Review on Regalo My Cot Portable Toddler Bed, Includes Fitted Sheet, Pink by Maurice Rivera

I was a little hesitant to buy this after reading the reviews, but the price was low enough that I figured it was worth a try. It arrived quickly (yay amazon Prime!), and the first thing I noticed was that there was NOT a bar across the middle (I'm guessing those reviews were for an older model?). We packed it up for our cross-country 60 hour road trip - It was so easy to pack, and the way it folded up like a small camping chair was convenient. She loved the fact that it was HER little space no matter where we were staying (and it made nap-time much easier too!). It was close enough to the floor that she wouldn't get hurt rolling off, but the way the fabric was attached to the frame made it harder to roll off anyways. The fabric wasn't really noisy (another concern I'd had from other reviews) - it was basically the same thing as camping chair fabric, so we put a crib-sized blanket down for our tot to lay on top of, just to make it even quieter. The sheet that was included worked great though.The removable sheet really came in handy when our toddler came down with the stomach flu. It took us a couple days to get it to a washing machine, and my husband said there was no way the sheet would come clean. We were both somewhat giddy when it came out of the wash clean and unstained. Probably seems like a silly thing to be excited about, but when you are super sleep deprived and exhausted, the little things like a clean sheet excite a parent. As any parent would expect, while the sheet was off the cot, our toddler had a second day with the stomach flu, and the cot got really dirty and gross. I used some baby wipes, and was shocked when everything came clean (then I sprayed it with lysol for good measure).The last day of our trip, my 10 year old jumped on the cot (such a stinker!), and it no longer folds up as tight as before, but it still folds up and fits in the included travel bag. For the abuse this cot got, I'm shocked it help up so well! I can't even imagine how our road trip would have gone without this cot … thoughts of tantrums, kicks in my ribs, nap-time refusal, and the two year old taking over the beds run through my head.For the price and convenience, this cot has been added to my road-trip-with-a-toddler necessity list!