toddler won't fit in travel crib - help!

[FossilMum]

Anyone have any advice about the best holiday sleeping arrangement for a 2.5 year-old who has always been in a crib at home, but is now too big for a travel cot?

Worried about him falling out of a kiddie bed/starting to wander about in a strange environment at night. Portable bedrails? Those inflatable tube thingies I've seen advertised, but which look like they might not really work? Sleeping bag on floor? He's never slept with us so don't think that would work. Many thanks for any good tips.

Ready bed on your bedroom floor and a stairgate on the door?

if you want to, now is an ideal moment to move him to a big bed...

otherwise readybed as suggested

With our three we've done:

• portable bedrail (net/metal thing);
• cushions on the floor;
• chair backs lining the side of a bed;
• "Ah, just curl up, love," when it was clear a nearly four yr old wasn't going to fit into Premier Inn's travel cot after all....

All systems have worked fine!

move him into a bed now. it will be a pita though

We've put chair backs against the bed as a bed guard, and also piled the cushions off the sun loungers on the floor another time.

Never had a problem with the kids getting up and wandering around so can't help there sorry

We take the mattress off a single bed and pop it on the floor against a wall, so DD can't fall out on one side and doesn't have far to fall on the other. I then put pillows around so it looks like a nest. We then add exciting new treat soft toy and bobs your uncle. She doesn't get out, snug as a bug.

Thank you for all your suggestions. I like the inventiveness of the chair backs; I'd never have thought of that! He's only ever been in a crib so I'm worried about wandering, both at home and away (hence want to keep him in crib as long as possible at home), but have no idea whether he'll actually do it or not. Maybe we'll be lucky and he'll stay put?