{ "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": 342.99, "currency": "AUD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "coolers-and-showers", "category_label": "Coolers & Camp Showers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "225 g", "images": [ "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/main-ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-2.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-3.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-4.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-5.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-6.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-7.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-8.jpg", "https://campingcompany.com.au/dropship-images/coolers-and-showers/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can-9.jpg" ], "description_short": "Holds 23 litres with a thermoplastic polyurethane liner and a soft shell that folds flat when the trip is over.", "description": "The problem with the esky in the shed\n\nMost households own a cooler they do not really like. It is either too big to bother with or too small to be useful. It lives in the garage, it takes up a shelf, and half the time you leave it behind because dragging a rigid plastic box to the beach feels like more effort than the cold drinks are worth.\n\nThat is the gap a soft cooler fills. A canvas soft cooler folds down when it is empty, carries like a bag rather than a box, and stores in the space a couple of shoeboxes would take. The AO Coolers Canvas Soft Cooler 24 Can sits right in the middle of that range, with a 23 litre chamber sized around a 24 can load and a listed empty weight of 225 g.\n\nHow a soft cooler keeps things cold\n\nEvery cooler works the same way at heart. It slows the movement of heat from the outside world into your drinks. There is no cooling happening, only delay. The ice you put in is the engine, and the insulation decides how long that engine runs.\n\nIn this bag the insulation material is listed as thermoplastic polyurethane, with nylon and polyester making up the rest of the build. TPU is a flexible plastic used across all sorts of water-holding gear, which is part of why it turns up in soft-sided coolers. It bends without cracking and it is not bothered by melt water.\n\nThe important thing to understand is that a soft cooler is a compromise by design. You give up some of the thick rigid insulation of a hard esky, and in exchange you get something you will actually take with you. For a day at the park or a morning on the water, that trade is usually the right one. For a four day camp in summer heat, it is not.\n\nWho this size suits\n\nTwenty four cans is a useful benchmark because it maps to how people actually pack. It is about right for two people over a long day, or four or five people over an afternoon. It is a good fishing cooler bag for a solo trip, and a reasonable team drinks bag for a junior sport match.\n\nThe listed footprint is 25 cm deep, 43 cm wide and 30 cm high, which fits in a boot alongside chairs and a bag of towels. If you are routinely feeding a crowd or doing overnight trips, you will want more volume. If you only ever pack lunch for two, a smaller bag will be less fuss. The 23 litre point is the sweet spot for people who want one cooler that covers most of what they do.\n\nAO lists the recommended uses as outdoors, fishing, sports, picnics, travel and home storage. That last one is worth noting. Plenty of people buy a bag like this and end up using it most often for the hot drive home from the supermarket.\n\nWeight is the quiet deciding factor\n\nA hard cooler can weigh several kilograms before you put anything in it. Add six or seven kilos of ice and a two dozen drinks and you are hauling a serious load across soft sand. The listed item weight here is 225 g, so almost all of the carry is contents.\n\nIf you have ever walked a kilometre of beach track with a cooler banging against your leg, you already know why this matters. The best lightweight esky is the one that makes you less likely to leave the drinks in the car.\n\nPacking it properly\n\nHow you load a cooler changes its performance more than most people realise.\n\nStart with cold drinks. A cooler cannot chill warm cans in any useful timeframe, it can only hold cold ones. Pull the drinks from the fridge, not the pantry.\n\nFill the space. Air is the enemy. A half-empty cooler warms up much faster than a full one, so top the gaps with extra ice or a rolled towel.\n\nUse bigger ice where you can. Block ice and frozen two litre bottles last longer than cubes because there is less surface area melting at once. Frozen bottles have the bonus of giving you cold water later.\n\nLeave the melt water alone. Cold water still does a job. Only drain it when you need the room or when you are heading home.\n\nKeep the bag shaded and keep it shut. Every time you open the lid you swap cold air for warm air. On a hot day that adds up quickly.\n\nCare and cleaning\n\nInsulated bags are easy to look after and easy to ruin. The main rule is simple. Dry it before you store it.\n\nAfter a trip, empty everything out and tip the melt water away. Wipe the inside with warm water and a little mild detergent, then rinse off the soap. If anything has leaked or if there is a fishy smell, a wipe with bicarbonate of soda and water usually handles it.\n\nThen leave the bag open somewhere airy until it is bone dry. A cooler stored damp will smell within a week, and that smell is hard to shift once it settles in.\n\nDo not machine wash it, do not tumble dry it, and do not put it through a dishwasher. Heat and agitation can separate the insulation from the shell. Store it open or loosely folded rather than crushed under a pile of camping gear, so the liner does not set into hard creases.\n\nWhat to check before you buy any cooler\n\nA few questions save a lot of regret.\n\nHow many people do you normally pack for, and how long are you out? Match litres to that, not to the biggest bag on the shelf.\n\nWhere will it live between trips? If storage space is tight, a soft bag that folds flat beats a rigid box every time.\n\nHow far do you carry it? Short walk from the car, and weight hardly matters. Long walk over sand, and it matters more than anything else.\n\nWhat are you putting in it? Cans and bottles sit happily in a soft bag. If you are carrying food that must not get squashed, a rigid cooler protects it better.\n\nSoft versus hard, honestly\n\nThere is no single winner here. A hard cooler holds ice longer and takes more abuse. It is the right tool for multi day trips, for a boat that gets knocked around, and for anywhere you need a seat as well as a cold box.\n\nA soft cooler wins on everything to do with convenience. It is lighter, it packs away, it fits spaces a box will not, and it is far more likely to come with you. Most families who own both reach for the soft one four times out of five.\n\nIf you only own one, pick based on your most common trip rather than your rarest one. The best cooler for day trips gets used every weekend. The expedition cooler comes out twice a year.\n\nThe short version\n\nThe AO Coolers Canvas Soft Cooler 24 Can is a 23 litre soft-sided bag with a thermoplastic polyurethane insulation layer, built around a 24 can load. It measures 25 by 43 by 30 cm, weighs a listed 225 g, and comes in a plain sand taupe.\n\nIt suits picnics, fishing, sideline sport, travel and the drive home from the shops. Pack it full, pack it cold, keep it in the shade, and dry it out before it goes back on the shelf. Do that and it will quietly do its job for years.", "llm_summary": "The AO Coolers Canvas Soft Cooler 24 Can (model AO24TA, UPC 860002228068) is a soft-sided insulated cooler bag with a 23 litre capacity, sized for a 24 can load. Listed dimensions are 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 a listed item weight of 225 g. Materials are nylon, polyester and thermoplastic polyurethane, with thermoplastic polyurethane used as the insulation material. The colour is sand taupe in a solid pattern. AO Coolers lists recommended uses as outdoors, fishing, sports, picnics, travel and home storage. Country of origin and warranty terms are not specified in this product record.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Australian Consumer Law 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.com.au/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/", "canonical_url": "https://campingcompany.com.au/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can/", "json_url": "https://campingcompany.com.au/api/products/ao-canvas-soft-cooler-24-can.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }