If your sleep falls apart the moment the temperature climbs, you’ll already know how little actually helps.
Lakeland’s Go Travel Amazing Cool Down Towel is a £12.99 fix that shoppers say does more than its size suggests, and with the first warm spell of the year behind us, it’s worth a look before the next one lands.
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Go Travel Amazing Cool Down Towel: £12.99
The idea is simple. It’s a lightweight towel made from a cooling fabric that turns cold to the touch once you wet it, wring it out and give it a shake.
Drape it around your neck, and it helps lower your body temperature for a few hours. When the chill fades, you rewet it and start again.
What’s caught shoppers’ attention, though, isn’t its holiday use. It’s bedtime.
One Lakeland reviewer who bought it for the Florida theme parks said it turned out “wonderfully cooling” back home in the UK, helping her through menopausal night sweats.
Another said it gave “a lot of relief” when they got too hot, and was small enough to keep in a gym bag or clip onto a rucksack on a hike.
That bedtime use is the one I’d weigh it against.
If hot flushes or night sweats are wrecking your sleep, a towel you can rewet at 3am is a cheap thing to try before you spend more on cooling bedding or a discounted mattress.
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For travel, it earns its keep too. It folds into a silicone carry case with a karabiner clip, so it weighs almost nothing and stays within strict airline luggage limits — handy if you’re backpacking somewhere hot.
It’s reusable and machine washable at 30°C, which matters at this price. A £12.99 buy you bin after one summer isn’t really a saving.
It won’t cool a whole room, and the effect eases off as it dries — this is targeted relief around your neck, not air conditioning.
For under £13, though, that’s a fair trade.
And if you’d sooner cool down from the inside, well, that’s what homemade soft serve is for – the Ninja Swirl is currently at its lowest ever price.
