Great thermos, keeps my coffee nice and hot. Easy to drink out of, and the lid is easy to clean.
If someone is spending a good amount of money for these coolers, I expect it to not come with scratches on every side of it. My first impression was not a good one.
Was skeptical trying after using another over priced brand, but no issues at all and the product over delivered.
I REALLY wanted to give an excellent review, but unfortunately I'm not completely happy. I'd like to share 4 things that caused me to give my purchase 3 stars, instead of a 5 or even 4 star review.
#1 - The handle to tow the cooler is not padded, nor is the cooler in front padded where the handle hits the cooler. When towing the cooler by the handle and then dropping the handle, (or when driving with the cooler in the back, the handle makes a VERY loud sound as it flops around and hits the cooler body, or when it's let go of after towing. This could have been easily remedied by putting some padding on the handle.
#2 - Their more expensive cooler talks about the smart way they put the drain plug at the end with the wheels, so it's easy to drain. I agree this was very smart, and figured they would do that on all their cooler models. When I asked customer service about this, they said they will be doing this on the model I purchased in the future. This didn't sit well, as I wish now I would have waited to order till they did this on my model. When the cooler is full, it's not easy to pick up the end with the wheels to drain the excess water out. MUCH easier to grab by the handle and let the cooler tilt on it's wheels to drain.
#3 - I packed the cooler with ice and my food to the top. I only opened it two times for a few minutes over 3 days time. My food after 3 days was barely cold, and I almost had to throw some food out. My model is rated for 5 days. Maybe I didn't put enough ice in for the amount of food, or maybe I'm doing something else wrong, but it didn't seem like it.
#4 - The latches that keep the lid shut barely have any resistance at all when closing the cooler. In other words, I'm left wondering if the seal is really tight. The latches are actually so loose, I wonder if I hit a large bump with my truck, that they could release and allow the lid to flop around and decrease how well the cooler lid is sealed against the body of the cooler.
Thanks for allowing me to give my feedback. I think it's still the best cooler I've probably ever purchased in the big picture, but for the price, I feel these issues above should/could be addressed, or better expectations given. -Joel
The Cobalt 25 has been a great little cooler! It is lightweight and holds ice for a long time.
Great price, and kept all my drinks and food cool for the whole wknd. It is well made and i love the new latches.
Just got my 110qt ark series cooler a couple months ago. Took it out to Sonora Mexico on a coues deer hunt last week. I loaded it up with ice on Thursday night, crossed the boarder on Friday morning. My friends that were hunting also did the same with their canyon cooler it was about the same size 100 qt iam guessing. We both put our coolers side by side in the shade all week, 9 days later when we were packing out our deer meat the canyon cooler had about 1/4 of the ice left and most of the bags were totally melted the blue cooler 110qt had around 80% of the ice left. I had to give bags of ice to my friends so they could pack the deer meat. We were all blown away by how well the cooler held the ice!! And they were all impressed by the wheels and handle so one guy could roll it around. Everyone was gonna by blue coolers after seeing how much better it was in a real world side by side comparison. Nothing better on the market today!! 👍
The rubber latches on the lid are a pain when opening and closing the lid … fix that and u are golden ….
This cooler is the perfect size but doesn’t hold the ice for 5 days like it says it should. That’s why I didn’t give it 5 stars.
I've had my 65 roller for over a year now and am very happy with the quality and size and its ability to hold ice for days on end since I leave it in my pontoon all weekends usually . The only thing I wish they made was a factort cushion topper so I could use it as a additional seat also
Cooler was a Christmas gift to our son. He did the 5 day ice challenge. At the end of day five he still had ice in cooler. Day six only water remained but beverages still cold. Great cooler.
I already had a Blue 55 cooler and it works great. But I liked the idea of a cooler on wheels so that I could easily pull it out onto the end gate of my truck. With the lift handle, the cooler works even better than I expected. And the easy latch system is perfect. I use gallon milk bottles to freeze water and they last an extra long time. I have cold drinks (and chocolate bars) in my truck all year round. I'm also always able to keep restaurant leftovers cold. Perfect for both long and short trips. Very highly recommended.
I received my 3.0. 60 Qt. ice vault and it looks and functions great. I have a center console fishing boat that I will be competing in this upcoming 2023 season and the cooler looks great and serves also as a set .I look forward to many seasons with my Blue Cooler.
We have purchase 5+ Blue Coolers for our employees in construction and they keep them in the back of their trucks. Drinks stay cold for days. Cooler holds up well in our rough, abusive environment
It seems to be a well built cooler, my only two concerns would be when it was shipped to me one set of wheels just fell off, they were not screwed on properly, I found screws in bottom of box. My other concern would be over time the handle will be the first thing to go, only because of its range of motion when using it. Other than that. cooler does its job.
Really like the cooler's color (light blue), performance and interior space and I haved used it for hunting a couple times already. However the cooler has individual hard rubber feet and sliding the cooler into the back of my pickup bed is a challenge because the feet grab when trying to slide it in to the back, and recently when pulling it out of the bed one of the feet popped off. I popped it back on but will have to pay attention in future moving or sliding the cooler to avoid feet popping.