12 Pack Original Nylon Soft Cooler

I love it. Keeps ice for a long time. Best cooler I’ve ever bought.Gonna buy some for my kids for Christmas.

9-11-12. This Polar Bear Coolers 12 Pack Soft Cooler in Red arrived directly from the manufacturer although vended by eBags.com. The price on Amazon.com was the best I could find anywhere, including at eBags Website. The cooler bag, while a "soft-sided" bag, is a very stiff bag made of heavy-duty canvas exterior and very heavy-grade vinyl liner that is water-proof. To expand the bag and form the stiff liner, on initial receipt from vendor, you fill it with hot water (approximately 115 degrees F.) for five minutes. This bag will hold about four US gallons of water, so do it in a sink, if possible. When the vinyl is heated and flexible, pour out the water and dry it with a cloth/paper towel, then form the liner to fit the full extent of the canvas outer shell. The liner is too large for the shell, when new, but this will probably shrink over time as the vinyl chemicals evaporate (they always do). Shape the canvas bag into a rectangle, using the side retainer straps to keep it in that basic shape (thats the purpose of the straps). The wide sturdy carry strap is detachable and has an anti-slip shoulder pad installed. The strap is adjustable and sufficiently long that a tall person will have no difficulty with the length and it can be shortened also. The attached dual handles have a velcro wrap to hold them together. The side pocket is quite small and will hold a small amount of napkins, plastic utensils, or whatever you can insert into it. You have to push the stiff vinyl liner away as the side pocket is between the canvas shell and the vinyl liner.As I will use it mostly for daily lunch carry, the first day it did not slip off my shoulder even once; a remarkable accomplishment, as all other lunch bags I have used (the kind you get at Walmart or the $15 ones on amazon.com) seem to fall off continually. That is one of the reasons I bought this product. Overall, this is an outstandingly well constructed product made with high quality control. I'm impressed and pleased with it.2-21-13.Update. The bag I received developed cracks in the vinyl liner from daily opening and closing. I contacted the manufacturer, Polar Bear Coolers, in Cumming, Georgia, USA and the Customer Service representative, Leslie, promptly apologized and replaced the bag, advising that they had a bad batch of bags where the vinyl had the wrong mix of chemicals during manufacture. The Customer service is among the very best I have ever had from any company. They even sent a UPS pre-paid label for me to return the defective bag so they could further investigate the quality control issue to assure their products consistently meet their high manufacturing standards. The product is definitely a great product and I can highly recommend it. I use it daily to carry my lunch to work with ice-cold bottles of beverage. The icepacks I use stay frozen all day and the beverages are the same temperature that they were in my refrigerator. Very refreshing. These will make great gifts for friends.

This cooler is by far the best soft-sided cooler you can buy! Worth every penny. We bought it to take in the boat with us on trips to the river. In South Georgia July heat (100+ degrees) sitting in the sunshine for most of the day, this cooler performed like a champ. After an hour ride to the river, nine hours in the sunshine, and an hour ride back home, there was still some ice (partially melted, yes, but still frozen) in this cooler. For best results you have to fold the ends over and snap them down in place, which reduces your overall capacity a little, but is well worth it in performance.In the 12-pack version, we were able to pack 4 cans of soda, 4 - 8 oz. bottles of water, 2 - 8 oz. Gatorade, a picnic bottle of mayonaise, a pack of ham and sliced cheese in a zipper bag, and a tomato for slicing along with two small single-serving snack bags of cookies. We filled the remaining space with ice. To our amazement, this cooler was less than half the weight (filled) than the picnic cooler we had been taking along. It took up less room in the boat and performed comparably to our Coleman 5-day cooler.We experience no leaking of the melting ice from inside the cooler out and even though we got some water in the boat and on the cooler, the exterior remained virtually water-proof!This cooler's insulation is at least five to ten times that of the soft-sided lunch coolers you will find in most stores. Zippers, snaps, handles, and straps all seem well made and durable.One reviewer said the strap was not long enough. However, I am 5' 8" and when I adjusted the strap to its full length (it has a slide so you can adjust the length), it hung from my shoulder to just past my waist. The shell material is thick and durable, comparable to the material you would find in an expensive piece of luggage.The only downside with this cooler is that once you pack enough cold supplies for a day, you have no room left for bread. (We carried ours along in a separate bag.) However, it is worth the weight savings and space savings for that little inconvenience. I am impressed with this cooler and feel I made a good investment in a product that performs as described and will last us for years. We've taken it to the river three times, now, and on a five-hour car trip to the mountains and so far cold food has stayed cold for over a day without adding more ice, we've had no leaks except for the one time I didn't strap the sides back down after zipping it up (my fault), and the carry strap has made transport a snap! I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a reliable, durable picnic cooler!

The 12 Pack is a great size for those typical one day adventures in the sun with family or friends or a day out on the lake boating. It’s super well constructed with about an inch of insulation all around. The inside vinyl liner is as thick or thicker than any pool liner and is a very beautiful glacier blueish / green colour. You can actually pull the liner outside of the nylon outer shell to clean it. The liner is still attached to the bag but it sure is a quick and easy way to clean the liner when when you have those occasional spills inside your cooler. Because all soft cooler expand and stretch the liner is not cut precisely to the inside shape of the bag. It is made larger for expansion for those that overfill their soft cooler and you will notice overlaps in the liner in the bottom of the bag.When you first get your cooler you put it back into shape by filling it full of hot water and snap it all up and leave it for 5 minutes. I left ours for 30 minutes and it was perfect in the end. The nylon outer covering is water proof and super durable and soft to the touch. The zipper and snaps are all quality and It comes with a plastic bottle opener and a shoulder strap.To give everyone a better idea of what a 12 Pack will hold, I packed it 3 separate times using 3 very common categories of beverages. I also used 2 Rubbermaid Blue Ice Packs 6.5 x 3.5 x 1.75 inch size one at each end " available everywhere ".Here is exactly what a 12 Pack Polar Bear Cooler will Hold:Cans of Pop ( Pepsie and Cokes ) 355ml. It holds 12 cans of pop laying on there sides across the width of the bag, plus the 2 ice packs one at each end. It will hold 16 cans of pop or beer with no ice packs.Bottles of Water ( Walmart Great Value Brand / Nestle Pure Life ) 500ml. It holds 8 bottles of water "Standing Upright" with the 2 Ice packs one at each end. It will hold 12 bottles of water standing upright with no ice packs.Bottles of Beer ( Carling Light ). It holds 8 bottles of beer "Standing Upright" with the 2 Ice packs one at each end. It will hold 12 bottles of beer standing upright with no ice packs.I hope the above information helps you determine if the 12 Pack size is the correct Polar Bear Cooler for you. The 24 Pack is slightly larger and only $12. more and has an inside dimension of 12 Long X 6 Wide X 10 High ( courtesy of an Amazon.com reviewer ). The 24 Pack is as big of soft cooler as I would ever buy due to the weight involved when fully loaded. The 24 Pack is the correct choice for a family or a picnic and for the transporting of perishables in the back of your vehicle for long periods of time. The 12 Pack just isn't large enough for a family weekend camping trip or any adventure where you need to transport food products as well as beverages and keep these items cold for several days. If you need anything larger than the 24 Pack, I personally recommend you think "Hard Shell".Polar Bear coolers do cost more than any Coleman or Outback cooler of the same general size, but from my personal experience you had to fill both of these brands half full of ice packs because of their very thin insulation quality as compared to the insulation thats surrounding any Polar Bear Cooler. Like most things in life you only get what you pay for and in this case a few dollars more buys you a cooler that simply does what it says it’s going to do; KEEPS THINGS COLD. I recommend this 5 Star product to all.

Para decidirme por esta hielera, revisé la Yeti, Pelican, Igloo y semejantes. Aunque no es tan estética como esas, el el precio, las características y las otras calificaciones me convencieron. Como todas las demás, está hecha en China. Eso me hizo dudar un poco. Sin embargo, ésta hielera tiene un recubrimiento interior muy grueso, un forro exterior muy resistente, al igual que un cierre bastante grueso. En el primer uso, coloqué carne para asar con hielo. 8 horas después comprobé que la carne estaba súper fresca y el hielo sin derretirse. Otras 8 horas después, el hielo se había derretido muy levemente y la carne igualmente fresca. Ahí me convenció la calidad del producto y la correspondencia con sus especificaciones. Por el precio, yo me quedo con esta hielera, aunque no sea tan "fina" o "sofisticada" en apariencia como las Yeti, Orca o Pelican, que seguro también son excelentes.

Just got this cooler. I'm trying it out. When I opened the box to look at it, I was not particularly pleased with the size (It has a very thick inner liner which seriously lowers the capacity of items you can put in it. I opened it up (unzipped it) and put my hand into it. It felt cool. I first thought that this was a ploy done by chilling the product before shipping. But I put 6 tallboys in and a few lunch pack ice packs on top and zipped it up. I'm on my 4th tallboy now and it is just as cold as the first one! These guys know what they are doing!

These cooler are excellent. Recently used these on a kayaking trip to keep ice for a couple cold beers each night. Cooler was forced to sit on top a dark blue kayak due to space constraints though it does fit in the rear hatch of a decent sized touring kayak.Considering it sat in the sun every day for 6-7 hours of paddling, we managed to keep ice for three days. Granted it was a block that took up the entire cooler when we started. The ice lasted into the third day and provided us our couple of cold beers each evening. All in all pretty impressive.

Polar bear coolers are the best!!! I have 3 of them 12/24/48 can size. It is amazing how they keep things cold or frozen for along time. I would not buy anything else. Do yourself a favour when you need a cooler buy the "Polar Bear cooler"