Baby monitor to use in hotel on wifi

[ChampagneLassie]

There are loads of reviewsbut I feel baffled. I want a camera baby monitor which rubs off wifi. Ideally I'd like to use my phone to view or a seperate handset.

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I use a blink it's pretty good. Phone enabled by wifi no extra visual to carry round.

Is this one to use so you can leave your baby alone in the hotel room and go out for dinner because I would absolutely not do that

Are you planning on leaving your child in their room alone?

Yes @BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz @TheRookie im.planning on leaving them in room whilst I have dinner in restaurant, with a visual monitor and I'll be about 2 mins walk away idon't see what is wrong with that. But happy to be schooled. If the WiFi drops or something I'd abandon dinner

I worked in a hotel for many years. If the fire alarms go off, and you are in the restaurant, you will not be allowed back to your room, even to collect your baby.

These are the people in a hotel who will have an all access key to all bedrooms:- the duty manager, the maintenance manager, and likely maintenance operatives, every housekeeper, the concierge, the Front Desk manager. In addition, all reception staff can come and get an electronic key cut with no permissions needed. That's a lot of strangers who could enter the room while you are at dinner.

If you are 100% comfortable with both of the above things, by all means go ahead. My own personal view is that babies and children should not be left alone in the hotel room. It's unnecessary, and on balance, not worth the risk of the above issues.

Oh, and I'll add the above, that the Duty Manager can (and will) be whoever they can rota on for it that night. There won't be a Duty Manager whose job is solely that. It could be the Bar Supervisor, the Leisure Club Supervisor, basically anyone above hourly paid employee whose had a smidge of extra training.

I appreciate people could enter the room but I don't think they will without reason and with a monitor I can see it in any case. What is the actual risk? That they'll opportunistically steal my baby? Seems very unlikely. I'm staying in a prestigious 5 star hotel.

I feel less comfortable hiring a strange nanny and leaving them alone with my baby.

That’s where you’re wrong. I’d rather leave my baby with a professional than a baby monitor.

Its not the people entering etc that would worry me- it’s that if the fire alarm went off, how would I get to my baby?

Wouldn’t exactly be a relaxed or fun dinner for me to be honest (not that I’d do it)

@ChampagneLassie Can’t you either take your baby to dinner or order room service? 🤔 or am I missing something?

I wouldn’t personally consider leaving a child of any age alone in a hotel room.

Nice try OP!

Adjoining rooms or a suite. Then room service.

Just put the baby in a pram to sleep and take them to dinner with you. Or just get room service. No way would I leave a baby alone in a hotel room no matter how good the monitor is!

Nope, even two minutes away, even on the same floor, there's no way I'd leave my child in a hotel room on their own. Time for room service or pre-bought snacks.

This has to be joke surely?!

Ooh prestigious 5 star hotel - that makes it all ok - heaven forbid you were a bam in a travelodge 💁🏻‍♀️

Are you under the impression that prestigious hotels only recruit prestigious staff? Safe staff? That's really short sighted. Their cleaners and maintenance staff will be on minimum wage, more than likely, and possibly even Agency staff.

Not that any of these are inherently likely to commit a crime, but you seem to think that because you are going to a naice hotel, that you child is more safe.

Yeah....
Don't do this, op.

Didn't someone try something like this in Portugal once? Can't remember the name. Began with an M. Maureen? Megan?

Actually though some friends suggested I do this when staying above a pub with my baby and meeting them for dinner. They really couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t- as apparently it’s just like leaving you baby upstairs at night.

We had dinner at 6pm with the baby. Then I put him to bed and had a drink in the bath with my book. That’s the way it goes!

You've heard of Madeline McCann, right?

OP, would you go across the road to a neighbours house for the evening and leave your baby home alone? After all, it's a wifi video monitor. You are two minutes away.

Now imagine the plumber you use, and the meter read guy and your cleaner all have keys to get into your house too.

Still comfortable?

If you wouldn't do this, how is it any different to doing it in a hotel?

In a hotel I worked at.. if Restaurant staff saw a baby monitor on the table they would just refuse to serve you until the baby was brought down or offer room service. Also this just reminds me of Madeline McCann.

I don't understand how you think this would be ok. In the very very rare event of a fire you wouldn't be able to back and get baby, whether in a no star shit hole or '5 star prestigious hotel'. Take baby with you for dinner or adjust your lifestyle. I wouldn't leave ddog alone in a hotel room.