Soft, cheap foam mattress for a Featherweight's vacation bed

[phoenix]

Hi Featherweight,

Welcome to the Mattress Forum!

I need to order a mattress online, and since its for a vacation cabin, I have to keep it under $350. I know this rules out pretty much everything that meets your standards

Surprising to some people, there are some excellent values out there with lower priced mattresses, and some compare with models costing much more. Post #4 here and the posts it links to also include many of the better lower budget online options I’m aware of as well. Some of those models will offer comforts that are popular with side sleepers.

If there is no such thing, would I be better off building my own? I was looking at Albanyfoam and A1foam, and considering just getting a few sheets of polyfoam to make my own softy. My thought was to just go with a 3" layer of Everlon (1.8lb) medium soft (28ild) with 4" of Everlon soft (18ILd) on top… or the Albanyfoam equivalent. I feel like this would give me the give/sink I need, and I could still add a topper later if needed. Does that sound like a better way to go given my tiny BMI? It’s definitely as cheap as the cheapest on Amazon, and I’d at least know what it’s made of.

I’d tell you to take a look at some of the options I linked to above. Unless you are very knowledgeable about foams and mattress construction (which would be very few people), even a “cheap” DIY mattress can turn out to be much more expensive in the long run if your design doesn’t turn out as well as you had hoped.

Phoenix