We always used to carry an adapter kit, but it was really a pain to use and it finally blew when Lynn was using her curling iron at 1500W. Since then we have found that we've always been able to borrow one from the hotels that we've stayed at. That's HK, Singapore, Agra, Cairo, Luxor, Athens, Rome, Buenos Aires, Lima, Papeete, Cape Town( borrowed one from the folks we were visiting ). In Cairo at the Four Seasons we had to wait about 1/2 hour and the converter they brought us was about a foot square, but it worked great. Everywhere else we just picked one up at the desk.