I’ve traveled 50,000 miles with the world’s most powerful travel adaptor — it’s the only one I trust to charge all my tech

For work and life, I travel regularly with a lot of tech — usually carrying a mess of five travel adaptors. But over the past few months, I’ve been able to charge all eight devices in my everyday carry with the single most powerful travel adaptor in the world.

Meet the $119 Tessan Voyager 205. Yes it’s quite a chunky plug, but compared to carrying multiple in a carry-on, it condenses things nicely.

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Put simply, it’s been a savior for a techie like me, and it’s a must-buy ahead of upcoming vacations! Let me explain.

Stop one: Las Vegas

January is either an exciting or anxious month for tech journalists, because it starts with an annual pilgrimage to Sin City for CES 2026. To keep up with the demands of numerous keynotes, briefings and demos, my tech setup is complex — only getting bigger the more companies I see.

And this year, it was a monster as I led the team through it:

M5 MacBook Pro
Steam Deck
Two portable batteries (one with 40,000 mAh capacity)
DJI Osmo Pocket 3
Sony ZV-E10 camera
And then my assorted pocketables and wearables — iPhone 15 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Ultra 2, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, etc.

All different devices with all different levels of power requirements to either charge or run. Normally, that would mean multiple U.S. plug adaptors across my hotel room for different purposes.

But this time around, I was able to condense it all into a single charging zone in the room. With three USB-C sockets on the face of it offering 45 watts, that was enough for my smaller devices, whereas the ports on the bottom with a 160 watt capability handled the bigger things.

No cable chaos — just all in one spot and ready to pick up the devices needed.

Stop two: Europe

Troubadour Apex 3.0 Backpack — (Image credit: Future)

Next up, a range of different trips across Poland, Germany, Spain and Italy. Once again, my device configurations changed based on the requirements of the trip. For MWC 2026 specifically, I took a note out of Anthony’s book and setup a mini PC + AR glasses setup in my hotel room!

So now, not only are we thinking about the adaptor or USB-C ports, we’re now using the plug conversion — the Voyager covers all bases as you can see. It was able to run my mini PC effectively while still charging multiple devices simultaneously, such is the versatility of this plug.

Heads-up on a quick frustration, though, the size and weight can make it a pain to keep stuck into flat E.U. plugs, as the pins can slip out easily on the downward-facing pressure.

I worked around this by pushing it up with the hotel room bible, and there are some certain E.U. sockets that are flush. But if Tessan could work a stand into the design or maybe some sort of angularity to the adaptor pins to offset the weight, that’d fix the issue here.

Stop three: Home

And finally, I returned to a mountain of junk mail. Plug-wise, it’s similar in nature to my Vegas hotel room setup of old — different plugs for different zones. This usually gives my apartment quite a chaotic, busy vibe to it with different things charging on different surfaces.

But now with this, I was able to have a single dedicated shelf in my living room to the charging station. It’s a cinch to just pull everything I need tech-wise for a trip from one location and stash it all in my carry-on!

Oh, and beyond the auto shut-off under high thermal and electrical loads, shout-out to the spare fuse packed directly into the adaptor. In a world of stingy adaptors where you’d need to find a hardware store in clutch moments (and lose these tiny blighters easily), this is huge for long-term upkeep.

Yes, it’s pricey at $119 compared to dirt-cheap single-plug adaptors. But it’s a seriously worthwhile long-term investment for anyone with a whole lot of tech to power in many countries.

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Jason brings a decade of tech and gaming journalism experience to his role as a Managing Editor of Computing at Tom's Guide. He has previously written for Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, Stuff and BBC Science Focus. In his spare time, you'll find Jason looking for good dogs to pet or thinking about eating pizza if he isn't already.

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