https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:03:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842784 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:26:36 +0000 lamariniere 842784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shopaholic: just be careful with what the airline says. Since we took Austrian Airlines from Austria, they knew the "rules" better than the local employees we dealt with when we returned from Bangkok. Even though I tried pleading with the lady and explained that we didn't pay anything on the way there, she was really not interested in helping us. But I am grateful that she did finally let us carry on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842628 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:01:53 +0000 shopaholic 842628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: I have thought about packing the bassinet from our UBV and using that. Will have to test if she'll still sleep in it now! </p> <p>@babyjmama: Thanks! I think that was one of the posts that helped me register for the Baby Bjorn!</p> <p>@Mrs. Bee: @erwoo: Wow! I hadn't heard of the GoCrib. Makes me wonder if I should have registered for that instead, but I saw so many Baby Bjorn fans on HB. They're all around the same price so I don't think I'll buy another "travel crib". An cheap PnP might be a good idea! Will have to look into how cheap I can find! ;)</p> <p>@lamariniere: Thanks for those tips! Will call the airline this week! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842613 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:34:39 +0000 lamariniere 842613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We travel quite a lot and have used both the Bjorn and hotel cribs. Honestly, we've never had hygiene problems with hotel cribs, although I always take LO's sleep sack or blankies or AA swaddles to add to the crib for something familiar. </p> <p>One thing to look out for is if the airline is going to charge you for the crib. We just came back from traveling in Asia and Austrian Airlines let us check the crib for free on the way there. However, on the way back the were going to make us pay $150 to check it! They ended up letting us carry it on for free instead of check it, but I would have been really upset to have to pay that much to check the crib. </p> <p>If you can confirm that all of your hotels/ship has cribs, I would leave the Bjorn behind. They honestly aren't that bad. </p> <p>@Mrs. Bee our Bjorn fit in the overhead compartment. I guess it just depends on the size of the plane. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842560 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:10:53 +0000 erwoo 842560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a Guava Go Crib and love it. It's the size of a large backpack and you can either put it inside a really large suitcase or take it with you on board. We had a forced overnight stay in Beijing b/c the airline made us miss our connection and the crib that they had for us, well, it was broken. I requested it and they dug it out of storage and when we got to the hotel room there were 8 ppl there trying to figure out how to assemble it when one person showed me that it was broken. I think they were trying to figure out how to make it work. Um, scary! Luckily my cousin lives there and they picked us up to stay at their much more comfortable house! That was our only bad experience with a hotel crib though. Most hotels have PNPs as cribs but that's in the U.S. </p> <p>Also, Guava makes another portable PNP called the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lotus-Travel-Crib-Portable-Playard/dp/B00AKKDSNG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370750831&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=guava+go+crib">Lotus Travel Crib</a> that looks like you can also take on board and not as expensive as the Go Crib and just 2 lbs heavier. I think if we didn't already have the Go Crib I would have gotten this one. The set up looks super easy! Not that the Go Crib isn't! It is also super easy.</p> <p>Or another option is you can get a really cheap PNP just for the trip and check it if you don't want your Bjorn one to break. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842554 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:49:58 +0000 doodlepoodle 842554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2013/04/12/baby-travel-essentials-part-two/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2013/04/12/baby-travel-essentials-part-two/</a></p> <p>I can't find the post I was hoping for, but this one has good info! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842545 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:41:55 +0000 doodlepoodle 842545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I remember a post about a super convenient portable crib...let me search! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842544 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:41:23 +0000 Mrs. Bee 842544@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i always take our own. you can't take the babybjorn on the plane because it's too long -- you have to check it in. if you're worried about losing it, you could buy something like the gocrib which does fit in your carry-on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842533 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:26:22 +0000 ALV91711 842533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would take my own. Hotel ones kind of creep me out. Plus then it is something familiar to sleep in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842527 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:19:57 +0000 immabeetoo 842527@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Personally id be skeeved out by a hotel crib and take it so LO has a consistent spot and sheets that smell like home! Could you put it in an extra bag to protect it?</p> <p>ETA- she is still itty bitty I know, have you thought about like a travel bassinet?? We used the summers infant by your side travel bassinet until LO was too big because we were moving. It folded up very small. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/travel-crib-amp-small-hotel-rooms#post-842509 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:02:25 +0000 shopaholic 842509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Packing for our trip and wondering whether or not to bring the Baby Bjorn crib. European hotel rooms are notorious for being small and I assume our cruise ship even smaller. They both said they would reserve a crib for us but I hear they can be awful?</p> <p>We will have one layover each flight. I'm scared of the crib being lost, stolen, or damaged? Anyone taken it as a carrying? Advice? Suggestions? WWYD? </p>