The Most Comfortable Mattresses to Sink Into After a Long Day

Overall, though, sleepers who want a great deal on a mattress that suits a wide range of sleeping positions will dig the Premier. Plus, the 365-day trial and lifetime warranty let you rest easy knowing you can always return it if you don’t like it.

The Sedona Elite by Brooklyn Bedding is a hybrid mattress that combines layers of memory foam with individually wrapped coils. This combination offers a soft, enveloping sensation while still providing a moderate level of mobility and bounce.

Our Tester’s Take

Thanks to its medium firmness and supportive innersprings, our testers think this is a great mattress for side sleepers and back sleepers. They found that the mattress does an excellent job at relieving shoulder and hip pain and has just enough bounce to keep you from getting lost in the foam.

We found that in spite of the bounciness, the mattress controls motion transfer exceptionally well, making this an ideal solution for couples that bounce around and switch sleeping positions all throughout the night. The edge support wasn’t as good as some others, but the springs did enough to give us confidence that a couple could take up every inch of the bed and still be comfortable.

Hot sleepers will also like this mattress. The innerspring/foam hybrid makeup is breathable and doesn’t retain heat throughout the night like an all-foam mattress might. The only people our testers wouldn’t recommend this to are stomach sleepers, because the top layer of foam is too soft to support the body and spine comfortably.

The WinkBed is a superb choice for sleepers who are depending on coil support to keep their back in tip-top shape. The foam top is soft and comfy, but the hybrid construction keeps sleepers from sinking in too much.

Our Tester’s Take

Since the mattress comes in four different firmnesses, there’s a WinkBed mattress that works for everyone. The Luxury Firm is the most popular model, whereas the Plus model is a tad more expensive and is specifically designed for people over 250 pounds. We tested the Luxury Firm model and found it to have a pleasant responsive and supportive feel, similar to a traditional innerspring mattress—not too soft, not too firm.

Our tester thinks the innerspring coils do a great job supporting your back while simultaneously offering lighter pressure in other areas. This leads to a feeling of sleeping “on top” of the mattress rather than “in” it, which makes it ideal for folks who sleep in a variety of positions.

When your WinkBed arrives, give it a few hours to air out and decompress. Don’t worry, we found that the initial smell will go away within a day, but it can be rough at first. To make setup easier on yourself, you should also grab a buddy or two to help you out, since the bed is pretty heavy.

Bear designs mattresses with the active community in mind, ensuring that they get the proper rest and recovery to perform their best. The Elite Hybrid is the brand’s ultra-luxe option, dialing up some advanced features and superior cooling tech.

Our Tester’s Take

The Bear Elite Hybrid offers three firmness options: Soft, Medium, and Firm, allowing you to customize its comfort level according to your personal preferences. Our reviewer went down the middle, testing out the medium firmness model.

There is a lot of good in this mattress, but for our tester, what stood out was the cooling. The Bear Elite Hybrid combines phase-change material and Bear’s trademarked Sleep Recovery Technology powered by Celliant foam. Phase-change materials and Celiant foam work together to lower the overall surface temperature of your mattress, helping you sleep cooler and, therefore, sleep better. Bear’s reputation in the fitness and active community is mainly due to the inclusion of this foam, but the innersprings do a lot of the legwork in keeping air flowing throughout the night.

The Bear Elite Hybrid is a bed-in-a-box mattress that arrives compressed and rolled up in a box. Upon delivery, simply unbox and set it up. Assistance may be required as a queen-size mattress weighs 110 pounds. Like many new mattresses, it’ll require a few hours of off-gassing to air out. Any odor should dissipate once the bed is fully decompressed. To minimize odors, our tester recommends placing the mattress in a well-ventilated room for 24 to 48 hours before sleeping on it.

For a supportive, surprisingly cool sleeping experience, we recommend the Nolah Signature Foam—especially for those with shoulder pain or hip pain.

Our Tester’s Take

From the moment they first laid down, our tester knew this mattress would come in clutch for those with joint pain. They found that the foam nicely fills in the empty space in the lumbar area, wrapping them comfortably without sagging too much. On their side, they felt a bit of pressure around the shoulder, but were still comfortable enough to fall straight to sleep.

With that said, our tester decided that this mattress is a great option for back sleepers and side sleepers, and is especially good for couples thanks to its great edge support and motion isolation. While foam is a main component of the mattress, our tester warned against expecting the quicksand-like feel that most memory foam lovers are accustomed to—this one provides less of an enveloping feel in favor of back support.