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I once worked out that the cost of getting icepacks refrozen over our long french holiday would have paid for 50% of a CombiCool....that`s one reason I started using frozen food as ice paks...at least you can eat the food when defrosted!

I haven`t had to get an ice pack refrozen on a UK site in years. What`s the going rate per ice pack?

We have 4 (2 in use and 2 freezing at the site shop).  try to limit amount of milk and other perishable items.  Usually buy as we need.  Cool-bag usually used for things like fruit etc which wouldnt necessarily go off if no blocks available.

Mike J

Quote: Originally posted by Ed Hunter on 09/5/2006

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we used to just go to the local supermarket and buy a bag of ice evrey other day. the kids then have ice for drinks too

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Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 09/5/2006

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.....I haven`t had to get an ice pack refrozen on a UK site in years. What`s the going rate per ice pack?

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I have never had to pay to get one (or more) of our  icepacks refrozen!

When we go away for a fortnight in the summer I take three 'batches' of iceblocks and rotate them every 24 hours, that way each batch gets 48 hours to refreeze before they're back into action. We only need to do it this way in the summer when its warmer and so many people are in and out of the campsite freezers that the bricks take longer to re-freeze properly. At other times its just two batches and one in, one out.

I have stayed on a campsite where you had to use their own iceblocks out of a freezer in the site shop, and pay per day but I can't remember how much that was. MT

hi all,

 when we go camping we freeze orange juice in the small cartons  thay do the job as well as the freezer packs and you get a drink as well .

from a very hot and sunny cardiff

 from fran and steve

For a 3-4 day trip, I freeze 8 pint size milk containers, plus one unfrozen for immediate use, and do as MT says, keep a damp terry towel draped over the coolbox. It works a treat. In fact even on the third day I have to remember to remove a pint of milk at least an hour before we need to use it, so that it thaws fully.

On C&CC sites they do an ice-pack freezing service. Club HQ state the sites are only allowed to freeze your own ice-packs on day before departure for your onward.homeward journey (no idea why that should be - I'd be happy to pay the same price to re-freeze my own packs as I have very small ones to fit our particularly small cooler & small coolbox). I actually found the site warden a bit more amenable than that so I won't say which site!

Anyway, prior to doing your own ice-packs on the last night, you pay say £2 deposit (eg £1 per icepack I think) refundable on departure (that's what it was last year anyway) and hire their ice-packs which you swap each day for newly frozen ones. Each time you swap it costs about 40p (again 20p per ice-pack I think). Over about 10 days last year it didn't work out very much at all overall after the refundable deposit was returned to us on departure.