Nooo, I hate the cots with the drop-down side!! The little metal things that hold it in place always clack when you put it back up - your worst nightmare when you've just spent forever getting bub to sleep, only to have them startle and begin screaming again because the noise of the side rail being put back up has woken them!
FIL bought us a drop-side cot for DD and once that happened a couple of times, she went back into her port-a-cot and hasn't come back out. The wooden cot is now out in the shed gathering dust and will probably wind up at Vinnie's... fixed side all the way for me.