When on holiday with a 9 month old, do you stay in your room from 7pm?

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Baby will go to sleep at 7pm. Obviously we wouldn't leave her in the room and go off, but I was thinking to attempt putting her in pushchair asleep and going out for dinner. Is this unrealistic? (Baby is very hard to get to sleep and wakes at minor sounds). Or do we just keep her awake until late? Or do you actually just stay in your room from 7pm?

No we definitely did not! Not worth the faff of going on holiday if you’re going to have to do that (speaking for myself obviously!).
We always booked cottages/villas when we had babies/toddlers for that reason, we want to be flexible. To be honest, even now we do the same and they’re all much older. Will do a hotel if it’s an overnight or two, like for weddings etc. We just like to please ourselves and do what we want when we want to.
When we had babies we would either get takeaways or dh would cook (which he genuinely really loves to do, absolute weirdo!) if they were asleep in the evenings.

I would always book a family suite or somewhere with a bedroom for DS. I don't like seeing kids sleeping in pushchairs on holiday so parents can watch entertainment (just my personal opinion). We always put DS to bed and drink on the balcony.

I was always a bit nervous about it but as it turned out, managed to go out for dinner, to a concert and for evening walks with baby DD. She didn't always sleep through it but on the couple of occasions she did wake up she didn't obliterate the evening, in fact the waiting staff seemed absolutely delighted when she woke up and seemed to be in competition to entertain her. This was in relatively quiet towns in France though so never at really busy restaurants.

If she'll be ok stopping up / dozing I'd go out. But generally we eat out for lunch or have an early dinner. The one time we were all in a room together we put him in the cupboard and watched telly in the dark with subtitles!!

We stay in our room. Bedtime is also 7 for them.
The pushchair is nowhere near as comfy as a proper bed or cot.

We went to Portugal when DS1 was 11 months old. We took an umbrella buggy that had a lie flat seat. Each evening we took a walk by the sea. DS would fall asleep in the buggy, we'd sit and watch the sunset, then once back in the room we'd transfer DS into the travel cot.

@Laquila yes it’s true. We’re on a carribean cruise next year and will be using the night crèche a couple of nights. It’s available for children upto the age of 5. The kids club for children over 5 is open until midnight. They usually have a disco or watch a movie in the cinema.

OP, we’ve never gone to the room at 7pm. Get the DC asleep in the pram and go for dinner. All our 3 have been abroad before 6 months and never had any issues.

God no

We used a buggy that lay flat when dds were 15 months and 3

They’d fall asleep and we’d be out til after midnight every night - just covered buggy with a shawl so it was dark

Yep sleep in pushchair after dinner, i used to walk around the resort unyil she was asleep, then stay downstairs unyil dd woke up then i'd take her yo bed, normally around 10ish

We usually fly east and keep on U.K. time. When little they would sleep in pushchair whilst we ate then transfer into travel cot. Once older then we’d go for dinner early then kids to bed at 9 (7 U.K. time) then we’d sit on balcony/terrace and have drinks. Kids slept in til 9am, was great!

Gosh no. The whole point of a holiday for me is to have a bit of a break from the grind of routines such as being tied to the 7pm witching hour.

If you choose greece its a 2 hour time difference so that automatically means you can easily work to 9pm greek time. One of mine slept like a dream in the buggy at night whilst we ate. The other-no chance but was awake and good natured.

Also, if you put them to bed uk time they will wake up uk time and its quite hard to keep them quiet and occupied whilst the rest of the hotel has their holiday lie in.

Use the opportunity to be relaxed and see how things go. Normal service is easily resumed when you get back home.

Double reclining buggy was brilliant for my 2, they slept through anything, even live jazz bands! (And an earthquake literally)

I've never done that, other than if I wanted an early night for the next day!
At that age, my lo slept in the pram quite happily. And we stayed in various locations in both UK and abroad.
Hotel rooms are perhaps, harder to maintain the quiet if that's what's required at home, though it was always the TV flashing that would have woke mine, if anything was going to!
Enjoy the holiday as a family.

We book a self catering place and go out for lunch instead of dinner. Then dc goes to sleep in her own bedroom and we cook dinner and spend the evening together in the living space. I wouldn't stay in a hotel now unless it was for just one night and it was the only choice for the very reason that I don't want to go to bed at 7.

Whatever you decide to do, hope you have a lovely holiday OP.

We went to butlins in 2019. Had a 4 year old and a 2 year old. We took a pram and put them in it in the evening so we could still enjoy entertainment and not be confirmed to our room

Just try it, good luck.

Depends on the child. We had one who would happily sleep in the pushchair and another who couldn't settle unless in a dark room.

No Way!!!

Get them to fall asleep in the pram and go for tea.

Yes put in push chair and crack on.

No way would I have locked ourselves in the room for the night just so they could sleep that's just madness and a complete waste of holiday fun

This is where kids clubs come into their own where they settle the all the dc down to sleep in rows in a safe environment

Is there a time difference? You might be able to utilise that to your advantage? We were hit and miss with our 10 month old sleeping in her buggy, she was very nosy and very into food at the point so we just took her out with us to dinner and then came back put her to sleep and sat on the balcony.

We've got quite a strict routine at home and stick to it at weekends.
For special occasions and holidays it goes out the window though and the kids cope.

We didn't tend to stick to strict bedtime rules when we were away with little ones but we didn't stay at too late either.
We always booked hotels near the sea and a room with a lovely view so that we could sit out in the balcony while the kids slept. Best bit of the day