Has anyone seen old-fashioned style travel cots recently?

[KatyMac]

They sort of fold in a W shape making a shape like a cot end rather than a box shape like the now traditional travel cots

TIA

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I guess no-one knows what I am talking about.....or they stopped making them

I have one that folds like a W its much bigger than modern travel cots

Its much more like a traditional cot when its up .. has mesh sides so you couldnt use it as a playpen...

Does this sound like the kinda thing you mean

I don't know what you mean! Mine has a sort of button thing that you yank up in the middle and it's nearly 10 years old!

so does mine spice monster.. consider ds is now 4 and it was second hand i reckon mine is probs much the same age..

Yep that's it Frasermummy

They are fab for putting up quickly & quietly (for when another one falls asleep)

Hang on if it has a button it will fold into a box (like an after eight box)

I'm after one that folds into the cot end just a bit thicker iyswim

Oh yes, mine has mesh sides too. Is that what you mean katymac? If my DS is happy in his readybed when we go on hols in a few weeks then would be happy to sell it.

I still want to know what you mean by cot end vs box shape

Only have seen them for sale 2nd hand and not for ages. There are some of the modern ones that are much more rectangular though - much longer and def narrower but still the box fold IYSWIM

The box ones

The sides fold into 2 & the four corners meet in the middle. The middle of the base rises in an umbrella movement

The W ones

the 2 long sides fold in 2 and the 2 short ends meet each other (with out folding). The mattress just folds in half

I have one in my roof space, it's 11 years old so I'd say you'd be hard pushed to find one until someone had a clear out to a charity shop.

I think they'd be too big to courier 2nd hand otherwise I'd keep my eyes peeled at the car boot sales but I think they are too big to post.

What a shame - I could do with 3 or 4

found you a folding wooden cot

www.notonthehighstreet.com/millhouse/product/wooden_folding_cot

at the price

£100 cheaper here

www.outofeden.co.uk/products-Cot-Sandford-Mini-Folding-Wooden-Cot~WCS.htm

Nice but too bulky to fold out while 4 children are asleep in the same room

I have an odd life

What about the little sleeping mats they use in large day nurseries?

Too young - they are generally under 2 & they would go round poking each other to wake them up

you'll just have to carry on with the hideous box ones then!

i know the oens you mean Katymac, my mum had one for us.
I think she's prob got rid of it now, but i'll ask her tomorrow when I see her (she does have a LOT of crap in her attic lol)

It isn't the hideousness of them it's the noise disruption as they are set up - I can only fit 4 up all the time

thanks thisisyesterday

Oh right - I see what you mean. Try putting an ad on freecycle - you never know your luck

sorry katy my base folds up like an umberella and cot becaomes a rectangle

my sides fold like a w .. thats what confused me

sorry to get your hopes up.Hope you find what you are after