Hi moms... we are planning to take our baby back to Canada to visit his grandparents & great-grandparents around the Easter holidays. He will be 6-months by then. We will be moving quite a bit between Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa & Vancouver and will mostly be staying with relatives thus would need a lightweight yet heavy duty travel cot, any suggestions? travelling to look through classified here & another xpat website but don't seem to have much option second hand...
Travel Cot recommendation
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The Baby Bjorn Travel Crib light has worked for us, both when travelling and as a bed for naps at home. Folds up easily and is light, which is great and we've used it daily for about a year now so it's pretty durable.
Whichever you eventually buy, do try to let baby get used to sleeping/napping in it at home before you go. Happy travels!
Whichever you eventually buy, do try to let baby get used to sleeping/napping in it at home before you go. Happy travels!
thanks ladies... will go search for them around town (hope they are available at the usual baby shops here coz haven't really seen them around)...
plumtree, good suggestion on the "trial" before our travel, coz we were thinking maybe to have my inlaws get one ready for us back home to save us from carrying it on the way there...
plumtree, good suggestion on the "trial" before our travel, coz we were thinking maybe to have my inlaws get one ready for us back home to save us from carrying it on the way there...
Our no 2 naps in the Baby Bjorn travel cot in our bedroom because his nap times are still different from his older brother's. It's his little sleeping den, sometimes with a sheet thrown over half of it to block the light out. So we knew he'd be fine with it when we travel.
We bought a Graco Pack n' Play in the States. I wouldn't bother buying one in HK as they are likely a lot cheaper with a lot more selection in Canada. I'm sure you can search some online sites in Canada to find what you want, buy it with a credit card and have it shipped to the grandparents' house to await your arrival. Why lug a travel cot (even if it's a light-weight one none of them are that small) all the way across the ocean? I would buy it while you're there and then if you want bring it back with you to HK. Or...do what we did when my son was 8 months-old and we went back to the States for a 3-month visit and traveled around--borrow one! It seems like everyone I know "back home" has one of these and most of them are hardly used and sitting in storage somewhere. 
I have previously used www.sears.ca when I want to buy things and get them delivered in Canada ahead of my arrival. You just need to make sure that you order in time for your arrival, usually it takes around 2-3 weeks to get your purchases delivered, but you will actually be told of the estimated delivery date before you finally confirm the purchase at checkout.
I go back to Canada regularly and have had toys and all sorts of other stuff delivered. My latest purchase for delivery in Canada (not through Sears as I am trying a small boutique this time) is a big 3 wheel jogging stroller as it costs so much to rent one for 2 weeks that I might as well buy one for future visits and then sell it when I am done with it!
I go back to Canada regularly and have had toys and all sorts of other stuff delivered. My latest purchase for delivery in Canada (not through Sears as I am trying a small boutique this time) is a big 3 wheel jogging stroller as it costs so much to rent one for 2 weeks that I might as well buy one for future visits and then sell it when I am done with it!
Thanks Ladies... your suggestions are really helpful and we most likely will go for babybjorn... checked price online vs mothercare in HK and found the price very similar (esp with canadian dollar so high these days & their tax!!!), so now it's really down to the whether we wanna lug it around or to have it ready for us when we arrive canada....
might buy online for car seat though as we find that if we are going rent one with the rental car each stop it will be way cheaper to buy a new one...
we would love the idea of borrowing stuff @ each stop we travel to but we can only do so in Vancouver but not the other cities...
@portia, thanks for the suggestion to checkout sears.ca, i am also looking at different online stores at the moment... surely we will be moving lots of goodies from canada when we return =)
might buy online for car seat though as we find that if we are going rent one with the rental car each stop it will be way cheaper to buy a new one...
we would love the idea of borrowing stuff @ each stop we travel to but we can only do so in Vancouver but not the other cities...
@portia, thanks for the suggestion to checkout sears.ca, i am also looking at different online stores at the moment... surely we will be moving lots of goodies from canada when we return =)