Advice needed for holiday with baby

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I am thinking about booking a holiday in May/June in Majorca.I have travelled with a baby before and our dd now 4 went abroad 4 times in her first year but we self catered so dealing with her bottles/food was not a problem.

However we have since discovered the benefits of all inclusive hotels but as my ds will only be 6 months old I wondered how I would cope without fridge/microwave?

any tips?

I used the minibar fridge for formula.

I used to just give my stuff to someone in the restaurant and they would heat up for me.

I used the minibar fridge for formula.

I used to just give my stuff to someone in the restaurant and they would heat up for me.

The hotel we stay in does not have mini bars and how would I sterilse?

When camping I sterilised with milton tablets and a large container (since used for cereals) with the amount of water needed marked on the side with tape. I guess you could fill it with knickers when packing?!

a ha i never thought off the tablets as i use a microwave sterilser at home.

guess i could use boiled bottled waters for bottles or even take ready made formula..

Mothercare do travel sterilser bags for £6.99 for a week's supply - basically a small box with 7 folded up plastic drawstring bags which each have two cold water steriliser tablets in - you fill up the bag to the line with cold water from the hotel loo tap and then you can fill it with stuff and the stuff is sterilised for the next 24 hours. You just hang the bag off the bathroom door in the hotel. Great invention IMO.

If you get a good inclusive hotel, they'll cater for babies, lots in majorca do (I think Thompson have a list of them)

We went to Thailand when our lo was 9 months. Going again tommorow (woo hoo!!!) Sterilizing tabs were a godsend and I took a plastic container with a mark on it showing how much water I needed to fill it to. Also those little ready made formula tetrapacks are good. Don't need refridgerating, and saves faffing about.
I took little tubs of ready measured powdered milk on the plane with boiled water in the bottles for easiness.
Things are so much more relaxed this time since she's now 19 months, but my case is still overflowing with baby paraphenalia! They don't do pull ups or swim nappies
in Thailand!!Wish me luck for my 12 hour flight 2moz!!!

It's a couple of years since I've done this but I did the same as bosch - milton tabs/fluid and a large container (make sure you know the volume of the container before you try to work out how much tablets/fluid!)

Travel kettle and the individual sachets of formula for making up bottles. Just make as needed and cool in sink of cold water if needed. Take a few cartons with you but remember that they will have to go in you hold luggage so keep them well wrapped incase they leak!

Have a lovely hol!

took ds to spain at 5 weeks. we don't sterilise so that didn't matter. we took powder cos our hotel room had a kettle. don't use a microwave at home so again that wasn't a problem. i use half boiling water and half cold water so it is the right temp. if we are out then i just add the water to room temp water.

best advice was given is to pack a mini electric kettle ( and plug adapter).
Makes life a lot easier for boiling water to make up feeds + thourough clean of bottles and teets + warming milk and baby jars.

Sterilising tablets great, but advise rinse with boiling water as smell is persistent.
Pack bottles etc.. in a large tupperware that will double up as sterilising/storage box.
Take a small bottle of washing up liquid. Wash bottles as you go and sterilise the whole batch overnight.

Just take powder formula (less weight) and make up feeds as needed with bottled mineral water.

A little washing powder and small bottle of detoll come handy for soaking soiled clothes overnight.
Don't pack too much, you can buy everything when you get there.

you won't need to use bottled water in majorca - tap water is perfectly safe to drink.

You can use cold water travel steriliser or disposable bottles.