Hi!
I am trying to outfit my guest room with a Queen bed. The profile I am going by is most likely my mom, who is 5’4" and roughly 220lbs. Back-sleeper, thought occasionally side-sleeper. Gets pain in lower back and neck. I don’t want to spring on too much mattress because it is a guest bed after all, but I also don’t want to just buy a cheapy low-quality thing, or get a bad deal on some big brand’s marketing. My target is $500, though I recognize that with a box spring it might push over that. For what it’s worth, my mom is super happy normally sleeping on an extra-tall (~1 ft?) air mattress with a 3" memory foam topper I got originally on Amazon for a $120. (Though apparently it’s now $200?!) I was thinking that I should probably invest in a real bed.
Is $500 a realistic figure? I saw Flexus has a Double Pillow Top mattress in Queen for $365. That’s a solid price. $300 for their box spring, though I bet I can find a cheaper one somewhere. I have their main Flexus Comfort mattress for myself and wife, but getting a whole one of those for the guest room is a bit steep.
Looking for any ideas!
Hi ThatDoePerson.
This is usually the lowest budget range where you will begin to find some better quality and more durable choices and is a more realistic entry-level for regular use by adults although there will still be many limitations and tradeoffs in the type of mattresses and materials that will be available to you.
While the innersprings in this category won’t be the best quality or best performing innersprings … they generally won’t be the weakest link of a mattress either.
You will also find some mattresses in this budget range that use relatively small amounts of specialty materials such as latex or memory foam or high performance polyfoam comfort layers on top of polyfoam support cores but some of these will include some lower quality materials in the mix as well so you will need to be very careful that there aren’t any weak links in a mattress that use specialty materials in this budget range.
It is a solid price. Because it uses a small amount of foam in the minimum density we’d recommend for durability, it helps keep the price low. If you were looking at a 4" comfort layer, the price would be considerably higher.
NikkiTMU
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Hello, hello! My apologies: I actually missed that I got a response from you! Have guests coming and once again remembered about needing a bed. It sounds like perhaps I should upgrade my budget.
There is an important distinction for me is that I am not necessarily looking for something that will handle a decade of nightly sleeping, being that this is for the guest room. Let’s say worst case it gets about a cumulative couple of months of use per year. Still, I do want it to be comfy, so if, say, that $365 mattress is not actually comfy, I’d rather opt for something else, even at double that.
Is there, perhaps a price tier recommendation somewhere?