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.

You could have been and got back about seven times over between starting the thread and now. 😂 Oh dear. Hope you have a good night OP.

Or eat the baby.

This thread is such classic MN! You are the worst mother OP, I hope you choke on your dinner.

(Joking, hope you are having a nice evening)

Some of my friends do this every time they are on holiday. They even once left the resort.
I think it’s absolute madness. Why on earth go away and leave your baby alone in a room?
Lots of people have keys to the room, staff, cleaners etc. Do you know all those people? Can you trust them? What if there was a fire or other incident? I would never do this.

They offer video baby monitors at Watergate Bay in Cornwall for this purpose. It's an upmarket family hotel. We used it for our then youngest but he was school age (just). I probably would for a baby if I was going to be quick and I was confident the room was secure

They offer video baby monitors at Watergate Bay in Cornwall for this purpose.

Lots of high end family-orientated hotels have similar services and loads of my friends have used it. We did as well

Zero fire alarms and zero kidnapping, but bear in mind on MN, you also can’t leave a baby to nap in a pram in a garden in case of kidnap by eagles/aliens/roaming gangs of paedophiles to sell white children to trafficking gangs

Tesco do sterile one off bottles and ready made baby milk

Moving to a hotel is a total over reaction

Or even the cold water tablets

As a former hotel manager (several large chain hotels including premier Inn) the staff would not be able to sit with your baby for half an hour. What a stupid suggestion. Staff do not have background checks performed. Half the time they don't even need a CV! Recruitment is a huge issue at hotels, especially staff rentention so half the time you're just happy to have people help you.
Also, many staff have sodding room keys. The whole housekeeping team for example, most managers, the DM, reception team, maintenance team. The only ones who probably don't are the waiting and bar staff.

on MN, you also can’t leave a baby to nap in a pram in a garden

of all the stupid things to do to be fair, that's one. The threat of eagle and landslides might be pretty slim, but denying the existence of cats, foxes, kids throwing balls, wasps etc is plain idiotic.

I’ve done this. So there. We had a video monitor, small hotel, 10 month old. She was fine.

No way in hell would I leave my 8 month old alone. McCann case...!? Just don't, please x

@Grumpymug RTFT

Just to let everyone know (AGAIN) I'm didn't do it. Some of you have been criticising me as if I had actually left her. If I was irresponsible I wouldn't have posted here asking for opinions. I'm a new mum, it's the first time we are in a hotel. I had a monitor, it was just a across the small courtyard. I clearly had doubts about doing it so I came to MN for advice. Not irresponsible parent criticisms. I am not the Mccans.

I really wish people would RTFT. Ffs.

if someone wanted to abduct a child it's not hard to just unplug the monitor without being seen.

If this is your thought process then I'm assuming you stay awake all night when you stay in a hotel, just in case some stealthy child-snatcher creeps in silently and abducts your baby. Actually, why stop at staying awake in hotels? If you were any kind of decent parent you'd stay awake every single night in case of fire/flood/stray bolts of lightning.

To be honest I know you haven’t done it but I think it was even stupid thinking about it.

Why wouldn’t you just eat early instead of leaving your baby.

Irresponsible and ridiculous to even be thinking about it and your baby is only 9 months old. Poor kid.

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!

I have really heard it all now!
Glad you thought better of the idea OP.

@GreenTulips I don't like the dark, I'm on my own with a small baby in my first flat. I felt quite vulnerable so bugger off with your snidy comments.

@UnicornDust9 She would have been less than 15ft away from me, with a video monitor. Closer than she would be upstairs in a house.

Next you'll be telling me I need to take her with me to take the bins out because they are downstair outside.

'Poor kid' - horrible comment

@nervousFTM the Mccanns were nowhere near their room and were pissed

@Whatareyoutalkingabout I did think about putting her in the car seat, but she doesnt sleep in it at all.1

@AvadaKedavra92 - poor kid - it’s a truthful comment!

Your not at home are you, your in a bloody hotel full of people you don’t know yet think it’s a good idea to go out and have food. What planet are you from? This is completely different to taking the bins out or sitting downstairs in your house!

Can’t your stomach wait? Can’t you eat early? Or buy a sandwich and eat it in the room?

Obviously not. Instead you come up with a stupid idea to leave your 9 month old in a hotel room and go and eat.

So yes poor kid.

Definitely not a truthful comment - as if I'd done it, I was gathering opinions... there was obviously doubt in my mind. Do you like being nasty?

It would have been across a courtyard less than 15ft with a monitor, I could even see my room from the bar. So I was wandering if people had done it and what people thought about it to get some advice, it's not like I've gone and done it and then asked!

So what did you actually have to eat in the end OP?