Thanks for the responses. Having thought and talked about it we are going to avoid any kind of 'sedation' as we are not sure of the effects up high..dont want a hyper child on our hands instead of a sleeping one.

Food wise, we're going to take various bits with us for both of them just in case, and a couple of cartons of SMA in baby bag (which i believe we can do).

Glad to here MH are child friendly, it was one of the reasons I picked them and its nice to get it confirmed by someone.

We are just doing a 2 hour stop then onward again, I can see me doing a lot of laps of the cabin with our boy to burn off the energy :-) Still concerned about him fitting in the bassinet but we are taking travel cushions and 2 thick coats in case we have to use the floor.

Guess we will just have to do it and see how we go. 1 week to go!!

Thanks again for the responses