In the end I got an Igloo Max CoolBox 70 Roller from COSTCO for only about £35 - much less than RRP.
Why? If I had got a fridge it would have been a 3-way - partly to keep us away from EHU areas so as not to be disturbed by the neighbour's TVs, etc. Such a fridge would have to be able to cool to 30 degrees below ambient temperature and even second hand on Ebay these were going for at least £90+. We wouldn't be away for more than five days at a time so a good-quality cool box seemed sufficient.
The one I got claims to be able to keep ice frozen for up to five days. Although this is under ideal conditions (ie not opening the box!!) so many camp sites have facilities for re-freezing ice blocks, not to mention the option of bringing back a bag of ice from a supermarket on a provisions trip.
We go away early August for two trips of four or five days. I'll let you all know whether we succumb to food poisoning!!
Good choice former scout ! We have one of those .. and have come home after 4 days away with ice still in the frozen bottles and eveything cool.. butter still not spreadable etc.. only bit of advice I can give you is to teach the kids to close the top properly
We are going to use ours on a 9 day trip .. filling up with bags od ice half way though.. and maybe refreeze a few blocks.
------------- Christine
2014
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BunRoy Fort William 3 sleeps
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I always found that 2 x 2 litre pop bottles of water frozen are more use than ice packs but now I have 2 x 2.5 litre empty vingar containers - just as effective but the shape fits in the coolbox better.
------------- Caz
If you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, just keep going till you go round the bend.
We bought an ordinary table top fridge too like Bob and without doubt it is the best thing we have bought for camping. I can cope with most things in life but warm beer ain`t one of them.
On our last camping trip we managed to fit in 18 cans of lager, 5 bottles of bitter lemon (to go with the vodka) as well as butter, milk, bacon etc.
First posting.. though I've been secretly reading for over a year....
We've been camping for years but taking our first week long trip with our 4 year old in August and I've also been looking at 3 way fridges vs Cool box.
Nice to hear so many people recommend cool boxes. Had a quick surf for the Igloo Max CoolBox 70, and it does look a bit big. Do you know if Costco sell the smaller ones at all?
Nothing in Costco at Lakeside I'm afraid. So still not sure what to do. Hubby thinks a cool box will suit our needs well enough so will have to start looking at the new cool boxes. Just realsied I've hijacked this thread so will start a new one.
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Topic: Fridge or Cool box?
