Best Travel Mug - suggestions anyone?

The only suggestion I have is to get a travel mug that has a double-walled, vacuum insulated seal like a thermos. These will keep your hot drinks hot longer. They're really thermoses with a sipper top. The one I have is from Starbucks, but it's no longer available. Quickly checking out what's available on Amazon, these three look promising to me:

Contigo:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B000QFDNP8?tag=priuschatcom-20Thermos:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B002PY7AYS?tag=priuschatcom-20Bodum:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B0026L7DTW?tag=priuschatcom-20

 

we've tried a lot of mugs over the years. best we've found is the starbucks stainless steel snap flip top. keeps it hot for hours, you can drop it with the flap snapped shut and it doesn't leak when you drink. it's easy to sip from as well and fits in most cupholders. all the best!

 

Sounds like we may have the same Starbucks mug. I got it for Christmas years ago. I think it's great. Too bad they don't sell it anymore. But I'm wondering if the one they sell now is just as good? (Online, they don't say that it's vacuum sealed ... but judging from the price and the reviews about how long it keeps drinks hot, I think it is.) Anyways, here's what they're selling now:

Starbucks (STARBUCKS)^RED Stainless Steel Tumbler at StarbucksStore.com
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Don -- Let us know how the new Starbucks mug works out.

Reading the reviews, it seems to be a vacuum thermos that will keep your drinks hot (or cold) for a long time. But it definitely doesn't have the same flip top as the older one that Bisco and I have. Instead it has some sorta turn/twist top that a few reviewers said took some getting used to (and one reviewer dismissed the new top altogether and gave the mug only two stars because of it).

 

huh, i didn't realize they didn't make them anymore. too bad, i guess we've had ours quite a few years now. our's are vase shaped, where the new one is smaller in the middle. hope it works well for you!

 

We've tried a lot of them. The Contigo mug, which we bought at Costco, works very well for us.

I've never had a Starbucks mug that didn't start leaking all over me eventually.

 

I use my Contigo cup all the time. keeps coffee nice and hot and has a real tight seal. i find denture cleaner once a week takes care of the cleaning problem.

 

Disclaimer: I don't own one, but I think this is pretty cool.

 

For those of you reading this because you like all things thermal, don't forget our sister thread about coolers:

http://priuschat.com/forums/freds-house-pancakes/37118-help-me-find-best-ice-chest-cooler-ever.html

 

I find a Champagne flute helps me in my travels!!

 

We bought new "travel" mugs yesterday. Well, actually, they are double-walled ceramic cups with silicone lids and sleeves. Cute... they look like paper cups, but aren't!http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/images?tag=priuschatcom-20 and we bought them at Costco, so they were only $10 for the set of three. :thumb:

 

stainless thermos works good for me

 

Get the Nissan stainless one. Problem solved.

 

I drink out of a hollowed out, silver plated skull.

It's hard to use, and has very limited thermal retention capabilities BUT very few people that notice, cut me off in traffic.

 

I don't know, I'm getting old rapidly..maybe grumpy...but I remember when things were simply what they were...

Phones were...phones....
Camera's were camera's...
Organizers were organizers...

I'm getting tired of this technology trend of multi-purpose products that most often end up being mediocre or bad at all the things they try to be....like a cheap swiss army knife....

No offense...but if you want a Travel Mug....buy a good travel mug. You want a digital photo holder? Buy a digital photo holder...is it REALLY necessary to combine the two? Into one scalding hot memory holder?

Do you really want to go to work and tell "Bob" hey come over hear and smell my Mint Mocha Expresso...and look at last weekends trip to the coast?

Personal Grumpy Old Man Rant Ended...

To each his own....

 

Well, I have one from Green Mountain Coffee that keeps the coffee piping hot even after 30 minutes (usually i'm drinking it and leave it open to vent and cool off at that point). It won't be spill resistant from the top where you drink from, necessarily, but I'm yet to have it start to leak on me from the seal on top where the lid & cup meet. It's a stainless steel, insulated mug. It wasn't too expensive either.