I am traveling to Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague and Vienna. My last trip was to Italy and I left my "southern Europe" adapter in my hotel by accident. My kit also comes with a "northern Europe" adapter and I was wondering if this will work.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19095 posts
The difference between the No. and So. Europe adapters is that the No. Europe ones have larger diameter pins. Both pin sizes (No. and So.) work in the northern receptacles, but the northern pins are probably too big for the Italian receptacles. The pin diameter on the northern adapter should be the same size as those of the modified Shuko plug used in Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, and Austria. I'm not sure about Prague, but the No. adapter should work in the other cities.
http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm#plugs
Posted by
New York City, NY, USA
5678 posts
Travel stores often have information on which adapters work where. If in doubt I would check. Although you can buy adapters once you're there, but I couldn't find a converter when I lost mine--even in Berlin.
Pam
Posted by
Austin TX after living in Boulder CO for 25 years
1166 posts
Wow! I did not know that there was difference in the north and south ! We have been to each of these cities and only took the adapter with the round tips which we purchased at a luggage store at our mall for $3.99. It worked in each of these cities.
Posted by
Orlando
191 posts
I bought an adapter from Rick Steves Travel Store and it supposedly is good for the continent and I'm to be in both "northern" and "southern" Europe starting next week. I just took another peak on the Travel Store and Rick offers only two adapters...one for Britain and the other for the continent. Sure hope the adapter I bought will work everywhere I'm going to be traveling.
I know I made one mistake and didn't buy enough...taking a computer, hair dryer and two mp3players along.