The 9 Best Luxury Mattresses of 2022, According to Expert Testers

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Finding one of the best luxury mattresses can be transformational for your sleep, or for your home’s ability to market itself as a luxe Airbnb rental. Before making a luxury purchase, due diligence is all the more important. We’ve explained what we like and dislike about nine luxury mattresses to help you achieve a lavish bedroom upgrade.

The Best Luxury Mattresses

With a bedroom renovation, what’s luxe got to do with it? The answer: A lot, if waking up in a forever staycation is your goal. One of the best luxury pieces you can splurge on is your mattress, the crown jewel of the bedroom. The best part: Unlike aspiring to own a luxury car, owning a luxury mattress is a purchase well within reach for most budgets.

But just because a mattress calls itself luxury doesn’t mean it’s the ideal bed for you. And furthermore, who are you to judge if you haven’t had a chance to test the bed yourself? That’s where the This Old House Reviews Team, in partnership with Mattress Advisor, can help. Measuring performance factors like cooling, motion isolation, pressure relief, and spinal alignment, results from the Mattress Advisor sleep lab and tester feedback gave us insight into which mattresses truly merit the luxury label. If you’re ready to fall into the lap of luxury night after night, these are the nine best luxury beds that we’ve deemed fit for a king.

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The 9 Best Luxury Mattresses:

• Best Overall – Saatva Classic
• Best Luxury Mattress for Back Pain – WinkBed Original
• Best Hybrid Luxury Mattress – Helix Midnight Luxe
• Best Luxury Mattress for Heavier Sleepers – DreamCloud Premier
• Best Cooling Luxury Mattress – Brooklyn Bedding Aurora
• Best Luxury Memory Foam Mattress – Saatva Loom & Leaf
• Best Luxury Mattress for Couples – Casper Wave Hybrid
• Best Hypoallergenic Luxury Mattress – Purple Hybrid Premier 4
• Best Luxury Organic Mattress – Avocado Green

Editor’s Pick – Saatva Classic

• Material: Hybrid (Foam and Coils)
• Firmness: Soft (3/10), Luxury-Firm (6/10), and Firm (8/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.9/5
• Delivery: 9-21 Days, Free White Glove Delivery
• Trial Period: 365 Nights
• Warranty: Lifetime

The Saatva Classic mattress experience is notably luxurious from start to finish. That’s because each Saatva mattress purchase includes complimentary white glove delivery, in which Saatva sends help to remove your old mattress, and put together the new bed. Once assembled, you’ll be sleeping on what testers said is one of the best mattresses to come through their Raleigh, N.C. sleep lab. The bed earned perfect 10 out of 10 scores in edge support, spine alignment, and durability, ensuring a supportive rest on every inch of the high-quality hybrid build. Pressure relief and cooling received marks of 9 out of 10, which testers attribute to the bed’s layers of cushioning memory foam and quilted pillow top, and two layers of breathable coils that encourage airflow. You can select a Saatva Classic mattress in your preferred firmness level, with soft, luxury firm, and firm options available.

Best Luxury Mattress for Back Pain – WinkBed Original

Courtesy WinkBed

• Material: Hybrid
• Firmness: Soft (4.5/10), Luxury-Firm (6.5/10), Firm (7.5/10), Plus (8/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.5/5
• Delivery: Within 7-14 Business Days
• Trial Period: 120 Nights
• Warranty: Lifetime

Preventative measures can keep a bad back from getting in the way of cultivating a lush life outdoors. Even better, you can potentially prevent back pain while you’re inside sleeping by resting on a firm, supportive mattress like The WinkBed. The WinkBed, from WinkBeds, is a luxury mattress that can alleviate and even stop back pain in its tracks, thanks to its robustly supportive core that does an excellent job of holding the spine in alignment (rated 8.75 out of 10 by testers). What makes the build extra-durable is its use of zoning or firmer support toward the lower back. Edge support, which boasts a score mere inches from perfection (9.75/10), also makes it effortless to climb in and out of bed, so you don’t have to put additional strain on a bad back. Testers also love the bed’s cool-to-the-touch top layer: The bed’s cover is made from Tencel, a Eucalyptus-derived fiber that wicks away moisture. Choose a WinkBed among four firmness options to suit your preferred comfort level.

Best Hybrid Luxury Mattress – Helix Midnight Luxe

Courtesy Helix

• Material: Hybrid (Foam and Coils)
• Firmness: Medium (5/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.6/5
• Delivery: 3-7 Business Days
• Trial Period: 100 Nights
• Warranty: 15-Year Limited

The hybrid mattress type offers some of the best flexibility for sleepers. In fact, hybrids are literally flexible enough to move with an adjustable base. That’s because most modern hybrids use pocketed coils, or coils encased in individual fabric pockets to isolate movement from one another. Such is the case with the hybrid Helix Midnight Luxe. The Helix Midnight Luxe scored well in nearly every performance category in the sleep lab. Testers noted the bed’s ability to relieve pressure (8.5 out of 10 for pressure relief), respond to movement (9 out of 10 in responsiveness), align the spine (9 out of 10 for spine alignment), and cool the body (9.5 out of 10 in cooling). Testers especially loved the bed’s fluffy, quilted pillow top, the luxe detail that sets the Helix Midnight Luxe apart from the standard Helix Midnight.

Best Luxury Mattress for Heavier Sleepers – DreamCloud Premier

Courtesy of Dreamcloud

• Material: Hybrid (Foam and Coils)
• Firmness: Medium-Firm (6.5/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.8/5
• Delivery: Within 18-21 Business Days
• Trial Period: 365 Nights
• Warranty: Lifetime

Pro tip if you want to experience the luxe life: Sleep atop a trifecta of luxury materials. What’s that entail? For DreamCloud Premier owners, that would be cashmere, wool, and memory foam. The bed’s robust 14-inch height and six layers also make the Premier high performing enough to suit heavier sleepers: The bed netted excellent scores in pressure relief (9/10), responsiveness (9/10), edge support (8.5/10), and cooling (8/10). Couples can also sleep soundly thanks to top-rated motion transfer, which testers gave 9 out of 10 for the bed’s ability to absorb movement.

Best Cooling Luxury Mattress – Brooklyn Bedding Aurora

Courtesy of Brooklyn Bedding

• Material: Hybrid (Foam and Coils)
• Firmness: Soft (3/10), Medium (5/10), Firm (7/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.7/5
• Delivery: 3-4 Business Days
• Trial Period: 120 Nights
• Warranty: 10-Year

Nothing says luxury like climate control, and Brooklyn Bedding Aurora brings that to the bedroom. Testers gave the bed a near-perfect score of 9.5 out of 10 for the bed’s ability to keep you luxuriously cool. The hybrid bed’s layer of individually wrapped coils help to circulate airflow, making the bed highly responsive (9.25/10) to your movements and position changes. The supportive build also kept testers’ spines in their natural S-curve, they said, giving the bed 8.5 out of 10 in spine alignment. Brooklyn Bedding furnishes the Aurora in three distinct firmnesses, so you can pick the bed that best meets your unique needs.

Best Luxury Memory Foam Mattress – Saatva Loom & Leaf

• Material: Gel Memory Foam
• Firmness: Relaxed-Firm (6/10) and Firm (8/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.9/5
• Delivery: 9-21 Days, Free White Glove Delivery
• Trial Period: 365 Days
• Warranty: Lifetime

The Saatva Loom & Leaf is a memory foam mattress that exudes luxury. The bed’s four foam layers total 12 inches, enveloping you in foamy comfort top to bottom. The bed starts with an organic cotton cover, followed by quilted foams that are constructed to feel firmer under the lumbar area support—a feature that helped the bed earn 9 out of 10 from mattress testers for spine alignment. The added support also helps you from sinking too far into the mattress: Loom & Leaf netted 8 out of 10 in the responsiveness category. You can elect to sleep on a medium-firm (called relaxed-firm) or firm model of the bed, and white glove delivery is included with purchase.

Best Luxury Mattress for Couples – Casper Wave Hybrid

Courtesy Casper

• Material: Hybrid (Foam and Coils)
• Firmness: Medium (5/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.6/5
• Delivery: Ships Free within 2-7 Business Days
• Trial Period: 100 Nights
• Warranty: 10-Year Limited

The Casper Wave Hybrid combines foam comfort layers with denser layers of support foam and individually wrapped coils to contour to your curves and prevent sagging. Plus, with high marks in motion transfer (9/10), this luxury bed helps couples keep sleep interruptions to a minimum by isolating any movement. The Casper Wave Hybrid also uses a perforated foam layer to help your mattress stay fresh and cool — that, combined with bouncy, breathable coils, helped the bed earn 9 out of 10 in cooling from testers. The Wave Hybrid’s sturdy build is also an excellent choice for those with back pain, given the bed’s solid marks in spine alignment (9/10).

Best Hypoallergenic Luxury Mattress – Purple Hybrid Premier

• Material: Hybrid (Foam and Coils)
• Firmness: Soft (4/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.3/5
• Delivery: Ships 1-2 Weeks, Free white Glove Assembly
• Trial Period: 100 Nights
• Warranty: 10 Years

The Purple Hybrid Premier 4 uses materials so allergen-friendly, you could technically dine off of the food contact-grade surface. Of course, the bed lends itself far better to sleeping than snacking. That’s because its luxury build of foam and coils is made of materials that are hypoallergenic, supportive (rated 9.5 out of 10 for spine alignment), and pressure-relieving (8/10). If you’re still uneasy, the bed’s materials have the accreditation to back them, including CertiPur-US and Clean Air GOLD certifications. Plus, with an 8.5 out of 10 by testers for cooling, Purple’s airflow-friendly build also helps the mattress both accommodate hot sleepers and deter the mold, fungal, and bacterial growth that can irritate sensitive skin and noses.

Another benefit of a highly hypoallergenic mattress is the lack of a strong chemical off-gassing smell when you unfurl your bed-in-a-box (although Purple technically arrives in a bag). One word of warning from testers: Purple Hybrid Premier 4 has less motion transfer compared to its memory foam counterparts.

Best Luxury Organic Mattress – Avocado Green

• Material: Hybrid (Latex and Coils)
• Firmness: Firm (7/10)
• Customer Rating: 4.6/5
• Delivery: Ships Free Within 2-3 Weeks
• Trial Period: 365 Nights
• Warranty: 25 Years

Often, embracing organic materials and luxury go hand in hand. Likewise, in the case of the Avocado Green mattress, going green is anything but a departure from luxury. The bed’s layers of latex, wool, and organic cotton are soft, supportive, and sturdy. For added durability and bounce, Avocado Green uses a layer of pocketed steel coils. And like its other materials used, the coils are sustainably sourced. The use of organic, high-quality mattress materials helped the bed earn top marks in spine alignment (9.5/10), cooling (8/10), and responsiveness (8/10).

What To Consider Before Purchasing a Luxury Mattress

How Mattress Advisor Determines ‘Luxury’ for Mattresses

In the mattress world, luxury is subjective. So we let luxury as the brands define the term guide several of our picks. That meant featuring mattresses that brands designate as “Premier,” or “Luxe.” Often these beds have extra-thick pillow tops or Euro-tops compared to their non-luxury counterparts. Other mattress picks can be considered luxury because they go above and beyond in their materials, like incorporating cooling gel into memory foams, for example; or their customer service, like including free white glove delivery; or include customization options, such as allowing you to choose our own comfort by furnishing beds in multiple firmness levels.

Mattress Types to Consider When Buying a Luxury Bed

A myriad of mattresses are available online. When making a high-end mattress purchase, you’ll want to pay special attention to mattress type, which is a big determinant of whether or not you’ll jibe with your bed.

Memory foam: Generally, a mix of high-density, foams infused with cooling materials, and bouncy foams will comprise a modern, luxury memory foam mattress. Heavyweight sleepers who prefer all-foam mattresses should make sure that testers assign the bed a firmness score on the higher end, to ensure proper support. All-foam beds typically have a shorter lifespan than luxury hybrid mattresses with an innerspring layer.

Innerspring: Old-school innerspring mattresses were made with what’s called a “continuous-coil” build. Coil springs were woven and intertwined together to form a springy, supportive base. The drawback, however, was that movement in one part of the bed often traveled across the mattress. Fortunately today, modern innerspring mattresses use pocketed coils, or coils that are each wrapped in their own individual fabric pockets. The pocketed coil build has the two-fold benefit of added support and durability, but with more isolated movement across the mattress surface.

Hybrid: Hybrid mattresses, so-named for their combination of foam and coils, are befitting of the “best of both worlds” adage, and definitely make an excellent choice for a luxury mattress. Hybrids deliver comfort on top in the form of foam layers, and sturdy support on the bottom, with a thick layer of pocketed coils. Some hybrids will even boast two layers of coils, with a second layer of “micro-coils” for added bounce.

Latex: Latex is a natural, luxury mattress material thanks to its sustainability, durability, and harmony with allergen-sensitive sleepers. Mattresses that are 100 percent latex can be quite pricey, but can also last a generation.

How To Consider Your Sleep Position When Buying a Luxury Mattress

Regardless of how luxurious your bed feels to some, your mattress may not feel right for your sleep position. Here’s how you should factor your sleep position into your decision when seeking the best luxury mattress:

Side sleepers: Side sleepers should seek a luxury mattress with adequate pressure relief (at least 8.5 out of 10 from testers), since you can quickly get sore on the limited points of contact on your side. Softer mattresses tend to fit the bill, but aren’t necessarily the be-all, end-all for side sleepers, so factor in your firmness preferences.

Stomach sleepers: Your body is a house of cards, and if the hips fall out of alignment with the spine, the position can be treacherous for the neck. If luxury to you means sleeping on an extra-plush mattress, make sure there’s enough spinal support to keep you aligned. Mattresses with an innerspring layer are often a good match.

Back sleepers: Similar to stomach sleepers, back sleepers should also be wary of mattresses, even those marketed as luxury, if there isn’t evidence of good spinal alignment. One good indicator is a score of at least 8.5 out of 10 from Mattress Advisor testers. Generally though, back sleepers have some of the best flexibility in choosing a mattress, since back sleeping puts little strain on sensitive spots and potential problem areas for pain like the hips, neck and shoulders.

Combination Sleepers: Combination sleepers is the term used for those who often find themselves in one or more positions throughout the night. Consider which sleep positions you arrive at primarily, and also consider buying a new mattress with well-rated responsiveness, meaning that the bed’s foams can quickly re-shape, so you don’t feel stuck in place.

Other Factors to Consider When Buying a Luxury Bed

Price: Online mattress brands, with their direct-to-consumer model, have made luxury mattress purchases more accessible regardless of budget. On the highest end, the Purple Hybrid Premier 4 runs over $3,500. However, DreamCloud Premier, also a luxury hybrid, is an affordable $1,399 for a queen. Buying direct from brands can also put you on the receiving end of free accessories, like pillows, mattress protectors, and sheet sets.

Sustainability: It may seem like luxury and sustainability are mutually exclusive, when in reality, they’re anything but. In fact, if you treat sustainability as being about owning fewer, higher quality items, a luxury mattress purchase is well-aligned with this intent. Look for mattresses made with materials designated as CertiPur-US and Clean Air GOLD, and aim to get a bed with well-rated durability, so that you can enjoy your bed for decades before saying goodbye.

Size: Mattress size also has an outsized impact on cost, so keep that in mind when weighing if you’d rather have space to sprawl out, or added savings. Also be sure to factor in your room dimensions. A bed should have at least two feet of comfortable walking space surrounding it, with plenty of room to open dresser drawers without dinging the frame.

Performance Factors That Mattress Advisor Tests When Evaluating Luxury Beds

Pressure relief: A luxury mattress won’t feel so luxurious if it doesn’t have sophisticated pressure relief. Mattress Advisor testers use a pressure map to examine levels of pressure on testers of varying weights. A bed with a good pressure relief score indicates pressure points of testers were gently cradled, rather than forcefully pushed back upon.

Spine alignment: Spine alignment is a measure of how well-aligned testers backs were, with the natural S-curve the ideal form. Often, luxury beds with the best spinal alignment scores use zoning, or added firmness that falls nicely beneath the back.

Durability: If a new bed’s mileage may vary — for example, say you want a luxury mattress to treat your every-so-often guests — you may not need to be as overly concerned with durability. If the bed is subject to frequent strain however, consider a bed rated well for durability.

Motion transfer: Motion transfer, or how well the bed absorbs motion across the surface, is another testing criteria that may not be terribly concerning to you. On the other hand, it’s a testing figure that you should definitely pay attention to if you or your partner is a light sleeper and shares a mattress.

Temperature regulation: Luxury mattresses tend to offer excellent cooling, with technology incorporated into each layer to add airflow and temperature regulation. Hybrids are considered overall superior when it comes to cooling, but a good solution for any mattress is to use cooling accessories, like breathable bamboo sheets.

Responsiveness: When examining if a bed has solid responsiveness, testers want to experience a bed that requires little to no effort to switch positions. Again, this may not be a factor if you tend to find your sleep position and stay put for the night. But for combination sleepers, it can be the difference between sleeplessness and seamless snoozing.

Edge support: If you tend to sleep on your bed’s edge, the last thing you want is to feel like you’re on the precipice of rolling off. Robust edge support will keep you feeling held, and make tasks that you like to perform when sitting on your bed’s edge feel less cumbersome.

FAQ About the Best Luxury Mattresses

How much does a quality luxury mattress cost?

Like other luxury goods, luxury mattresses run the gamut of prices. The ones we’ve featured in our roundup are on the lower end price-wise ($1,300 to $2,000 range, mostly) in large part because you’ll be buying them directly from the brand, eliminating the middleman.

Do all luxury mattresses come in a box?

Most luxury mattresses we recommend arrive in a box, with a few notable exceptions. For example, any and all Saatva mattress purchases are delivered and assembled in person, i.e., the white glove delivery treatment.

How soon can I expect to get a luxury mattress in the mail?

Luxury mattresses are often made to order and take longer to reach you (1-2 weeks, typically). If you need a bed right away, a luxury mattress might not be the best choice.

What are the best luxury mattress sizes?

A California king-sized mattress is probably considered the pinnacle of luxury for most folks. It’s worth noting however that a California king may be taller, but is less wide than a regular king. That makes the California king a great option for tall sleepers, but not necessarily sleepers who want extra space in between their partner or pets.

Summary of Our Top Picks for the Best Luxury Mattress

• Editor’s Pick – Saatva Classic
• Best Luxury Mattress for Back Pain – WinkBed Original
• Best Hybrid Luxury Mattress – Helix Midnight Luxe
• Best Luxury Mattress for Heavier Sleepers – DreamCloud Premier
• Best Cooling Luxury Mattress – Brooklyn Bedding Aurora
• Best Luxury Memory Foam Mattress – Saatva Loom & Leaf
• Best Luxury Mattress for Couples – Casper Wave Hybrid
• Best Hypoallergenic Luxury Mattress – Purple Hybrid Premier
• Best Luxury Organic Mattress – Avocado Green

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