The best travel mug there is. The lid completely seals. Just close it and throw it in your bag. We are big fans.

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Product Description

Keep your coffee warm for the drive in to work or dropping the kids off at school and look good holding onto the Trudeau Stainless Steel 18 oz. Drivetime Travel Mug. Stainless steel inside and out, soft rubber handle and non slip bottom. Guaranteed leakproof lid means you can grab your coffee and without worry of spills. Double wall insulation keeps liquids warmer. Our 360 degree drink lid makes our mug perfect for right or left hand use. Just grab and drink!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4880 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Trudeau
• Model: 82450
• Dimensions: 11.00" h x 5.00" w x 11.00" l,

Features

• Guaranteed leak-proof lid
• Generous 18 ounce capacity
• Handle rotates for right or left -handed use
• 360 degree drink lid allows hot beverage to pour from anywhere on the rim

Amazon.com Review
Commuters and travelers in cold climates especially know how important it is to have a hot drink on hand. The Trudeau Drivetime travel mug not only keeps drinks hot but looks stylish, and most importantly of all, is guaranteed not to leak. The leak-proof lid rotates 360 degrees for pouring or sipping; two flanges on the lid create a lip well for improved sipping. The soft rubber handle also rotates, so that the mug can be enjoyed by either a left- or right-handed user.

Trudeau makes the travel mug with double-wall stainless-steel construction for durability and good insulation qualities. The non-slip base keeps it steady, and the slim base of this model lets it fit securely into most car cupholders. What more could you want? Trudeau covers the mug with a five-year warranty. --Ann Bieri

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Customer Reviews

A stylish, leak-proof, but poorly insulated travel mug
The Trudeau is most excellent and the price via Amazon beats other easily. Thumbs up for style, form, and part of the function: being spill-proof. HOWEVER, I read somewhere that the "Double wall insulation provides 2 hours heat insulation". Not exactly certain what that means, but I presumed it meant "You can expect to enjoy hot coffee for up to two hours", i.e., after two hours the coffee would start to be noticeably cool.

Try 1 hour. At 2 hours, the coffee was pretty cool. And yes, I RTM and filled the mug with hot water for a few minutes before filling with coffee. No dice. I am kinda let down b/c of other containers that I have used with satisfaction:

-- I was given a Caribou Coffee "Stainless Steel Thermos" (you can find it from their web site) and was very content with it - it kept coffee hot for hours. Even four hours later (sometimes meetings in the morning get in the way), the coffee was piping hot. But, it was not a mug, per se. Ok, maybe it's not fair to compare a thermos with a mug. But I think it's fair to expect between 1-2 hours of pretty hot liquid from a travel mug.

-- I formerly used a Starbucks travel mug (some stainless steel thing with the widest mouth/body and slightly tapered base). Now this was a mug and it, too, kept the coffee hot for 2-3 hours. I mean hot.

So, the Trudeau is 2 out of 3 cool: looks and spill-free, but not really effective at insulating. At least, this has been my experience. And no, this is not meant to be a plug for either Caribou or Starbucks.

Trudeau backslid on this one
I bought the previous version of this mug. In fact, I bought three over time -- one for my wife and a replacement for my first one when I dropped it from a very high distance onto a hard floor below. I LOVED it. Heck, I practically *evangelized* it to others, some of whom I know bought one for themselves. The original was truly leak-proof, convennient, and lasted forever. The biggest advantage to the original mug was that thte way it was designed ensured that it would NEVER become a "dribble goblet" the way every other travel mug does over a period of time of carrying hot beverages. Plus, I could fill the mug and still drink my coffee relatively hot 2 hours later.

If I were reviewing the original mug right now, I'd give it 5 stars and wish I could give it six. The only improvement I could imagine for the original -- which I wrote to Trudeau about -- would have been to coat the outside with some sort of plastic. This would be for two reasons -- one, to contain the heat even better than the stainless steel exterior did, and two, to remove all exterior shininess so it could be put in a microwave.

BUT... I'm not reviewing the original. I'm reviewing the current version, which I just purchased two of (a Black version and a pink Breast Cancer Awareness version). Abd I can't give it five stars anymore. I'm even a little leary about giving it four stars, but it is still the best mug out there, so I have to.

How did Trudeau backslide on this version? Well, they lost the "dribble-goblet-proofing" I mentioned above. You see, the reason almost all travel coffee mugs eventually start to drip down your lower lip is that the heat wears away the plastic seal on the lid. Eventually, it'll work away enough that an ever-so-slight drip can eake its way out. But the original mug had no external seams, so there was no way for this to happen. Rather than having the bottom of the lid meet the top of the cup, as all others I've ever seen do, the lid fit down inside the top of the cup and screwed in from there. So, your bottom lip did not reast against a seam.

This most important feature is what they did away with in the current version. Your lid screws ON rather INTO the top of cup. And after a few months of usage, it's starting to drip just a very little bit. They have a new sort of mechanism on top of the cup that opens and closes the cup for drinking and helps keep your coffee hot for hours. It still works OK -- I still get a couple of hours of hot beverage out of it. And I see why they changed the design... The new mechanism is actually a little more convenient to open and close. But at the price of it eventually becoming a dribble goblet, it's a step backward to me.

Just what I have been looking for!!!
I have had the more well-known travel mugs, and thought that they were the best. Well, I was wrong. This travel mug is by far the best out there. It is truly leak-proof. My friends get tired of me turning it upside down (I guess I'm easily amused hehe), but I really do like a mug that won't spill if tipped over. When turned to the drink side, the liquid flows at about the right rate, not too fast, not too slow. Anyway, I can't say enough about this mug, and the price also beats the competition.