Stevie: sounds like you need a better covering system. The cheapest (and what hospitals often use) are just flat pieces of plastic that you tie at the sides... oooh what are they called? Mind blank... Snibs??? you can buy them at the chemist usually. I found a Big Fluffies cover (several sizes larger than the child) was ok... they kinda got better as they got older (more use) from memory... i inherited a stack of second hand ones and they were great over the flats. You can pay more for covers but I made do. A snib AND a Big Fluffy at night was virtually garanteed leak proof... but it's the old fashioned way of doing it... i'm sure the girls here could tell you about more sophisticated covers.

Poopie: we holidayed with cloth. It was do-able if you had your own private bathroom and lots of sun. Once we were on the road and laid out all the clean but damp nappies over the luggage in the back of the car and they were dry by the time we got to our final destination... we had a stationwagon though.