Best Travel Mug - suggestions anyone?

Don't worry, they have a mug for you, too. Unfortunately, it isn't a travel mug.

 

I like your cat....

 

I really like the newer Contigo Autoseal vacuum-insulated travel mugs at Costco. They're sold in sets of 2 for $20 (in the Kansas City area, at least), and I haven't had any trouble with leakage / cleaning / phantom flavors. It's listed as top-rack dishwasher safe, although I've always washed mine by hand.

Unfortunately it isn't available on the Costco website, so you need to have a nearby store (which requires a membership) in order to obtain one. It looks exactly likehttp://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B003Y6FHG4?tag=priuschatcom-20 however, although they're not quite the same product.

 

Hmmm... not sure why the link is being shown several times, in a screwy format. I clicked on Edit, it looks like everything was entered correctly.

 

I probably have the same one as you. Red, but holds 20 oz. Starbucks currently has a brown 20 oz. for sale, but I don't like the lid. It doesn't feel like it was designed for sipping. That's my take, anyway. Besides that, I don't like the color.

I have simple requirements:
1. 20 oz.
2. Metal
3. Any color but brown

 

bisco,

I was wrong when I said that Starbucks no longer sells your and my mug with the flip top. I went to two Starbucks today, and apparently they sell more models in the stores than they sell online (weird ... usually it's the other way around).

Anyways, below is a picture of my old Starbucks mug with the flip top, and two similar mugs available for sale in Starbucks stores now.

-- The one on the left is my old one which comfortably holds 16 ounces.

-- The one in the middle is on sale now in Starbucks for $15.95 or 16.95 (I don't remember exactly) and is similar to my old one, but it is thinner and I don't know if it holds a full 16 ounces.

-- The one on the right is on sale now in Starbucks for $19.95 and holds at least as much as my old one (16 ounces) and maybe more. I have the flip top up for illustrative purposes.

EDIT #1: As my old one on the left is 16 ounces (a "Grande" in Starbucks-speak), I'll take a wild guess and say that the smaller one in the middle is 12 ounces (a "Tall") and the larger one on the right is 20 ounces (a "Venti").

EDIT #2: I received the larger one on the right for Christmas and measured its capacity. It's 16 ounces (and not 20 ounces as I had speculated in Edit #1).


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Anyways, it's good to know they still sell mugs that are similar to and seem as good as my old one.