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We take drinks and picnics everywhere with us on our day trips and holidays. One reason for this is to save money but the main reason is because we only need to get in the car and my girls decide they need a drink or a snack, it’s like a default request.
So for that reason I always have drink bottles in my bag and they need to not leak! So having bought and thrown away lots of drink cups over the years; the main culprits have leaked in my changing bag making nappies unusable, ruined the picnic, or perhaps worse covered my own handbag in sticky juice, these are 3 of the best we have ever had, and are still using!
Tommy Tippee Explora Active Sipper Cups
Ours are now 4 years old and they have been until recently our default choice of cup. They simply do not leak and can be upside down in your bag/handbag, thrown on the floor etc etc. They have been through the dishwasher more times than I could count and are still fine. For my 4 and 5 year olds the only downside is that they think they are starting to look a little babyish and they have had them since they were 1 so I can’t blame them for that. There is also a little white piece of plastic in the lid that if it comes off makes it leakable. It doesn’t come off unless you take it off to wash it, but you do need to make sure you put it back on properly.
I can’t find them on the Tommee Tippee website so it is possible they have stopped making them, but they are available on Amazon. At £15.99 each on Amazon I accept that they may seem expensive but if you work on the basis that you might well use them for 4 years then that equates to pretty good value to me. Highly recommended.
Thermos Floral FUNtainer Straw Bottle – 355 ml, Pink
These are the most recent ones we have tried. Again we have three and I think these are excellent, well worth the money. They simply don’t leak. They can be thrown about, dropped, left upside down in a bag and they don’t leak. It’s made from strong steel with silicon straw & washer. It opens with push button which is easy to use and both the silicon straw and washer comes off for easy cleaning.
The difference with this bottle than the one above and below is that it keeps the juice or water cold which will be perfect for our holidays. We always take drink bottles away with us to take to the beach. The only slight downside to these bottles is that they are a little heavier than the ones above and below. Not so much of an issue for one, but if i’m carrying all 3 in a handbag I do notice the extra weight, slightly.
Again highly recommended and well worth the £13.99 price tag. You can buy these on Amazon here.
Camelbak Kids Eddy Bottle
We used these bottles all summer. We literally took them everywhere. They are light, they do not leak either and the girls like the design. I also like the fact that they aren’t pink or blue and the fox design seems to suit all. They have loads of different designs too and I think I like them all. Have a look here.
They have been through the dishwasher loads, they went to Greece and Turkey and back. The only slight issue I have is that somehow I have lost one of the straws from one of the bottles so we can’t use that one now, so just one thing to look out for.
These bottles start at £11.99 on Amazon and I would highly recommend them. We have used them so much and want to carry on so I’m going to investigate getting another straw!
Why not PIN!
NB: We were provided with the Camelbak and Thermos Funtainer for the purpose of the review but all views are our own.
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I bought so many over the years then got given a free camelbak one and it’s fantastic! It’s now Zs water bottle for school 🙂
When we were courting, my husband tipped a glass of beer into my lap in a nightclub, looked like I’d wet myself!!
Red wine all over a brand new beiged carpet
Whenever I’ve had a leakage when a bottle’s been put in my bad =-O
Ribena leakage on cream sheepskin rug!…….My cream sheepskin rug too – still not over it!
I dropped my glass of Red wine of the edge of the table while having a meal out with my hubby
Always end up with a leak in my sons bag its a pain
Pins summer fruits over my cream carpet never came out xx
Spilt sticky vimto all inside my bag!
Spelling my pint in the pub yesterday
a GUEST dropped red wine on my white sofa
red wine down the back of my hired wedding dress 🙁
i am always knocking drinks over its a knack i have
Believe it or not my worst drink accident was in a transport ambulance. My Mother who was unwell at the time and undergoing numerous tests, was being transported to another hospital for investigations / tests. I was accompanying her.
As I felt thirsty I was drinking from a carton of fruit juice via a straw. The journey was bumpy, and I believe this may have inadvertently caused me to tighten my hold on the juice carton. Only for the juice to come up the straw at speed :- spilling onto my jeans. My Mum did find it funny (humorous). I was and am still her child after all.
My daughter put her water bottle in her book bag and it spilled all over her books and keywords all ruind
When my mum spilt coffee over my daughters hand and leg in a fast food restaurant, it was insanely hot she was very lucky there was no lasting damage
I once spilt a can of relentless in my car
Put my grandsons drink in my bag without checking the lid was on properly & ended up with a ruined phone x
I once spilled a coffee all over my white blouse on a long train ride to a training session for my job in London. Bloody hate those plastic lids!
water over my keyboard.
Not really had many accidents with drinks as i got wood effect lino thats easy to clean up x
My daughter knocked over a teapot of boiling water onto her arm when we were on holiday in a hotel in Prague. Could have been a nightmare but they gave her a foam spray from the hotel kitchen and within minutes her arm was completely healed. Amazing stuff, amazing service. Amazing place.
Baby milk all over the sofa 🙁
spilling my drink on my works computer 🙁
Orange juice over my dress just before leaving for a wedding!!
Having a brew at my sisters and the handle broke off the cup, it went all over her posh carpet, it wasn’t even my fault
water over my phone x
Red wine all down my dress at a party when someone banged into me
Dropped a glass of champagne down my wedding dress before I even left for my wedding
grandchild ready for bed (apart from teeth) given a taster of just warm “hot” chocolate in a cup which promptly went down her clean pyjamas
gave my son Limeade whilst on a family pub meal out which caused him to have ‘e’ number flip and he knocked over a couples drinks table- he has no artificial preservatives now if I can help it!
We were on a flight and we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped with no warning just as my friend went to take a sip of red wine, the win went up in the air and came back down covering us both – we were dripping in wine!
too much alcohol, being sick, friends carpet……… i’m trying to forget
not screwing the lid on my own travel cup very well and spilling scalding hot tea on myself – just before work!!
Just sat down on a flight to New York amd the person next to me tipped water on my lap. A whole cup. I then had to walk to the toilets clearly looking like I had wet myself! Then I had an uncomfortable flight there. x
Has to be red wine on the new carpet
Oh, dear! A bottle of chocolate milkshake spilt over the back seat of the car at the start of a long journey. And the floor. And the windows. And the door. And the little people …
Port on the carpet! Whoops!
I havent really had any yet but Im sure they will come!
A full mug of hot coffee spilt in the middle of a cream lounge carpet – there was no removing that stain, whole carpet needed replacing!
blackberry juice on nice white dress at a wedding…
Spilling a drink over my date
Cuppa Soup got knocked off an armchair on to me. I was 12, wearing shorts and had a saucer sized blister on my leg for the rest of the summer holidays.
Emptying an orange juice carton all over my husband on a flight and it went all over his trousers it was a work trip and he was not pleased at all to meet his colleague with a very odd wet patch.
A bottle in a handbag full of important documents. Yes they all got soaked and smudged.
My granddaughter knocks drinks over every time she is so clumsy. At now 17 years old and no improvement.
My son spilt a whole glass of coke onto his lap when we were out for a meal 🙂
When I was a child I went round a friends house and I had a whole mouth full of water when she made me laugh and I sprayed the contents of my mouthfull all over the kitchen just as her parents walked in!
I spat my drink all over my computer at work because I was laughing too much – so embarrassing!!
The kids’ flasks have leaked too many times on their work!
Spilled my daughters drink right onto the crutch of her grandads trousers at the cinema.
Cherryade on the cream carpet in the lounge thanks to my daughter, then she put one of her toys over it instead of telling me so it wasn’t cleaned up straight away! You can still see it and yes, I was fuming x
Fruit juice leaking in school bag and homework getting ruined
Has to be the old classic of any drink spilt on the keyboard. The amount of times I’d done this….
Fell back in a deck chair and drink consequently all over me ha ha
Red wine on a friend of a friends new light beige carpet. I still cringe about that one!
Knocking my shopping bag over and smashing a bottle of wine in the bus stop
Orange juice knocked off the bedside table – it went all over the bed, the storage under the bed, the computer power lead (thankfully survived), splashed the laptop (again thankfully survived!) and the electric blanket control which then wouldn’t turn up and down because it got sticky!
red wine spilt on the cream carpet at a party
We were on the train going to visit my Grandad in a london hospital, it takes about hour and a half, so I brought my daughter a drink in a polystyrin cup… Just as the train pulls away, she sticks her finger through the cup (to see what would happen), and unsurprisingly it soaked her through so we had to get off at the next stop go home, change her, then go back to the station.. Mind you she was only 4 years old at the time 🙂
Nothing too awful really, just the usual spillages and leaking bottles in bags. My Nephew once had a chocolate milkshake from McDonalds & it didn’t agree with him and he threw the thing up all over the back of the car – don’t know it that counts?!
I tripped in the lounge and spilt a huge glass of Coke over my new carpet
Milkshake in the car, it was summer, we were on holiday, the car smelt of sour milk for weeks.
Ribena leaking on the spare clothes… NOOOOO
My sons water bottle always leaks if its laid down. My husband has left it on our bed many times and the whole bottle has leaked through the mattress and was dripping on the floor! I had to use a hairdryer to try and dry it!
One of the children spelling a carton of milk in the car. It smelt horrible for ages.
My worst drinks accident was actually me! I had a water bottle in my brand new suede handbag, and without realising it, the bottle had been slowly leaking. It was only when my jumper became wet that I wondered what was going on…..opened the bag to find everything sopping wet and covered in water! Not a good day!
Spilling milk over the bed when my daughter kicked it on purpose
We had a drink leak in my daughter’s bed, it was so wet it had trickled down the sides of the waterproof mattress protector and we had to dry out the wooden slats on the bed!
took a big gulp out of what i thought was a mcdonalds cup of coke–only to find it was my tobacco chewing friend`s spit cup—full of already chewed tobacco!