Digital Travel Alarm Clock - No Bells, No Whistles, Simple Basic Operation, Loud Alarm, Snooze, Small and Light, ON/Off Switch, 2 AAA Battery Powered, Black

The clock is very compact and useful for travel. For a digital travel clock in this price range, it does what it should. I do suggest taking some time to read the manual really quick so you're not confused about the alarm, how it works, and setting it. The clock is hard plastic casing, with blue LED light button that is a bit dim even in low-light but it does only require AA batteries after all. The display is a bit dim in regular light conditions, but this is not intended to be top of the line travel gear.It's a basic clock to set up and use once you familiarize yourself with the buttons on the back/top of the case. Some alarm clocks are too easy to turn off the alarm by accident instead of snoozing it, and this one has some added protection in that you must reach behind the clock for the medium-sized ALARM button to turn it completely off. Hitting the mode button changes between time and alarm mode and will show you the alarm set time which can be changed from there by hitting the set button. Then you adjust the alarm time and date as needed and hitting mode to exit or "confirm." Then you can toggle between your alarm and the actual time. The "alarm on" icon is rather small, and at the top right above the colon between the hour and the minute. Make sure you have the alarm toggled on while setting the alarm.The snooze apparently will go off indefinitely until you turn the alarm off. In large display is the current time (12 or 24 hour choice), and as some nice additional features, it also displays the current date and weekday. There's only one alarm. It starts out quiet and increases in volume and intensity pretty quickly. The alarm is not old fashion "screaming at you alarm" but pulses or beeps. I say a heavy sleeper might want a back-up device to this such as your phone, etc.Don't forget to unlock the clock buttons after you're done for the day and all set for the night, you'll be flabbergasted for quite some time trying to figure out why none of the buttons work ;-)My only complaints this far are minor out outweigh the positives. Firstly, the "alarm set/on" could be made larger and placed on the left side where it's more noticeable. Secondly, I was hoping it would lock you out of the clock buttons on it's own when closed, but it doesn't. So you have to remember to toggle the switch before you relocate your clock, but in this price range, that's not a super-common feature anyway for these clocks. The clock display could be brighter as well as the LED. However, it only uses 2 triple A batteries, so it will be interesting to see how much life I get out of a set of batteries by using it once a day for a week.

I bought this clock months ago and finally got to use it on a trip. It worked great! I like the fact that it closes when you flip the cover over the clock, so the face won't get damaged in my suitcase. The cover, when flipped under the clock, acts as a stand for the clock. The time set easily, and it was also easy to set the alarm. There are buttons on the front that are used to set the time and the alarm. I really like the fact that it also has a switch on the back that turns off the face of the clock to save the battery when you're not using it. I have never had a travel clock that did that. It has a blue light that comes on when you push the "Light" button on top, but that just stays on for a few seconds. The alarm is a beep that is plenty loud to wake me up but not so loud that it startled me.I am very pleased with this little travel alarm clock and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a simple digital travel clock that is easy to set up and easy to use.

I bought one of these so I could take all the phone and tablets out of our bedroom, and still know what time it was in the middle of the night, and set the alarm. Using it for travel is just a bonus. (I haven't used it for travel yet.)The clock is very nicely designed and easy to use. When switched to "off" and with the lid shut, pressing the light button won't do anything, so you can put it in your luggage or your pocket without the battery wearing down. Then when you switch it "on" again, it's already showing the right time. My wife finds the alarm noise annoying but for me it's just right, not too loud or too quiet.The reason I'm taking a star off is because of the second one I ordered. I liked the first so much, I ordered a second one for my wife—but the light button on this one doesn't work nearly so well. Whereas on the first one it's very easy to turn on the light, on the second one I got the light button has to be pressed right in the center to work—if you press near the back of the button (the easiest place to aim for), nothing happens at all. This is a quality control issue.I opened up the alarm clock to look and nothing is obviously broken or missing. Possibly later I'll open up the first unit I bought to be able to compare. For now, both work just fine as clocks *and* alarm clocks, but the light on the second unit is harder to turn on that it should be. (My wife doesn't mind, though.)UPDATE: I got another one to keep in my office. The button works fine on this one, but the display is a different type: smaller, thinner numbers than shown in the product image. Photo attached showing the newer one on the left and one of the older ones on the right. The older one is easier to read with fatter numbers; also the numbers shown take up more of the available space since in the older one the first digit isn't a full seven-segment display (since it will only ever be the number "1"). The newer one has four full seven-segment numbers, so the time shown takes up less space (i.e. is shown smaller). I like the old design better and it's much clearer and easier to read at a glance.

Exactly what I was looking for. No charger, no bells and whistles. Just a simple dark clock with no lit up face (until I need to see the time and push the top button). So easy to use. I was hoping to find something exactly like this to replace my old worn out battery operated alarm clock! This should last me the next 20 years. Love it. Simple. I have enough electronics. I just wanted a simple bedside clock. Perfect.