Tots, holidays, and a strange new bed. All ingredients for increasing rather decreasing your travel stress levels. My partner Jane would be awake half a dozen times a night when our son Fin was a toddler, checking that he hadn’t flipped himself out of his unfamiliar hotel or resort sleeping place.

Dream Tubes could go some way to banishing fears about small people going bump in the night.

They are a set of inflatable tubes that blow up in seconds and then slot neatly into channels in a fitted sheet. The sheet itself then fits any standard single bed. Voila! Instant bumper guards to keep junior where he’s supposed to be all night.

The added attraction is that the whole thing is ultra-lightweight and folds up to a pack about the size of a beach towel. So, they’re not going to dominate our packing plans.