To think I have missed some obvious solution for toddler sleep on hols?

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I just can't figure out if I'm missing something here - DS, will be nearly 3 years old when hopefully we are allowed to go on holiday (assuming we can, just working from that basis!).
I haven't taken the side off his crib bed yet (one of those ikea ones that converts to a toddler bed) because to be honest, with everything going on, I didn't want to have yet another reason for a disrupted night - he's an active cheeky monkey so when I take it off I know there will be some nights of getting up, down, up, down, whilst he learns to stay in bed for a time.

So, going on holiday, he is basically too big for any travel cot i can see. I'm concerned that if he goes on a single bed instead, then he's just not going to go to sleep on holiday (not great for him or me!).

Do I just need to bite the bullet and get him used to a toddler bed at home so he can use the single on holiday? Or is there some travel cot / bed hybrid for around 3yos that I've missed on my internet searches?

Oh god, sorry about the voting option!!

He's three put him in a bed. Baby gate on room door if he's not using toilet at night yet.

You can get inflatable bed guard things to keep them in bed if you’re worried about him falling out?

He's 3

Covert his bed

Whenever we went on holiday I rolled up a spare duvet/sheet/towels and wedge it under the fitted sheet to make a boundary. And perhaps push the other side up to the wall. But probably old enough to start at home too with an actual bed.

You can buy portable/collapsible bedsides which I used for all mine when we went on holiday for years (and at home to get them used to being out of a cot!). Search “portable bed rail for toddlers” on Amazon. They normally have a metal frame so aren’t super-light, but they work!! Push the single bed up to a wall on one side and then use the bedside on the other. The frame will slide under the mattress to keep it in place and usually has some other form of attachment to the bed. It makes it cosier / more cot-like and your DS can’t fall out unless he wriggles really far down the bed! You can get different lengths, so worth checking that if you go for it.

I’m superseded he hasn’t figured out how to scale the cot.

On holidays at that age my dd used to roll about so much I remember hauling the mattress off the single bed onto the floor for her to sleep on so she wouldn’t hurt her head on hard Mediterranean tiles.

He's not 3 yet! But he will be when we are eventually hoping to.

Thank you for the suggestions about the rails and guards, these sound like what I was looking for! Off to do some research, thanks guys :)

Bed guard. We took the side off DD cot just before she turned 3 and put a bed guard on. She didn't really grasp that she could get out the bed herself. Then within another couple of weeks we took the guard off. She had a gate on her bedroom door for a few months.

All mine moved ot a bed at 2. Yes, we had a few nights of up and down, but then they settled into a bed.

More to the point on holiday was the starnge bed problem. Before we went I would add something portable into the bedtime routine, eg a teddy, with a little saying that they do. Or a song or basiclaly anything, so we could do that on holiday.
If they use a pillow, take it (hotel/ holiday let pillows tend to be very fat) or take the pillow case.
Expect for the first 2 nights, that one of you will need to sit in the room until they are asleep.