Hotel rooms and office desks have the same annoying habit: there’s always exactly one outlet within reach, and it’s never where you need it. You end up choosing between charging your laptop or your phone, or contorting a power bar across the room with a cord that’s way too long for how far you actually need to go.

The ORICO Travel Power Strip solved that for me, both on the road and at the office.

Why it earned a spot in my bag

It packs 4 outlets and 3 USB ports, including one USB-C, into a compact strip with a short 4-foot wrapped cord. That length is the whole point: it’s just enough to reach from an outlet to a desk or nightstand without a long trailing cable getting tangled in your bag or underfoot. Because the cord is short and the strip itself is small, it stores easily. It doesn’t add real bulk to a carry-on or a work bag, which matters when you’re already tight on space.

A few details that make it genuinely useful, not just compact:

  • 4 outlets plus 3 USB ports (1 USB-C): enough to charge a laptop, phone, tablet, and something else at the same time, without hunting for a second outlet across theroom
  • 4FT wrapped cord: short enough to stay tidy, long enough to actually reach where you’re sitting or working
  • Small footprint: doesn’t take up room in your bag, whether that’s a daypack, laptopbag, or the outside pocket of a suitcase
  • Not a surge protector: worth knowing going in.

This is built for convenience and outlet expansion, not surge protection, so keep that in mind if you’re plugging in sensitive electronics somewhere with unstable power

Where it actually gets used

  • In the conference room at the office, where one outlet somehow always needs topower three devices at once
  • At the airport or in the airport lounge, where seating is scarce and so is anythingnear an outlet
  • On the road, in hotel rooms where the only outlet is behind the nightstand or acrossthe room from where I actually want to sit
  • Travelling abroad, where I only need to bring one plug converter and can still power everything through the strip’s own outlets and USB ports, instead of packing a separate converter for every device

That last one is the real win for international trips. One converter, one small strip, and every device I’m carrying can charge at once.

The bottom line

It’s not trying to be a full surge protector or a heavy-duty power bar. It’s a small, practical fix for the specific problem of never having enough outlets exactly where you’re sitting, whether that’s a hotel room, a cruise cabin, or a desk at the office.