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Lo1 slept in a real bed while traveling several months before we converted her crib. It started when she freaked out about sleeping in a pack and play and much preferred a real bed. She spent about a month spread total over 2 trips sleeping on beds. And fwiw, when we did switch her to a toddler bed the transition was super easy

FWIW Switching to a regular bed actually improved my crappy sleepers sleep and my great sleeper is still a great sleeper, so I would worry too much about switching beds ruining your kid

@youboots: the first time she was about 27 months so same age! We converted her bed about 3-4 months later

We had to do this on vacation. He climbed right out of the pack n play. He did pretty good! We switched him when we got home and said "it's like your great wolf lodge bed!" And it worked. We just transitioned his crib to a toddler bed. From then on he was fine in any bed when we travelled.. I was team crib for life but it's so easy just having him sleep in whatever bed is there when we travel.

DS tried climbing out of his crib after he figured out how to climb out of his PNP in a hotel over Thanksgiving at 27 months. It really sucked bc he actually loves his crib and feeling enclosed. We pushed the PNP into a corner and blockaded it with an upturned mattress set and dresser to box him him the rest of the hotel trip and moved him to a Privacy Pop tent with a twin floor mattress when we got home. We travel with the darn thing now - we just use a twin size air mattress inside if no twin mattress is available (like if we are in a hotel). But it makes him happy and feels like his bed at home and he sleeps/naps awesome in it.

@youboots: can you box in the PNP? We pushed ours into a corner, turned a queen mattress on its side against the long way and braced it with a dresser. Then after we put him in for the night we flipped a coffee table up against the bottom and braced that with a nightstand. It was only for one night before we went home but he slept like a champ once he realized the sides were too high to climb out.

I took a pic because it was so bizarre.

Also this is what his bed looks like now.