Toddler bed - holiday conundrums

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AIBU in not wanting to put my toddler in a single bed on holiday with just a cot rail to prevent him falling out? The issue is he'll just climb out of the bed, and he's too big to go in the travel-cot as he has done previously. Ideally I'm happy for him to sleep in a single bed but how do I stop him just climbing out the end of the bed, or over the bed rail?

He's 2 & a half years old & he's happily sleeping in his cot at home (goes up to 5 years old.) I've lowered the mattress, and the mattress is pretty big so he's comfortable in there. Any advice please? I don't have an issue him sleeping in a big bed it's just I don't know how to prevent him doing a Houdini on me whilst on holiday!!!

Can you borrow a longer travel cot?

Move him to the bed at home and get him used to it?

There is no way he will safely stay in a cot with sides til 5…
He will try and climb out of it at some point, and land on the floor with an massive thump and scare the life out of you…

You can get cheap travel cots the same size as normal cots so that’s one option. Your 2 year old would deffo fit. Or you give a bed a try. We did that with our 2.5 year old on a recent holiday and it was fine. He didn’t fall out or climb out and slept all night just fine!

My travel cot is long. Just buy or borrow a bigger travel cot.

this travel cot is fabulous & works to age 4 or so
www.littlelife.com/products/travel-eat-and-sleep/arc-2-lightweight-travel-cot?sku=L10291&gclid=CjwKCAjwoZWHBhBgEiwAiMN66Sa1IocKMvqvUPx2etaoCLoLn2XWu4YRGCiM79weIFEW0M7PLDce5BoCsigQAvD_BwE

but why not let him have a proper bed at home & on holiday? If the room is childsafe and the bed it not too high, he will be fine.

Is the cot at home a cot bed if so convert it a bed now so he gets used to sleeping in a bed on holiday?
A single bed and cot rail sounds fine for the holiday.

I can’t believe he hasn’t climbed out already.

Besides, can’t you exhaust him during the day? Mine always slept well on holiday because they had spent the days running/swimming/exploring.

Thanks all. Maybe I'll try and get two cot rails then for the single bed (one for the side and one for the end.)

Issue isn't him sleeping in a big bed at all, it's more that he'll just escape from it as soon as I put him down!

If he's going to escape he's going to do himself more damage climbing over the bed rails than if he just climbed off the bed. I reckon you'd be better just putting a stair gate on the door

@Topia

Thanks all. Maybe I'll try and get two cot rails then for the single bed (one for the side and one for the end.)

Issue isn't him sleeping in a big bed at all, it's more that he'll just escape from it as soon as I put him down!

Just drill in to him from the first day that once he is in bed, he stays in bed. Ours understood it pretty well, and only ever got out for the potty and then got straight back in

(and that's another point... You need him to be able to get in and out of bed to use a potty/toilet at night or he will never be dry at night. And you don't want to force him to stay in nappies til he is 5!)