Sharing a room with kids on holiday

[Roxyrocks]

Hi all,

Does anybody have any hints or tips for sharing a room with kids on holiday?

I've just found out our room on holiday is a double bed for us and sofa beds for the children (3yo and 11mo)

11mo currently still is in our room and home but 3yo hasn't shared with anyone since going into own room at 6mo.

I'm currently worrying we're not going to get much sleep but also that once the children are asleep I'm going to have to sit in darkness so as to not disturb them. I'd sit on the balcony but that's right next to where the sofa beds are.

Have contacted the hotel and they've got no family rooms available

Take a couple of plug in night lights if that something that worries you. But kids on holiday end up sooo tired so they usually sleep.

We've taken ours since they were babies. If definitely no chance of a cot, we've put them both in the bed and we've had sofa beds. As long as someone is sleeping somewhere, we're doing OK.

They used to nap on sunbeds during the day, so they'd end up staying up later, which meant we'd be going to bed not long after mini disco. Sometimes we'd sit on the balcony (vivid memories of an overestimated 3yr old doing her knicker dance one year) and have a last drink.

Do you keep your home quiet once they are asleep there?

Do you sit and stare at a wall once they are asleep while home?

If no, to either question, then why start on this trip?

Yes, you may have to keep the TV volume down due to one room vs. home size but...PLEASE don't change your normal routine just because you are on vacation.

Snoozeshade for travel cot (check eBay). Play white noise. Tire them out. One of us stays in the room for a bit and the other can slip off to the bar, then we swap.

Well at home DD slept a whole floor above the garden/living room with her door shut.

This is very different from sharing one bedroom.

For us it wasn't the noise, it was a different surrounding and the exciting fact that she shared a room with us. The couple of times we did it (night before a flight, emergency hotel when we had a broken down boiler in a freezing January for 10 days) it was an absolutely nightmare and often only worked when I was in bed with her and DH at the bar for 1-2 hours.

If they are only 3 I'd put them to bed in the main bed and then move them onto the sofa bed when we went to bed.

When we have stayed in hotels with a similar set up, we put the kids in the bedroom and dh and I had the sofa beds in the living room. We also introduced the kids to the idea of a siesta. They had a nap for an hour or two in the afternoon which meant they could stay up a bit later and go to bed at a similar time to dh and me.

Will they not give you a cot for the 11mo? When we’ve been in similar accommodation we’d usually have a double bed, sofa bed and cot so dd would be on sofa bed and dd in cot and with all the swimming and activities they usually pass out cold we’d have the tv on or sit on the balcony and it never bothered them.