Leaving 14 month old in hotel room

[Maybush]

Hello! Your advice would be much appreciated...

We're going away for one night next week to celebrate my mum's birthday. THere's a restaurant in the hotel we are staying at but our room is in a separate annex to the main part of the hotel and apparently the baby monitor won't work that far. Would you leave your 14 month old in a cot in the (locked) hotel room for a couple of hours while you have dinner? She doesnt tend to wake up once she has gone to bed, but I am having reservations (what if there's a fire? What if she does wake up screaming as she is in a strange place? abduction?! etc).
We've tried to take her out to dinner asleep in her pushchair before, and it was fine, although i did spend 3/4 of the evening rocking it! I would keep popping back to the room if we did leave her in there, I'm just wondering if it is a real parenting sin?

As others and you have said not a chance.

Another who agrees - no way. No meal or drink is worth any risk to your precious child.

No way!!

I can't believe you are even asking the question.
No way would it even enter my head to leave a baby.
Either take baby with you or get a babysitter.

Erm, let me think.......... NO!

Two words: Madeline McCann.

No.

No, not something I'd do. As others have said, can you give a late afternoon nap and then keep her up for the meal, excusing yourselves at about 9pm? It may have been excusable 20 years ago, but not now. Hope you manage to get there

Never. Either let her sleep in pushchair next to you or have dinner in turns with husband. I would never leave a child on its own in a hotel room.

OP well done for listening to the responses and your instincts and deciding against this.
I've been in this situation before with DD and if you make sure she has only a short daytime nap coupled with an active afternoon your DD should hopefully drop off in her pushchair and sleep right through the meal with you.

No way!
when DS was that age we'd take him with us the pushchair.

Would never do it. Even the thought of it makes me feel a bit sick. Not worth the risk.

God can't believe anyone would seriously consider doing this.
Skip the meal, take the baby in a pram or get your mum to make it lunch. You shouldn't be put in this position to even have to think about it.

I would not even consider doing this if the monitor did work. I'm shocked that this question was asked to be honest.

My aunt did this, way back in the 80's, and there was a fire alarm whilst baby was asleep and they ate dinner. At first she was refused to go and get the baby, but eventually staff relented. Luckily it was a false alarm, but the story has stuck with me. So of you do use a baby sitter for the night arrange a rendezvous point should it be needed.

I wouldn't, personally.

Are there going to be other babies there? I've had an evening of "babysitting hotseat" where the babies were put down in the same room, and one adult stayed with them, being replaced every 15-20 mins with another. So everyone gets to enjoy some of the meal knowing their child is being watched by a close friend/family member.