The Lakeland Insulated Cool Bag 20L

We are driving round New Zealand and the Cool Bag is brilliant. It packed flat into a suitcase and travelling from motel to motel we just load everything from one fridge into it and the food keeps cool until we reach our next motel and unload straight into the next fridge. We can usually fit a few other bits in as well. Instead of ice blocks we partly fill a couple of used 500ml water bottles from the tap and pop them in the freezer compartment overnight.

Bought this cool bag for a 5 week touring trip in Australia. We were largely self catering so needed a bag to keep food cold in the car on the days we were travelling by road but it needed to be easy to pack down in our luggage when flying. This fit the bill perfectly, light, easy to squash into a suitcase but incredibly roomy when unfolded. It kept the food lovely and cold in the car boot in temperatures of 30 deg.C plus using ice packs and had no problems transporting meat, milk etc. At home it gets frequent use for holidays, picnics etc. Would love a smaller version for supermarket runs.

We have used this bag for quite a few years and it is still as good as new. Traveling around the country, with 1 freezer pack inside with all our self catering fridge food, after 5 -6 hours the pack is still frozen and our food is cold. Can't ask for better than that. Highly recommended. As a previous reviewer stated, it would be great to have a smaller version of this too.

I bought the Lakeland Cool Bag based on the website reviews and wasn't disappointed! I used it on a tandem tour in France and managed to keep fresh our supplies of food/drink. The refrigerated temperature of the items when we bought them was enough to chill the bag and we only used freeze blocks on a couple of days (hard to freeze them when camping!) Obviously you need to be careful on what you buy and how long you keep it for but for a couple of days at a time it was fantastic.

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The cool bag has a lovely soft outer and the inner is made up of a strange material that looks like shredded space/survival blankets (probably is!). Used it once so far for shopping. Hoping that it will keep food cold for a long time when used with ice packs. It is more expensive than other cool bags but I think it is worth the extra for the quality, and the Lakeland guarantee. It squashes up nice and small and doesn't have the plasticky feel associated with must cool bags. Hand washable for those inevitable leaks.