Mattress recommendations- not Simba!

[Dahliadaily]

We replaced a good vi spring mattress last year with a top of the range Simba.
I (56F) immediately developed a lower back issue. I think it’s just too hard?
my favourite mattress is in my parents’ home. It’s horse hair, cashmere and millions of springs. It’s a top of the range vi spring and too expensive for me.

Would love to know your recommendations. My husband says he likes the Simba but I’m not convinced. (He chose it.) It has terrible roll-together. We are both slim but I’m really short and he tall so there’s a big weight difference We are side sleepers. I guess we’d be better with two different tensions zipped together?

Herdysheep. Very comfy and worth the money. We have had ours 5 years now and it's brilliant.

Have a look at John Ryan by design. They have some mattresses that are built similarly to vi spring but at a much lower price. They also have loads of information about mattresses on their website.

We bought our second Sealy Elevate mattress this year to replace one that we'd had 11 years. We tried loads but kept coming back to the Sealy ones. We have quite a big weight difference and definitely no roll together.

I love my hypnos pillowtop, 5 years in, no roll together, still just as comfy as the day we bought it. Both my mum and son have bought them too

Hypnos here. It’s our second- both made 7’ long as DH is tall with a damaged spine. We had a Hastens in between the 2 Hypnos, it was twice the price and bloody awful.

I second John Ryan recommendation. We bought this one for our guest room (in the medium tension) and ended up swapping it for our vi-spring.

https://johnryanbydesign.co.uk/product/legacy/

I'm currently looking for a new mattress too. A friend recommended a John Lewis one, but I don't know the specific type/style etc.

I've read rave things from hotel websites about hypnos. I vividly recall trying to sleep on one at a hotel- a king size on my own. I felt every button through the sheet and it was incredibly uncomfortable. They weren't loose buttons either!

Thanks everyone. Really useful suggestions. It’s so difficult because mattresses are bound to be personal.
I do feel a bit of a fool falling for the hype of the overpriced hunk of foam. On the other hand, some people swear by them. We missed the return period arguing about whether it was comfortable or not.

Don’t make the very expensive mistake that I did of buying a Tempur mattress. It has been incredibly uncomfortable since the day I bought it and it has sagged really badly in the middle.

I already posted up thread, but forgot that a friend got a tempur. There are various thicknesses of the tempur part and the thicker it is, the more you sink into it and it moulds to your body. Fine for many, but she was menopausal and found the heat from the material and moulding around her body unbearable. Just something to consider if thinking of a thick tempur 🙁

Completely different to your parents’ million springs mattress, but I love 100% latex mattresses. They are expensive, but generally last a very long time. I’ve only had one that wore out, and I think that may be because we chose a thinnish one, thinking it was a bargain. Clearly you get what you pay for! Mine have always been put on slatted bases, and are equally comfortable whether the slats are sprung or unsprung.

I like a firm bed. Dh likes a soft bed. Neither of us like sinking into tempur-type mattresses. Latex suits us both.

100% latex mattresses have absolutely no roll-together. Movement isn’t transmitted, either. Dh used to be in the habit of having a bowl of cereal in the night. One night a dc cried while he was eating in bed, so dh put the bowl down on the bed and went to the dc. When he came back, I had turned over and nothing had spilled from the bowl.

John Ryan
Mattresses like vispring

We have Tempur hybrid which I love, previously had a similar Slumberland which they stopped making but as we moved house need a King rather SuperKing.