8 Best Travel Power Strips of 2026, Reviewed

Two AC outlets instead of four sounds like a downgrade until you look at the USB side: a single 67-watt USB-C port, enough to charge a 13-inch MacBook Pro in roughly the time its own charger takes. At 0.75 inches thick, with a 5-foot cord and a 0.35-inch flat plug, the Nano is the strip for someone whose bag already contains a computer.

What we appreciated most is that it retires two pieces of gear at once — the laptop charger and the travel strip. Anker’s own figure puts a 13-inch MacBook Pro at about an hour and fifty-four minutes, and the two AC sockets still take a lamp, a camera charger, or whatever the room throws at you. The catch is that 67 watts is the strip’s whole budget rather than a per-port allowance, so the laptop charges fastest when it is the only thing on USB-C. Four USB ports and two outlets also fill up quickly with a family in one room.

Weight is the other trade. At 13.9 ounces it is a real lump in a personal item — about two phones’ worth — and on a desk between trips that does not matter, while through three airports it does. Anker backs it with a 24-month warranty and a connected-equipment guarantee, which is the most coverage in this group. For a carry-on-only trip with no computer, the ORICO packs smaller and gives up the fast USB-C to get there.

Six feet of braided cord is the reason to look at this one. Hotel rooms are laid out so the only free outlet is behind the desk, and a wrap-around strip with 2 feet of cord leaves your phone charging on the carpet; the One Beat reaches the nightstand.

The rest is a standard seven-in-one: three AC outlets and four USB, two of them USB-C. Read the fine print on those. The USB-C ports are 5V/3A, which is 15 watts — a phone port wearing a USB-C connector. Anyone who assumed USB-C meant laptop charging will be the person disappointed by this strip. The 0.35-inch 45-degree plug slides behind furniture, the housing is polycarbonate, and it is ETL and FCC listed with no surge protection, which is what most cruise rules ask for.

At the bottom of this group’s price range, it is the strip we point people to when they want a spare rather than a centerpiece. Longevity is the caveat: units that work fine and then quit inside a year are the pattern here, so the 12-month warranty is the window that counts. Buy it as the second strip, and let the good one stay plugged in at home.

This is the one to buy if your kit includes a laptop, a camera, and a phone that all want to charge at once. A single USB-C port delivers 140 watts — enough to run a 14-inch laptop at speed while the other three USB ports handle the small stuff — and the display shows what each device is actually pulling, which we found genuinely useful the first time something seemed to be charging slowly.

It is also the thinnest strip here at 0.71 inches, with a pop-up AC outlet that keeps the body flat and a 5-foot detachable cord. Detachable cuts both ways: the strip packs smaller and a damaged cord is a swap rather than a dead unit — except Anker does not sell replacement cords, so treat the one in the box as part of the product.

Two AC outlets is the ceiling, and this is the most expensive pick here by a wide margin. What the money buys is wattage and information: for a phone and a watch, the Anker Nano does the same job for about half. If your bag already carries a 140-watt laptop brick, this replaces the brick, the guesswork, and one more thing to lose.

Six AC outlets is more than anything else on this list, and they are split across three faces rather than lined up in a row, so a chunky adapter on one side does not steal the socket beside it.

For a family sharing a cabin with one wall outlet, that is the pick: six AC plus two USB-C and two USB-A, a 4-foot cord that wraps and parks its plug, and a 0.35-inch flat head. We like that the outlets face different directions — it is the difference between four usable sockets and two when everyone brings a different brick. The 10-amp, 1250-watt rating covers laptops, cameras, and chargers, and not a hair dryer or a travel kettle.

The USB side is where it gives ground. Sockets that fail and a USB-C port that loosens are what to watch for here, and the USB-C output is not a laptop-grade figure, so plan on charging a computer from an AC outlet. It is also the largest of the wrap-around strips, which is fine in a suitcase and less fine in a daypack. Reserve it for the trip where the whole family’s gear lands on one nightstand.

At 6.63 ounces, the TESSAN is the one you forget you packed. That is the whole argument for it: a body a little over three and a half inches square, a 0.35-inch angled flat plug, and a 2-foot cord that wraps around the housing with the plug parking in an outlet.

The port count is modest — three AC outlets, one USB-C at 15W, and two USB-A at 12W — and that is fine for a phone, a watch, and a tablet on a nightstand. Treat the USB-C as a phone port and nothing more; the shape is what you are buying, not the wattage. The 18-month warranty matches most of this group.

We prefer a wrapped 2 feet to a loose 6 in a daypack, and the square body sits flat on a narrow nightstand instead of hanging off the edge, which is exactly where hotel outlets put you. The limit is the cord: if the outlet is not within reach of the bed or the desk, this is the wrong strip and the One Beat’s 6 feet is the answer.

If the strip is going to live in a suitcase and come out three or four times a year, this is the one to buy. It is the least expensive route here to four AC outlets and two USB-C ports, the housing is ETL listed, and nothing about it looks improvised.

The cord is the part POWSAF got right: 4 feet wrapped around a circular channel in the housing, the plug parking in an outlet when it is packed, and a 0.35-inch head angled at 45 degrees. There is no surge protection, which is the version most cruise lines’ rules are written around — though a strip with a cord is refused outright by some lines no matter what is inside, so check the list for your ship before it goes in the bag.

Three USB ports share a 3-amp budget, and that is the number that matters. Two phones charging overnight is realistic; two phones and a tablet at once will be slow. Expect the USB-C ports to top up phones rather than to run a laptop off them.

That is a fair trade at this price. The wrap is tidy, the flat plug works behind a dresser, and if the strip is lost, left behind, or refused at the pier, the loss is small. Buy it as the second strip so the good one can stay plugged in at home.

A cube rather than a slab: the NTONPOWER GaN puts three AC outlets and four USB ports into a body 4.3 inches long and 2.3 wide, with a 4-foot cord that wraps around it and a plug that parks for storage.

The detail that decides whether it works for you is the outlets. Only one of the three AC sockets takes a three-prong plug; the other two are two-prong only. A laptop with a grounded cord goes in the single Type B socket, and that is the end of that.

Power sharing is the other thing to plan around. One USB-C port alone gives 65 watts; a laptop plus a phone splits into 45 and 20; with everything plugged in, the laptop drops to 45 while the other three ports share 15. Charge the computer first and add devices after, and the numbers stay where you expect them.

For a USB-C laptop and a phone, 65 watts of GaN charging in a body this small is a genuinely good trade, and we think it justifies the premium over the ORICO if you are not carrying a laptop brick. What holds it back is consistency: some devices do not draw the power they expect from it, so buy it for the fast port and pair it with a cable you trust.