Things we're glad we brought on our honeymoon

[major_clanger]

attimes_bracing and I can report that our honeymoon was considerably enhanced by a small gadget that plugged into the mains.




It's the Anker 40W 5-port USB charger, which I bought after seeing it recommended by sbisson. It's tiny - the size of a deck of cards - and the only other thing you need to bring is an appropriate mains lead. What you get to leave behind is up to five USB chargers, not to mention the hassle of trying to find sockets for all of them in a typical hotel room.

This unit happily charged two iPhones, an iPad 2 and an iPad Mini overnight, and packed away in seconds - we didn't bother unplugging all the leads, just wrapped them around it and stuck it in a small bag pocket. It's about £20 on Amazon, and I'd highly recommend it if you travel as gadget-laden as we do.

Comments

[rmc28]

Ooh, that looks useful. Thank you.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Anker make excellent USB gadgets - I'm currently using their 9-port hub.

I shall look into this one - thanks!

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Using mine on our current US trip. Glad you found it useful too!

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Yes. I use their USB 3.0 gigabit ethernet adapter...

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I'm off to France in a few weeks, on trains with a back pack for about 10 days. I think I might need one of those.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The damned things disappeared off every site I could find for a while, which is why I didn't have one for the Basel trip. But happily they reappeared, and we have one now.

And we had it in Glasgow.

When you're somewhere, such as a Scotrail sleeper bar car, with perhaps a single accessible mains socket, getting 5 items charging is great.

(We have one pair of items it explicitly warns it can't charge, but we don't use those any more so we don't mind.)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Should probably get something like that for our Canada trip.