NGKUR - What mattress do you like?

[daisy818]

We're getting a new bed and thought this was a good place to get some opinions on what mattresses are nice.  I used to have a Tempurpedic and loved it, but now it seems there are lots of competitors with nice memory foam mattresses as well.  I tend to have a lot of back pain and prefer a firmer mattress.  So, let me know what kind of mattress you have that you love!

[joy]

We had grand plans of going to lie on mattresses and pick a perfect one ...until three months had passed and we were still trying to find time to do that. So, nixed. We bought a mattress with a deal we found on Groupon. We went for the pillow top mattress and - my, oh my - it's lovely.

We thought about sleep number until it was pointed out that air pockets are just filled in to make the firmness and it was less "amazing" than the commercials led us to believe. I still think it's a nice feature, but wasn't worth the money to us.

My sister said memory foam felt like it was enveloping her and she sweat all night in it. Since my husband sweats in 20 degree weather, we decided against that one as well.

[piccyami]

One of the mattress companies (serta?) has cool touch memory foam. My sister loves hers, and they're very hot natured.

We bought 2 (queen, then king when we had space) Sealy posturepedic mattresses. The one we wound up liking is a plush top, so not too soft, not too firm for us. This one What really sold us is that it's a combination memory foam/pocket coil mattress.

[goldenlove3]

Feb 10, 2015 10:40:42 GMT -5 piccyami said:

One of the mattress companies (serta?) has cool touch memory foam. My sister loves hers, and they're very hot natured.

We bought 2 (queen, then king when we had space) Sealy posturepedic mattresses. The one we wound up liking is a plush top, so not too soft, not too firm for us. This one What really sold us is that it's a combination memory foam/pocket coil mattress.

I think that is the same mattress that we have. It's so comfy! When we got our mattress last year, we had a budget in our head that we were gonna stay firm on. Then we laid on the mattress that was in our budget and compared it to the more expensive ones. Yea, we blew our budget out of the water to get the better mattress. You spend so much of your life on this thing.. it's worth it to get one you love.

[heatherj9603]

I have a memory foam mattress. It takes getting used to it being more stiff, but my back has been so much better! Plus it doesn't get those lumps and sunk in spots from where you sleep the most. 

[getzystark]

We pulled the trigger and got a Tempurpedic with an adjustable base (helloooooo magic fingers massage). I have pretty significant SI joint and neck issues and was hoping having my feet up and more support would help. I haven't noticed a huge difference but my husband sleeps better. I thought about retuning the bed, because the price tag was so high and it wasn't a miracle worker for me, however we couldn't return the base, so it would have been silly.

Tempurs do sleep hot and we decided not to add on the $1000 cooling material so I'm anxious to see how it is in the summer. Supposedly the material is insulating so it should keep you cool or warm.

I don't know if this is true necessarily, and I'm too lazy to look into it, but apparently Tempurpedic has a very small returns department (sales lady said 2 people) because they hardly get any returns.

[onyx]

This thread makes me want to take a nap and it's only 11 am where I am. I love the temperpedics. If I could afford one right now I would buy one.

[westisleflower]

We really like our sleep number. I like my mattress firmer, and he likes it softer so its perfect!

[daisy818]

Feb 10, 2015 10:40:42 GMT -5 piccyami said:

One of the mattress companies (serta?) has cool touch memory foam. My sister loves hers, and they're very hot natured.

We bought 2 (queen, then king when we had space) Sealy posturepedic mattresses. The one we wound up liking is a plush top, so not too soft, not too firm for us. This one What really sold us is that it's a combination memory foam/pocket coil mattress.

I think that's the Serta i-comfort - we're planning to look into that one because they do look nice (and maybe run a bit cooler than Tempurpedic - mine did run a bit hot (although mine was from 2009 and I know they've upgraded materials to something that is a little cooler).

[Deleted]

I have a Tempurdic. I like it alot. My sister has the Sealy version which is also nice; however, I feel like I sink in more on the Sealy.

[mrss44]

We have a pillow top serta. It's comfy but the pillow top has lost some fluff to it. I really want a tempurpedic though.

[Deleted]

I have a Serta pillow top and I love it.

[nuggetrn]

We have a really amazing gel infused memory foam mattress that I am not sure of the brand. It is pretty firm and it is about a million times better than the piece of crap hand-me-down mattress that we spent the first two years of marriage on, lol.

We got an awesome deal on it but I definitely agree with goldenlove3 that you are going to sleep on this thing every night for a lot of years down the road, spend the money to buy something you really like! I am super cheap, and I don't like spending money and I had to keep reminding myself of this during the whole process.

[piccyami]

Feb 10, 2015 11:12:23 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

I have a Tempurdic. I like it alot. My sister has the Sealy version which is also nice; however, I feel like I sink in more on the Sealy.

Sealy has like 3 different firmness levels. We really didn't see a difference between the Tempurpedic ones and the Sealy ones in firmness when you compared similar mattresses.

[notlindsrockies]

We have a king-sized knockoff Tempurpedic. I hate it and I wish we would have just sprung for the real deal.

[gdaisy09]

Feb 10, 2015 10:40:42 GMT -5 piccyami said:

One of the mattress companies (serta?) has cool touch memory foam. My sister loves hers, and they're very hot natured.

We bought 2 (queen, then king when we had space) Sealy posturepedic mattresses. The one we wound up liking is a plush top, so not too soft, not too firm for us. This one What really sold us is that it's a combination memory foam/pocket coil mattress.

It's the serta iComfort...that's what we have, it's amazing! I don't sleep better anywhere else.  if I recall from purchasing it 3 years ago the serta is less expensive than the tempurpedic 

[lazyreader]

Tempurpedic.

[ttcminicofer]

Feb 10, 2015 11:17:37 GMT -5 @led said:

I have a Serta pillow top and I love it.

I used to work for a hotel and ordered new beds and this was what we got. We had nothing but great reviews about the comfort of the bed. I laid on one when they first came in and it was the perfect balance of firm and soft.
I also slept on a tempur pedic before and it was ok, but I did overheat easily on it.

[nachobutt]

We have a Tempurpedic. We like it. It does sleep hot though. We bought it before they came out with the fancy schmancy cooling gel stuff.

We've also had a Sleep Number, and loved it. Probably more than the Tempurpedic. only because my husband likes things a little firmer than me, and we could have it how we wanted on each side. We had the one with memory foam topper. It was nice. I never once felt like I was on an air mattress. It was a real bed in my eyes.

The only reason we don't still have the Sleep Number is because we sold our bedroom suite to my SIL, when she bought her house. It was the only way she could have afforded any nice furniture and a mattress, so we gave her a deal. We wanted new furniture anyways.

We bought the Tempurpedic because OMG Tempurpedic. It's lived up to its hype, and my husbands back does better. We still might get a Sleep Number one day, and move the Tempur to the guest room, and switch them out every year. who knows. These are just my thoughts.

[abc531]

We have a Tempurpedic that we got last fall as a "yay, H got a real job and we've been sleeping on a futon for the last 3 years". We love it! We thought about getting the one with the cooling material but didn't want to spend the extra money for that. Instead H got a cooling pillow and he loves that!

[samanthasays]

We got the memory foam sleep number bed. I love it! It is the best of both worlds, we can separately adjust our sides but we still have the nice memory foam too. And it has coolfit technology, whatever the hell that is, but in the summer it really doesnt get too hot. I think the best thing about it is H and I cant feel each other moving around at night. That is probably the biggest benefit of the sleep number style in my opinion.

I had a simmons beauty rest black label mattress too, that was supposed to be great, it has this pocket coil technology that in my opinion was just mattress company jargon. It didnt feel that great. But maybe I am more of a memory foam and less of a pillow top kind of girl.

[fallbaby11]

We have a Sealey Posturpedic Pillowtop.  It has been over 8 years though so we need a new one.  I do like the one we have though.

[piccyami]

Feb 10, 2015 12:42:50 GMT -5 samanthasays said:

We got the memory foam sleep number bed. I love it! It is the best of both worlds, we can separately adjust our sides but we still have the nice memory foam too. And it has coolfit technology, whatever the hell that is, but in the summer it really doesnt get too hot. I think the best thing about it is H and I cant feel each other moving around at night. That is probably the biggest benefit of the sleep number style in my opinion.

I had a simmons beauty rest black label mattress too, that was supposed to be great, it has this pocket coil technology that in my opinion was just mattress company jargon. It didnt feel that great. But maybe I am more of a memory foam and less of a pillow top kind of girl.

Pocket coil means that each coil is in its own fabric pocket and not attached to the ones around it. It means that the coils will adjust to your body shape better than a traditional innerspring mattress. The guys at our mattress store were very good about explaining this. The simmons mattresses that I've tried tend to be firmer (or just hard) than some of the other companies. The mattress before our queen was a simmons beauty rest. It was like 15 years old when we donated it. IT was getting uncomfortable, but it still had some life left in it.

There is definitely a difference between coil mattresses and memory foam, though.

[joy]

Feb 10, 2015 11:54:37 GMT -5 mistabinx said:

In the end, I'd recommend anything without a pillowtop. They are the devil.

::gasp::

My pillowtop is amazing.

[samanthasays]

Feb 10, 2015 12:49:59 GMT -5 piccyami said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:42:50 GMT -5 samanthasays said:

We got the memory foam sleep number bed. I love it! It is the best of both worlds, we can separately adjust our sides but we still have the nice memory foam too. And it has coolfit technology, whatever the hell that is, but in the summer it really doesnt get too hot. I think the best thing about it is H and I cant feel each other moving around at night. That is probably the biggest benefit of the sleep number style in my opinion.

I had a simmons beauty rest black label mattress too, that was supposed to be great, it has this pocket coil technology that in my opinion was just mattress company jargon. It didnt feel that great. But maybe I am more of a memory foam and less of a pillow top kind of girl.

Pocket coil means that each coil is in its own fabric pocket and not attached to the ones around it. It means that the coils will adjust to your body shape better than a traditional innerspring mattress. The guys at our mattress store were very good about explaining this. The simmons mattresses that I've tried tend to be firmer (or just hard) than some of the other companies. The mattress before our queen was a simmons beauty rest. It was like 15 years old when we donated it. IT was getting uncomfortable, but it still had some life left in it.

There is definitely a difference between coil mattresses and memory foam, though.

Ah that makes sense, thanks! The guy said it would help us not feel each other move, I am a thrasher. But I feel like the sleep number is much better at that then the Simmons was. 

[piccyami]

Feb 10, 2015 12:55:51 GMT -5 samanthasays said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:49:59 GMT -5 piccyami said:

Pocket coil means that each coil is in its own fabric pocket and not attached to the ones around it. It means that the coils will adjust to your body shape better than a traditional innerspring mattress. The guys at our mattress store were very good about explaining this. The simmons mattresses that I've tried tend to be firmer (or just hard) than some of the other companies. The mattress before our queen was a simmons beauty rest. It was like 15 years old when we donated it. IT was getting uncomfortable, but it still had some life left in it.

There is definitely a difference between coil mattresses and memory foam, though.

Ah that makes sense, thanks! The guy said it would help us not feel each other move, I am a thrasher. But I feel like the sleep number is much better at that then the Simmons was. 

As long as DH isn't flopping on the bed, we don't usually feel each other move too much. You'll still feel the other person move, but it isn't like it was with the old spring system.

[JulietRose]

Feb 10, 2015 12:51:28 GMT -5 joy said:

Feb 10, 2015 11:54:37 GMT -5 mistabinx said:

In the end, I'd recommend anything without a pillowtop. They are the devil.

::gasp::

My pillowtop is amazing.

Agree, my pillowtop is fantastic. Not for everyone, but I'm sleeping on a cloud. 

[joy]

Feb 10, 2015 13:01:50 GMT -5 mistabinx said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:51:28 GMT -5 joy said:

::gasp::

My pillowtop is amazing.

After that experience, all I can think of when I hear "pillowtop" is excruciating back pain 

I am sorry!  We all aren't built the same.  I don't think my husband loves the pillowtop half as much as I do!

[icequeen]

We have a king size Tempurpedic and love it so much. I have lower back pain and the firmness really gives me some good stability. I am a little surprised, though, because MH asked me about a month ago if we could switch sides because he felt like his side was sinking in too much and wanted to "level out" the bed.

[dke2010]

We have a ComfortCare Signature mattress from Restonic. We bought it about 1.5 years ago when we got our first house. While Restonic isn't a big name brand, the quality is really good. We like ours so far.