Chris
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Post by Chris on Feb 21, 2005 19:33:24 GMT -5
Do you think a wrist watch alarm would work as an alarm clock instead of a travel alarm clock?
Also, do travel alarm clocks wake up everyone in the dorm?
Thanks.
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Post by ERIKAerikaErika on Feb 21, 2005 19:37:03 GMT -5
As long as you can hear it to get up, a wrist watch alarm should be fine.
I had a palm pilot with me, which I used as an alarm. It only once (out of 6 weeks of dorm sleeping) woke someone up. I didnt hear it, so the guy shook me awake.
Plus snoring is 19 times worse than an alarm!
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Chris
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Post by Chris on Feb 21, 2005 20:34:23 GMT -5
Ya, im prepared for the snoring. I got some ear plugs.
Hopefully I can hear it, but I dont know... I'd have to get a pretty loud one.
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Post by Tracie on Feb 22, 2005 1:09:23 GMT -5
I think a watch would be fine. I used a travel alarm clock and it was great. I still use it all the time. It has one of those indiglo faces that came in handy.
I was awoken many times by other people's alarm clocks. In one hostel a girl was out partying and she left her alarm clock locked in a locker. It went off in the middle of the night and continued to go off every ten minutes until she came back a few hours later. Not a fun night. Hazards of dorm accomodation.
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wease81
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Post by wease81 on Mar 8, 2005 13:10:19 GMT -5
 With earplugs in, I cannot hear my wristwatch alarm. I came within seconds of missing my flight out of A'dam. When I checked into my hostel near the train station, the clerk asked if I needed a wakeup call. Luckily I said sure and made it for 5:30, the next train to the airport left at 6:00. I made it from dead asleep to the station in 30 min., then got to the flight and was the last on. Thankfully there were no big lines at the check-in counters at that hour.
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Post by me on Mar 9, 2005 0:50:51 GMT -5
early on: more often than not, my arm was under the covers, so the wrist watch alarm didn't wake me. i bought a battery travel alarm on my 1st trip, but it died. [It was a Braun! should have lasted a few weeks!] i since got a better wind-up travel alarm in US. hasn't failed me in the years i've had it. - d Do you think a wrist watch alarm would work as an alarm clock instead of a travel alarm clock? |
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justin
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Post by justin on Mar 29, 2005 2:49:17 GMT -5
I used my Nokia phone alarm feature. Its loud as hell or soft----- as its adjustable!
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With earplugs in, I cannot hear my wristwatch alarm. I came within seconds of missing my flight out of A'dam. When I checked into my hostel near the train station, the clerk asked if I needed a wakeup call. Luckily I said sure and made it for 5:30, the next train to the airport left at 6:00. I made it from dead asleep to the station in 30 min., then got to the flight and was the last on. Thankfully there were no big lines at the check-in counters at that hour. 