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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for everyone's feedback.  If we don't bring our nanny we will certainly look into a local sitter through  the hotel or an agency. We will have to do that for at least two nights for the rehearsal dinner and for the wedding itself. My concern is that my kids are stll pretty young (5 and 2) and will already be out-of-whack by being 8 hours behind on the time zone, by staying in a hotel, and by generally just being thrown off schedule. I don't expect them to do very well for an unknown sitter.  It would probably mean that I have to take them back to the room and put them to bed myself and then head back to the reception once they're asleep. Also, I'm not likely to hire a random babysitter to help with the kids during the day, so D and I will spend the whole vacation taking care of the kids while other guests and family spend time together and enjoy Hawaii.  Did I mention there will be no other kids attending?  So everyone else will be kid-less.

If we bring the nanny, she can help out at various points during the day and evening (staying in the room for the baby's nap, helping with meals, putting the kids to sleep at night - understanding that we'll set the schedule beforehand so we all have the same expectations). We'll have a lot more assistance and we may even be able to enjoy the trip a bit ourselves and have time to visit with other family and guests in town for the wedding.

BTW, it's really interesting that I started this thread in the Travel forum of the regular DCUM site before Jeff locked it and told us to move it to the Nanny Forum and the responses on the original post were overwhelmingly in favor of bringing the nanny.  [/quote]

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