All Best Mattresses
With so many mattresses to choose from, what’s the best way to tell that you’re buying the right one? Consumer Reports has shopped in all kinds of stores, interviewed mattress manufacturers, polled readers about their mattress buying experiences, and recruited our staff to “test drive” mattresses. If you’re looking for information about All Best Mattresses, Consumer Reports is your best resource. Use our mattress buying guide to help you choose the best mattress for your needs.
You should think about buying a new mattress if you wake up tired or achy, you tend to sleep better at hotels than at home, your mattress looks saggy or lumpy, you’re over 40, or your mattress is at least five to seven years old. Use this mattress guide to help with your purchase.
Our readers have told us that buying a new mattress can be a headache because they’re difficult to compare from store to store and model names change frequently. To help, Consumer Reports tweaked its tests and mattress ratings this year making it easier to tell how firm a mattress really is on a scale of 1 to 10 and how much support it provides to people who sleep on their backs or their sides. In fact, now you can match your sleeping style and your stature to your mattress by scanning the six columns in our ratings that call out the best mattresses for petite, average, and large/tall side sleepers and petite, average, and large/tall back sleepers. Here are two top picks from each of the three types of mattresses we test. In addition to its superb back support, the mattress was impressive at keeping the spine horizontal for side sleepers. The mattress measures 12 inches high, so you’ll get by without deep-pocket fitted sheets.