Originally Posted by
adventuroustraveller
I do all of the above plus a good old-fashioned travel alarm clock.
Problem is I keep knocking the alarm clock to the floor. I reckon it's gonna conk out one day. Murphy's law dictates that this will happen on the morning I have a 4am start after checking in at 1am on an occasion where power cuts mean my phone didn't charge overnight so the phone alarm didn't go off as well.
Any suggestions, apart from carrying 2 travel alarm clocks?
Well, in situations where every conceivable alarm device all fail at once, you could use some sort of mental discipline to
will yourself awake at the proper time.
A wise man once said, "The trained mind does not need a watch. Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss."
Personally, I use phone, travel alarm, and hotel alarm clock when I need triple redundancy. Strangely, when things are that important, my undisciplined mind generally seems to wake me thirty minutes before the alarm.