Sleep Innovations Shea 10-inch Memory Foam Mattress, Bed in a Box, Made in the USA, 20-Year Warranty - Queen Size

PLEASE READ FULL REVIEW, This bed is AWESOME, but you must read my full review. I was going to initially rate it a 2 star, then after what you will read this below i'd defiantly rate this bed a 5 star! I rated it a 3 because if your like me you'd like to hear from people who were middle of the road on it, not from the extremists.I just bought this bed 3 weeks ago, I am going to tell you the good and the bad.First about us, we are 31y/o, I am 200lb 5'11", my gf is 5'4" 120lbs. I recently had a spinal fusion. Our old mattress was an expensive innerspring pillow top seally mattress 12 - 14" queen. The bed was 7 years old, and in pretty good condition, on a box spring. I had to change because it was giving me terrible back aches when i woke up- My guess is because of the spine surgery, but also because my gf wakes up like 3 times a night for bathroom breaks or night snacks... i know weird right. Any how every time she would get up, i'd wake up because of the motion transfer in an inner coil mattress. Long story short, back aches and bad night sleeps.I did tons of research and went to the stores and tried all the mattresses (tempurapedic, iCloud, etc.) , but as i am not made of money I was looking for a cheaper option for a memory foam mattress. I came across this bed, saw all the great reviews and was sold. I did see the 12" but when i was reading the make-up of the bed it looked like the extra 2 inches were more dense support-foam and not more memory foam, so i decided to go with this one and get to the two free pillows.Good: this bed is exactly like the tempurapedic mattresses I tried in the store, exactly! It came in a box the size of a small dorm room fridge and expanded as indicated. Took like 24hrs, Yes there is off gassing, but that's not to bad, we let the bed open up and started sleeping on it a few days later. When you push your hand into the mattress you defiantly can feel the memory foam, just like the picture, but when laying on the bed it is firm... at first.Bad: What i mean is (Just like the tempurapedic) when you jump into bed it's solid, and then you sink in as indicated. This is good and bad. If you find a good spot to lay it's great, but if you want to role over, or change positions you kinda get stuck in your rut. Also because of the sink-in factor you become cocooned and you can get warm if your a hot sleeper like me.(also my gf weighed 80 lbs less than me and didn't sink in as much and as such had even worse night sleeps then the old mattress)At first i was nervous that I just dumped a lot of money into a mattress that i might not like and would cost a lot to return (read bottom). I slept on it for 2 nights and decided that i needed to make a change before just returning it.First, The box spring was older, and i was reading reviews, if you put some 3/4" plywood under your mattress it will be better for the longevity of the mattress, as well as support your body a bit better. I guess the memory foam mattresses were designed to go straight on a solid surface, like the floor, so if you are using a box spring, just toss a few sheets of plywood underneath.Next, Again like i said, i was very nervous i bought the wrong bed. But it was inexpensive to begin with, so i wasn't too upset with having to spend a little more money in my sleep investment- after all, your bed is one of the most important decisions in your life... it helps you be more productive during the day if you sleep well at night, so take my advice and make sure you buy the right mattress. READ THE FOLLOWING VERY CAREFULLY IT MADE THIS BED AWESOME!!!So here is where the bed went from ALRIGHT, to FREEKING AWESOME!!!Like i said, i was semi-dissapointed with the firmness on impact and then getting stuck in my rut, so i looked into a memory foam topper for it, yes i know what your thinking, "i just bought a bed and now i need to buy a topper, why not just buy the larger mattress then?" Seriously do what i say and you will have the most comfortable bed ever! So what i did is went out and bought a memory foam topper 3" that was less dense foam than the dense foam of the SI 10" mattress. It was an ISOTONIC ISOSOFT MATTRESS TOPPER. Roll that out on the bed, and let it open up just like the SI bed had to. The topper that i bought came with a little feather pillow top that helps make your initial impact EVEN SOFTER, and it also keep you a little cooler than being straight on the memory foam.Wa-LA! $400 (down from $1500) Sleep Innovations 10" sure ten memory foam mattress + $190 (down from $600) Isotonic Isosoft memory foam mattress topper + $40 in plywood... BEST BED EVER! Seriously you jump into this thing and immediately sleep like a dream.The key to the topper is:1) the topper is made of less dense foam which allows you to shift or move if you want to change positions, because it expands faster being less dense2) when you jump into bed you don't get the solid thump of the mattress alone, you get this soft pillow-top, soft memory foam feel...3) because it is less dense foam, when you sink down a bit and settle in to the position you'd like to sleep, you then sink into the sleep innovations foam and you are set for dream land!!!4) cuts down even further of the motion transfer of my gf so i don't even feel her when she gets up!I have slept through every night, and dreamt every night i've had this set up. Initially I was disappointed in all those people that rated this 5 stars, I don't think they were all truthful... I also don't think the people who gave it 1 or 2 stars really ever gave this thing a chance.Hope this helped. It has defiantly changed my days, i wake up refreshed, not sore, and ready to start my day!Lastly, If you for some reason don't do what i said, and want to return this, you MOST DEFIANTLY CAN, all you need to do is contact amazon, ask for their large box division and they will send a truck and return the item AT NO SHIPPING COST you don't need the box, just the receipt.Lastly lastly, if you want that in writing you can contact amazon customer service prior to purchasing this item and they can email you those two sheets to make sure that you don't get jammed with a products that you might not be too happy with... especially if you were expected to pay for return shipping it would probably cost you just as much as the bed.Hope this helps - CD

We purchased this mattress in April of 2014 and purposely waited ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS to post a review of this product.As most know, its easy to purchase a mattress and feel great about it for a few months, so we waited 1.5 years.My wife and I average weight and height 6' 190 lbs and 5'3 120lbs.After decades of owning box spring mattresses of average quality in the so called sale price range of $1000. and me, after a year old my back starting to ache from those mattresses and the mattresses starting to sag, always rotating them etc, based on reviewed in here we took the plunge and bought this foam mattress. It has been heaven since day one.Positives,1. Nice firm mattress, no more aches and pains in the morning. The mattress molds to your body, without sinking down too deep. Its nothing short of amazing. Adult playtime is also just as fun on this mattress.2. 1.5 years later, still no sagging, no depressions. We spin it around (rotate it) every daylight savings time.3. We have been in many stores, laid on many foam mattresses at prices of 8 times the price of this mattress and prefer the feel of it over all others. Completely amazing. For the first time in my life I NEVER ever wake up with a stiff back anymore.4. Although at first, we thought the included pillows were just a gimmick, we find them outstanding and never would sleep without them.5. I dont know what I can add to the above, been thinking about writing this review a LONG time and now find myself at a loss for words. (which is unusual) All I can say is I recommend this mattress to anyone I know when I hear a mattress conversation come up. Its an OUTSTANDING product that I CAN NOT for the life of me find any fault with and we both are quite particular about products we buy and many times more so when we have to sleep on a product every night of the year. A TRULY AMAZING product and to this day, even if I have an Amazon purchase of some other product that I am not as satisfied with. I think back to this mattress that we would never have, if it was not for Amazon.Negatives -I honestly can not in any way think of anything I would like different about this product.Other:Ill comment on one or two things I have read in other reviews when deciding on this product. 1. Odor - When you first open up the mattress you will be greeted by a mild sweet smell, to us, it was nothing more the same as a "new car type" smell, that completely disappeared within 3 weeks. In no way did we find it offensive.2. Weight, it is heavy but heavy is relative, we both got home from work, took our existing mattress off the box spring foundation base and laid the new foam mattress on the box spring, if I remember correctly we do have a piece of plywood in the middle of the box spring foundation to help prevent sag on the old mattress (our old mattress was not that old), I think we left it there and most foundation support is lacking in this department.3.Followed the directions, left it self unfold WITHOUT forcing it to open, instructions say this is important, then according to the instructions, gently helped unfold it further using no force.4. Four maybe hours later we were sleeping on the mattress! If I remember correctly, sleeping on it sooner then later helps further to allow its natural shape to come back.5. If you haven't figured it out yet, we highly recommend this mattress. We were sceptical at first, buying a mattress without seeing it or laying down on it but if you think about it, we had nothing to lose, every year millions of people will go to a store, lay on a mattress for 5 minutes (as we have done in the past) and decide its a good mattress, which we know is impossible. Only after many weeks or months can you figure out if a mattress works for you, not 5 minutes in a store, so for the price, we bought this mattress, way less then any gamble buying one in a store for up to 8 times the price. We love it, to this day, no stiff back in the morning, no sagging, highly recommend.