in the next year. When I travel with both kids by myself I get a king and they both sleep with me.

 

[mtemm]

our kids were in twin beds by the age of 2, so by the time they outgrew the packnplay, they were in a regular bed when we traveled. makes things soooo easy.

 

[katerkat]

My son (at 20 months our last trip) will not sleep in a PnP - he doesn't like the mesh sides and the shifting of the mattress. He slept in a metal porta-crib at Shades of Green, then at another hotel last week and at my ILs this week. He's too tall for that, really - he moves a LOT in his sleep and the crib is barely as long as he is. (about 35") He's come to bed with me every night in the middle of the night that he's been in the porta-crib. (And he's a kicker!)

I thought I remembered seeing small sleeping bags with foam "mattresses" designed for little kids at the store one day, but I can't find anything online that matches what I'm thinking of. Of course, that wouldn't work for my son - he really needs the confined nature of a crib or Mommy, otherwise he'd be out and about.

ETA: Aha, it was Target I saw them! http://www.target.com/gp/detail.htm...-4167353?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000JR4VKY - they have Cars, Winnie the Pooh, Princess... This would be good for toddlers in regular beds already, I guess.

 

[camdensmom]

This topic is keeping me awake at night - no pun intended!

DS19 months has recently decided that at 3 am he likes to stand and cry until we put him in our bed. He's too big for the pnp and too small to sleep on his own.

We are staying at POR and covering all our bases:
-we've requested a pack n play
-we've also requested bed rails
-we've also requested the AB section with the trundle bed

My hope is that we can put the trundle mattress between the 2 doubles, stuff the area around it with pillows and corral him in with suitcases. I'm so worried about him wandering the room at night.

We leave Tuesday night. I'll let you know how it goes.

He does fine with DH and I at home in our queen, but I can't imagine having to bunk like that in those tiny double beds.