We've just arrived on a weeks holiday in a chalet holiday park. We added cot hire to our booking because we knew we'd never fit our co-sleeper in the car with all our babies other stuff.
This is our first baby and first trip away so we are probably quite naive but I expected the cot to be modern and fit for purpose. It's a wooden cot, easily 20 years + old, the cot is in a loose rectangle which when you add the base it provides the rigidity, there are no screws, so the base is just placed in loose. The base is made of like a more solid type of chicken wire in a wooden frame. The mattress is horrifically stained, old and dirty and it heavily rolls into the middle. We brought our babies sleepyhead to go inside the cot, so stupidly I didn't worry too much about what the cot would be like, but I absolutely cannot put her in it, it feels like an absolute death trap!
We paid £15 for the hire, but the park don't seem overly keen to give us a refund. Does anyone know of any sort of regulations that cots must conform to? Because I'm certain this one doesn't!
I feel so stupid for not asking more questions before we arrived. Our baby will be co-sleeping in her sleepyhead tonight whilst we go and get a travel cot tomorrow!