Collapsable Coolers????

[daisy58]

Where do you buy these??? What size is the one DIS-ERS use instead of the minibar fridge??? are they soft plastic/fabric? DO THEY LEAK????? Can you simply lay them flat in your luggage??? How much do they hold??? I'm interested!!!! (I am assuming they are also reusable??)

 

[saffymom]

We bought ours at Target for about $15. I don't remember the exact size, but we were able to get a six pack of bottled beer, a couple of sodas and a large bottle of juice in it.

We never had a problem with it leaking, but I've heard that some people have. We usually would fill it with ice in the morning before we left, and then again before we went to bed (it was always a fight to see who was going to do this! ).

Ours is reusable and it folds down very flat and fit easily in our luggage.

Hope that helps!

 

[pepe of ohio]

We also picked ours up at Targwet, about 15 bucks. Have used it many times but we rarely fold it up. We load it with stuff for our Amtrak ride down and the same for going home. Going down, we take Minute Maid Lemonade and freeze it to keep cooler items cold and by the time we're ready for a sandwich, the lemonade is just right. As for in Disney, we stay deluxe and they have fridges in the rooms but we still use the cooler for the excess of beer we seem to have on hand. Just dumping ice into the cooler, ours would leak but we now take large zip lock bags and put the ice in the zips and solved the problem. Easier to dump out the zips and we haul the cooler down to the pool with us every day with our libations in it. It folds up fairly flat considering the insulation and we picked up a second cooler this year at Gander Mountain, collapsible and on a wheeled rack, really cool, 2 compartments and bigger but it rolls and it was 20 bucks.

 

[travelin' tigger]

Where do you buy these??? What size is the one DIS-ERS use instead of the minibar fridge??? are they soft plastic/fabric? DO THEY LEAK????? Can you simply lay them flat in your luggage??? How much do they hold??? I'm interested!!!! (I am assuming they are also reusable??)

I've got a couple of coolers that I got for free when buying 36-packs of Coors Light. Two weeks ago I took 1 to WDW and it worked great. It folded fairly flat in my suitcase and worked great keeping everything cold.

HTH!!!

 

[Luv'sTink]

We got ours at Sam's Club....we have only used it once and it worked fine. It does fold pretty flat.

 

[DisneyFans4]

I've got a couple of coolers that I got for free when buying 36-packs of Coors Light.

That's the exact cooler that I brought with us for our trip. I also have one that I bought from Avon years ago, that's how long I've been using a collapsible cooler as my fridge but the Coors one is now our all time fav since it's so big and holds alot!!

Daisy-Yes, they are big and have a handle so it's easy to go get ice and it folds completely flat and I pack it at the bottom of my suitcase. I also bring a smaller collapsible bag which I use to bring to the pool to keep fruit and drinks cold. The bag is so much better than the minifridge which to me doesn't fit anything and I won't pay to have it emptied.

 

[DisneyFans4]

Where do you buy these??? What size is the one DIS-ERS use instead of the minibar fridge??? are they soft plastic/fabric? DO THEY LEAK????? Can you simply lay them flat in your luggage??? How much do they hold??? I'm interested!!!! (I am assuming they are also reusable??)

Daisy-I had in my cooler about 12 cans of soda, 3 or 4 bottled waters and about 4 bottles of small juice. You can buy them in various sizes but the one I got at the liquor store with the Coors promotion is the biggest. NO, it doesn't leak but what i did was put a towel underneath it to absorb the condensation. I would go for ice every couple of days, that's how good it was and it kept things ICE COLD.