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The hotel shuttle made stops at 4 other cruise ships before dropping up and other passengers off a the Sky Princess, the last stop for the hotel shuttle.
From a much earlier Princess cruise I figured out how to keep our mobile phones on each side of the bed while they are charging overnight. My wife likes to keep her notebook computer by her bedside and this also allows her to keep it plugged in. On every cruise we have found that there is at least one European 220 volt, sometimes one on each side under the bed. Often the nightstand lights will be plugged in these outlets leaving no room to plug anything else in. I always bring along European 220 volt splitters that also convert to other outlet styles. Thus I can unplug the nightstand lamp, plug in my splitter, plug the nightstand lamp back into the splitter, and still have additional outlet slots on the splitter to plug what I want to plug in. My splitter is NOT a voltage converter. It DOESN NOT step down the voltage to 110 volts. However, ALL the electric items that I bring on the cruise accept any input voltate between 110 volts and 240 volts, so I don't have to worry about converting the voltage.
On the Sky Princess there was a totally unused European 220 volt outlet on my wife's side of the bed. For that side I plugged in a European 220 volt splitter that has a couple of US 110 volt style outlets (though the output is still 220 volts). That let me plug in her notebook computer that runs on 110 through 240 volts. It also has two 5 volt USB outlets that I used for her mobile phone. On my side I had to use the European 220 volt splitter that does not have 5 volt USB outlets so I had to plug a 5 volt USB charger into that splitter.
Just remember NEVER to plug anything that will only run on 110 volts into a 220 volt outlet or you will probably blow out your device and might blow a circuit breaker on the ship. Also, NEVER use a Surge Protector on a cruise ship. Since ships have no real grounding, they really don't work on ships, and can actually cause corrosion to the hull of the ship. Most ships prohibit the use of Surge Protectors and may confiscate them if they find them in your cabin or even in your luggage.
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