Best Universal Travel Adapters (2026): 5 Picks That Charge Everything
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. The £4 adapter that nearly killed my laptop I bought it from a kiosk at Gatwick because I’d forgotten mine — a flimsy £4 block with four flags printed on the side. By the second night in London it had stopped charging my MacBook, and when I wiggled the plug there was a faint smell of hot plastic and a spark I felt in my teeth. I spent the rest of that work trip nursing one bar of battery and writing emails in cafés purely to borrow their wall sockets. ...