Customer Reviews

Casio Snooze Daily Alarm Travel Clock

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I've had this travel clock for almost 10 years. I like the display a lot. The display is not lit (in other words, you can't read it in the dark) unless you push the blue button in the upper right hand corner. It does not illuminate a dark room unless you want to check the time. The back light is just right in that it doesn't blind you when you check it in the dark. It takes a soft touch to activate the back light. Just brush it with a finger. The numerals are big enough to read without glasses, and the back light turns off automatically after a few seconds. It seems very durable, and mine has been bounced off the floor many, many times. The battery cover is not very secure, flying off with the battery when it hits the floor after a clumsy attenpt to check the time in the dark. This is a problem because the clock will then need to be reset (see below). I lost the batter cover after knocking the clock on the floor in a hotel. I would advise, should this happen to you, to serch until you find the cover. Tape will work to hold the battery in place without the cover, but you will miss the battery cover. In fact, if I had it to do over, I'd securely tape the battery cover in place.

Unfortunately, the set controils are extremely difficult to use due to tiny size. If you have less than perfect vision, you might not be able to see the time/alarm set markings without a magnifier.

I use this little clock by my bedside at home, and I take it eveywhere I go. It has taken a lot of abuse, but with the exception of the lost battery cover, this little clock seems as good as new. It uses one standard AA battery which I've only replaced once or twice in ten years. Even though it is painfully difficult to set and adjust, I have not found a better replacement. I'd buy another if this one were to be lost.

A very Casio kind of clock. Durable, dependable, well designed, compact, inexpensive, with a no-nonsense emphasis on function. Make sure to keep a small flashlight near the clock if you want to find it in a dark room. It emits no illumination. Go ahead, confirm the time, hit the snooze button. But keep your glasses nearby so you can find the tiny button to kill the demanding alarm tone. No question, it's time to wake up when this jewel goes off.

The controls on this travel alarm clock are not only teensy, they are poorly marked : even in broad daylight, one cannot read the settings for the switches for on/off/snooze, etc.

The silver paint on a black matte plastic finish just does not "show up" at all. The paint is much dimmer than the photo of the product on the Amazon page shows.

Display is excellent. Light weight and small size are very good. Everything else is horrible. Buttons are too small to use. Writing is awful. It is very small, blue on black background. One needs a magnifying glass to see in a well lit environment. Stay away from it.

Reletively small and compact, and the backlight is good for watching the hours tick by as you're kept awake by Jetlag induced insomnia :) The alarm is plenty loud enough to wake me up, but not so loud that I feel like I'm waking the person in the room next to mine.

Setting the time and alarm are pretty intuitive, the switches seem a little flimsy and feel like they might not stand up to a lot of use, but as a travel alarm I don't use it often, so it should last me a long time.

There's a slightly more expensive model with a built-in thermometer, but I don't think it's that useful - I already know if my room feels too warm or too cold, I don't need a thermometer to tell me.

The Casio Snooze Daily Alarm Travel Clock works really well, but as other reviewers have mentioned, the designers decided to discourage us from changing any settings on it. As long as you wake up at the same time every day, it is pretty much a perfect alarm clock. After all, no matter what you buy, you quickly become accustomed to locating the switch to shut it off, and that is all you need.

But, if you are in bed drifting off to sleep, and thinking you might want to wake up an hour later instead, don't even try to change the settings. Turn on the light, squint, and enjoy the struggle of trying to adjust it. Although I have excellent vision, I find it difficult to read the tiny white print unless the light is just right.

Still, I don't regret purchasing this. Even with its considerable drawbacks, this is definitely the best alarm clock I have owned in the last ten years or so. For various reasons I have been very unsatisfied with everything else. This one seems dependable, it is just the right size, it was VERY inexpensive, and I imagine I will still be using it many years from now.

I really like this compact digital alarm clock. Its small size makes it ideal for traveling but I also find it highly useful around the house. Three sliding switches control the clock functions. One switch allows you to select either the 12-hour or the 24-hour time format. Another switch allows you to set the clock time or the alarm time. The third switch allows you to select alarm off, alarm on, or alarm with snooze. Some reviewers have said the labels of the switches are hard to read. That is true, but the simple fix for that problem is to MEMORIZE the switch settings. A person who can use a cell phone will have no trouble using this clock.

I got this because it looked like just what I would need on my upcoming trip. However, when I got it, the lettering for the settings are all VERY SMALL and in gray lettering, so it is really hard to see the settings.

I have ordered another travel alarm clock because I am unable to use this one.

I bought for the reliability reviews and the name casio. Like all travel alarm clocks I've used they will start doing weird things and then you are late for your appointment. This one was weird out of the box. I tried setting the time -- the hour button worked fine but the minute button only worked randomly from pushing it several times. However if I turned on the alarm(top most slider button) I was able to use the minute button easily -- what? The worst thing was the snooze never worked. The alarm has three settings "Snz, On, Off" which the manual treats as ON SNZ / OFF. Snz doesnt do anything different. Anyway I used both alarm settings and after hitting the snooze button, the alarm will not go off again after the 8 minutes it advertises, and of course you will oversleep. I tried testing both alarm 'modes' and still no snooze, but I found that the minute button for setting the time works perfectly after I played with the alarm selector a lot. Anyway, this is probably not an indictment of Casio, but of all travel alarm clocks. I think I'll have to buy a small plug in unit and lug it around.

Ditto exactly what frugalgene said - this is a durable reliable clock that we have had for perhaps 2 decades - it works great if you can get the settings right using the tiny sliding buttons - especially in the dark. On a couple of occasions, I had the clock on the wrong setting, so I didn't get woken up as expected. On the other hand, I just bought a clock that was highly rated by the users and the tiny dial for setting the alarm keeps falling off - so there is something to be said for reliability!!!! This edit link won't let me change the rating from 3 to 4.