Monster Outlets-to-Go Giveaway

by Gary Leff

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed the Outlets to Go power strip.

I hate that hotels, older hotels in particular, never seem to have enough power outlets. And the ones they do have are completely taken up by the lamps by the bedside. Or the lamp on the desk taking up the only outlet there. And between my laptop, cell phone, iPod, and wireless router I do have power needs. I’ve even considered carrying power strips along with me when I travel, but never did. …

This item is small enough for travel, though, and designed for compactness. The power cord wraps right around the small power strip and plugs into itself. The outlets are well spaced so that they’re all usable, and it has a USB plug-in as well.

The only complaint everyone seems to have about this device is the bright blue indicator light showing the device is on. Yes, it’s too bright, but really didn’t bother me a bit.

From the comments, the product seemed to resonate with several of you as well — some folks have their own preferred solution, but the need for a product to conveniently make more outlets available, in a hotel room or at an airport, is pretty universal.

Well, Monster (the company that makes the Outlets to Go product) saw my review and liked it, and they’ve offered to give three away to my readers. (This may not be as exciting as the $300 Marriott gift card that Lucky recently gave away, but the product is useful and for three of you, free.)

We’ll run this contest until noon eastern time on Wednesday, December 16th. You can enter simply by replying in the comments to this post. Of course you need to include a valid email address in your profile when replying so that Monster can contact you for your shipping address.

I’ll use an online random number generator to select the 3 numbers that correspond to comment numbers in the post, and those will be the winners.  You can post as often as you like in the comments to this thread, and each comment represents a unique entry. Good luck!

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  27. Well, why not. Although I actually went and bought one of these after your review, another one wouldn’t be too many… 😉

  33. Winning would be grand ~Nice of Monster to offer! Bad email on the earlier post. sorry, fingers were flying!

  39. What a coinky-dink!

    I’ve been seriously thinking I need to get me some sort out travel outlet and/or extension cord solution to make up for the lack of outlets when travelling

  45. I put this on my office Christmas wish list after your post, but in the (likely) scenario that whoever drew my name doesn’t get me what I want, I would happily win your drawing! 🙂

  48. Gary – Great year with the blog. Keep it up. Cheers – and always can use another gadget.

  63. I forgot to add, this has become my default Christmas gift and 3 relatives will be getting one.

  75. Bought a Belkin product last month that doesn’t have a cord, and am kicking myself I didn’t go with the Monster. Now I need one!

  83. It sounds like a gret product!

    Thank you for offering the giveaway and for always sharing great information!

  99. As someone that travels 100K + a year, I would LOVE to have one of these for my travels. Thanks

  119. After reading your post a few weeks ago I put this item in my amazon cart but haven’t pushed buy yet so this is my lucky shot!

  123. I have always wanted the monster pw strip. It will be much better than my orange triple outlet that has no surge supression

  134. With only 124 comments so far, the chances don’t seem so very bad. Thanks for keeping us well-informed!

  261. The only potential downside is if the TSA pulls your bag and asks you what you have, and you say “A Monnnnsterrrrr”….

  262. I work with many fellow travelers which would love this product. We could show it off at our big seminars.

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  404. and to put him back together again, all the kings horses and all the kings men brought humpty dumpty a powerstrip for his next travels up the wall.

  450. was driving my mom’s car today. decided to check out what she was listening to in her CD player. It was romantic spanish songs sung by the chipmunks….????

  504. I love Monster cables, and thanks to your Twitter post about this contest for bringing this to my attention. I’d love one.

  670. I so agree with your hotels comments. All these hotels offer free wifi which is perfect for working on the bed, but then don’t have a power outlet available within 10 yards. argh. Would love to win it to take on my layovers.

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