Family hotels with toddler and baby

[MrsWheels]

I'm wondering if I'm being really thick. Been looking at family hotels and most family suites seem to be a room and living space with double sofa. I can't work out how I'm supposed to make this work with a toddler and baby! Surely once they're down we'd have to sit silently in a darkened room from 7.30 each night trying not to disturb a sleeping child?! Or if we popped to another family members room once they're down, I'd be walking through the living room disturbing the toddler every time the baby woke or needed feeding. Am I missing something here???

Does anyone know any actual family friendly hotels in Europe??

Yeah it’s tricky. You need interconnecting rooms or a ‘proper’ suite with different bedrooms

Or a balcony in a hot country!

Hahaha I just have this vision of sticking both the children on the balcony to sleep 🤣

Interconnecting rooms seem so much harder to find than I ever imagined!

Royal Son Bou

Tui sensatori family rooms are two rooms, one with a double bed and a room with 2 twin beds and room for a cot. Highly recommend.

Yeah unfortunately it’s really tricky and no real solution except (rare) interconnecting rooms or (expensive) suites

this is why we always do air b n b or villas now rather than hotels

Hmm it was a Tui sensatori I had been looking at, but couldn't find two bedroom ones. Maybe I just chose a bad example! Will look at some others, thank you

Agreed. That would be our preference. The grandparents aren't so keen. But given how hard it seems to find something appropriate I might have to steer them in this direction.

Thanks! I'll take a look

Put the kids in the bedroom and you sleep in the lounge.
Or take a ready bed for the toddler, put the baby in the travel cot and then you just tiptoe into the double bed when it's your bedtime.
Or hotels with sliding doors that separate the kids - but you may still need to walk through to the bathroom.
Neilson/mark Warner have good room options with room dividers. We are going to euphoria in Crete (found on jet2)

I feel your pain though - being able to put the kids to sleep in a different room is an absolute must for me. As a result the choice is a bit limited but not impossible to find.

Good luck.

I've been looking at hotels too and decided we probably need a bedroom each whilst they're little so will probably go for 3 bed air bnb.
No way our toddler and baby can sleep in the same room 😅

I'd still prefer to have two bedrooms and a living room when they're a bit older. Would be pretty cramped otherwise.

This is why we did mobile homes when the kids were small, I did not have the version of children that could sleep in the buggy while we had dinner or come much off routine.

We've just booked this hotel. The apartment has a separate bedroom, then beds in the living room too, so we'll put the toddler and baby to sleep in the main bedroom whilst we can stay up a little longer in the living room.

https://www.tui.co.uk/destinations/bookaccommodation?productCode=027942&tab=overview&noOfAdults=2&noOfChildren=2&childrenAge=3,0&duration=7&flexibleDays=0&airports%5B%5D=MAN&flexibility=false&noOfSeniors=0&when=17-05-2023&pkg=4426828229/3/501/7&trao=1246086483/4250214&traa_i=1246086546/4250215&units%5B%5D=000365:DESTINATION&packageId=027942ESCD005216842816000001684281600000TOM230016848864000001684886400000TOM23011BA024426828229/3/501/7&index=2&multiSelect=true&brandType=T&bb=AI&room=&isVilla=false&searchType=search&durationCode=7115&rmpc=1%7C2%7C0%7C2%7C1%7C3,1&rmtp=1BA02&rmbb=AI&fc=y&greatDealDiscount=21&bb=AI&price=pp

We just gave in trying to find that for holidays.

Now we make the most of the early nights. We get a good 12 hours sleep which is rare.

We go to Sani Resort, really good for interconnecting rooms.

We have also had luck in a variety of other countries using tui and jet 2. We've also stayed in bungalow suites on resorts which have been good.

It's hard to come by in hotels and actually it's a con because they still charge more or less full price for children to sleep (share) a sofa bed. You have to really look or go self catering to an apartment or villa.

Anywhere in particular for the tui/jet2/bungalow suites please @poppy865 ? Can’t justify Sani prices!

This is the reason we usually go self catering, kids have their own separate bedroom and we have space to sit and watch tv with a glass of wine when they're in bed.

I imagine family suites might work ok when kids are older

We needed separate sleeping areas and I spent ages looking on Jet2 and Tui but anything that says suite normally has a separate sleeping area or some hotels you can pay extra on the room options for a 2 bedroom apartment or family room.

Thanks all for the comments and ideas all. I'd not considered putting the kids in together. Although like @Geranium1984 I'm not sure the baby and toddler will manage together, even if sleep should miraculously improve by summer!

Will check out the other recommendations.

Haha! If the baby actually slept I'd be all for this option!!

This was the thing that surprised me about my kids. They ALWAYS sleep better when together.

We went through a phase where the youngest had to go to bed and be asleep before the eldest went to bed. Usually one of us would take the toddler for a walk around the hotel while the other settled them.

We've just got back from a holiday where they spent 8 nights sharing a bed and they slept like logs every night.

Yes, Caserio del Mirador near Alicante.
selection of apartments all kitted out for babies and toddlers, all baby kit free of charge and meal delivery or communal dining with babies on monitors

Lol this is why I'm just not going on holiday until my kid is older. It wouldn't be a nice break, I would simply be looking after my toddler in a different city. Also renting an air bnb or apartment isn't ideal since to me, a holiday is no cleaning up, cooking or doing dishes and laundry. I might as well stay at home.

Hahaha we said just this the other day!! And by the time they're old enough for it to be a degree of "holiday" they're at school so it's too flippin unaffordable!