Re: strategies for hotel room sleeping with toddler

Derek wrote:

>IME  in most Italian restaurants the owner / Maitre "D" will take up a
>fractious kid and walk around the kitchen/terrace to distract it.

Let me get into detail:  In nearly all restaurants in Italy and most
Italian restaurants elswhere :-)

We just love to go on vacation in Italy and the pizza baker around the
corner (in Munich) is always giving a special performance to the kids
("Could you please throw up the dough?  And I would like some
extra...").

Jens