Yesterday we received our split Cal King Natural Select 10" from SleepEZ. It is all blended Talalay. My side is S/M/F, and my husband’s side is M/M/F.
I was impressed by the quality of the materials. The cover is lovely, nice and thick with a good zipper, and I was pleasantly surprised that it’s organic cotton even though we went with the Natural Select line rather than the Organic line. Assembly was relatively painless (although everything was much heavier than I’d anticipated).
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the free sheets. They are even certified organic. Also, the free latex pillows are quite nice; they are very thin, but I believe that is by design, to avoid putting your neck out of alignment. They were good to sleep on.
As to the mattress… I don’t know how I feel about it yet. It isn’t what I expected. I’m sure this is probably normal for the first experience with an all-latex mattress.
My (240 lb / 6’5") husband commented that it doesn’t feel durable… It feels too light, “flimsy” was his word. Intellectually he knows it should be quite durable, but he was put off by this sensation. (I reminded him of how solid our $400 foam mattress from Amazon felt… for the first few months, until it started falling apart. )
It certainly doesn’t help that it’s currently on a creaky metal frame (Pragma-Bed) until our Reverie arrives. The significant “give” of the mattress when you sit down + the simultaneous creaking from the metal frame calls to mind the experience of sitting down on an old, worn-out inner-spring mattress. I am very much looking forward to getting it onto the Reverie base.
The feel is much more… high-strung… than I expected. I don’t get the “cloud-like” feel I’ve seen others report. It’s too springy to be cloud-like. When I move, it moves… My husband likened it to lying on a waterbed.
If I get near the edge, it threatens to dump me off the side. Luckily it’s a big bed (Cal King), so it isn’t too hard to keep away from the edge. Not a big deal. It would be annoying if we were sharing a full-size bed like we did back in the day.
I don’t feel like I sink in very much at all. I expected it to be a bit more “cushy”. I was comfortable… I just wasn’t floating on a cloud like I had rather expected. I guess I like cushy. I am pretty sure that if I had been shopping in a store, I would have moved on to look for something more cushy. (That does not mean that would have led me to the right choice, of course… It probably would have led me to a plush pillowtop that would have disintegrated within a year.)
I’m not sure all Talalay was the best choice; I sort of wish I’d gone with their default configuration of Talalay on top & Dunlop on the bottom 2 layers. I thought the talalay would be more… cushy. Instead, it’s… jiggly. My daughter did enjoy jumping on it much more than our non-latex foam beds, until I made her knock it off.
I definitely slept cooler than I had on the memory foam, which was great.
I slept pretty well, but I can’t say I slept better than usual. I do think maybe I feel less stiffness today… but I’m not positive that isn’t wishful thinking. (It’s hard to gauge right now, as my muscles are still quite sore from a hard workout I did the other day.)
I know there’s a reason they want you to sleep on it for 30 days before exchanging anything. I know there is an adjustment period, and I still hope & expect that this mattress will be great for us. I just did not anticipate how different it would be from what we are accustomed to.