Cot beds: Compare features & prices Mothercare Sanctuary cot bed review

The Mothercare Sanctuary cot bed is part of a range of matching nursery furniture and features a three-position mattress base and fixed cot side rails. The cot ends come apart to create shorter ends for the junior bed, but small children can be destructive, so we put the cot bed through tough tests to find out whether it's safe and sturdy enough, and asked parents to help assess it on ease of use.
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Test criteria Rating
Assembling and adjusting the cot bed
Assembling for the first time An overall rating of how good the cot bed is to assemble for the first time. Takes into account how easy it is to assemble, whether the required assembly actions match the instructions, the smoothness and ease of securing the bolts and fixings, presence of poorly constructed parts and how many people are needed to assemble the cot. Subscribe
Quality of the instructions An overall rating for the quality of the instructions that includes how easy they are to understand, ease of following the layout, their clarity and conciseness, and being written in good English. Five-star instructions are excellent, one-star instructions are very poor. The score for whether the instuctions contain all relevant safety advice is part of the Build Quality rating, not the Instructions rating. Subscribe
Adjusting the base height How easy it was to access the bolts, move the base and rebolt it into a higher or lower position. Subscribe
Turning from a cot to a bed How easy it was to remove the sides to change the cot into a junior bed. Subscribe
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Convenience
Placing a child into the cot How easy it is to put the child into the cot taking into account the height of the side raise and bed base in various positions. Subscribe
Removing a child from the cot How easy it is to remove the child from the cot taking into account the height of the side raise and bed base in various positions. Subscribe
Lowering the drop side How easy it is to operate the drop side if present. Subscribe
Raising the drop side How easy it is to operate the drop side if present. Subscribe
Parental approval rating Parents were asked to rate each cot out of ten after they had used it. Their approval rating is based on how good they thought the cot was and includes an element of how visually appealing they found the product as well as how good it was to use. Subscribe
Build quality
Construction and durability Takes into account how well-built and solid the cot bed was before and after our tests, both as a cot and a bed. It also includes whether the cot bed fully complies with the British Standard for safety (including the quality of safety advice in the instructions), durability and construction. Subscribe

Mothercare Sanctuary cot bed

  • Launch date: Mar 2011
  • Type: Fixed side cot bed
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Typical price
£130.00
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