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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best Stanley 1913 travel mug?

The best Stanley 1913 travel mug depends on how and where you enjoy your coffee. Whether you're commuting, travelling or working from the office, explore our How to Find Your Perfect Travel Mug guide to discover the perfect companion for your daily routine.

Stanley 1913 Insulated Travel Mugs & Travel Coffee Cups

The insulation is the reason to buy steel over plastic. Two walls with a vacuum between them keep the drink hot for hours and keep the outside cool enough to hold, so it doesn't heat your hand or the inside of your bag. Cold drinks work the same way in reverse.

If you've been comparing thermal mugs, insulated travel mugs and vacuum flasks as though they were different products, a thermal mug and an insulated travel mug are the same object described two ways. What actually separates one from another is the lid and the size.

Travel Coffee Cup or Coffee Mug?

A travel coffee cup has to survive a bag, which makes it a different object from one that sits on a desk. This collection is the first kind.

Every Stanley 1913 travel mug here is a sealed, portable coffee cup: stainless steel rather than paper or plastic, vacuum insulated rather than single walled, and closed rather than open. A steel travel coffee cup holds temperature that a ceramic one cannot, doesn't crack when it goes in a bag, and doesn't carry the taste of yesterday's drink.

If you want a portable coffee cup for a commute, you're in the right place. If you want an insulated coffee cup or coffee mug to hold at a desk or a campsite, with a handle if you want one, and a lid whose job is temperature rather than a seal, that is a different collection and it is the one to look at.

Leakproof Travel Mug

A travel mug earns trust the first time it goes in a bag next to a laptop and nothing happens. Sealed lids are what make that possible, and it's worth checking whether a lid is genuinely sealed or merely splash-resistant, because the two are different and only one is safe in a rucksack.

Any travel mug with a lid will stop a splash. Only a sealing lid holds when the mug is upside down, and none of our lids are sold separately in EMEA, so the lid you choose is the mug you choose.

Looking for a Handle?

Our travel mugs are built without one, because a handle and a sealed, cupholder-friendly profile pull in opposite directions. If a handle is what you want, you want a different format: the Coffee Mugs and insulated mugs are made to be held, and the Tumblers range pairs an ergonomic handle with a much larger capacity.

Travel Coffee Cup, for the Commute

If the journey is the point, size it to the journey. A smaller travel coffee cup finishes with the walk to the station; a larger one lasts the drive and the first hour at the desk.

Choosing the best travel mug is mostly this one decision, followed by the lid. Our guide to finding your perfect travel mug works through capacity, lid type and use case.

Built for Life, Built to Last

A stainless steel travel mug is a buy-once object. Drop it and it dents rather than splits, and it never picks up the stale plastic taste that makes people quietly stop using a reusable cup. Weighed against a paper cup with a twenty-minute working life, the arithmetic is not close. Built from recycled steel, BPA free, and dishwasher friendly.

Complete Your Collection

Staying at your desk? Mugs & Cups has the insulated coffee cups and handled mugs. Need several servings rather than one? Flasks. Browse Café for the whole hot-drinks side, or Full Collection for the complete catalogue.

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