// PC GAMER — GAMING
You deserve a travel power adapter you actually like for your next trip
Get rid of those oversized all-in-one chunks of plastic.
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When I was a writer for The Wirecutter more than a decade ago, we were obsessed with finding and recommending the singular best version of any specific product, because it felt like there was so much crap to wade through online. Today I wistfully long for the Amazon of 2013, before it came to be overrun by endless samey garbage from alphabet soup "brands" called things like HORUSDY and EHEYCIGA.
If you're really looking for the cheapest thing you can get, you'll find those same products without the dropshipping markup on Aliexpress; and if you want the "best" thing, even seemingly personal recommendations on sites like Reddit are fraught as companies astroturf the site hoping to game AI search. So when I find a bit of kit that I really like that falls somewhere in the middle and is simply good, I feel like it's my duty to evangelize it a little bit.
That's the case with the Ceptics Travel Adapter, which has accompanied me to China, Korea, the UK, and Brazil in the last few years. There are a gazillion power adapter options out there that'll get the job done, but this is the only one I've owned that I can say I really like for international travel, and that's because it's simple and flexible.
Traveling to game conventions and studios is my favorite part of my job at PC Gamer, and when I don't have a work trip lined up, I'm probably planning a personal one based on cheap flight deals. I bought one of these Ceptics adapters before traveling to India for a wedding in 2019, and liked it enough to buy a newer one (with the 30W USB-C port) in 2025. I wonder what country will next require me to add another of the swappable plugs to my collection?
If you also love to travel, I highly recommend logging your flights, like I do with MyFlightRadar24. It's so fun being able to look back and see everywhere I've been!
If you own a travel adapter, chances are it's enormous. Almost every model out there is some variation of an oversized chunker that crams three or four different plugs into a single body, with one, maybe two sockets for you to plug your stuff into. And then they're usually chock full of USB ports that put out a measly few watts if you plug in more than one device.
The main reason I don't like these things is how bulky they are. They can be hard to fit onto a cramped socket, and there's also a chance the all-in-one approach won't actually work for the country you're traveling to. Annoying!
A travel adapter with just the bits you need, and none of the bits you don't!