The Donkey. A noble steed who, for thousands of years, has enabled farmers to power their machinery has evolved. It can now commonly be seen unloading cars, carrying suitcases and backpacks at airports up and down the country. That’s correct, the donkey evolved into the modern day Dad.
Jokes aside, holidaying with kids can be uber stressful and for years brands have tried to invent new ways to make proceedings less taxing. But many have failed. One element that always seems to fail parents in this area is the lack of practicality. Items are always too big, too heavy or a flash in the pan phenomenon that keeps children occupied and happy for a day or two. What parents really need are solutions to actual everyday problems that they face on holiday. Introducing the Graco Foldlite Travel Cot.
Sleeping Arrangements on Holiday
One thing I have always found fairly stressful is rented sleeping arrangements for your babies/toddlers. Everytime you go on holiday, there’s always likely to be an issue with where your children are to sleep. Here’s a quick round up of some holidaying options, and the usual issues that are raised…
- Hotel: The cots that you rent are often old, meaning the mattresses are lumpy and lead to a broken night’s sleep for yourself and your partner as, by 3am, your little one has already joined you in the bed, giving you even less room in what the hotel claimed to be a king size bed…
- Caravan holiday: There’s no room for an alternative and you co-sleep, again presenting its usual problems.
- Camping: There’s two options, you either co-sleep with your toddler, leading to multiple kicks in the face throughout the night and an uncomfortable morning of lying still, to ensure you don’t wake them up OR you have to sacrifice a serious amount of space in the car to make room for a travel cot.
Graco FoldLite Travel Cot
However, Graco have recently launched a new travel cot that isn’t as heavy as a powerlifter’s warm-up routine, nor as large as your wife’s ‘overnight stay’ bag. The Foldlite travel cot is, as you’d imagine, light, compact, durable and multi-functional.
The Foldlite travel cot fits so neatly into the boot of your car, you don’t have to sacrifice the swing-ball set when you’re going on a staycation, which is a bonus. It is also much lighter than a traditional travel cot, ensuring that when you’re at the airport, you don’t feel like a Blackpudlian donkey.
As well as being compact when folded, it’s also really tidy when it’s fully put together (which takes all of 5 seconds) meaning that even if you are going on, say, a caravan weekend, you can go there knowing that it will easily fit in the notoriously ‘cosy’ bedrooms.
The travel cot isn’t just great for sleeping, though. We’ve often found that when you’re holidaying with babies who are at the dreaded crawling stage, it also acts as a playpen. This means you can carry on with your set-up, unpacking and more, knowing that your toddler won’t be on the other side of the field or hotel after you have unloaded your bags.
A real bugbear of mine for years has been the practicality of products. However Graco have clearly done their research whilst developing the Foldlite Travel Cot and, in our opinion, they’ve absolutely nailed it.
So it’s a no-brainer that the Graco Foldlite deserves the Dadsnet Approved badge!
You can find the Graco Foldlite Travel Cot online at their website.
Note: Graco provided the product for this review
