I know the Hydro Flask is fabulous.
I offer this as an alternative.
I wrote this on another thread, but it would be lost under the other thread title.
I wanted something to keep my drink cold, really cold. I knew Hydro Flask would do the trick. But I just did not think I would like sipping out of the metal neck. My personal "fear" or something. I wanted a sipping flip top or a straw. I kept searching on Amazon and these were the two choices. Both are double walled thermal Thermos bottles. Keeps cold twelve hours, according to the label.
Flip top with sipping straw
Thermos HS4010A6 Intak Stainless Floral Straw Bottle
also called Raya
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=07G9F02WSTKPC7SMSFVP
Flip top with sipping spout
Thermos Nissan 2456P 18-Ounce Stainless-Steel Hydration Bottle
http://www.amazon.com/Thermos-2456P...ydration/dp/B000FJ9DOK/ref=pd_bxgy_hi_img_c
Both were $20.00 at Target.
I bought the first one. What won me over was the pretty purple floral design and the straw. Especially when I am driving, I do not like to tilt my head back.
I did a comparison at work with the bottle I used to use. Water and several ice cubes. After one hour, sipping some from each bottle, the water in the new Thermos bottle was still quite cold, my old water bottle with a neoprene sleeve was only sort of cold.
Experiment at home - bottle with half ice cubes/half water in the fridge from 5:00 - 11:00 PM. At 11:00, I put it bedside and sipped a little during the night. Ice cubes still rattling at 8:00 AM. Took it for a mid-morning four mile walk. During the walk, I drank icy cold water. When we got back to the car at 11:00, I had drunk all the water, but there were still ice cubes! I am impressed!
I decided that keeping the liquid cold for twelve hours was not really that important to me. I am never all that far from a source of cold water/ice. And at only 18 ounces, I'd better be refilling it more often than every few hours!
For the convenience of having a cold one close by at my desk (such a pretty bottle!) or or in the car, it is great.
It would also be good to carry at WDW, stopping to fill it every hour at the nearest counter service eatery.
My Thermos Raya bottle does not sweat.
It was the weirdest sensation to hold a bottle that was sort of warm (75-80 degree air temperature) in my hand, yet the water inside was icy cold to drink!
I hope everyone finds their favorite way to keep their water cold, and drink lots of it!
I offer this as an alternative.
I wrote this on another thread, but it would be lost under the other thread title.
I wanted something to keep my drink cold, really cold. I knew Hydro Flask would do the trick. But I just did not think I would like sipping out of the metal neck. My personal "fear" or something. I wanted a sipping flip top or a straw. I kept searching on Amazon and these were the two choices. Both are double walled thermal Thermos bottles. Keeps cold twelve hours, according to the label.
Flip top with sipping straw
Thermos HS4010A6 Intak Stainless Floral Straw Bottle
also called Raya
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=07G9F02WSTKPC7SMSFVP
Flip top with sipping spout
Thermos Nissan 2456P 18-Ounce Stainless-Steel Hydration Bottle
http://www.amazon.com/Thermos-2456P...ydration/dp/B000FJ9DOK/ref=pd_bxgy_hi_img_c
Both were $20.00 at Target.
I bought the first one. What won me over was the pretty purple floral design and the straw. Especially when I am driving, I do not like to tilt my head back.
I did a comparison at work with the bottle I used to use. Water and several ice cubes. After one hour, sipping some from each bottle, the water in the new Thermos bottle was still quite cold, my old water bottle with a neoprene sleeve was only sort of cold.
Experiment at home - bottle with half ice cubes/half water in the fridge from 5:00 - 11:00 PM. At 11:00, I put it bedside and sipped a little during the night. Ice cubes still rattling at 8:00 AM. Took it for a mid-morning four mile walk. During the walk, I drank icy cold water. When we got back to the car at 11:00, I had drunk all the water, but there were still ice cubes! I am impressed!
I decided that keeping the liquid cold for twelve hours was not really that important to me. I am never all that far from a source of cold water/ice. And at only 18 ounces, I'd better be refilling it more often than every few hours!
For the convenience of having a cold one close by at my desk (such a pretty bottle!) or or in the car, it is great.
It would also be good to carry at WDW, stopping to fill it every hour at the nearest counter service eatery.
My Thermos Raya bottle does not sweat.
It was the weirdest sensation to hold a bottle that was sort of warm (75-80 degree air temperature) in my hand, yet the water inside was icy cold to drink!
I hope everyone finds their favorite way to keep their water cold, and drink lots of it!
