OREI 3 in 1 UK Travel Adapter Plug with USB and Surge Protection - Grounded Type G - Great Britain, Hong Kong, Singapore & More

These outlet converters are durable and easy to use. Purchased 3 different times for use in East Africa. Keep having to buy new ones because I leave them in our science research lab when I come back to the US. They are just that good.

These travel adapters are excellent! I live in Tanzania and I treasure this little gadget. I plug my laptop into the grounded outlet, my cell phone charger into the top, and my external battery into the bottom USB outlet. Bam! Three essentials charging simultaneously. It never gets hot, feels very sturdy in the hand, and is yet small enough to fit easily in my backpack or camera bag. I love this unit, and I will buy more when I return to the states.One caveat: my first Orei adapter burnt out while I was working in a cafe in Moshi. The cafe runs a generator which switches on during Tanzania's frequent power outages, and that morning it must have fired up 15 or 20 times in the hour. I heard two loud sparks and turned around to see my poor adapter smoking! That was end for my Orei, but my laptop and cell phone chargers survived the electrical fire unscathed. So watch out for that kind of generator behavior.

There is one thing that bothers me: It has to do with the large plug receptacle on the front of this adapter. It works fine with the standard US (110V) 3-prong plug, (Perhaps the slightly longer round grounding prong releases the safety shutter so that the other two blades can enter the adapter.) Also the two-blade (non-polarized) plugs found on the small USB adapter-transformers used for cellphones, etc. can be easily inserted into the front receptacle of this adapter. BUT a standard US (110V) two-blade polarized plug (where one of the blades is slightly wider) cannot be inserted into the front of this adapter. In summary, it seems the safety shutter allows the the two-blade non-polarized plug to enter, but it blocks the two-blade polarized plug. I'm not sure how or why it makes that distinction. (My guess is that the safety shutter was added as a result of comments about the danger of children inserting things into the front openings of this receptacle. And with 240V I understand that concern.) BTW the top-facing receptacle can be used by both polarized and non-polarized two-blade US plugs. But why does the front-facing receptacle make a distinction? I'm just not sure if my unit is defective.

Took this with me on my recent trip to Cardiff Wales in the UK. Used it to power a Surface Pro 2 and a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone - no problems! My only wish for this item is that it came with a plastic cover to go over and protect the connector pins. But it has bounced around in my backpack all week without any problems. Photographed next to my full-sized Logitech Mouse for scale. The green and orange Active lights also shine through the additional set of ports at the top.The USB port at the bottom also works just fine. It's just blocked by the desk at this particular work station. The only upgrade I could ask for would be for the pins to be in a swivel so this plug could be more efficiently used in tight spaces like this!

Visited London, England and Swansea, Wales, UK, from US. Worked just fine. I used my rapid charger on it and I did find that the rapid charger got hot, and I think it is just good sense anyway to pay attention when things are plugged in and unplug when you are asleep or leaving the room. This was perfect because I could plug in the rapid charger for USB - charging, the computer with the three-prong grounded plug, and then an extra usb charging cable if needed. But I mostly just used the rapid charger because we were always in a hurry to go somewhere.

We used this easily in Great Britain. However, we never tried the usb port although we needed it with all our electronics-phones, cameras, ipad, itouch! We were afraid of how much power it was going to give. No problems except some hotel outlets were at the desk and we couldn't use the underneath one. In some of the hotels you have to leave the lights on to activate outlets, but some are active all the time. Others there is a switch on the outlet to turn it on. If the item isn't charging, make sure the outlet is live. Because of its larger size, it was easy not to leave behind.

I bought one of these in advance of a trip to England and Scotland. It worked great on the trip. I liked the way that the plugs were laid out on the adapter, allowing me to plug my computer in on the top, my iphone to the USB plug on the bottom and my wife's iphone using the normal usb to american plug adapter on the front. One stop charging for everything we needed with no issues. I also thought it was pretty fairly priced. I'd recommend this. I found it's best to wrap it in something in your carry-on so the plugs don't poke things. I kept it in a spare shoe and that worked great.

Great plug--recently used in Scotland. Fit snugly in every outlet, great to be able to use plug while also charging my phone via the USB. I couldn't put standard plugs into the three pronged port on the front--they didn't seem to fit. (I thought a regular non grounded plug should fit into a grounded 3 pronged port, but maybe I'm wrong...I'm no electrician) I just put my regular plugs into the bottom port. I was very happy with this adapter---this was all I needed for all of my electronics/appliances.This is NOT a converter (I didn't need a converter) This is just the adapter plug--if your appliances are not dual voltage you'll need an adapter as well.

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Works perfectly fine with phone charger adapters, hair straighteners and much more appliances. Fits awesome ! Works great in the united kingdom.