Hotel stay with 1 year old

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Hi
I have a 2 night hotel stay with my 1 year old next week.
Just want some advice on practicalities??
I've asked for a room with a fridge so can keep some fruit and milk for her. Was thinking I can bring her highchair and do her porridge with hot water for breakfast? She likes to eat early! Way before I'd be up and ready to go out and I'm not sure where I could go to get a baby friendly breakfast? She likes wheatabix or porridge usually.
I'll have the travel cot but not sure what to do in the evening. She usually goes to bed 6.30pm and won't sleep in pram so I feel awful thinking about going out and her being tired but not able to sleep but spending all night sitting silently in a room doesn't appeal either.
Any practical advice welcome !!

Portable blackout curtains are useful if your dd needs a dark room to sleep. Could you bring a tablet or laptop with earphones so you can watch TV in the evening to avoid disturbing your dd?

What are her naps like could you let her have a late afternoon nap so she stays up a little longer making your evening shorter?

Does she need complete dark, could you read, watch a film with headphones?

Does hotel do room service? Can they bring you something in the morning?

DH and I did one hotel stay with DC1 when he was a baby and haven't done it since. So much easier to stay in an aparthotel or self-catering place with young DC.

However, assuming you can't or don't want to change the booking, if you want to give baby food in your room, get one of those plastic sheets to put under the high chair (to protect carpet/rug underneath). And I'm afraid you will have to spend all evening sitting quietly in the room! What were you planning to do for dinner, will you eat earlyish with her? Otherwise you could put her in the pushchair while you go out to eat and hope she sleeps (my 11mo probably wouldn't but you never know). A lie flat pushchair and a snoozeshade would help.

Tablet/laptop and ear phones for you to watch in bed
Take some nice snacks and wine/beer/g&t cans for you for the evening
Washing up stuff so you can clean cups and bowls

Those porridge pots are handy, or you can get little brioches or those breakfast biscuits. Probably not the healthiest but stick a banana with it and it's fine! You can get little cartons of toddler milk - I just take some of those for morning and bedtime. I take a couple of tea towels and sit my two on them for their breakfasts!

I generally find times slip anyway when you're away so you might end up with a later bedtime anyway. I've taken ours out asleep in the buggy in their PJ's before when we couldn't get a dinner reservation till later on.

The hotel may well be able to supply a cot and high chair. It would be worth contacting them to find out to save lugging your own around unnecessarily.

Lots of snacks sounds like a good plan.

Sitting quietly watching tv in a hotel room while baby sleeps is pretty much the norm when you have young kids. A room service meal and some drinks from the bar might make the evening a bit more fun.

We've always traveled lots with babies/young children. In my experience hotels are pretty good in regards to breakfast food - porridge, yoghurts, fruit and pastries etc. I'd ask if these could be brought up to your room - some for yourself too if possible. We haven't ever eaten breakfast in our room often but I'm sure most places we've stayed would of brought a high chair up had we asked - you could ring in advance to see if possible.

We went away a few weeks ago, our youngest is 1 too, and we relaxed our routine. Went out for dinner every night and she had a later bedtime and then we all went to bed at the same time.

I have known friends put the cot in the bathroom. Tricky when you need the toilet though! Or they have eaten their dinner in the bathroom

Can’t you just relax the routine slightly? My LO is 9 months now and we’ve just done our 4th hotel stay (all 3-6 nights), and we’ve never stuck to her home routine.
The fridge is useful, we get fruit, squeeze yoghurts and weetabix in which she has in the room while we get ready then we go out for breakfast when we’re ready and she can nap/nibble on some more. I just sat her on the chair and fed her or put a big muslin on the floor and let her have a floor picnic!
But yes, for me, I agree with PP, push for a later nap and bedtime - 6.30 is really early anyway!

Thanks everyone. Some really good tips! Will be hoping the travel cot fits in the bathroom and I'm going to get her in the carrier for the PM nap so try and extend the day. I've been keen to try relaxing the routine but with lockdowns etc we just haven't had to. Dh and I agreed what's the worst that can happen, we all come home tired lol!

I can't think of a worse place to put a travel cot than the bathroom. For safety in case she starts climbing and for practical reasons like you being able to use the bathroom.