Child sleeping arrangements - AIBU?

[Holidayquery]

Help!

I have just booked a holiday for the four of us; me, DH and 2 DC. It’s a resort on a really tiny island with not much going on.

Because there are four of us, the website allocated us a “suite”, which is basically a 1 bedroom apartment with 2 extra beds in the lounge (probably sofa beds).

DC will be 1 and 4, so my original plan was to ask for a travel cot in our room for DS2 and for DS1 to have one of the beds in the lounge. However (and this is totally my fault, as I read it before booking but it didn’t sink in), I have now realised that it’s a split level apartment, so DS1 would be sleeping alone on the ground floor whilst we are all on the floor above.

I wouldn’t mind the other way around, but something about the apartment door and the sliding patio doors makes me nervous. I mentioned it to my friend this morning and she thinks I am being over cautious as it’s a secure resort on a tiny island, and we can just ensure that all the doors are locked before we go up at night.

AIBU to worry and to insist on changing the booking if the lounge is indeed on the floor below the bedroom (I am checking that, as I guess the apartment might be upside down so the lounge gets the view). Or am I being OTT?

My house has three floors. I am on the top, dd's on the bottom.
No issue.. Take a baby intercom?
Bizarre...

Unless I'm missing something then why cant you all fit in the 2 large double beds??

We went away with this arrangements recently- can I ask is it in los gigantes in Tenerife? We’ve got teen boys and a 10 yo so worked well for us.

We had this on our last holiday, similar ages too! We all just slept in 1 room!

I can only assume 2 double beds was a typo, otherwise it makes no sense?

Eh? You have two double beds to use? So either you and DH in one, toddler in the other and baby in a cot, or you and DH have a bed each and one child in with each parent.

Well, he may be better at sleeping by then, but at the moment DS can’t lie still and manages to roll out of the bed multiple times a night. He has a side gauze thing on his bed at home . I’d originally planned to put his mattress on the floor, but that won’t work with the double. That’s why I’d thought the low sofa bed would be better for him, especially with hard floors not carpet.

In terms of why I am worried, yes there is a (irrational!) fear of abduction, but mostly it’s the thought that he might get out because there is a pool right outside with nothing in the way of railings etc, and it’s also right on the beach.

Kids in one double, you in the other. Sex downstairs in the sofa bed. Sorted,

Ps Candle - no, it’s Portugal, but Tenerife sounds good for a year in the future, glad you had a great time!

I highly doubt he’ll be able to unlock a patio door. If it has a key, remove it and put it in an accessible (to you) place. If it has one of those locking mechanisms, they’re usually so stiff, it’s hard enough for an adult to open never mind a child. Honestly, if you’re really anxious about him sleeping in a full size bed upstairs then I think you need to dispel the irrational fear that he’ll escape in the night

Either both kids in one double and you two in the other, or one kid + one adult per bed.

There's probably a couple of options to allow DS to sleep in the double with you. Push the two doubles together so he can't get out to the one side and push it against the wall the other side. Or an adult sleeps either side of him in the double double. Or there may well be room to move a double mattress onto the floor. How good is DS2 at sleeping through, maybe the cot could go downstairs instead to give more room upstairs

I’d do one adult upstairs and one down, with as many cushions and blankets on the floor next to the child who might fall out.

We always did 1 adult with 1 child in each double when they were small. Push them together so he can't fall out. Children in the bedroom is much better than them being in the lounge.

roll up towels under the sheet round the edge of the bed for the restless sleeper, with extra pillows on the floor.

fit all of you in the bedroom and go to bed when you're ready to sleep.

Do that thing of pool noodles under the bottom sheet?

www.musely.com/tips/use-a-pool-noodle-under-the-fitted-sheet-on-your-childs-bed-so-they-dont-roll-out/7487497

Ask them if they have a long bolster. Premier inns often have them for kids in beds, they act as a side to stop them rolling out (so I would expect a fancier hotel would).

And then have him in the double. Surely you want him and in the bedroom so you can use the living room in the evening.

Push one of the double beds up to the wall, you or DH sleep on the other side on him to stop him falling out? I would want a child sleeping downstairs on their own either.

Put a chair with a high back against one of the double beds? Push the double bed against the wall? Take the cushions from the sofa and make a small bed on the floor?

Definitely put the 4 year old in a double bed..stick some cushions on the floor in case he falls out but at 4 in a bug bed he should be fine..

Ok I’ve spoken to the operator and we’ve managed to get a cot for the younger wriggle beast and hopefully a camp bed for the older one. If not then he’ll go in one of the beds with us.

I was actually asking if I was being U to worry, but you’ve all been such a practical help. It hadn’t even occurred to me that we’d want the lounge (not least for one of us to get up with the younger one who is always up a couple of hours before the older). Can you tell it’s the first time we’ve taken two abroad .