Which hotels provide nice cots?

[Writerz34]

Hi, what hotels etc. have you stayed at in UK or elsewhere in Europe that provide cots for babies - including mattress and sheets - and you've felt fine putting them in there? Have heard horror stories of the premier Inn cots and happy to pay for a nicer hotel anyway. Ideally one with a bassinet cot for easy access for little babies but appreciate I may need to compromise on that and lift them into a bigger cot!

None IME tbh, have always taken a travel cot

Yes I thought that may be the answer! Makes flying somewhere for a weekend city break quite tricky but everyone always says babies travel so easily!

Most hotels provide a standard travel cot with the very thin ‘mattress’ and a sheet. My DD has usually slept OK in these, there was just one where we thought the base was too uneven and we didn’t use it. You won’t find a bassinet style hotel cot but you can buy some travel cots with a bassinet setting or use your pram bassinet if baby is small enough to sleep in it (if approved for overnight sleep).

Most airlines will allow you to take a travel cot as one of your baby items but then you’ll probably need a hire car to cart it around.

I've never objected to a basic travel cot! We used one at home from 3-6 months actually to bridge the gap between Moses basket and moving into his cotbed in his own room.
Fond memories of a night away at 3 months when DS slept through for the first time in one.

Oh good to know the airline might let us take it! I guess if we get a taxi from airport to where we're staying and don't move around then that might be manageable.

Baby currently sleeps fine occasionally in the pram bassinet - how do you take the bassinet on the plane though? Thanks!

The bassinet would count as one of the free checked baby items (might be lumped in with the stroller frame as one item and you could thus check something else too like a cot....might count as its own item and the second item would be the frame, you'd have to check with your airline)

generally in the uk will just take a cot but never had an issue with any hotels. I stayed at the fish and was a nice little travel cot with a proper mattress. The only time i haven't been given a decent cot was on a cruise so the next one we took our own as was out of southhampton. even when she had a cot with the hard mattress she slept fine anyway

How did it go OP? I think the plan you made was very reasonable. I would have been concerned and questioning too, bed safety is important and you never really know what you’re going to find at a hotel, partly because people don’t always report accidents or small breakages to an item.

My parents used to travel quite a lot with me as a baby and after discovering countless broken or inadequate cots my dad used to actually pay to take a disassembled cot from home and reassemble it on arrival 😆

Sorry wrong thread!

We travel quite a lot, I always took our own but as baby got older I stopped unless we had the space in car. And husband has banned us flying with it now 😂.
I still take my own sheets with me to put on and I take the vital baby water spray and give the cot a good spray to sanitise before we use it. I’ve had a broken cot once and cot with food under the mattress once too (at a luxury 5* hotel) I’ve complained on both times and had cot replaced straight away.
We stayed at Ikos and had a wooden Stokke cot which was nice.