Holiday with a toddler at night
What does everyone do on holiday when staying in a hotel with a toddler?
Our toddler has had his own room at home since he was a baby, so we’ve never really had to share a room with him. We tried a hotel room when he was younger and it was an absolute car crash. He kept waking up, seeing us and wanting to play! We tried putting him in bed with us and he just thought it was play time bouncing on the bed. We didn’t sleep for a week.
We’re going to Greece in 3 weeks and have booked a suite, but unfortunately the bedroom is open plan with no divider between our bed and our toddler’s bed.
Has anyone used anything to create a bit of separation in a hotel room that actually works? A travel room divider, blackout screen, curtain or anything similar? Would love to hear what you’ve used!
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are you working during the holiday when you stay?
or is it the expectation for bedtime to be bedtime like home?
I haven’t used them as we have not traveled since having our little one yet, but I saw on YouTube there are blackout curtains that have suction cups that suction onto like a window. I have also heard of slumber pods and there are knockoff versions people on YouTube said were just as good but they didn’t want to pay the slumber pod price understandably.
I bet a little packable tent would be a fabulous idea.
You can get travel toddler beds with tent tops. we used an inflatable floor bed so he had his own cosy corner and couldn’t see us on the bed. Suction black out blinds, literally make the room too dark for them to see anything anyway! And white noise machine to drown out any noises x
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