Airhead emergency: adaptor!
 

Last trip hub left the adaptor in the socket. My new one came today and it doesn't fit my prongs. I'd need to pay $15.00 for a rush from Rick Steves (where I got it last time and know it works).

Unless my hair feels good I don't, though I've gone without hot air many a time.

My question is are adaptors easy to come by at BVD or Monoprix in Paris? I'm really close to BVD and sort of close to a Monoprix. They wouldn't cost $15.00, would they?

Hopefully someone will hear my plea: I'll check back later, I've other airhead business to attend to.

I don't know where you live but I bought my adaptor from Kmart.

You can get adaptors and converters from any luggage store, and from any department store that carries luggage (at least in the USA you can).

--Marv
PS: It is all your husbands fault for not having the right prong.

Hi giselle,

Radio Shack also has them.

You can buy them in Paris.

((I))

Not an adapater tip but just a wahoo because you're leaving so soon! How weird that your new one doesn't work. Have you checked Target?

Every hotel in Europe we stayed in had a blow dryer in it, why do you need an adapter?

Interpid wrote, "PS: It is all your husbands fault for not having the right prong."

It's not that he has the wrong prong, he just failed to pull it out of the socket.

:-)

Instead of buying a new adapter, why not just buy a hair dryer that works there?

You can get one at any FNAC, at BHV, or any électroménager in Paris. Cost - about 3 euros is what I paid last time.

Giselle, for the 15 bucks plus extra for shipping you could likely buy a French hair dryer!

I actually bought my last adaptor at a CAMERA store - they figure a lot of people are going on trips so they sell them there! call Ritz camera even. (mine was a pro-shop but you never know, maybe Ritz would carry em).

When we were standing at the desk in our hotel in Paris a woman approached and asked about adaptors for her cell phone. She had left the adaptor at home. The clerk pulled a box out from under the desk with a variety of adaptors. Check with the desk maybe someone else left an adaptor you can use.