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Hi,

Just bought our first caravan and need to adjust it to fit a cot for my son - can I remove a rear bench seat for this? I don't want to cause damage! Any good tips for caravanning with babies? (well, he is 14 months so older baby!)

Thanks

I use a tomy bed guard along the edge of the double bed (but usually stay in the van or awning once she's asleep - just in case!) Thenonce it's time for me to go to bed take the guard down and sleep along side her. Hubby and son sleep in the back of the caravan.

She's nearly two now, but did this last year and it worked really well for us.

Good luck with it and Happy Holidays.

i cut a length of 1/4" smooth ply to size at 71"x 13" and then fitted  some lengths of plastic u shaped covering to go on the top to keep little fingers away, and have put that along the front of the lower bunk bed..as it's a side dinette bunk bed ..with a rear washroom .. while travelling it will serve to keep some taller and lighter objects we wish to take like boxes of nappies baby foods ect. ect .  we're taking my 7 month old grandaughter this week to the sea side in cornwall for a fortnight ..redisicover my sand castle building skills!! .....nice..

it should.. and has to serve the purpose ..

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. He stands up alot in his cot and bounces - I would be worried with a bed guard he would bounce over it. The layout is sofas/double bed at the top, kitchen at the side with bathroom and wardrobes opposite and 2 smaller bench seats at the end with a curtain partition. It was one of these that I was going to try and pull up out of the way. Has anyone done this? We would be using it alot so would like him to have a permanent bed of his own.

We had the same layout in our Abi Marauder

A travel cot fitted perfectly within the two seats so there was no need to take one out.

Or we would make it into a bed without the cushions and then put the travel cot on top.

Both worked well with ours

We have used the wood cot from ikea around 20.00 plus matress in the side dinner / bunk it fits when we removed the top folding bunk.

Ok, if he is a bouncer, you definitely do need a cot, or he'll do a salto over the bedguard...
Try a folding cot or carefulls remove one of the side benches, should be no problem.

we had a 9month old in the van last month she slept in the double bed and we used a bed guard which worked fine.

Margaret