Google Bubba Kegs and you will find lots of sites that sell them, these are the ones all American's take on their holidays.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bubba-Keg-Kegs!!!-20oz,-34oz,-52oz,-70oz,-72oz-&-384oz_W0QQitemZ120452141905QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090726?IMSfp=TL090726131002r37030

Angie.

How bizzare, if your beer gets to warm, either A, you are a slow drinker or B, just throw it and get another. After all, most people will be on All Inclusive.

LOL, it is a bizarre question I know but when its sooo hot and you want a beer in the afternoon, it gets warm in no time, I couldn't just throw it, even though its all inclusive. I didn't like drinking out of those plastic cups anyway. Also when we go for a game of football/tennis etc.. we need something to keep the beer cool in
Thanks Angie, nice link, will have to look into that, they look just right

I bought a couple of the Bubba Kegs, they seem to have pretty good reviews and at around 16 notes for 2 it wasn't bad.
Thanks guys for your help

must admit they make me cringe when i see them.

nothing more frustrating than being stood behind a group of about five all with massive kegs that take a lifetime to fill
last time i was in Playa Del Carmen it was almost like a competition between the Americans to see who had the the biggest keg,felt sure that someone was gonna turn up with the ice bucket from there room and ask for that to be filled lol

But surely better than just throwing beer away because it's got warm?

How bizzare, if your beer gets to warm, either A, you are a slow drinker or B, just throw it and get another. After all, most people will be on All Inclusive

I have to admit that it was seeing people doing this at the only AI hotel I stayed in on my most recent trip to Cuba that made me decide that I would never do AI again. I couldn't work out why the majority of the bar and restaurant staff were so surly and unfriendly in contrast to what I was used to, until I realised just how much wasted food and drink they had clear up and throw out. If I was living on the sort of wages they earn and having to rely on the rations as most Cubans do then I would get increasingly grumpy too. And just like them I'd probably do everything possible to make sure that I got generously tipped. After all, tourist must be rich mustn't they, if they think nothing of throwing away food and drink in such large quantities? It made me realise just how corrosive it must be having to work around people who, unlike most Cubans, never do have think about where their next meal is coming from.

So no, evohicks, I don't think it is weird to want to buy a decent travel mug that will enable you to enjoy every last drop of your beer while on holiday in Cuba. Especially if it's an imported European beer that Cubans could never afford to drink in a month of Sundays unless someone else was stumping up the money for it.

SM

Well I am glad you raised that point SMa, even when I am out on a night out in the UK its very rare I leave any beer in the bottom of my glass before we hop to the next pub. And its exactly the same when I go on holiday. Its still paid for as you have paid all inclusive for your holiday. But like you say, I couldn't just throw it because it just wouldn't feel right, especially if any of the staff were around.
I must say though, last year in Varadero, our room fridge was topped up every day, and when we walked down for breakfast or lunch, I noticed the gardeners working in the tremendous heat, after a couple of days, we gave the guys our beer from the fridge because after all, it was being topped up and if we were not drinking it, why waste the opportunity to give it to them. The smile on their faces said it all.

Andy

we did the same in the dominican republic, gave our drinks to the guys sweeping the beach, which they then had to drink on the sly as they would get into trouble if seen!! it was the same for all the staff apart from some of the security who ate in the hotel restaurants, the same security who told us off for giving a bottle of water to the gardeners.....

I see no reason at all why you shouldn't give away the contents of the fridge - it's there for you to 'consume' as you want

The heat in Cuba this year in July was intense and I got into the routine of keeping my tour driver and guide in bottled water. A bit of a subterfuge but each day I'd start off with a shopping bag of bottles of water - far more than I'd drink - and then give them what was left at the end of the day on the grounds that 'there'll only be more waiting for me in the hotel so you might as well have this'. They would then have it with them the following day - face would be saved all round and I would have the security of knowing that they weren't going to keel over from dehydration! I think that it's so easy to forget that what we take for granted is not so easily come by for the people who work to make our holidays so good.

SM