Using Your Electrical Devices While Traveling Through Scotland. (Information taken from About.com) European power, power converters, plugs and more - What you need to know about plugging in on our Discover Scotland Tour. | |||||
When you travel through Europe, one thing you’ll notice in your hotel room might very well be the wall sockets. They're different. They're big. The second thing you'll probably notice is that there aren't a lot of them. Power, you see, is quite expensive in Europe. So what you need to run that laptop, hair dryer, electric shaver, or charge your cell phone is a doohickey that converts your plug so that it fits the sockets used in Scotland. No problem. They're cheap. You can buy plug converters at Walmart, Target, and Kmart stores in the UP as well as electrical and hardware stores in Europe. Before you say, "Cool. I'm off and running!" I need to warn you of something: what's coming out of that socket is a whopping 220 volts at 50 cycles, twice the voltage of American power systems. It may be way too much for your appliance. Remember: an adapter plug doesn't convert the voltage, it just converts the hardware plug, you also need the Power Converter. (See the definitions below).
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We'd like to invite you to join us on our Discover Scotland! tour next April. To whet your appetite for the trip, scroll through the blogs below to learn all about haggis, Edinburgh Castle, whisky and more. For the complete itinerary, click here.