More power outlet travel tips
Personally I don’t think we can post enough business travel pimps. It’s one of those things that lots of us do and there are so many tricks of the trade that we’ll always find more to share. So as a continuation on the series (general pimps, WiFi on the Road), I found a post on Global Nerdy (love that title) with a couple links to NYT articles on common travel issues, finding power outlets in airports and WiFi on the road. I skipped the WiFi article, because I think that has been done to death, but the power outlet article is interesting. I have a similar thing finding power on B.C. Ferries. Wherever you are, thinking like the cleaning crew is a great tip as is Joey’s tip of carrying a multi-outlet plug to share the power with others (very Canadian, I do this as well). What I hope we don’t see is a proliferation of power-for-pay setups. That will be a royal pain. I think airports (and ferries) should add more plugs and we do need to be courteous as well. I have to give BC Ferries props for having little desk work areas on larger ferries with a light and power plug. I camp out on those often on long trips (3 hours is the longest I’d be on the ferry, 40 mins is my usual transit time). I have also noticed that the long-awaited Internet access on ferries might be coming soon since on a couple ferries I’ve noticed Ethernet jacks on the work areas.
Since we’ve had a bunch of work travel pimps posts now, I’m interested what some of your best tips are. What’s your best tip for traveling and keeping it all together?
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5 opinions for More power outlet travel tips
Eric Eggertson
Dec 1, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Great photo! My tip is to photocopy everything that’s in my wallet, and leave the copy with someone at home.
Then, if I lose the wallet, I know what was in there, and can cancel cards, etc., more easily. It’s also a good opportunity to weed out the junk that doesn’t need to be in my wallet.
Tris Hussey
Dec 3, 2006 at 2:38 pm
That’s a great tip Eric!
Darren
Dec 3, 2006 at 4:25 pm
that photo reminded me of my recent transit through LAX where every powerpoint in every gate lounge I went into had someone sitting next to it just like that.
I always travel with a double adapter so that I can piggy back on/share someone else’s power outlet when there’s a high demand.
Although recently I joined my airline of choice’s lounge/club so I can relax between flights and not have to work from the floor (most have desks and/or lounges where you can work from with plenty of power outlets). I figured the $300 or so per year fee would be well worth it as over the coming years I’ll be spending a lot more time in transit.
Tris Hussey
Dec 3, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Hey Darren, thanks for stopping by! Yes I think the business lounges are good investments for business travellers. From my last post, and given the talk of power, I can’t stress enough getting a small surge supressor for your laptop. I plug in with little fear knowing that I’m pretty covered.
I suppose Darren that you also carry the motherlode of adapters for various power systems too.
Darren
Dec 3, 2006 at 5:37 pm
yeah - it is a bit of a pain to have to have all the adapters (I generally travel with two for each country so I can charge my camera/laptop/flash/ipod etc :-)
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