Leaving baby in hotel room

[AvadaKedavra92]

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.

Failing that ask if a member of staff could sit with your DD for half an hour - I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a break!

GreenTulips

What?

Ask the restaurant for a tray to take meal to room

GreenTulips

You’d leave your child with some random person? You’d be that cheeky as to ask them to babysit? I am gobsmacked.

@greentulips

You can't ask the hotel staff to babysit your children, especially a 9month old baby.

no don't do it, I know it is tempting and it seems ok but at that age, that is the most vulnerable little person in the world, anything can happen in the vicinity, to you, who knows.

Can you not put her to sleep in her buggy and then wheel her down to the restaurant with you?! That's what I'd do.

Can’t believe how much stick you’re getting! If it’s that close and the video monitor works it’s fine!
All this “look what happened to Madeleine” they were on the next street getting pissed up and no video monitors! Totally different - enjoy your meal 😊

OP had already said she'll take the meal to her room

personally i wouldn't. do you have a sling? maybe you can take her to dinner in that? i wouldn't want to leave her in case of a fire/me being locked out of the room etc

What if there's a fire? I vote no.

SHE SAID SHE’S NOT DOING IT!!!!!!

OP you received some harsh criticism on here,hope you have a nice meal and a relaxing evening.

I think it would be fine but I'd have got sandwiches or cold/prepared food from a supermarket to eat in the room if you really can't take her with you.

The reception won't bring it to you and I doubt they'd let a takeaway delivery driver into the building to deliver it to your room. They'd expect you to go to reception to get it, in which case you may as well have gone to the restaurant.

You could ring the order and ask for it to be a takeaway and if they would be kind enough to let you collect it from them at the door so you only have to nip from your door to theirs.

I find it strange that anyone would even consider this? I'd just take baby down with me in the pram? Surely she can just sleep in the pram for half an hour if she's tired. I'm so confused about why she'd need to be left in the room so you can eat?

Or eat the baby.

Please don't OP. As someone who works in an independent hotel, although it happens, it makes me very uncomfortable. But obviously hotel staff can't tell people how to parent, but imo it's just too risky and not like leaving them when you're in your own home.
In the event of a fire I carry an emergency key, and have a list of all guests, and those who need extra help in an evacuation, so I can go to them first, if I didn't know your baby was alone without a physical presence in a room and something happened to evacuate the hotel I'd be clueless to tell the fire brigade or get her out myself - and I shouldn't be in that situation.
Also as mentioned, staff have access to emergency keys and I don't care how high up in management they are, they've not been crb checked, and you don't know them from Adam, or even know who has access to the keys.
I'm a single parent and faced this a few times over the years and I just wouldn't because I've met some of the wierdos that stay in hotels and on a personal level, even though it's not my decision or choice for someone to do this, I'd never forgive myself if anything were to happen to that child.

"No differnet to ger being upstairs at home and me in the sitting room."

How is it no different? Your home is her familiar surroundings where she feels safe. If she woke up in a strange place she'd never been to before and you weren't there, I imagine she'd be feeling worried / scared etc, especially still being so little. Please don't do it.

No, too many things could go wrong. Video monitors aren't full proof, they can lose reception and you can be staring at an image that frozen a few minutes ago when they're asleep and not moving.

And obviously rare as it is, if someone wanted to abduct a child it's not hard to just unplug the monitor without being seen. And if you lost reception would you go running back to your room in the middle of your dinner - probably not as you'd jus think it was dodgy hotel WiFi.

@GreenTulips how do you suppose make a bottle, I don't have an candles! It's a new flat so I'm bit ill prepared and I don't want to be getting up in the middle of the night to make my baby a bottle with no power.

Deliveroo will deliver to hotels, if you keep get in her pram until then you can collect and take it back to your room. I was travelling for work heavily pregnant and premier Inn were fantastic, I went to order some food to take to my room and they ushered me away to put my feet to and brought it to me.

Hi oP,

for one night take your baby and have some food.

Enjoy

Jesus bloody Christ she’s said she’s not doing it!