Hello, I have just come from mattress shooping & am just as frustrated as I have been every time I have done this. And my wife & I have done it about a half dozen times in the past 13 years! That is WAY too much when the products supposedly have a 15 or 20 year warranty! I’ve been looking at Tempurpedic Cloud Luxe and an icomfort bed, supposedly equivalent. The reading I’ve done so far on this site confirm what I believed, that both of these products are vastly overpriced. A condition that I believe applies to all mattresses, based on my consistently bad experiences with them.
Rather than post what I think I want, I will start as I have with both salespeople and ask for recommendations based on my experience & needs. I was in sales, and was very knowledgeable about the product I sold, and so could truly help a customer get what he or she needed, and hoped to get the same from these mattress salespeople. Unfortunately I haven’t !
So, to begin: I am 5-11" and about 180lbs with broad shoulders & a narrow waist. I’m in good shape, but have had a couple of shoulder surgeries and subsequently an accident which fracture-dislocated my left shoulder. It has an impingement as a result. I also sleep on my side. What ends up happening is I sleep for an hour or two, wake up with shoulder pain and roll over. Repeat, many times over. The result is an awful night’s sleep.
My wife is 5-3 and about 110, also in good shape, also a sidesleeper. We are happier with a foam mattress, as with a spring mattress, when I get in it, she rolls downhill to me. Then niether one of us sleeps because we’re both too hot & I have no room.
I have one saleswoman wanting to sell me a Tempurpedic Cloud Luxe, to the tune of &4200 or so, and a salesman across the street (who also has Tempurpedic on his floor ) wanting to sell me an icomfort. I cannot come to terms with spending >$4000 on a mattress and I’ve just read Phoenix describe durability issues with the icomfort. And, despite its price being roughly 60% of the TP, it, especially in light of the durability issues, this doesn’t seem like a good choice, either.
We are in the Las Vegas area, and while mattress stores abound, I have no faith that I am getting a good product that will last even 5 years.
The solitary exception to my bad experiences with mattresses is the one we currently have in our other home, which is a memory foam mattress of unknown brand which we bought on ebay 6 or so years ago for $400. It is only 2 layers, a thick, top layer of soft memory foam and a firmer bottom layer. We’ve been very happy with this mattress but it is now worn out as well.
What I feel like I need is a mattress that is very soft on top so my shoulders don’t hurt, yet firm enough to provide adequate support. Unfortunately, I rarely get a good night’s sleep, and almost always wake feeling tired at best.
The other factor is that we are planning to put this mattress on a “platform bed” with no box spring beneath it. The furniture salesmen tell me the many slats that support the mattress make a box spring unnecessary. I question this, but don’t know if it is or isn’t true.
I have seen Phoenix recommend local manufacturers to others; I hope that is possible in my caseas well!