To ask if I need to spend over £1k for a nice mattress?

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I was looking at an ikea one for less than £400 that people kept rating

But I've been on another thread and people are gushing over their £1.5k Tempa? Mattress.

Am I really missing out that much if I only have a very modest budget? Should I splurge and push it to get a very nice one?

Good sleep is important as I don't get much of it - I'm a carer.

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My mattress is TEMPUR cost me £2000 and its the best thing ever. Good night sleep its important.

i had it for 9 years and still feel like new. Money dont lie 🙂

We have an Ikea mattress - it was a mid-range sprung with foam topper for about £450 - we had it about 6 months before it needed replacing and Ikea were brilliant with that (it had started sinking on one side, turns out it hadn't been glued properly).

Looks like they've changed their range completely, but the VÅGSTRANDA looks equivalent. My boys have the cheapest ones and they're comfy too - my fussy mum came and stayed recently, she was very much a 'you have to spend £££ for a good bed' and is kicking herself she didn't order from Ikea now.

Of course you don't need to spend £1k+ to get a decent mattress and it's not 'skimping' to buy one a lower price one, plenty of perfectly comfortable, durable options for far less than this.

We have a Leesa which is one of the foam 'mattress in a box' ones, it's amazingly comfortable, over 5 years old and showing no sign of wear. It cost around £600.

Definitely shop around and also look for Black Friday deals and try in person if you can or look for one that you can return if you don't like it.

Scrimping on sleep is a false economy. We have a king sized sleepnumber bed with memory foam padding. 10 years ago it cost thousands and it was money well spent.

@SkylightSkylight look at John Ryan by design. Uk made sprung mattresses. Omg it's heavenly ours is a super king zip and link and honestly I've never slept so well since we got it.

Think we paid 1k for both mattresses divan bed and headboard in a Black Friday sale last year

I have an Emma and HATE it
sagged so much within 6 months that I managed to get it replaced by them past the trial period (was it 100 nights?)
then the same happened again with the new one
its like sleeping on a hammock. Dh and I are well within weight limits

We bought a king size mattress from Feather & Black 16 years ago. It's still the comfiest mattress ever. Cost £1k and at the time I thought it madness but it's been worth every penny. Also rate Sleep & Soak and love a night in a Premier Inn.

Ours is a super king from Button and sprung. Bed frame also. Highly recommend. All natural material so no sweaty sleep in heat, and I find every other bed uncomfortable now. They have a showroom in London to try. Ours was about x3 the price of the actual bed frame

www.buttonandsprung.com/pocket-sprung-mattresses

We've had quite a few from Groupon.

I think it depends on the state of your back!

We paid something absolutely obscene for our Harrison Spinks mattress, and it is excellent. We recently stayed at a place with a Sealy mattress and it was also fantastic (I always check the mattress label if I'm impressed with my bed as a guest somewhere ) I'm obsessed with sleep and comfy beds.

We also have a hypnos mattress they're great ours was about £400 a couple of years ago from mynextmattress

LOAF! Excellent mattresses

loaf.com/products/mattresses

I bought one for under £200 from Argos, no memory foam because I don’t like the feel of it. It’s comfortable and supportive, which is all I need. It may not last as long as a more expensive one, though. We’ll see. The last similar one easily lasted 15 years.

I’ve just ordered a pocket spring mattress from Dreams. I only had up to £500 to spend. The one I ordered was £350 in sale from £600. Matched it to how I sleep
etc. Is arriving next weekend so
hopefully it’s as comfortable here as show room one!
My current one was comfy until lately and it’s a hybrid spring with memory foam topper combination. It’s old now but has been lovely until the last year or so. Company it came from are no longer trading though.

I spent £600+ on a mattress about 10 years ago, it is worth every penny.

Go to a shop and actually lie on the mattresses, in the position you sleep in.

Mine has a latex top, something I had never heard of on a mattress.

My bed frame cost 1500 and my mattress cost 1500. I remember thinking it was so pricey at the time but I had gone through sooooo many cheap beds and mattresses that I needed one to last. Seven years on and I love my bed, it was well worth the money

I've just bought an IKEA one for £99 and it's great, it's sprung and I've got a cheap topper on.

I think ours was around £1200. We hadn't planned to spend that much but that was the mattress we loved. I can't remember the brand but it was a cheaper mattress from one of the high end companies. I still love it now and it's around 3 or 4 years old. The best thing about it is that it's filled with wool and all natural. I never wake up sweaty and uncomfortable anymore like I did with a mattress with memory foam in it. We upgraded our duvet to a basic Dunelm wool duvet after finding that we loved our wool mattress and it's wonderful. I'm always just the right temperature and I don't even change the duvet throughout the year. It drapes over you very nicely too so you never have those gaps between you letting in cold draughts.

I definitely don't think you need to spend over a thousand pounds to get a good one, as there are lots of good brands with mattresses cheaper than that, but I've not regretted spending it at all. Best sleep ever.

I have a top range Dormeo one (close to 2k out of sale).It is shockingly bad.In the spare room we have a cheapie ans it's much nicer.

Oh me too. Best mattress we have had. Was about £950 but worth it!

The best mattress we have ever had is from Ikea!

I don't think anyone has mentioned Hotel Contract Beds. They supply hotels but they sell to the public.

The beds are about half the price of the equivalent from John Lewis. We have the Marquess and it is very very comfortable. We use them for guests and everyone says how amazing they are.

We have a tempur in a super king size and it was ridiculously priced. It was however, the best money we've ever spent and I haven't begrudged it a bit. We paid over 3 years I think.
I love my bed more than I could express.

OP you really need to go and lie on the mattress you are thinking of buying. Don't buy one blind.