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In Berlin this year I stayed at a *new* hotel which only had two spare power points per room. And these were rooms designed for two guests! Two people could easily have six devices to charge between them. Cue me unplugging the TV etc to charge stuff. #travel mastodon.social/@ASegar/115759…

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Attached: 1 image Have you ever been frustrated with the lack of power outlets in hotel rooms? Especially when you're perusing your laptop in bed? Me too! https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.
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Andre Louis

1. Premier Inn recently, by the side of the bed was a USB-A port and a USB_C port, but no power.
Since Mac is a strange but wonderful beast, I plugged it's charger into the USB-C port and it pulled only 7 Watts.
So long as I didn't do anything strenuous (and why would I, it was night-time anyway) it didn't discharge, but neither did it charge further.
The power of ARM...

2. On a cruise with my wife and kids recently for a week, the kid's bedroom had 0 sockets in it, no that's not a typo, 0 sockets at all.
We had to request an extension from reception and disconnect the TV in the living room and run the cable under their door.
for us, same situation, but we had 1 socket on my wife's side of the bed but not mine.
In both cases I was sensible and had packed some four-way extension cables so we could at least plug all our gear in, but needed a longer cable from wall to plug...
No idea what fools designed a family cabin without proper sockets but if I ever meet them, I will give them seventeen pieces of my mind...

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@FreakyFwoof Sadly, this is my experience with a huge number of places. Either 1. there is no socket. 2. There is one socket which is badly placed. 3. There are sockets which are taken up by other things and are difficult to unplug. 4. there are USB sockets which don't work properly. It doesn't matter at all when the place was built, or seems not to. I'm sick of it and to the point of bringing a USB charging station with USB C and a few USB C banks. These can charge laptops/phones, so long as you have a few you can put some to be charged near the single socket using the charging station, and don't need to run cable to anywhere. It's also useful to have them around if you're going to work somewhere, or even if you're a tourist who wants to be out for a long day.
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