Looking for a cool box to take to shows which you can plug into a cigarette lighter and/or wall plug when staying over night at a travel lodge. Can anyone help?

How about this?

We have one, bought at camping and Caravan shop.

I look for most things on Amazon.

Never thought of Halfords thanks for that.

We have just bought that halfords 24L one and can honestly say I don't know how we have lived without this for so long.  It is brilliant, you will need the 12v mains adapter at an extra tenner but it means you can plug in at home and have it chilled prior to travel.  Only downside is it is quite noisy if you were going to use it in the bedroom.  The 14L is tiny, holds 16 normal coke cans (so 8 with 8 on top) the 24L one can hold 2L bottles (only 2 but has position holes).

Dont forget that type of cool box doesnt work the same as a fridge, they only cool to a certain amount below the ambient temperature using a fan in the lid. The Halfords one is 18degrees below ambient, so in the last two days, the temp here in South Cheshire has been 30 degrees, so the temp inside the coolbox would have been 12 degrees. Food Standards Agency recommend 5 degrees for keeping food cool. So if you have them in a hot car/tent then you will find that the temp inside gets warmer than a fridge will which might spoil food or if its used for medicines or similar. They are best used with freezer blocks which will need refreezing again within 24 hours, so best to have two sets and rotate them, failing that, you can buy ice from most supermarkets.

I used the Halfords one last year and found that I couldnt actually keep food cool enough in it to be safe, so this year I bought a Mobicool B40 which is a proper fridge type of cool box as we go camping a lot (flyball). It is more expensive, however my eldest son is just recovering from meningitis and campylobacter as well, so didnt want to take any chances.

I am going away showing for three days and want to take  drinks for me water dog and his fresh tripe which will be frozen when leaving and as it thaws out need to keep cool.

The one we bought in the caravan shop had the mains lead and the cigarette lighter one.

The Halford one we just bought and used on very hot days worked well with pre frozen stuff.  I take a special diet and brought 6 packs with me frozen and on day 4 the last one was defrosted but still cold, yes it is true that it depends on ambient temperature to just how low it will go but for us it was fine as there will be very few days that we get such good weather.  (we are in NI so used to rain and colder weather!). You do have to put your food in cold as it doesn't work like a fridge but we'd do that anyway.  Previously we used a 40L normal cool box that would take 3 or 4 frozen 2L bottles of water and that kept stuff frozen and cold for a day or two.

Thanks for all your help going to look at Halford tomorrow and also try and find a camping shop.

Brainless can you tell the make of yours.

mobicool

> mobicool

There's a review of the Mobicool here -
http://www.campingforums.org.uk/forums/equipment-reviews/6-waeco-mobicool-w35-powered-cool-box.html