Pure Talalay Bliss latex mattress

[phoenix]

Hi Kathleen,

Thank you! We are in the 34697 area and willing to travel a couple of hours for a mattress. Sarasota and Orlando might be the geographic boundaries to consider.

Subject to first confirming that any retailer or manufacturer on the list that you wish to visit is completely transparent (see this article) and to making sure that any mattress you are considering meets the quality/value guidelines here … the better options or possibilities I’m aware of in and around the Tampa/ Clearwater/St Petersburg areas are listed in post #143 here.

The Sarasota/Brandenton list is here and the Orlando list is here.

As for the PPP, I’m 5’9" and 150, and my boyfriend is 5’11" and 160. We are in our 50s and support and pressure relief seem to be increasingly important for sleep. We have read the tutorials and unfortunately, not done a great job with translating showroom feel to true support or pressure relief. We have been through several new mattresses within 2 years and we are not happy yet. Thanks for your heads up about the PTB Beautiful and Worlds Best models perhaps being too soft for support. They feel great for pressure (specifically my hips). But then again, I’m afraid of my own judgement of feel in the showroom as I’ve been wrong.

As I mentioned in my previous reply … the only way to know whether a mattress is a good “match” for you in terms of comfort, firmness, and PPP is based on careful testing (hopefully using the testing guidelines in the tutorial) or your own personal experience.

We found one other mattress by Natural Expressions, model “Angelica,” that felt pretty good, and I read the other forum post about this company, who manufactures their mattresses in China. I’m just not thrilled about that.

I’m guessing the topic you read is this one but if the Angelica you are looking at only includes Talalay latex (I would confirm this with the store that carries it and check the law tag to confirm there is no polyurethane foam in the mattress) then there would be no lower quality materials or weak links that would compromise the durability or useful life of the mattress.

In its simplest form choosing the “best possible” mattress for any particular person really comes down to FIRST finding a few knowledgeable and transparent retailers and/or manufacturers (either locally or online) that sell the types of mattresses that you are most interested in that are in a budget range you are comfortable with and that you have confirmed will provide you with the all the information you need about the materials and components inside the mattresses they sell so you will be able to make informed choices and meaningful comparisons between mattresses and then …

1. Careful testing (hopefully using the testing guidelines in the tutorial) to make sure that a mattress is a good match for you in terms of “comfort”, firmness, and PPP … and/or that you are comfortable with the options you have available to return, exchange, or “fine tune” the mattress and any costs involved if you can’t test a mattress in person or aren’t confident that your mattress is a suitable choice.

2. Checking to make sure that there are no lower quality materials or weak links in a mattress you are considering relative to your weight range that could compromise the durability and useful life of the mattress.

3. Comparing your finalists for “value” based on #1 and #2 and all the other parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you.

Phoenix