Travel cot or hotel supplied baby crib?!

[Peachy86]

Planning on taking ds to the Maldives this summer. He will be 7 months old when we take the trip. We will be staying at a 5 star hotel and I thought I would use the baby crib they provide (after cleaning it with sanitising wipes, and airing the mattress first) and bring my own mattress protector and flat sheets.

I mentioned this to a friend who was horrified at the idea. I am now planning on taking my own travel cot but we have to get a seaplane from the main airport to our island and the baggage allowance is only 23kg per person!!

What would you do?

[purpleme12]

I'd use the hotel's!

[Rinceoir]

It wouldn't even occur to me not to use it.

[slicedfinger]

I think I'd use the one in the hotel to be honest. The luggage storage on the seaplanes is tiny,. Even though I'd sling one in the car, or even on a normal plane, I don't think I would if there was a sea plane involved.

That said, I'd also check that the hotel and you are talking about the same thing when it comes to a crib. We once turned up to a hotel and they used the american meaning, so DD, who was 9 months old at the time was given a fold out bed! They were able to get hold of the right thing, but that wasn't on an island in the middle of nowhere.

[Topsyloulou]

I would use the hotel provided one & their sheets. We've stayed in several hotels with DS both in the UK & abroad & have always used the hotel cot, we just take his grobag. If we're in the UK & in the car I take a sheet & extra mattress but not if there is a plane involved.

[TeaBelle]

Sanitising wipes

[sooperdooper]

Use the hotels cot and sheets, it's a 5 star hotel, not a grimy back street B&B

[wonkylegs]

I might be more precious with a newborn but at 7mths I wouldn't give it a second thought to use the hotels one.

[butterfly86]

I worry about every little thing and we took our travel cot mattress on holiday and put it in their cot....dd was 15 months

[Peachy86]

Thanks for the replies - I feel more confidant using the hotel's one now! I will still take my own sheets though, just feel more comfortable doing so (also little one has sensitive skin so I think it's best to have our own sheets with my fabric conditioner and also smelling of home).

slicedfinger - good point, I will double check to be extra certain!

[Peachy86]

Ah butterfly86 that's what I thought of doing too, but then I got paranoid that it wouldn't fit securely enough in the hotel's crib/ may leave a gap around the edges?

[butterfly86]

Ours did fit ok maybe there was a tiny gap but nothing to worry about, it was ridiculous what we took with us we even took the monitor with the sensor pad!

[Peachy86]

Thanks butterfly86. It's nice to know there are others out there, ha!