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Air hostess reveals smart trick to charge your phone when overseas…

Lottie Casas August 12, 2023

Air hostess reveals smart trick to charge your phone when overseas… even if you don’t have a power adaptor

  • What do you do if your phone dies and all your travel documents are on it?
  • A TikTok flight attendant showed viewers how they PLUG their charging cables into a hotel’s TV in an emergency

What are you supposed to do if your phone runs out of battery with all your essential travel documents on it and you’ve just arrived in your hotel room abroad?

It turns out that there is a way out of this dilemma, as demonstrated by a Dutch air stewardess who has revealed her innovative to stay connected when overseas.

The TikToker reveals she uses her hotel room’s television to her advantage.

Esther, who is a flight attendant for the Dutch airline KLM, instructs travellers to ‘Use your USB cable and charge it in the TV!’

If you find yourself with a charging cable handy, locate the TV in your room, and find the input ports which should be beside the HDMi cable

Esther, who is a flight attendant for the Dutch airline KLM, instructs travellers to ‘Use your USB cable and charge it in the TV!’

She showed viewers the hack as part of a video series detailing ‘6 hotel hacks from a flight attendant’.

If you find yourself with a charging cable handy, locate the TV in your room, and find the input ports which should be beside the HDMi cable.

The majority of TVs have a ports which can fit a couple of USBs in.

But it’s important to remember that when you plug your phone into this, the TV is switched on so that there is an ongoing power supply to charge your device. 

Some TikTok users were amused, with one laughing: ‘Charger TV’, but others were grateful: ‘The KLM staff are so nice’.

Other influencers have also found similar hacks to save you time and money if you’ve found yourself in a predicament abroad.

British TikToker Liv Brooke impressed fans with her easy hack – bringing an extension lead abroad may seem obvious to some, but many neglect to do so while travelling.

British TikToker Liv Brooke impressed fans with her easy hack – bringing an extension lead abroad may seem obvious to some, but many neglect to do so while travelling

In her viral TikTok she reveals that she has multiple plugs in her travel adapter, getting the best value for money possible

It’s simple yet effective – you can charge multiple devices using one travel adapter, rather than forking out for individual ones for your laptop among other devices.

In her viral TikTok she reveals that she has multiple plugs in her travel adapter, getting the best value for money possible.

However, some TikTok users were concerned that Brooke’s hack could create a fire risk, with several remarking: ‘How to start a fire hack!!’ in the comments.

But Brooke responded to one user who instructed: ‘Please don’t do this. It will start a fire’ with ‘It didn’t… they wouldn’t make it with that many plugs if it wasn’t safe. I’ve done it for 10+ years’.

Comments were overwhelmingly positive, one user said: ‘I swear by this hack, there’s never enough plug points’.

Another TikTok user added: The year we did this it was life changing, no silly money spent on plug extensions’. 

  

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