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Advice for sleeping in a hotel with a baby (self.parenting)

submitted 2 years ago by neomachino to c/parenting

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My wife, my 1 year old and I have a trip coming up and we'll be staying in a hotel.

Our big guy's done great on previous trips sleeping without a problem, but this will be the first time we don't have a separate room for him (we've stayed in cabins and stuff before, I don't mean a separate hotel room). When we try to put him down and he sees us still in the room he usually just cries for us and we would have to end up going to bed with him.

I would love to be able to put him down and still be able to enjoy a quite night of playing cards or watching a movie with my wife without having to go to bed at 7 with him everynight.

Anyone have any advice?

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[–] chazzam 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It depends on the room you get, but we tend to stay in hotel rooms that are set up a bit like a suite. There will be a separate room that has two beds and the rooms A/C. Then the other side of that room will have the bathroom, the kitchenette if there is one, and a TV and small couch that is often a fold out sleeper sofa. I admit, we often end up with these rooms because there are 6 of us, so smaller rooms are just not an option.

If you can get one of these suites, you can setup the pack and play in "the bedroom" and shut the door, and stay up watching TV, playing cards, chatting quietly, etc in the other room where the kiddo can't see you. This works especially well if you bring something to serve as white noise in the bedroom area. We use a small floor fan and just have it running in the room where everyone sleeps. That helps mask any noise from the other room as well as any noise of people moving around in bed during the night.

So it might at least be a consideration if you look around the various room options!

[–] neomachino 1 points 2 years ago

This is what we've done every other time we've traveled, but it's a work trip turned vacation, to somewhere that's apparently insanely expensive. So this single room hotel came out to be more than we would normally pay for a suite/2 bedroom cabin.

Work ended up covering a lot of it though so it works out