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AIBU?

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To want to take buggy on holiday for 3yr old

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Pugmomma · 18/01/2017 19:39

Hi all,

We're going on holiday in June for 10 nights, myself, DP & DD who is 3 (4 at the end of august).

DD is very independent and walks everywhere, we never use a buggy of any kind at home, as she's such a brilliant walker (in fact last week she climbed to the top of the huuuuge hill/mini mountain at delamere forest).

The only reason I want to take a buggy is so myself and DP may have a chance to have a meal together at the restaurant nearby to our hotel on one of the nights with her (hopefully!) sleeping in her buggy.

Of course all the rest of the holiday and days out etc the buggy would be staying at the hotel, as we'd have no use for it.

But DP thinks she's too old now for a buggy and I'm sitting on the fence, as she's so wild and mischievous when she's tired, we would otherwise have absolutely no chance of even having one little moment together on holiday without the buggy.

When we went last year it went quite well with the buggy, in fact she loves her buggy and often climbed in it to sleep of her own accord, so by gods mercy we did manage to catch a few nice moments watching entertainment etc last time.

Have any of you been in this kind of situation? We don't have family available to come with us, and I would never trust a babysitter in another country so really unsure of whether AIBU?

OP posts:

msannabella · 18/01/2017 20:08

Take it. We went with our 4.5 year old and it was a God send. It would have been a miserable time without it in the hot weather and it meant we could go for a meal or evening walk in peace!

Eyedrophell · 18/01/2017 20:10

Oh God yes, take it - there speaks the voice of a bitter experience!

Yika · 18/01/2017 20:10

Yes yes yes (take it)

theothersideoftheworld · 18/01/2017 20:11

I'm going on holiday in June too and my ds will be 4.5. I'm taking a buggy as we like to go for a long walk in the evening after dinner, and he can hop in if he gets tired.

eurochick · 18/01/2017 20:29

I'll go against the grain. We took ours for a week away in the uk last summer with our just two year old and didn't use it once, so when we went abroad a few weeks later we didn't take it and didn't miss it.

Vanillaradio · 18/01/2017 20:31

I have a 3 year old who barely uses his buggy. In the circumstances you describe i would not even have considered the idea of not taking it. We are going on holiday in September when he will be close to 4 and it is coming! Do it!

Looneytune253 · 18/01/2017 20:37

Take it. We did even though we had a extremely tall 3 year old that had been out of her pushchair for some time. We even had to buy a larger one to accommodate her lol. She definitely needed it at that age. It's tiring in the heat and they tend to stay up much later in the evening. It def helps.

Caroian · 18/01/2017 20:40

Definitely do it. It's your holiday, and if this will make it easier/better etc then do it. It really doesn't matter if other people wouldn't either - their child is not the same as your child.

A little different, but we hired one for the duration of our Florida holiday for our then 4 year old. Lots of people offered opinions that 4 year olds should be able to walk, and their 2 year old could walk miles every day. In reality he hasn't used a pushchair at home since he was 2 and is very active and able to walk a long way. But, in the end, it was fantastic. Granted, Florida is extremely hot and involves miles of walking, but the fact that he could fall asleep on late nights out, could get shade, had a seat if he just needed a rest and that we had somewhere to put bags etc was great. He fell asleep one afternoon and we enjoyed a couple of drinks together. We're going again when he is 6. We'll hire one again then too.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 18/01/2017 21:10

Take it. Holidays can be tiring so they're useful for tired legs and naps.

Saying that, we didn't last summer when DS was approaching 3.5 but we did have the carrier, so some form of back-up. We were camping in the UK, so not hot, and boot space was at a premium! I still use ours at times when he's tired later in the day.

On our first camping trip, he spent much of the time being carried as he came down with a water infection that wiped him out. The second trip he was fine to walk most of the time.

bummymummy77 · 19/01/2017 12:34

Oh and coming back to the US a couple of weeks ago there was a major fuck up in all the US airports. We had to wait on the plane and extra hour and a half and then queued for border patrol for three and a half hours at 2am. Ds slept in his buggy, the people who didn't bring buggies were utterly fucked. Screaming kids everywhere. I'm taking his buggy until he's 18 now.

Plus it's amazing at keeping them in one place at airports when you need to. And to dump all your bags on when they aren't using it.

icanteven · 19/01/2017 12:37

Bring it! We had a stroller with us for Philadelphia and New York when DD2 was 4 and we couldn't have done without it. The little legs! Also she slept like a log in it, which we didn't expect at 4, but there you go.

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