Anyone else rearrange the hotel room…

[MelKarnofskyCrane]

…to stop small children falling out of the bed?

Four year old is the most restless, fidgety sleeper I have ever met. At home she still has a bed guard on her bed (and every single night I have to roll her out of the netting on it before I go to my bed). If it wasn’t there I truly believe she would be on the floor every single night.

Her bed guard is enormous so it’s not practical for us to take it away with us. So we are currently away for a few days. She is in a little camp bed in our room. It’s quite high! I have pushed it against the wall on one side and moved the arm chairs so that they provide a bedguard effect on the other side.

Surely there must be a better way?! I did consider putting the mattress on the floor but she was having none of it. She loves her little hotel bed

Yes, me, otherwise DS would be on the floor every night 🤣
We went away in the summer for 3 weeks, in a different hotel every 2 nights as we were travelling around the country. Most times we just pushed the two kids’ single beds together then pushed them against the wall, but other times we had to pile up sofa cushions and extra pillows just to cushion the inevitable fall 🤣
For what it’s worth, we did find a solution close to the end of the holiday. If the hotel has fitted sheets, roll up a spare blanket/pillow and place it on the edge of the bed under the sheet. It might provide just enough resistance to stop her rolling out. It worked for us and was a game changer!

I’ve seen a video of putting a pool noodle under the sheet so make a ridge? Depending on how vigorous your DD is in her sleep, that might work?

I don’t think a pool noodle would be any sort of a match for her. I think she’d kick it out, or roll over the top of it.

I uses to bring an inflatable noodle-like thing. But never fully trusted it so in reality: reorganised the room just as you described. Or had her sleep between us.

Or had her sleep between us

Yeah this is the nuclear option. I’ve also had my husband sleep in the single bed and her in with me and I hold on to her all night but I don’t really sleep because I’m too worried she’ll fall!

we've had many a holiday or night at relatives with a mattress on the floor, or the floor covered in towels/cushions/blankets/coats/ or my 6ft2 dh in a small narrow single and dc in the big bed with me. anything to avoid a nasty fall onto the cold tiled floors

game changer was a portable bed guard that comes apart into smallish metal poles - fits in checked in luggage but has aroused suspicion at a few airports

I’ve moved beds and furniture too, I don’t know an alternative way of getting any sleep.

It’s quite a spectacle, sharing a room with her and watching her sleep. She has just been shouting about Elsa and has turned herself 90 degrees so that her feet are now up on the armchair and she’s horizontal across her pillow. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We take a bed guard with us. It’s an extendable one that can be made short, and folds flat, so it takes up no space it the car

Yes, many times.