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Personcut2dabone
08/5/2010 at 3:07pm
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Having planned our first family camping trip, I have got everything I think we need apart from our fridge.

Do I go with a 12v/240v option

http://www.thefamilytentshop.com/PRD_ProductDetail.aspx?cid=40&prodid=138&Product=Cool-Box-35-ltr

or the 5 day option

http://www.thefamilytentshop.com/PRD_ProductDetail.aspx?cid=37&prodid=9&Product=Evo-All-Terrain-Cool-Box

Advise would be happily received. I have a 10 month old and would like to keep his food/milk cool

 

 

 

 

 



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08/5/2010 at 3:39pm
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Personally I would go with option 1 especially if you are going ehu
We have a similar one to that and they are really good - thoughthat price is a bit high and I would shop about a bit - even the ones in Halfords are cheaper (and the same thing but 40ltr)

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_756417_langId_-1_categoryId_165650

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PersonBECCI BOO
08/5/2010 at 5:19pm
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We have something similar to option 2, ours is a igloo maxcool i think, it is brill if you are not using ehu.


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Have similar to option two, but a coleman Is huge and I think we paid about £70 for it last year. We used big juice bottles filled with water (frozen obviously) instead of the blue efforts and we still had ice 6 days later.

We dont use ehu so this has worked out really well for us.

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Personcut2dabone
08/5/2010 at 8:05pm
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I am personally leaning to a non electrical cooler, so do they really last as long as they claim or do you have to keep topping up with ice packs?

That way I am not tied to a EHU site

Was thinking something like this

http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-1428744-10475506?url=http://www.outdoormegastore.co.uk/acatalog/Coleman_50_QT_Ultimate_Xtreme_Wheeled_Cool_Box.html

 



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PersonBECCI BOO
08/5/2010 at 8:27pm
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My OH is a chef so we left ours in his big walk in freezer for a couple of days before hand, used 1 bag of ice when on site and food stayed cold all week, i was a bit sceptical before i brought it. We dont use ehu cant think what we would use it for apart from heaters, we only camp from may - sep so have never felt the need for heaters. If your not going ehu or just want the option there great.



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