<p>My daughter needs to get a bed.</p>
<p>There is a good chance that she will be subletting / otherwise need to move in the not too distant future.</p>
<p>So it would be good if she could find something that is relatively portable.</p>
<p>She also wants a headboard.</p>
<p>IKEA wouldn’t be able to deliver for 1 - 2 weeks, so not sure that is an option if she needs something this weekend.</p>
<p>Our family has always slept on beds with slats and foam mattresses.</p>
<p>Your title is an oxymoron. There has never been a queen bed in the history of the universe that is easy to move.</p>
<p>Other CC-ers, feel free to prove me wrong. IMHO, moving a mattress is one of the hardest things to do.</p>
<p>We ordered a full size mattress on Amazon - came rolled up in a bag - working well. But in the future we’ll have the same ol’ hard to move the thing problem. Once it was unrolled it’s a regular mattress.</p>
<p>How about a futon bed?</p>
<p>This may/may not fit her criteria. How about a really high quality queen aerobed???
I’ve know some people who have been very happy with the quality and comfort of some of them.</p>
<p>[AeroBed®</a> 18" Queen Air Mattress with Headboard and Flocked Pattern Sleep Surface Design](<a href=“http://www.costco.com/AeroBed®-18"-Queen-Air-Mattress-with-Headboard-and-Flocked-Pattern-Sleep-Surface-Design.product.100034606.html?catalogId=10701&keyword=aerobed&langId=-1&storeId=10301]AeroBed®”>http://www.costco.com/AeroBed®-18"-Queen-Air-Mattress-with-Headboard-and-Flocked-Pattern-Sleep-Surface-Design.product.100034606.html?catalogId=10701&keyword=aerobed&langId=-1&storeId=10301)</p>
<p>With complete joy, we can move the queen mattress that we got for D2’s room after she moved to college. Why? It has the brilliant, and never-before-seen addition of thick, securely attached straps that are sewn in along the long side and around the corner a bit. Why wasn’t this done for every mattress???</p>
<p>We bought it at Costco. It’s some kind of Sealy or Serta pillow-top but since I removed the little tag, I’m not sure which model it is.</p>
<p>Blow up mattresses are fairly comfortable these days–doesn’t get easier than that.</p>
<p>A sleep number is pretty darned easy to take apart and move.</p>
<p>She could always just do what a lot of my friends do and just get a thick piece of foam and throw it on the floor. :)</p>
<p>I have to say I would go with the airbed.
Takes sheets & is very comfortable.
Plus you can take it car camping!</p>
<p>Ugh I hate air beds. You can wrestle a foam mattress into a smaller roll. I can’t tell you whether these are better or worse quality than Ikea, but Sears does sell bedframes and slats. [Slat</a> Roll Mattress Support from Sears.com](<a href=“http://www.sears.com/search=slat%20roll%20mattress%20support?catalogId=12605&storeId=10153&levels=Furniture+%26+Mattresses_Mattresses&autoRedirect=true&viewItems=50&redirectType=CAT_REC_PRED&prop17=slat%20roll%20mattress%20support]Slat”>http://www.sears.com/search=slat%20roll%20mattress%20support?catalogId=12605&storeId=10153&levels=Furniture+%26+Mattresses_Mattresses&autoRedirect=true&viewItems=50&redirectType=CAT_REC_PRED&prop17=slat%20roll%20mattress%20support)</p>
<p>the air mattress abasket noted in #4 is very comfortable, takes deep sheets and has little headboard…if she’s moving soon, I’d opt for this</p>
<p>You could get a Sleep Comfort Bed. They totally deflate.</p>
<p>Or back to the 60’s…a waterbed. When empty, they roll right up.</p>
<p>I don’t think an air mattress will meet her need to nest in her first home. :(</p>
<p>We will need to further pursue the idea of wrestling a foam mattress into a smaller roll…</p>
<p>The aerobed from Costco is a great bed for the price. My oldest used that bed for two years. She bought it as a temporary solution but found it was very comfortable. She shared her bed with a 65 lb dog who also loved the bed.
She just this year purchased a real bed and box spring and bed frame. I told her that I hope that by the time she moves from this apartment she can afford movers.</p>
<p>SleepNumber beds may roll up into a small footprint, but good grief, are you really spending that on a kid bed?</p>
<p>ETA…I meant Sleep NUMBER…not Sleep COMFORT!</p>
<p>And yes. They are pricy, but the OP is looking for easy to move! Wonder if you could get one on eBay?</p>
<p>The Sleep Number Bed is a “real” bed, not an air mattress. It really does deflate and is easy to transport relatively speaking. you might want to check it out. Not cheap!</p>
<p>Whatever you do… don’t put the air mattress on a standard metal bed frame 
My agent did that once while staging a house for sale and the thing immediately had air leaks. Had to run over to the house and ‘blow up’ the air mattress before any showings to sell the house.</p>
<p>We bought D an EZ bed from Frontgate her senior year. She used it for 3 solid years and moved everywhere. When I visited I could comfortably sleep on it with her. They are a normal height bed and fold up easily. She just needed to turn on the pump every few months for more support. Would buy again.</p>
<p>If you go for a traditional bed be sure you buy a split foundation. Many that are not split cannot get up stairways in apartment buildings.</p>