I’d like to start off by thanking Phoenix and all of the contributors to this forum. Reading it over the last couple of days has made me feel like a “mattress insider”!
My wife and I are looking for a king-sized mattress to replace our 7 year old S&F Visco Comfort Cloud. We paid over $3000 for this supposedly “premium” mattress which was incredibly comfortable for the first few years, but has fallen off in comfort dramatically over the last 2 or 3. The bed now feels very hard and has little “give” in the comfort layers, and adding a memory foam topper no longer seems to solve the problem. For reference, I am 5’11" 235lbs and my wife 5’9" 155lbs and we are in our early 40s.
In the last few days, we’ve visited two local manufacturers - Obasan and Lapensee Mattress. They seem to have very different philosophies about what makes a good bed; and although they both seem to have strong conviction in their opinions, they are at complete contrast to each other.
We are considering Lapensee’s top “Luxurious” model. According to them, pocket coils make the best cores and soy-based foam is far superior to any latex in durability. They are willing to make a mattress with latex in the comfort layers, and even in the core… but don’t have any display models with this. They are also willing to adjust the firmness of the of the comfort layers for the two sides, but that will impact the ability to rotate this 2-sided mattress (will only be able to flip longitudinally). They claim that we can expect 12-15 years of comfort from this mattress, if not the full 20 years of their warranty. The salesman today told me that if in year 15 we were unhappy with the comfort they would work with us to address it. The price of this is approximately $3600-3800.
We are also considering Obasan’s Acadia 4.0, which provides a 4" soft rubber top, a 4" 3 zone per side customizable layer, and a 4" medium base layer. They would customize our two sides as soft/firm/medium for my top layer, and soft/medium/firm for my wife’s side. According to Obasan, the latex rubber changes very little with use and the comfort life expectancy of this mattress should be in the 20-30 year range. This mattress felt amazing in the store, but the price is approximately $5500 with a couple of accessories thrown in (pillows, mattress protector).
Part of me is thinking that at least with the Obasan we can buy new “modules” to replace worn out pieces (top layer, middle layer supporting mid-section); but they have to be around in 10-15-20 years for us to do that.
Any thoughts? Is there more fact supporting one opinion or the other?
We are looking for comfort and durability, and we are willing to pay IF we can get both of these benefits for a long time. The other option is to get comfortable but less durable (and cheap!) mattresses and replace them every 2-3 years…
If you do have any less expensive alternatives we should consider that would deliver the same value to us (comfort and durability) that would be great!
Thanks