Our travel experience this weekend finally drove me to register and post: we took our 1-yo for a one-night trip to "practice" for a weeklong vacation coming up. We learned many valuable lessons, but the most concerning is that our 1-yo DS refuses to sleep in his PNP. We finally got him down at 10 PM and he woke up at 3:30 terrified and spent the rest of the night with us. It makes sense in retrospect since he has never slept in the PNP, even when he was an infant in the bassinet.
So what do we do for our trip? We are staying in 2 hotels and the first does not have any cribs. We might be able to borrow a PNP from family but I don't expect that will work any better than it did this weekend. I am looking into crib rentals but we are not going to a very touristy place so there don't seem to be any options there. I have seen recommendations here for the peapod plus and the toddler aerobed, but I think he would hate the PP+ because of the tent and he seems too young for the aerobed. (He is vigorously crawling and may be walking by the time of our trip.) That leaves co-sleeping, which we do not do regularly and I am worried he will crawl off the edge of the bed before we can catch him, plus that won't work well for naps. Any ideas? Will he get used to the PNP after a couple of nights? After only one night, I am not sure if it is the PNP or the strange surroundings that bother him more. He also does not really have a "lovey," so we don't have that as a crutch. Thanks for your help!