Electrical adaptor for Italy

RMKH

I'm travelling to Italy in a few days and the hotel I'm staying in has a three-prong socket (three pins in a line which seems to be common in some places over there). I'm wondering if I will need a special adaptor or if the standard European two-pin adapter will fit? I've asked in some electrical stores around Dublin but none were familiar with the Italian three-pin set-up. Has anyone had any experience of this or would you know where I can find a suitable adaptor in the Dublin area? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

surdah

I am just back from Italy and the European 2 pronged adaptor does not fit those 3 pin sockets. I had about 3 with me but there was only one socket in my room that fitted the 2 pronged plug. You could ask in the hotel/appartment you are staying in as they actually had some adaptors from the 3 pin to the 2 pin european socket in the appartment we were staying in which we only found on the last day.

undo

Italy has a mish-mash of systems. Traditional Italian plugs come in two incompatible three-pronged variants for lower and higher currents. Low current sockets will accept Europlugs (the flat two-pronged European plugs). High current sockets will not accept any European plugs. But then there are hybrids: Sockets that accept low and high current Italian plugs (and thus Europlugs as well) and hybrids accepting European type F plugs.

Even if you get an Italian adapter, you have to take a guess at whether your hotel room will have low or high current sockets. If you buy an adapter to Italian three-pronged low current and your hotel has high current only, you will still have to head out to the shops and buy an adapter locally. I love Italy .

RMKH

Thanks a mill for your help guys. Sounds like I should wait and see what the set-up is at the hotel before getting an adaptor locally.

Leopold.

Where in Dublin city centre sells these adaptors for Italy?