children sleeping in caravan beds, used to cot at home

[eeky]

just that really - we are very excited to be off on our hols tomorrow for the first time in 4-5 years. A crap period in which we have had ill health, lack of money and 2 children in 2 years (they are the good bit, mind)!

Dd is 2 and a half, but still sleeps in a cot at home - she is very small for her age and loves it. Ds is 11m so obv still in his cot. We are going to a static caravan with a double bedroom, twin bedroom and sofas that convert into double. We have a full-sized travel cot, so anticipating ds in that in one of the bedrooms. Just wondering what your experience is of children sleeping in full-sized beds when used to cot? Think may end up sharing the double with dd and dh sharing the sofas with the dog....

We can apparently hire travel cots there too so if she freaks at being left in a bed that's an option.

Thanks all. Sorry, sounds trivial I know but just finding out exactly how much you need to fill the car boot with if you have a baby and toddler!

have you checked either of the bedrooms can take a full size travel cot? None of the caravans that i have stayed in have had the room, although there are a few that have manouverable twin beds to enable the cot to fit in. Mine ended up in the kitchen

When i took my then 2 year old away, who was still in a cot at home, i found she loved the single bed a lot, and actually slept better than in her cot at home. I think it was the novelty effect, combined with all the fresh air of being away and outside a lot more. Can you hire a bed guard initially, to see how she goes in the bed? If that fails, revert to the cot?

dont know if this is tpp late but last time we went to a caravan it would have been impossible to fit a cot in the bedrooms,maybe the living area. i just put dd 19months in with me and surrounded her with pillows.

Can you get a travel bedguard to take with you?

thanks for all your advice, just arrived home from our week. In the end, dd slept with me in the double, and there were 2x twin rooms, so ds's travel cot fitted in one and he slept like a dream. As predicted dh and labrador in other twin! DD loved sleeping in the big bed, I had to lie down with her the first night, but after that she settled on her own after few minutes of protest. Very cute to be woken up by her in the morning. She managed to climb in and out quite easily and I was surprised that she didn't keep getting out to come and "visit" in the sitting room!

Unfortunately though really bad weather, windy and raining every day till yeasterday, and the site seemed to have already shut pretty much, very few activities I could take the dc's to. Dh however had a great week doing long beach walks with the dog and having relaxing pints in small pubs he found. He didn't seem to grasp why I'm not that relaxed when I have been trapped in a caravan in the rain with a toddler and a baby all week, as opposed to being able to leave them occasionally to go to work or take them to nursry....Grrr.

It's slowly beginning to dawn on me that hols with small children mean you do the same hard work (yes, I know they are worth it, but it IS hard work)but usually in less convenient surroundings and with less distractions than at home!