One outlet at your resort? Fix it.

Here’s a small annoyance that hits every single night of the trip: not enough outlets.

Between everyone’s phones, watches, portable chargers, and a tablet for the kids, a family needs five or six things charged by morning. Hotel rooms give you maybe one or two free outlets, usually behind the nightstand or across the room, and you end up rotating devices and waking up to a half-charged phone.

The fix is a compact travel power strip with a flat plug. The flat plug sits flush against the wall so it actually fits behind furniture, and a few outlets plus a couple of USB ports turn one wall socket into enough to charge the whole family overnight. It packs down small and weighs almost nothing.

One thing to know: bring a simple power strip, not a bulky surge protector with a big transformer block. Some hotels have restrictions on large surge protectors, and the compact travel strips are designed for exactly this. You don’t need surge protection for charging phones anyway.

Drop it on the nightstand the first night, plug everything in, and you stop thinking about it for the rest of the trip. It’s a few dollars that quietly fixes a problem you’d otherwise fight every morning.