Copco Acadia 16 oz Travel Mug – Insulated Reusable Coffee Tumbler with Double-Walled Plastic, Leak-Proof Lid, BPA-Free – Portable Mug for Hot & Cold Drinks, Cup Holder Friendly (Damask)

Great travel cup
I have been using these cups for 10 years and they work great. Insulated Yeti cups keep the coffee hot…too hot. I drink my coffee in about an hour and this keeps it at a perfect temp during that time. Stand up great to years of dishwasher washing.

The Copco Acadias are best-of-breed; and this is the best of them
I’ve been on something of a mission to find the ultimately best of these reusable to-go mugs which look like Starbucks paper cups, in the larger (16oz) size; and it has finally all come down to this: The 16oz Copco “Acadia” is the hands-down best-of-breed; and this white one, with the white top and tan sleeve, is the best-looking of the bunch.For years, now, I’ve kept a few (three or four) McDonalds 16oz coffee cups (the hard/compact styrofoam ones, with the paper labels on the outside) in my cupboard, along with a half dozen or so lids; and every time I left the house in the morning, I’d pour some coffee from our coffeemaker into one of them, snap-on a lid, and be out the door. They’re sturdy enough to handle repeated use (though, admittedly, not TOO much of it), and I used to just refill them at gas stations or convenience stores (or even at McDonalds) all day long. It worked-out really well; and when one of them would start to get too raggedy-looking (or if it started a leak a little at the bottom, which was a sure sign that its days were over), I’d just stop at a McDonalds and buy another, or grab another from my little collection in the cupboard.No, of course it wasn’t as nice as one of these cups, but I was at least not discarding one or more styrofoam-with-paper (and plastic lid) cups into a landfill every day, so I was accomplishing at least a LITTLE bit of environmental greenness; and the McDonalds cups are sufficiently sturdy that I could actually get a week out of one… sometimes even longer. In fact, as long as I bought at least one fresh cup of coffee (getting a new cup with it) from McDonalds per week, I couldn’t figure out how to ever run out of ’em.But then California started getting tougher and tougher on styrofoam stuff, insisting that restaurants use recycled (and recyclable) paper cups and other similar products. Finally, recently, my beloved McDonalds cups were replaced (at pretty much all of the McDonalds restaurants at which I tend to stop for coffee) by paper cups. As paper coffee cups go, the new McDonalds ones are also nice (more sturdy, even, than the Starbucks paper cups), but they’re still paper. And so they can’t be refilled very much… won’t even last a day, really, I’ve found; and cannot really be nuked in the microwave more than about once. And so I started feeling bad about my greenness, again, because I was throwing at least one away per day.Now might be a good time to point out that I absolutely HATE classic travel mugs… you know, the brushed aluminum with black plastic ones which are big enough on the outside to seemingly hold 16oz, but which are so insulated that they barely hold 12oz; and because they’re so insulated the coffee’s still too hot to drink even a half hour later; and they have impossible to figure-out lids so coffee still somehow ends-up on my suit if I sip in the car. I’ll spare you the trials and tribulations of cleaning them. So I was excited to learn about these looks-like-a-Starbucks-type cup cups.I was telling my wife about them — particularly these Copco Acadias, but other brands, too — and how much I liked them, and she swore she saw one for sale for like $3 at a local ROSS store, so she went and got one. Though there’s no brand name on it, I now know it’s a Copco… just a much older one than any of those for sale here on Amazon these days. It’s white, has a brown lid, and a yellow-with-brown-coffee-beans print hard plastic sleeve (not the silicone ones they come with now) which is VERY ugly. It also has the kind of soft, black, porous rubber on the bottom such as one might see on the bottom of a table lamp, and so it soaks-up water like a sponge.Obviously, Copco was still learning how to do it when that old cup was made. The new ones, for example, have much harder, non-porous rubber or silicone on the bottoms (usually which match the color of the silicone sleeve); and Copco has finally figured-out the value of embossing its brand name into it.UPDATE: Since originally writing this review (both above and below this paragraph), I’ve had commnication with Copco and I’m told that the old cup is likely not an old Copco; that it’s likely some kind of knock-off. And the reason is because apparently Copco has never made a cup which doesn’t have the “Copco” name either embossed or debossed into both the bottom rubber, and the top; and, also, Copco has never made a sleeve that’s hard plastic; and, also, Copco’s lids are always white. Okay, then… fine: The old cup’s apparently not a Copco after all; but if it’s a knock-off, then let me tell you that it’s darned exact. It’s made from exactly the same material, same size and shape, weighs the same, hold an identical amount of liquid, etc., etc. The only differences are that the thread’s a little beefier on the old cup; the old one has (as earliermentioned) the black, nondescript, more absorbant (and so, worse) type rubber (similar to on the bottom of a desk lamp) on the bottom; and now that I really compare them, the slightly recessed band around the cup (over which the sleeve fits) is smooth like glass on the Copco, but is the same as the rest of the cup on the old one which I originally thought was an old Copco, but apparently isn’t. So, then… wait… I guess that means I have no way of determining if the old cup is BPA-free. Hmmm. Oh, well… gotta’ toss it and get another Copco, I guess! [grin]Back to the original review (ignoring, of course, any parts of it which refer to the old cup as a Copco)…The bottom line, in any case, is that these new ones are terrific! Don’t get me wrong, the old one’s good, too… we’ll keep it (especially after I bought one of these much better looking sleeves…[…]…for it); but with these new ones, Copco has finally gotten it right. The tan silicone sleeve looks enough like one of the paper ones that you can’t really see that it’s not paper unless you’re pretty darned close. In fact, when I was in a meeting the other day, a guy sitting right next to me thought it was a white, 16oz, Starbucks-type paper cup with a classic white thin-and-hard-plastic lid, and a tan paper sleeve. When I explained what it really was, he wanted to get one that very minute. Turns out he had been using styrofoam McDonalds cups exactly like I had; and in the face of them now being gone (yes, he, too, was jonesing), he thought this Copco cup was just about the coolest thing (of its type, at least) that he had ever seen. I pulled-out my Android phone, logged-in to my Amazon account, looked-up the order where I bought one, and sent him a link to this web page in an email. The next morning, when we met again, he said he bought one; and was so eager to get it that he paid for overnight shipping. Had I met with him a third day, I’ll bet I’d have seen it in his hand at the table.One very nice thing about these is that the lid is screw-on, not some kind of quarter-turn lock-in sort of thing (though, that said, it takes barely more than a quarter-turn to screw-down this one to a good seal, but it’s the quarter-turn snap-in ones is what I’m talking about). I’ve found that only the truly screw-on ones (like this Copco Acadia) can be snugged-down sufficiently tightly that they really and truly seal so that there’s no leakage, no matter what. If the rubber gasket inside the lid of the quarter-turn ones is sufficiently beefy, then those work okay, too; but my experience is that over time they shrink a little and end-up not snugging-down as tightly as they did when they were new. Since these Copcos screw on, they always seal. Always.That said, there’s more and deeper thread on the old one, and so it’s virtually impossible to screw it down so tight that you run out of thread. This new one, I’m thinking, actually could run out of thread at some point; and at that point, who knows, maybe it, too, will not seal sufficiently tightly. We’ll see. All Copco would have to do, though, is sell new lids, with nice new rubber gaskets in them. Maybe they do, but I’ve not looked around here for one.The trick, in any case, is to be careful how you clean them. They say they’re dishwasher safe, but my opinion is that only the cup, itself, would survive both the heat of the water and also the drying process. You should definitely NOT, then, put either the silicone top or sleeve into the dishwasher… at least not at the super-hot temperatures typically found in one. Maybe if you washed it in the dishwasher without using the heating element so that the water is only as hot as what comes out of your water heater; and also didn’t do any drying cycle which involves a heating element, maybe then everything would survive. The best way, though, is to just forget about the dishwasher. Just get it out of your head. It’s just not that big of a deal. A little spritz of dishwashing soap in the cup, with hot tap water, and a once-over with a clean kitchen sponge, then a quick rinse with warm or cold water, and you’re done… 30 seconds, tops! What could be easier.I do notice that coffee stains the inside of these Copco Acadia cups pretty easily; and that it doesn’t wash out quite as easily as I’d like. I’ve been saying about these kinds of cups, for some time, now, that my ideal cup is one that’s exactly like these Copco Acadias except for the liner; and that the liner should be porcelain or maybe even Pyrex glass or something. But I suppose it would be tough to bond it all together in a manner that would last; and it would probably shoot-up the price. So, for now, these will do just fine.Regardless, it doesn’t stain much worse than the inside of the glass coffeemaker pot, itself; and of course, my McDonalds cups used to get almost black by the time I’d finally throw them away, so I suppose I shouldn’t complain. Coffee stains do not equal dirt, or lack of cleanliness. A daily rinsing, and then a weekly thorough cleaning — both by hand — is pretty much good enough. If it gets too stained, then maybe a monthly trip through the dishwasher (at lower temperatures, of course) might help… but, again, I recommend not sending the lid or the sleeve through the dishwasher; and truth be known, even the monthly dishwasher cleaning of the cup isn’t really necessary. It can be kept clean enough by hand, and so doing takes just seconds per day. Occasionally drinking acidic drinks out of the cup — like orange juice, for example — can also help with the staining problem; as can making some hot green tea in the cup (and drinking it therefrom) now and then.As reusable coffee cups/mugs of the McDonalds/Starbucks-looking type go, these Copco Acadias really are best-of-breed! Now that I’m using them, I could never go back; and, in fact, the other day when I didn’t have one with me, it felt really weird to drink out of a Starbucks paper cup. So, I could not more strongly recommend the Copco Acadia……especially this white one, with the white silicone top and tan silicone sleeve. Nice!Hope that helps!

Husband-approved
Got several of these for my husband and brother-in-law. They both love them. No issues putting them thru the dishwasher.

Excellent mug for the disabled
My wife is disabled (MS) and has a difficult time holding glasses and coffee cups. My “old” Einstein Bagel coffee mugs are aging out (they are like 7-10 years old). A long long time ago in a life far far away, she had Copco Enameled Cast Iron cookware that was like lifting weights at the gym – excellent cookware just really heavy. I decided I’d try these.The price is good, seal well, are dishwasher safe, and easy to hold. Spillage is a problem if she drops one however it’s about the best I can do for her needs. The only down side is the drinking slot is just like 1mm-2mm too small to easily slide in a straw. I’ll drill the hole a tad larger, not a big deal.

Dishwasher safe and microwave safeHusband loves it. It is not a thermal mug. Just a cup with a lid so doesn’t spill going down the stairs.

We had bought Mugs 12 years ago and they were starting to give up the ghost. We bought other similar cups but they weren’t as good as our old ones.These ones are as close as we could get to the old ones. They are light, well insulated secure with superior fitting. Highly recommend. We bought two.