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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We bring our Ring Stick camera and do this. Our phone is set to notify us of any motion or sounds. Super easy to keep tabs and check on them while they sleep. What else are we going to do for 3-4 hours when our kid goes to bed at 6pm when we are on the West Coast? [/quote]

Oh, I don’t know. Read a book, have a drink in the room, be a parent. I know, hard to fill in those hours. [/quote]

[b]Some kids won't sleep if there is light or any noise in the room. So if your kid goes to sleep at 6 or 7 pm, that means you and your partner have to sit silently in the dark until you, too go to sleep. It sucks.
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Though this is why, when our kid was that age, we either did hotel suites or got Airbnbs. We only did just a regular hotel room a few times and it was miserable. One of those times (kid was around 18mo I think) we tried to just sit and read in bed until she fell asleep. Ha! The excitement of the hotel room plus having a light on meant she was absolutely bouncing off the walls. We really did have to turn off all the lights and just go to sleep at 8:30pm or she was just not going to go to sleep. But that was when we were driving cross country and had limited options for where we could stay. If we had a choice at all, we'd pick something with more than one room. Or even just a balcony or something -- just somewhere we can go and talk and have a drink or something while our kid sleeps.

But I don't think OP is talking about little kids. I don't know anyone who would leave a baby or toddler alone in a hotel room and go down to the lobby. Once our kid was 5 or 6, we just let her stay up late when we stay at hotels. We'd go out to dinner and then walk around for a bit or get dessert somewhere, and by the time we got back to the room she'd be ready to pass out and we could still stay up and talk, read, even watch TV without her waking up.[/quote]

Which is why you get a 1 or 2 bedroom so you don't have to sit silently. [/quote]

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