{ "id": "ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can", "sku": "ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can", "title": "AO Coolers Canvas Soft Cooler 24 Can", "slug": "ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can", "price": 180.99, "currency": "GBP", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "coolers-and-showers", "category_label": "Cool Boxes & Camp Showers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "225 g", "images": [ "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/main-ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-2.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-3.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-4.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-5.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-6.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-7.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-8.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-9.jpg" ], "description_short": "A 23 litre soft-shell bag with a thermoplastic polyurethane liner, closed-cell insulation and a 225 gram carry weight that holds 24 cans plus ice.", "description": "The problem with most cool bags\n\nMost people have owned a cool bag that let them down. You pack it in the morning, drive an hour, open it at lunch and everything inside is lukewarm with a pool of water at the bottom. The drinks are drinkable, barely. The sandwiches are sad.\n\nThe reason is almost always the same. Thin insulation, a liner that is really just coated fabric, and a zip that lets warm air in every time you reach inside. A bag like that is fine for a trip to the shops. It is not fine for a day at the river.\n\nA proper soft cooler is a different piece of kit. It has real insulation thickness, a liner built to hold water rather than resist it for an hour, and enough internal volume that you can pack ice around your drinks instead of on top of them. That last point matters more than most people realise.\n\nHow a soft cooler holds cold\n\nCold does not get added to a cooler. Heat gets kept out. Everything about the design is aimed at slowing the rate at which outside warmth reaches the contents.\n\nInsulation does the heavy lifting. Closed-cell foam traps air in tiny sealed pockets, and trapped air is a poor conductor of heat. Thicker foam means slower heat transfer. That is why a chunky-feeling bag outperforms a thin one every time, even if they claim the same litre rating.\n\nThe liner matters too. This model uses thermoplastic polyurethane, a material used where things need to hold water reliably. A liner like that does two jobs. It stops melt water escaping into your car boot, and it keeps the ice bath intact around your cans. Ice water in contact with a can cools it far faster than cold air does. If your melt water drains away, you lose that.\n\nThe third factor is you. Every time the bag opens, cold air falls out and warm air walks in. Decide what you want before you unzip it. A bag opened twice an hour will do noticeably worse than one opened twice a day, no matter what it cost.\n\nWhat the numbers on this one mean\n\nThis bag holds 23 litres and is rated for 24 cans. In practice that means 24 cans plus a decent quantity of ice packed around them. If you want longer cold life, drop to 18 cans and add more ice. If you want maximum drinks for a short trip, go to the full 24 and accept a shorter cold window.\n\nThe footprint is 43 cm wide, 25 cm deep and 30 cm high. That is a useful shape. It stands upright, which keeps melt water where it belongs, and the 25 cm depth means it does not stick out awkwardly in a boot or on a boat seat.\n\nThe listed weight is 225 grams. For context, that is less than a full can. You are carrying the drinks, not the box. People who have lugged a hard cooler across a car park understand immediately why that figure matters.\n\nWho this size suits\n\nTwenty-four cans is the sweet spot for a lot of people. It covers a family day out, a couple of hours on the sideline at junior sport, a morning of fishing, or drinks for four or five adults at a barbecue.\n\nIt is probably too much if you only ever pack a solo lunch. It is probably not enough if you cater for a crowd every weekend or run multi-day camping trips without a power source. In that case you want a larger hard cooler as your base and a bag like this as the one you actually open, which saves your main cooler from constant lid-lifting.\n\nAnyone shopping for the best 24 can cooler is usually balancing two things, capacity and carry weight. A soft build gives you more of the second without giving up much of the first.\n\nSoft versus hard, honestly\n\nHard coolers win on long ice retention and on durability under rough treatment. You can sit on one. You can stack gear on it. If you are doing a four-day trip with no ice resupply, that is your tool.\n\nSoft coolers win on weight, on storage, and on fitting into real vehicles with real amounts of other stuff in them. When a soft bag is empty it collapses into a cupboard. A hard cooler takes up the same space whether it is full or not, all year.\n\nFor day use, the soft bag is usually the better buy. For base camp, the hard one is. A lot of households end up with both and use them for different jobs.\n\nPacking it properly\n\nStart cold. Put drinks in the fridge the night before. A warm can dumped into ice spends the first hour stealing cold from everything else.\n\nUse more ice than feels necessary. The old rule of roughly two parts contents to one part ice by volume is a reasonable starting point. Ice is not wasted space, it is the thing doing the work.\n\nPack ice around the sides and in the gaps, not just across the top. Cold sinks, so a top layer helps, but cans in contact with ice on their sides cool faster. Fill any remaining air gaps, because empty air warms up quickly.\n\nLeave the melt water in until you are finished. People instinctively drain it, but ice water is a better conductor than air and keeps the contents cold. Drain it at the end of the day, not halfway through.\n\nKeep the bag out of direct sun. Shade under a table, a towel over the top, or a spot in the footwell instead of the back window all make a measurable difference.\n\nLooking after it\n\nCleaning a cooler is quick if you do it straight away and annoying if you do not. Empty it, wipe the liner with warm water and a mild detergent, rinse, then leave it open until it is bone dry inside.\n\nDrying is the step people skip. A bag put away damp will smell by the next trip, and the smell is much harder to remove than it is to prevent. Stand it open in a garage overnight and you avoid the problem entirely.\n\nStore it unzipped, somewhere dry, and do not leave it squashed flat under heavy gear for months. Creases in a liner are where wear starts. Treated sensibly, a bag like this lasts years of weekend use.\n\nA note on materials\n\nThe shell on this model combines nylon and polyester, which is the standard pairing for outdoor gear because it handles abrasion and moisture without getting heavy. The liner and insulation are listed as thermoplastic polyurethane. The manufacturer also lists an EU spare part availability duration of five years, which is a supply commitment for parts rather than a warranty statement.\n\nCountry of origin is not specified in the record we hold, and we would rather tell you that than guess.\n\nThe short version\n\nIf you want a bag that carries 24 cans and ice, weighs almost nothing when empty, fits in a normal car boot and has a liner built to hold melt water, this one does that job. The 23 litre capacity suits day trips, fishing mornings, sideline sport and picnics.\n\nPack it cold, fill the gaps with ice, keep it shut and keep it shaded. Clean it the day you get home. Do those four things and any decent cooler will outperform an expensive one that gets treated carelessly.", "llm_summary": "The AO Coolers Canvas Soft Cooler 24 Can (model AO24TA) is a soft-shell insulated cooler bag with a 23 litre capacity, sized to hold 24 cans plus ice. It measures 25 cm deep by 43 cm wide by 30 cm high, with a chamber depth of 25 cm and chamber height of 30 cm, and has a listed item weight of 225 grams. The shell combines nylon and polyester, and the liner and insulation material are listed as thermoplastic polyurethane. The colour is sand taupe in a solid pattern. The manufacturer lists recommended uses as outdoors, fishing, sports, picnics, travel and home storage, and an EU spare part availability duration of five years. Country of origin is not specified in this record.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Consumer Rights Act 2015 consumer guarantees for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Camping Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://campingcompany.co.uk/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/", "canonical_url": "https://campingcompany.co.uk/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/", "json_url": "https://campingcompany.co.uk/api/products/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }