On a U.K. city break with DH and DC and have checked in to a well known budget hotel chain for the night.
We booked a standard room which has a double bed, a sofa bed for DC aged 4 and a travel cot for baby DC who is one.
All fine, except that the cot for the baby doesn’t have a mattress in it. Instead, it had a double duvet cover instead of the mattress. Under the mattress is a plastic liner type thing then the wooden base. The duvet cover is on top, presumably as they know it would be horrible for a baby to sleep on a hard piece of plastic with no cushion.
I’ve spoken to the manager who wasn’t sure what I meant and she has sent housekeeping to me to explain. House keeping have said that they are no longer supplied with mattresses which is why they put a duvet in the cot.
I have explained to housekeeping and the manager that you can let a baby sleep on a soft surface like a duvet and that it is a suffocation risk. I’m also not happy to have the baby in the travel cot without the base either.
We have travelled with the kids lots and never come across this before. There’s always been a thin mattress in travel cots.
AIBU to expect a mattress?