How do I keep milk cold over night and heat in the morning in All Inclusive hotel?

[Lucylu192]

We are staying All Inclusive for a week in Menorca. My DD of 22 months still has a bottle of whole milk each night and morning. We don't have a kettle or a fridge in the room. How do I keep the milk cold over night and heat it in the morning for her? Help!

I would ask the hotel to put it in a fridge for you.

And ask them to heat it for you too.

We stayed in an all inclusive when DS2 was that age and having bottles still- there was a fridge in the room with soft drinks so we kept milk in there and we requested a kettle to boil water to warm the milk in his bottle (using a thermos thing to pop the bottle in) in the morning

Can you take long life whole milk?

Could you keep it in the mini bar?

I would take small cartons of long life milk and a small travel kettle that once boiled you could stand the bottle in to warm plus make yourself a cup of tea at the same time!

Most hotels will have a fridge they can hire you to keep the milk cold.

Also, ask whether there is a microwave available in the dining room for guests to use - we have just returned from a week in a hotel in Majorca & there were two - one of either side of the room.

If not microwave, either pack a travel kettle or see whether the hotel have one to rent for the week.

We took the little bottles of growing up milk (so didn't need a fridge) and have a travel kettle!
Although we have usually had a fridge in the hotel room!

Thanks everyone. Growing up milk / long life sounds like a great plan and a travel kettle. See I knew there was no need for me to be worried about this!

IIRC I bought pasteurised milk in supermarkets in Menorca.

Long life milk can taste too sweet for some and does not anyway taste anything like whole milk.

I would see if the hotel will let you hire a mini fridge from them.

We just came back from Ibiza and had this problem. Can you hire a fridge at the hotel? Take a travel kettle and either boil some water and put the bottle of readymade in the boiled water to heat, or make up formula. Also they do this really nice milk with cereal for infants in spain, basically ready made formula - it's a bit thick so we used to fill the bottle 3/4 full with it, then top up with freshly boiled water and it was just the right consistency and heat for DD.

Both of my DC were still having a morning & evening bottle at this age so we have had to deal with this several times on holiday. We used to take an empty bottle down to dinner with us & then get it filled at the bar. In the morning, one of us would go down as soon as breakfast opened.
Do take a bottle brush as the bottom of the bottle & the teats are impossible to properly clean without one & you won't have access to a microwave.

I've always got it from the restaurants.

I'd use the holiday as an opportunity for her to get used to cold milk. Then you can just get it from the dining room every morning and evening and not worry about cooling and warming. We used holidays as a time to get both ours off the bottle, just said 'oops, no bottles here' and they were fine as there was so much else to distract them with. Not suggesting you get your dd off the bottle , just example of how easy it is to change routines when you are away.