Camping with small grandchildren

[VAfan]

We plan to take our 2yr old granddaughter camping this spring. Our travel trailer is a typical 27ft layout with a bed at one end and bath at the other. No obvious “best solution” for a sleeping arrangement so we can stay up past 8:00pm.

Anyone have experience / advice regarding camping with small grandchildren?

[DutchmenSport]

Go to bed early and just let them sleep with you. That's what we did ... actually, we had all 3 (girls) grandchildren sleeping with us ... what a blast! (Ages 4, 2, 1 at the time!)

[outdoorlovers]

We used the table, converted to bed and carried a fold up guard rail. worked fine for us. When she outgrew that, she slept on the sofa bed.

[GaryWT]

Set the child up on the coach, table, pack n play, mattress on the floor or whatever you plan to have them sleep on. Next sit out at the fire and enjoy until bedtime. If you do not want a fire each night a nice game or cards at the picnic table works. As a final resort, watch tv outside. Have a great trip.

[Redterpos3]

I like the ideas of putting them to bed in the queen, and then moving them later when it's your bedtime. Get an Aerobed that you can blow up and put on the floor. Great extra bedding anywhere!!

[Executive45]

She's camping with you....at 2, let her sleep between you....Dennis

[gbopp]

Bite the bullet and get a TT with bunks.
You'll need it in a few years when they want go with you all the time. 🙂

Setting up and taking down a dinette or couch gets old, real quick.

[Ron3rd]

A Pack N Play works great if you have the room. That's what we use.

[fj12ryder]

We had like a kids folding futon for our great-granddaughter to sleep on. She was 2 at the time and there were a couple sleepless nights until she got used to it, then she did very well. She usually went to sleep fairly late when she was out with us: around 9:00. It wasn't for too many days so the inconvenience of going to bed early wasn't so bad.

[tahiti16]

When our kids were young we put them to bed on the queen bed and then stayed at other end of coach. When we were ready to go to bed take out of our bed put them on coach and dinette bed.

[Dick_B]

Yes. Wait another 10 years.

[loulou57]

You don't have bunks I presume.

What if you were to put the granddaughter in the main bed until it is time for you to go. Have either the table or the couch ready for the grandchild and take along one of those baby rails so she doesn't fall out.

We take a baby monitor so we can sit outside by the fire. Our granddaughter at 2 slept in the playpen set up where the table would be. It fit right in the middle of the benches after our last meal of the day. This was in a fifth wheel.