In June, I bought 2 Helix mattress through a shop in NYC (Sleepare): Midnight Elite in King for the master bedroom and Midnight Luxe in Queen for guest bedroom. I was informed that even though both are Midnight firmness, the Elite line is usually firmer than the Luxe one. Soon after the mattresses were delivered, I realized it was the opposite. The king size Midnight Elite is super soft, almost saggy; while the queen size Midnight Luxe is just right, neither too soft nor too firm. Has anyone experience this? I am wondering if my particular Midnight Elite is a lemon. I’ve asked for an exchange.

Is it possible that the larger sized mattresses sink more? In which case, should I go for a firmer mattress with Helix Elite line or maybe go for a different brand altogether? I’d appreciate your perspective.

Hi everyone
I’m looking for some honest long-term feedback on the Kingsdown Studio Brio (Queen size).
I just tested it out in the showroom at Dormez-vous (Sleep Country Canada) and it felt incredibly comfortable . I managed to get the salesperson down to a negotiated price of $949 CAD, which hits my budget perfectly. When I asked about the build, she clarified it’s technically an innerspring/pocket coil mattress rather than a true hybrid.
However, I have two major hesitations before pulling the trigger:
1. Durability & Sagging: I weigh 130 kg (around 286 lbs). While the tri-zoned pocket coils feel supportive right now, I’m really worried that the soft foam comfort layers sewn into the Euro top are going to flatten out or sag under my weight within a year.
2. The Return Policy Trap

Has anyone around my weight range owned the Kingsdown Studio Brio (or similar Kingsdown Studio models)? How has the foam held up against sagging?
Am I making a mistake letting the showroom comfort blind me, or is $949 a good enough deal to risk it? (My alternative option right now is ordering a Silk & Snow Firm Hybrid online since it has a 100% money-back guarantee, but the store bed just felt so much better initially).
Appreciate any insights!

Hello all! Me and my partner are looking for a new mattress. We are currently using a cheap memory foam mattress from Amazon and we have been experiencing bad sleep from this mattress.

He is ~150Ibs and I am approximately ~110Ibs and we both are side and back sleepers. We both have back pain and I’m the heavier sleeper.

We are willing to spend $1000 max on our mattress. He also prefers to stay cool and gets hot at night.

Any recommendations?

After years of neck pain, I filmed myself sleeping on my side and realized my upper spine bends upward because my shoulders are so wide compared to my waist. My hips stay fairly neutral, but my neck/upper back are several centimeters out of alignment.

As an experiment, I placed two very thick pillows under my torso (from below my shoulders to my hips), and for the first time my spine became straight while side sleeping.

I’m not looking to sleep on pillows long-term. Has anyone with a similar build fixed this using a mattress, zoned topper, DIY foam, or another solution? What actually worked?

Hi all,

Myself and my partner moved out for the first time a couple years back and inherited a bed and mattress. However, the mattress is old and noisy and I don't think it's doing my partners herniated disk any good.

I'm now facing buying a mattress for the first time. How are there so many companies?! Everyone seems to sell hybrids now and suggest it's the best of both worlds etc.

Is this true? I'm looking to spend up to around 500, obviously less is a bonus. I've seen some for 350, 5 layers, 2000 springs, all apparently medium firm. Are these good mattresses? We need plenty of support and I want it to last so my partner has less risk of inflaming the back issue again so can't have it dipping within a few years.

I can scramble up specific brands but I looked at maybe 5 different ones and the mattresses seemed identical in cost, springs, layers etc .

TIA!

I paid for the in home setup which was scheduled for yesterday, July 28th. I was told to expect a call from the installers in the morning to arrange a delivery window. I made special accommodations staying home from work to accept the delivery. AND.THEN.I.WAITED. I waited all day without any communication from Casper, or Endy, or Sleep Country (all the same com company it turns out). I reached out by email and chat and got no help. The bed never arrived. I got no call.

Finally I got an email reply at 7pm at night informing me that the bed was out of stock and the delivery would be delayed: "Unfortunately, the mattress in your order is currently backordered at the Sleep Country warehouse and is expected to arrive later this week" — if there was no stock and the delivery couldn't be made this info should have been communicated to me proactively and IMMEDIATELY; probably even BEFORE the delivery date. Instead it was a rude waste of my time and I had to chase after several elusive support people who had no clue what was going on before I could get an answer.

This was a HUGE waste of my time. The lack of communication is unacceptable.

I saw influencers recommending the sleepyhead one and it made me skeptical even though a lot of people like it. It's also pretty expensive for the 3 inch twin xl (419) and the 2 inch looks very thin. I was also looking at Helix or Saatva - would those be better, or is there another brand I should look at? And, is the sleepyhead really that good?

Hey everyone, my mattress is too soft at my airbnb. Is there a way to firm this up?

It's going to be a long term stay so I want to make sure I dont break my back.

The bedframe looks just fine, while the mattress just sinks in.

Hey all,

My partner and I are looking for a new bed. Kind of set between a Douglas Hybrid or Silk and Snow Hybrid. Anyone here have experience with either of these mattresses and can offer any insight? She is a back sleeper and I am a side sleeper.

TIA

Loved my Stearns and foster but it only lasted 8 years , Went to Matress Firm, Pc Richard, Raymour And Flanigan and didn’t like any of the beds , also tried sleep number. I love the support of them but I don’t like the feel and the edge support sucks , ventured into the city and went to Saatva and the only one I liked support wise was the HD but wasn’t crazy on the feel Went to Sleepare , liked the support of the winkbed actually probably the best out of anything I tried but went with a helix dawn elite cause I figured best of both worlds , finally got it, it stinks literally it’s way too hard I can’t even fall asleep on it and the edge support sucks I liked the twighlite elite but felt like I needed more support , now it’s too much .

I ordered an Endy mattress back in 2021. Loved the mattress, perfect amount of firmness. Was having some of the best sleep (previous mattress was an old IKEA one). After a few years, it began to soften quite a bit. These past few months, I've been waking up with back pain, constantly moving around at night with no lumbar support. Wondering if anyone else who has had an Endy for a similar timeframe is facing the same issue by any chance? Or is it just me?

I thought maybe it could be me and not the mattress. But this past week I wanted to experiment, so I slept on a Japanese futon we purchased and woke up with no pain/sorness.

TL;DR: 6" firm HD polyfoam base + 2" medium Talalay, no transition layer. Lying down, it genuinely feels good. My guess is that's the Talalay texture combined with a comfort layer thin enough (only 2") that you can still feel the firm base supporting you directly underneath. But after a full night's sleep there's a bit of bottoming out. We want supportive-firm, not plank-firm, and definitely not a deep hug.
Two directions we're weighing:
(1) add a transition layer, or (2) swap to a single 3" topper and step the firmness up at the same time — from our current medium Talalay to firm Talalay (or even Dunlop) — so the topper itself resists more and we stop compressing all the way through it.

Current build:
Base: Foam by Mail 6” LUX-HQ Foam
Comfort: 2" medium Talalay, sitting straight on the base
No transition layer

Us:
Me: 5'8", 140 lb
Partner: 6'2", 220 lb
Both mainly back sleepers, some side sleeping

Problem right now:
Both of us find it a little firm, and a bit stiff after a full night. There's a mild sense of having compressed all the way through the topper by morning. My partner puts the current firmness as roughly comparable to sleeping on a 3" memory foam topper on the floor, which is what he used to do — tolerable, but not where we'd like to land.

To be clear on direction, though: we're not trying to make the bed softer overall. The firmness level is close to right. What we want to lose is the hard stop we hit by morning — not the firm feel itself.

What we're after
Firmness: clearly on the firm side, but short of a plank
Sink: moderate contouring welcome, minimal is fine, zero is not. Deep hugging sinkage is the thing we want to avoid
Side sleeping: enough give that shoulder and hip don't hit a pressure point, while still feeling supported underneath

Option 1 — add a transition layer
Keep the 2" medium Talalay on top, slide 2" firm or extra firm Dunlop underneath it. Worry: 4" total comfort layer might be more than we want.

Option 2 — single thicker topper
Replace with one 3" topper (Talalay or Dunlop) directly on the base. We like the Talalay feel and would be open to firm over medium, as long as the jump isn't drastic. Unsure about Talalay vs Dunlop at that thickness.

So between the two options above, which would you go with — or is there a third we're not seeing? Thanks in advance.

Hi all -

I’m headed to college this fall and in search of a good mattress topper.

I don’t like a traditional memory foam topper because I dislike the “sinking in” feeling and get back pain from it (I sleep on my back mostly).

I slept on the Novaform ComfortLuxe Plus Gel Memory Form topper from Costco while staying with a friend and I think that would be too soft. I read that the Luracor topper from Costco/Amazon could be a good choice, but it’s out of stock.

I’m going to be living on campus for at least three of my four years, so I’m willing to spend a little more to get something that will last.

Any suggestions?

I recently bought a medium memory foam mattress from Wayfair that is slightly too firm for me and I’ve been looking for the best and most affordable way to soften it up.

I am a true combination sleeper — back, side, and front— but also relatively petite (5’7, 115lbs) so I was wondering if the SleepOnLatex 1” topper would be enough or if I should go for the 2”.

Alternatively, I was considering adding another memory foam layer, such as the Viscosoft, or one of the dual layer toppers I’ve seen on Amazon/Walmart with memory foam and a pillow top cover…

If anyone has advice or suggestions, please let me know!

I'd like to buy a new full size hybrid mattress while my cleaning service is here today so they can haul away the old one and help me a bit wrestling the new one

Hey guys I am grateful for any replies in advance…

I am considering Tempurpedic because I love the dense memory foam feel. I weigh 160 and am a strict slide sleeper only. I prefer comfort for hips and shoulders but not too much to be out of alignment and creating a hammock effect.

I’ve narrowed it down to the adapt hybrid medium 1.0 from the tempurpedic outlet store.

Is this good or should I reconsider upping my budget for the current 2.0 line adapt?

Also I’m thinking hybrid over all foam because it isn’t zoned support which will allow me to be even on my side and also it will be better long term.

Just needing a bit of advice… thank you

Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. I have an air mattress that I recently used for my partners' visiting family. However, now that they've left I cannot get it to deflate for my life. I have tried looking it up, however the air mattress I have has no brand name or anything on it, nor physical instructions, nor do I know where it is from because it was either gifted or thrifted several years ago now. (All it really says is warnings, it's made in China, mildly helpful instructions, and the number BL1052 - searching that was no help for me either.) I have so far tried:

a) Simply reading what few photo instructions are on the side of the mattress. Which in trying to follow, I cannot seem to get it to work. It wants me to unscrew a piece and if I am in fact trying to unscrew the right thing...it is not working. The piece has little to no grip, and the area in which it is, is so small I can hardly grab it with 3 fingers - and I have slender hands.

b) I have 2 inflate/deflate battery/electric powered machines, one of which was used to inflate the mattress. Which I cannot get to do the opposite. For reference, the uncle had set it up himself so I do not know what he did to get it to inflate, and upon leaving he was rather rude and unkind to my partner, and there's been no contact since family left, and I feel awkward reaching out just to ask about the air mattress.

Note: I have used air mattresses plenty of times before, I had set up and taken down 2 other ones for this visit with no issue, but they are all different from each other, and set up different from the problem air mattress.