When you travel with kids, what sleeping arrangement works best for you family? When DS1 was a baby and toddler, he just slept in bed with us because he wouldn't sleep alone in an unfamiliar bed and he never did well in a pack n play. Now, often, DH sleeps with DS1 and DS2 sleeps in a crib, and I sleep alone. But DS2 never sleeps through the night on vacation so he usually ends up with me.
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At ages 3 and 4, we get a two-room suite. One kid sleeps with me, one alone, and Dh on a pull out. Some hotels (like the one we stayed in all this week) only have 2 doubles so they're super small if you or dh is taller!
Earlier this week we stayed somewhere else and it was two queens but a one room non-suite and we just each took a kid.
When baby 3 comes someone will go to a cot we'll bring or a travel crib most likely.
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DD sleeps in a pack and play. DH and I have to hide out in the bathroom while we wait for her to fall asleep. She never sleeps as well in hotels as she does at home and starts her day really early. We'll put her in bed with us and let her watch a movie so we can rest a bit more.
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Now with 2 kids we get 2 bedroom suites. DS1 sleeps in his Privacy Pop tent with a twin air mattress and DS2 sleeps in a PNP. If we can, we have the boys separated by putting the PNP in the second bathroom. If that's not possible they just share the room. We also travel with their white noise machines so they don't disturb each other.
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On our last trip, we put our 3 year old in one bed (we made a barricade out of pillows so he wouldn't roll out), the 10 month old in a pack and play (hotel provided), and we shared the other bed.
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We aim for a 1bdrm suite where we can close the door, like at extended stay.
So far kids have slept on pullout (older) and crib/pnp (younger) - they like sleeping next to each other but aren't touching. They go to bed early so then we can close the door and stay up and have the king to ourselves.
But I think we're probably past the crib by this Christmas (he'll be almost 3) and then I don't know if we try them together on pullout or what.
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@bhbee: Yes we try for those too! So much easier and then you have the kitchenette too.
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I avoid staying in a one room hotel if at all possible, but if we have to, we usually start with the almost 4 yo in her own bed, the 1.5 yo in a pack and play, and DH and I sharing the second bed. But usually both kids will wake up and DH sleeps with the big one and ill snuggle the baby in our bed. And we brig the sound machine of course.
I really dislike all sleeping in one room.
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The last hotel we stayed in we had a "family room" but not a suite. It was just a large (by European standards) room with a queen bed and a pull out couch. The kids slept together on the pull out couch. We've generally had very few problems sharing a room with them in hotels and getting them to sleep.
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We usually sleep all on one room, even if we have a suite. We just use the living room part to stay up and hang out while the kids sleep. As far as how we actually sleep, it depends on the bed situation. If it's two queen beds we each take a kid and make a pillow barricade. If it's 1 kind for some reason, we get a rollaway bed for our oldest and try to put LO2 in a travel crib, but she would definitely end up on our bed at some point.
They don't usually have sleeping problems when we travel.
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We only have one LO so we just get a room with a king size bed and let him sleep in the middle.
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We just did this for the first time last weekend with our 2.5 yr old. Single room, him in a cot with rails from home, us in a king. We put him to bed as usual and said we were going to bed too. We just ignored him and played on our phones under the covers and watched a movie with earphones on the iPad when he fell asleep. It worked way better than expected!
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We all go to bed at the same time when we travel, so we do just fine in a single room. I prefer to have at least the 2 queen bed set up, but if that's not available, we do one king and the three of us sleep together.
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@travellingbee: so far we have only done 1-3 days and all stay in the same room, DD crashed with us and DS is in his PNP
I can see if we travled longer I would want them to have a separate room!
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We have one 3yo who cosleeps with me pretty often at home anyway. So we just get a regular room with a king sized bed and all sleep in it together.
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Our kids aren't the type to share a bed with us. Well DD might but none of us would sleep. We also get a suite or something with at least one extra bedroom and make sure we can get a crib not a pack n play. Dd sleeps in the crib in our room or a hall and ds sleeps in a bed in one room, we sleep in the other bedroom.
We went to Punta Cana for a week and upgraded to a room with a separate master. So ds slept on the pull out in the main part of the room and dd slept in a crib in the bedroom with us.
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This summer with a 2 and 4 year old, DD1 slept with DH, and DD2 slept with me, we knew they wouldn't fall asleep together in a bed so we split up.
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When it was just DD1 we def slept together since we co-slept at home too. Now with DD2, it would probably depend how many beds/pull outs we get in total.
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We just got back from a trip. I planned on having DD in a pullout couch and DS in a pack n play, but they both ended up in bed with us most of the time LOL
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We try to get a 1 bedroom suite if possible. She sleeps in the pack-n-play in the bedroom, so we can hang out in the living area while she's sleeping.
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The 17 month old is in a travel crib. Our almost 5 year old just sleeps in our bed. We usually get a King size and that's more than enough room.
We traveled for 3 weeks in Asia back in October. The sleeping arrangement worked no matter what hotel we were at bc the younger one is crazy and needs his own space to sleep. We traveled with just my oldest when she was at that age, but she could sleep with us in the bed no problem. Even when she was younger, we acted as the barricade so she wouldn't fall over.
So depends on the kid
also edited to add: if you travel often, invest in a quality travel crib. it helps a lot! We have the Guava Lotus and love it's portability, easy set up, and how you can wear it on your back like a backpack
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We're just getting home from a road trip today. With three kids we opted to stay at houses via Airbnb. It was so nice! No more expensive than a hotel yet we had a kitchen and bedrooms for the kids.
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@Mrs. Deer: yes with two kids I much prefer an AirBNB or VRBO. We are going out of town for 4 days at the end of the month and everyone is getting their own room
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We use get a room with two kings or queens and DS (3.5) sleeps in one bed and we take the other.
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Currently in a hotel
DD 2.5 crashes in king bed with us
DS 8 months is in PNP in the bathroom hallway -
We get a suite with a separate bedroom. Toddler sleeps in the living area in the pack and play. LO1 shares a king bed with DH and me.
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We got a 2 bedroom suite and put one boy in each room and slept on a mattress in the living room!
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