<p>We have an Englander latex foam mattress now five years old. It does not form around you like a memory foam and we prefer it to them. Still very good isolation of movements. So far no change in foam or permanent indents. Was about $1200 for a queen set.</p>
<p>Oy, don’t get me started on guest room beds. If they really don’t want you to stay, then just say so. Don’t make me sleep in the ‘Valley of Doom’, clinging desperately to the side all night like a ship-wrecked mariner. </p>
<p>With our tempurpedic pillows, we take the big ones on trips but put them in obviously ‘not-hotel’ pillowcases. We don’t leave them in the rooms overnight but just in case (no pun intended) we make it very clear that these are <em>ours</em>. </p>
<p>Another hint for a good night sleep…silk pillowcases. You can make them yourself very easily and inexpensively and they are wonderfully cool to sleep on. I just throw them in the washer so they get softer and ‘sanded’. Great for keeping creams on your face, not soaking into the percale. Fewer sleep-wrinkles on the face as well.</p>
<p>Hey all-
I’ve been doing research on memory foam mattresses for the 2 weeks and am trying to find some specific information. Me: own a Tempur pedic original pillow for 3 years - very happy with it. Slept on TP mattress (not sure of model) for 3 nights in hotel - very happy with it. I’ve combed through several dozen websites to find other manufacturers and lower-cost brands. Right now I am targeting the NovaForm sold at Costco. Does anyone know of any places where I can either try the mattress out in a store or a website that lists which NovaForm’s are comparable to which Tempur’s? I live in Chicago if that helps.</p>
<p>I own a Tempurpedic and my mother has a Costco novaform. I’m happy with mine. My mother complained a bit about the Costco one ‘sinking’ too much and making it more difficult to roll over. I laid on it for a minute or so and it did have a different feel. I can’t say whether I like one more than the other since I haven’t actually slept on the novaform. The Costco stores around here didn’t have any setup that one could try although it seems that they should.</p>
<p>If I was to buy myself another I’d probably just get the Tempurpedic even though it costs more since it’s a known commodity for me and it’s something likely to be kept a long time.</p>
<p>This is slightly off-topic, but has anyone purchased a Tempur-pedic overlay in a twin-long. My d ordered one directly from the company in early August before she left for college. TP told her that she’d have it in September (I guess the twin-long overlay is a new product). It’s now October and each time she calls, the company tells her the overlay is coming next week. Has anyone purchased one of these? Did you get it directly from TP or through a retailer?</p>
<p>bumping up this discussion</p>
<p>I posted on the other thread, so will paste it here:</p>
<p>We just stayed last week at a Holiday Inn that had Tempur-pedic mattresses which I think are foam? I will NEVER stay at a hotel with those kinds of beds again. The first night I slept a total of 3 hours because I was so, so hot. I had the A/C on 64 and was cool/cold where I wasn’t touching mattress, but everywhere my body was on mattress, I was burning up. My husband said he was hot too, but he usually sleeps through anything. I complained to hotel and filled out a comment card. I too had been thinking about a new mattress, so thought it was good to try one of these out----for me, it is a big NO!</p>
<p>(Second night, I borrowed my d’s blow up mattress and slept on floor–that was better than that bed!)</p>
<p>the salesman at Macy’s said that the latex doesn’t have this problem, but the article I posted a link to about the Marriott mattress said latex and definitlely the Therper whatevers do make you hot…I don’t need that right now and my dh is always hot…</p>
<p>I have a Tempurpedic mattress (the ‘Original’), and generally am almost always hotter than everyone else (regardless of the mattress or setting), yet I’m fine with it temperature-wise. OTOH I like it cold at night and generally keep a room a/c running when I sleep. I really didn’t notice a difference in temperature when I transitioned from a regular mattress to the Tempurpedic. I do like the Tempurpedic though and won’t ever go back to the springs. I’ve heard it takes some people a few nights or a week or so to get used to it so if one tries it for just one night it might not be an ideal experience. I think they also have some other models now with more air flow that might be less inclined to keep one hot.</p>
<p>See my previous post though - not all memory foam mattreses are the same.</p>
<p>We still have our Tempurpedic and we still love it.</p>
<p>I have a knockoff Tempurpedic that I love. I have never noticed the heat of the mattress and didn’t notice a difference when I switched. I know that it is the only mattress I have ever had that gave me an ache-free night. It has made a huge difference in my sleep.</p>
<p>We have a tempurpedic also…original…and we LOVE it…</p>
<p>I think there are a lot of synthetic covers/blankets/bedspreads/quilts that do NOT breathe…don’t think it is the mattress…but the covers…</p>
<p>I have a good friend who chose the Sleep Number bed over the tempurpedic. We had a Sleep Number at a Radisson in Philly over April break (college visits, see how I snuck that into the thread??) and I didn’t like the Sleep Number. </p>
<p>I say make sure you buy at a place that lets you return in 30 days…if at all possible.</p>
<p>maineparent - loved your prior post about having a cement mattress delivered…not a problem for us in the area we live in!!! 99 today…</p>
<p>We tried a king sized Tempurpedic. Thank goodness the company offers a trial period. After 2 weeks of sleeping on it, I called up and asked them to come and pick up their brick of a mattress and credit us for a refund. We live in New York and during the winters, we keep our heat down to about 62 degrees at night (comforters keep us warm). Because the Tempurpedic mattress is based on temperature (such as body temperature) and our room temperature was cool, the mattress felt like a brick. Tempurpedic came and took it back and refunded our money.</p>
<p>One thing to consider is that most people don’t only sleep on mattresses. We’ve stayed on different mattresses on vacations (Sleep Number, Memory Foam, etc.) and I have yet to find one I feel beats a traditional mattress for activities where some bounce is actually a good thing.</p>
<p>I remember my mom’s parents used to have twin beds in their bedroom and I thought, “Ick, are they really as happily married as they seem if they have different beds?” And now I am thinking, “If ever I am wealthy enough to have a master suite so large as to be able to hold two king beds, I’m going to have one bed for us to sleep in and one for us to do other things in.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, you could get arrested if you try to do something other than just lay down on a mattress when in a mattress store, so try to figure out how good the mattress will be for other things by staying in hotels with that type of mattress or something.</p>
<p>We had a Tempurpedic for about 10 years. I hated it for the first 2 days and then LOVED it. We decided to try a pillow top type mattress and I wish we had not…I am now having shoulder pain and really miss the Tempurpedic.</p>
<p>moving up for a new mattress shopper.</p>
<p>We have a tempur-pedic and really love it. Not too hot for us, though I think we use less blankets. It took awhile to break in or for us to get used to it but now its heaven!</p>
<p>In HI, I’ve heard many complain that the foam mattresses are just too hot. We have some memory foam pillows that are too hot & not used for that reason as well. Love the concept, but sad it doesn’t seem too good for our climate.</p>
<p>We love our Temper Pedic mattress. We’ve had it for about five years. We live in an area that is hot in the summer (100 - 105ish) and we sleep fine on our TP mattress even without the AC on.</p>