Finding a babysitter out of state?

saturdaynightdoubletree · March 2013

I'm traveling with 3 kids for a wedding and need to find a babysitter. I've tried asking the hotel we're staying at with no luck. We're driving, and then continuing to another destination before coming home, so our regular sitter isn't available to come along. How do you find someone out of state? Do I really just have to play roulette with Internet sites? TIA

rjeller32 · March 2013

Do you have any friends in the area that you could ask for recommendations? That would be my first option if I were you, it would be a little more comfortable...The only other thing I could think of is online like Care.com, but I am not very comfortable w

XCrissCrossX · March 2013

Is it a kid-free wedding? Is that why you need a babysitter? Maybe you could ask about splitting childcare with someone local who's attending the wedding. Crash their babysitter.

saturdaynightdoubletree · March 2013

Thanks for responding... The problem is my cousin is getting married in a state that is an 8 hour drive for me and 4 hour plane ride for the rest of our family. I don't know anyone in the area to even crash the babysitter, but LOVE that idea. Kids are not

PajamaTime · March 2013

Does your cousin or her fiance know of a babysitter? I would start with them. Perhaps they have a neighbor or know of someone who can help you out.

Also, is there any chance there is a daycare center that would allow you to dro

Spin313 · March 2013

I'd talk to the cousin and see if she can find someone she can personally vouch for.

kj07 · March 2013

At my wedding (which was kid-free) I worked with a friend of a friend to find a babysitter for the 2yo son of our best man. It was someone the friend of a friend used to watch her own kids, so it was a little more vetted than a complete internet

JillAly · March 2013

I know you are wary of the internet but I went to sittercity.com and posted that I only wanted a student at a particular school. I was going to that school to do interviewing on campus and figured at least I could run out of the interview room and che

orangecurls · March 2013

I would try to find a well reviewed home daycare that also does the occasional overnight. Or what the previous poster said, call a daycare and see if any employees babysit on the side.

carlab44 · March 2013

We used sittercity.com to find a sitter out of state. We were getting together wtih friends so we wanted two sitters to watch 7 kids under 6. I posted an "ad" and got a number of responses. I emailed with each to find out more about them, received and cal

RachieTK · March 2013

By friend has a similar situation - the groom has a high school aged niece, so one of her friends I babysitting in the hotel room.

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