Re: strategies for hotel room sleeping with toddler

"Barbara Vaughan" <bvaughan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Does anyone have any tips for putting the baby down to sleep at her
> > normally early hour (7:30 pm) in a hotel room?  What do we do -- sit
> > in the dark room until it's time for us to go to bed, or get her used
> > to sleeping in a room with lights on?  Usually, if she knows we're in
> > her room, she won't go to sleep.  Is it possible to find inexpensive
> > suite-type hotels in Italy? (somehow, I doubt it...)
>
> Why don't you just let her stay awake until she's sleepy? It's not going
> to kill her.
>
> Actually, in Italy, they seem never to have heard of "bed-time". Kids
> stay up as long as their parents do, or until they get tired, whichever
> comes first.
>

This is what I have always done and it makes traveling so much easier.  I
never worry about bed times.  They (3 and a 4 year old) fall asleep when
they are tired.  Normally late but then they sleep late in the mornings. 
I
also never did the dark room thing.  When they fall asleep I let them
sleep
wherever they are until we can take them to bed.  We never worry about
noise
or anything either.  We can talk in regular voices without fear that they
will wake up.  I have had dinner parties where one or both have fallen
asleep by 10 or 11 but we keep on talking and listening to music until
midnight or 1.

I think the OP should start training their child to fall asleep later.  If
they are planning on working around a 7:30 bedtime, they will miss out on
dinners.