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Leaving baby in hotel room

266 replies

AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 16:39

So I'm on the ground floor of a hotel have a baby monitor, WIBU to take the video monitor to the bar/restaurant and get something to eat while she sleeps?

I'm not sure whether to do it or not, don't want to wake her up this evening for me to go eat. They don't offer room service.

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SunshineCake · 07/06/2019 17:13

16 years ago dh and I were staying in a hotel with our 20 month old for a wedding. We took turns in joining in the evening festivities so one was already with our child. This was long before M McCann so even with concrete evidence of how stupid it is to leave children alone, it baffles me people still think is ok.

Get food delivered from a local takeaway.

If there's a fire you won't be allowed back in for your baby so someone will risk their life to save your child.

analieninblackburn · 07/06/2019 17:14

Don't do it ! What if ? You'd never forgive yourself and you will definitely not be able to relax .

MrsG010814 · 07/06/2019 17:14

So you didn't get the answer you wanted on the other thread you started so you started another one. It's irresponsible and at the end of the day you've chosen to go away with small children. Just eat early or arrange to have food in your room. Your children take priority.

ChipSandwich · 07/06/2019 17:15

I've stayed in Premier Inns with a baby, quite often. They don't do room service, but will cook and cover plates with foil to take back to your room. I would never have left baby alone no matter how safe it felt.

Densol999 · 07/06/2019 17:15

Is food really that important ffs ! Just order in a Just Eat takeaway. I stay in loads of hotels and do it regularly
Id never leave a baby alone to eat

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:15

Think I will just take her down, order food, pay for it and ask them to bring it up!

Thanks everyone - I think by posting this shows I wasn't really comfortable doing anyway. More so now that people have mentioned fire alarms, other's having access to the room etc

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:17

@MrsG010814 what other thread? Pretty shitty of you to assume it was me, as I said up thread I didn't know there was another thread! RTFT.

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RuggerHug · 07/06/2019 17:17

MrsG010814 there's another thread?!

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:19

@MrsG010814 Also I haven't gone away - I've had a power cut in my flat so I'm staying in a hotel tonight as it won't be on till morning.

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Ithinkmycatisevil · 07/06/2019 17:19

I wouldn’t and I’m a pretty lax parent.

I’d have put the baby in the buggy and taken it with me.

Better a grumpy out of routine baby than a kidnapped one!

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:19

@RuggerHug that's what I said!

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Fresta · 07/06/2019 17:20

All these people mentioning Madeleine McCann-why do you do that? As I said yesterday she was a child of walking age, left in an unlocked apartment with an open window into the bedroom onto a public road. Her parents were at the other side of a holiday complex without any listening or video device.

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:20

@SunshineCake I wouldn't have asked for opinions if I just thought it was okay, I'm not doing it!

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Fresta · 07/06/2019 17:21

The other thread was deleted as the OP didn't like the answers.

MrsG010814 · 07/06/2019 17:21

Yes there was an identical thread this morning and the Op didn't like the responses they got so have clearly started a new one with a different name. I highly doubt 2 people have the exact same scenario on the same day and both posted about it on here. Op you know it's the second thread you've started, you got very defensive and asked for the thread to be taken down when everyone told you not to do it

jb1305uk · 07/06/2019 17:21

No chance! Glad you’ve decided not to.

Get a takeaway and bring it to your room seems like the best idea.

AlexaAmbidextra · 07/06/2019 17:22

Why do people not read posts properly?

OP. There’s no room service.

Multiple posters. Get room service.

🙄

Fresta · 07/06/2019 17:24

I don't think a baby has ever been kidnapped from a hotel room, ever!

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:24

@MrsG010814 would you like me to screen grab my username history? I can assure you, I have not posted twice. What would be the point in that? People would pick up on it and give me the same response.

You are very rude and presumptuous.

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Lizzie48 · 07/06/2019 17:25

There's no reason to assume that it's the same OP. She says she didn't see the other thread; I didn't, so it's not impossible that she didn't either. This OP has accepted the answers on here and says she won't leave her baby in her room.

I agree with the majority on here, definitely don't do it! It's just not worth the risk.

MrsG010814 · 07/06/2019 17:26

And yet I'm not the only one talking about a previous thread.

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:26

@MrsG010814 and I also haven't suggested that I'm unhappy with people's answers, neither was I in a hotel yesterday.

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herculepoirot2 · 07/06/2019 17:26

You know any member of staff in the hotel could access your room?

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AvadaKedavra92 · 07/06/2019 17:28

@Lizzie48 Thank you 😊, I'm definitely not the OP from yesterday 🤷‍♀️

@MrsG010814 get in the bin, you're just rude and assuming allsorts.

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Impatienceismyvirtue · 07/06/2019 17:28

Very interested to read the consensus here is no. I’ve done it in the past as long as I was on the same floor with a video monitor.
I didn’t think about other people potentially having access to the room, but I didn’t think I was being unreasonable. I have been in the exact same situation with the courtyard being the only thing that separated me and the baby, and decided even if the fire alarm did go off, no one would be able to stop me pushing past them and getting back to my baby. However, having read this thread I wouldn't do it again - sometimes it takes other people pointing out that you’re taking too big a risk before you realise.