re: Memory Foam Mattress Recommendations

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Best place I've found to learn about mattresses. Has some recommendations of companies that offer a high level of quality and service. some will even custom make a memory foam mattress to your specification. I came close to purchasing from Rocky Mountain Mattress company before purchasing from Christeli. Definitely worth a read before spending any money.

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I took some advice from that forum to mimic the tempurpedic experience as much as possible. I slept on a tempurpedic at my parents' house for a week (and still do every time I visit them), and decided to ditch my spring mattress for something similar. Just didn't have the funds to drop. So, I used a combination of a memory foam mattress and a topper to "hack" the tempurpedic experience. The budget memory foam mattress don't have high-density memory foam throughout the entire mattress like a Tempurpedic. That's part of the reason Tempurpedics are so expensive. The cheap ones use 2-4 inches of memory foam and then another 8-10 inches of "support foam."

I bought the 12-inch king sleep innovations gel swirl (it's not as firm as the regular sleep innovations but still firm), plus a 4lb density 3-inch mattress topper. So, I have a cloud-like 3-inch topper over a firmer 2 inches of gel-swirled memory foam over 2 inches of air channel foam over 8 inches of support foam. The result is a thick mattress, but it sleeps better than the Tempurpedic. Way fricking better, actually. I could've probably just put the topper on a standard innerspring and be fine, but having it on a foam mattress really puts it over the top, and the topper will last a bit longer than usual because it's starting out with strong support rather than an old saggy mattress. The setup, including my bamboo sheets and pillowcases, was just under $900.

Honestly, if OP didn't like the Sleep Innovations, he may not like memory foam mattresses at all. The Sleep Innovations is definitely a budget memory foam mattress, but by itself it's still pretty damn close to a firm tempurpedic. I found that memory foam mattresses do have an adjustment period if you're coming from years of innerspring, and the mattressunderground forum members have said the same.