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If you’ve stayed at a hotel, whether it was a luxury hotel or something less fancy, you know they often have fantastic beds. There’s just something about hotel beds that never fail to provide a good night’s sleep. Although some of that may be due to the fact that you’re away and escaping your regular life, some of it also has to do with the kind of mattresses that hotels typically use. Most hotels, especially luxury hotels, have cozy hotel bedding and great quality mattresses that come with the best balance of support and comfort. Our team of sleep experts at CNET has years of experience testing hundreds of mattresses, so we know exactly what makes a mattress feel luxurious.
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Without further ado, here are our top picks of the best hotel mattresses that will bring luxury to your home and boost your sleep quality. The mattresses selected are also pretty customizable. Depending on your sleep style and sleeping preferences, you can get a softer mattress made of organic cotton or a super firm luxury innerspring mattress. But it doesn’t matter what you choose, your new bed will be able to rival even the best hotel bed out there.
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The WinkBed mattress is the epitome of a luxury hotel mattress. It has a plush, fluffy pillow top and a durable, thick hybrid construction that supports all body types. WinkBed even offers three firmness options to accommodate all sleeping positions. It also doesn’t hurt that the WinkBed looks like a bed straight out of a magazine.
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Our take – The main defining feature of the Wink bed mattress is its nice, fluffy pillow top. I think it will feel similar to a lot of beds you’d find in a high-end hotel. According to WinkBed, it designed this mattress to emulate a hotel-style mattress.
Firmness
3 firmness levels | softer: medium-soft or 3 | luxury firm: medium or 5 | firmer: medium-firm or 7
Warranty
lifetime warranty
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Our take – The Helix Luxe mattress does a good job of emulating hotel-style comfort at home. The brand has six different beds to choose from, which is honestly a little overwhelming. Luckily, Helix has an easy-to-use sleep quiz on its website, which matches you with the bed that’s right for you.
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Our take – The Saatva Classic is kind of similar to the WinkBed in that it has a decent pillow top as its primary comfort layer and it’s pretty supportive. The Saatva Classic has two separate layers of coils for extra support, so I think it’ll be a great option for people with back pain, heavy sleepers or anyone who wants those additional reinforcements.
Warranty
lifetime warranty
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Our take – The Nolah Evolution 15 Mattress is another nice pillow top hybrid that’s supportive and luxurious. The mattress contains the unique proprietary Nolah Air Foam that you’ll only find in Nolah mattresses
Firmness
3 firmness levels | plush soft: medium-soft | luxury firm: medium | firm: medium-firm
Our take – Not surprisingly, we have another luxurious pillow top hybrid on our roundup of best hotel mattresses. It’s the Nest Bedding Sparrow, and I slept on the original version of this mattress for a long time. If you unzip the pillow top, you’ll find a thick layer of what it calls eject foam. This foam has a nice balance between sink, comfort and support. It doesn’t feel much like a memory foam, and most people will find it comfortable.
Firmness
3 firmness levels available
Warranty
lifetime warranty
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Our take – The Aurora Luxe from Brooklyn Bedding is the best cooling mattress that also feels like something you’d find inside a hotel. Most brands claim that their beds sleep cool, but most of the time that proves not to be true. The Aurora Luxe is an active cooling bed with a cool-to-the-touch cover.
Firmness
Soft: (3) Medium: (5) Medium firm: (7)
Warranty
10-year limited warranty
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Our CNET mattress team has tested over 200 beds, and within that collection, a handful of mattresses stood out as the best hotel mattresses. Hotel mattresses are typically thick, durable and accommodating so they are comfortable for any type of guest who stays, from a petite side sleeper to a heavy back or stomach sleeper. The criteria for finding the best hotel mattress include:
- Accommodating firmness options
- Strong, hybrid construction to accommodate all body types
- Luxurious pillow top in the comfort layer
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Firmness: Most hotels have mattresses with medium to medium-firm firmness levels because a medium profile provides a good balance between supportive and pressure relieving. For a true hotel-like feel, opt for a bed with medium or medium-firm firmness level. Choose a soft mattress if it accommodates your specific needs better.
Feel: Most hotel mattresses have a neutral feel that won’t turn off guests when they sleep in them as dense memory foam might do. They also often include a pillow top, which gives a mattress an extra plush and soft feel. For that ultimate five-star hotel mattress experience, try to buy one with a pillow top.
Construction: The best hotel mattresses are built to last and support all body types. That’s why we suggest a hybrid mattress that combines foam and supportive coils if you want to achieve that hotel-mattress feel.
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Hotels often use hybrid mattresses that combine foam and coils because they support all body types and are longer-lasting. High-end hotels typically furnish their rooms with pillow-top mattresses that add an extra layer of comfort and luxury.
They are typically quality-built mattresses with accommodating features so they suit all kinds of different guests. If you sleep better on a hotel mattress than your own, it’s possible yours isn’t accommodating for your sleeping position or body type or it’s outlasted its lifespan.
After testing many different beds, our team found these mattresses emulate the feel of a hotel mattress most:
- WinkBed mattress
- Saatva Classic
- Helix Lux mattresses
- Nolah Evolution 15
- Nest Bedding Sparrow
- Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Lux
