Family hotel room, 2 year old in same room!

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Hi,

Am going to France just for one night this month. Have booked a family room. Will take own travel cot as I am going onto a caravan site straight after for a cheap sun holiday! Anyway, my DD who will be 23 months has not slept in a room with anyone since about 6 months old. She goes to sleep on her own. Has quite a strict bedtime routine and gets left in her cot in a semi dark room and just settles off pretty quick.

Obviously am a bit worried about her having to settle in a room with other people in! It's just for one night and as it's holiday I guess bed 'time' will go out the window a bit. But how do you manage? Any tips?

Either go to bed at the same time as her, or take a laptop/portable DVD player with headphones, so you can watch something in the dark until you want to go to sleep!

can you sit outside the room somewhere once you put her to bed? sometimes there is a little vestibule area for this a few feet from the door. otherwise I have ended up sitting in the bathroom with the door shut and a laptop or book. not good but it is only one night.

We used to pretend to go to bed at the same time, turn lights off etc, then once he'd fallen asleep, turn lights on low and read/play cards/drink wine etc.

You sit in the bathroom or balcony or in the corridor just outside the room reading / laptopping / faffing on the phone...

If theres room, put the travel cot in the bathroom

We had a whole week in Turkey sharing a hotel room. Dd didn't cope with staying up late or any disturbance. Ended up lights out by 9pm with telly turned down to near silence. Not the holiday I'd envisioned! Luckily was v pregnant so didn't feel like I was missing out too much. Sorry, no advice here but at least it's only for one night

When we went to tenerife it was a kind of apartment room we got and put ds in the living area but if it hadn't been we would have sat in the corridor or went on the balcony ds was 18 months then. He went after his 2nd birthday to my fathers villa and we put him in a room and listened for when he fell over.

I think you are worrying too much. My girls went on holiday from when they were tiny and they slept wherever and whenever. Just take her out in her pram and I'm sure she will fall asleep anyway. I have never gone to bed early on holiday, my girls just stayed out until we were ready to go back, which was never late, about 10.30 when they were babies, if they were tired they slept.

From experience, lots of reading and wine is involved, on a balcony or in the corridor. The b&b where the kids were in one of 3 rooms off the bar was best!

Routine often goes out of the window in strange rooms on holiday. Far too exciting! Just relax. What harm can one night do if the routine fails?