kidco peapod, brica travel bassinet or 2 PNPs??

nikinikinine

We're taking the twins away with us for a week in June and I'm wondering how to sleep them while we're OOT.

Anyone use a travel bed/bassinet like the Kidco Peapods or Brica Travel Bassinet? How did they work. I'm not thrilled with dropping another $100 on more baby sh!t that is one time use, but I like that they fold down to nothing and can pack in a suitcase.

Option #2 is buying a second PNP and then checking both of them to the tune of another $50.

Option #3 is getting a king sized bed in our hotel rooms and sleeping with the babies between us in the bed, they'll be 5 months old then. Will that work? I wonder if any of us would sleep then...

ETA: we travel a lot (all of our family is OOT) so perhaps getting a second PNP or a travel sleeper would be worth it?? Just not sure.

cookiemonster03

Last time we travelled with friends, the hotel provided PNPs for their babies. They did bring sheets.

eyelovemascara

I would definitely check with your hotel about getting a PNP--most hotels that I've been at will be glad to give you one (or two!) during your stay.

kafunder

Definitely check with the hotel. Or, if you're traveling someplace where you have local friends (like to your hometown), see if any of them have old PnPs you can borrow. We're traveling to my hometown in a few weeks, and I'm hoping to borrow some friends' PnPs. As for bedsharing, at 5 months, our babies would gladly sleep us, but I tend not to sleep very well when they're in bed with us, so a week of that would be rough. If it was just a few days, then maybe, but a week, no.

lisa&andy

I would first check with the hotel and see about a crib or PNP.

We love our Pea Pods, the kids first slept in them at 4.5 months and did great. They are still sleeping in them if we go out of town or visiting (once every other month or so). I love that they fold small, I can fit everything plus a sheet, blanket, and stuffed animal, all in the bag.  

floridakat

We travel with a pack and play and a peapod (the big version). They don't exactly sleep as well as they do at home in their cribs, but they both work! I figure we'll use the tent for them to play in as they get older, and can use at the beach, outside, etc. Plus they look so stinkin' cute in their little tent, I love it!

pea-kay

If you get the Peapod Pluses, they can sleep in them for many years. We got them when the boys turned 2 (they had outgrown PNPs) and they're so much more portable than the PNPs.

(Just make sure you get the PLUS. The non-plus is smaller and won't last as long.)

juliannat

Do you usually travel by car or air? That would make a difference IMO. DH's sister lives an hour away so I'd expect if they had a sleepover we'd bring the PNPs (one bought new and one given to us by friends).

However...my family is all an airplane ride away and I am hoping they can borrow PNPs from friends...but travelling ourselves (ie. non-family vacations in hotels) will be a different story. Off to check out the Kidco peapods!

schoolsoutbride

I never trusted the hotel cribs. We got a peapod and FAR prefer it over the pnp. Way more convenient and worth the cost in one trip of checked luggage.

schoolsoutbride

Oh, and o doesn't fit the peapod at 4, but he insists on sleeping in it. We have the plus.

shipoopiisforme

i highly recommend the phil & ted's traveler. we travel a lot as well and have already used them a bunch. so easy to fold up and very light. and the kids sleep very well in them. in fact we have one set up in the guest bedroom right now since teething madness causes us to separate them at night some times.

smeyer

I'm so glad you asked this!  We'll be renting a vacation house this summer and I'm already stressing about the sleeping situation.  There's a PNP at the house, but I'm a little skeeved out about having one of the babies sleep in it plus I don't really want to haul another PNP there.  Right now, we're leaning toward PeaPod Pluses but I have to check out the Phil & Ted's traveler thing now.