Best Luxury Mattresses of 2023

Sports cars and designer clothes can’t buy you a good night’s sleep, but the right luxury mattress can. That’s why, after testing dozens of models from the top brands, we’ve made our list of best luxury mattresses. They offer features including customizable firmness controls, premium cooling technology, and cushiony pillow-tops to help you get your best rest night after night.

Check out our top picks and read our buyer’s guide for expert advice on choosing the right luxury mattress for you.

Best Luxury Mattresses: Our Top Picks

• Editor’s Pick – Helix Midnight Luxe
• Best Mattress for Hot Sleepers – Nectar Premier Hybrid
• Best Mattress for Back and Neck Pain – Saatva Solaire
• Best Value Mattress – DreamCloud Premier
• Best Mattress for Combination Sleepers – Brooklyn Sedona Elite
• Best Mattress for Couples – WinkBeds GravityLux
• Best Mattress for Heavy People – Titan Plus
• Best Latex Mattress – Nolah Natural 11″
• Best Firm Mattress – Plank Firm
• Best Hybrid Mattress – Bear Star Hybrid

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Helix Midnight Luxe

What makes the Helix Midnight Luxe one of the best luxury beds? The key features are in its quality materials. The Midnight Luxe is covered with a cooling pillow-top and uses dense, gel-infused memory foam for cushioning. We gave this mattress a 9/10 for durability, so you should enjoy everything this bed has to offer for a long time.

It’s also an ideal mattress for pain relief because it includes a layer of 1,000+ individually wrapped coils. These Zoned Lumbar Support Coils are designed to provide a softer feel under the shoulders and firmer under the hips.

In addition to its potential for pain relief, the Midnight Luxe is also one of the best cooling mattresses we’ve reviewed. Its 9.5/10 cooling score makes this pillow-top hybrid a superb choice for hot sleepers as well.

Read our full Helix Midnight Luxe mattress review. For more, check out our roundup of the best mattresses.

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Nectar Premier Hybrid

The Nectar Premier Hybrid is our favorite luxury cooling mattress, and for good reason. Its outstanding cooling score (9/10) is the result of quality materials and design, starting with a quilted cover that uses fabric designed to wick away heat and moisture. A layer of wave-cut memory foam and an airflow-friendly layer of individually wrapped coils also contribute to the Premier Hybrid’s breathability.

For added luxury, the Nectar Premier Hybrid features an ActiveLift HD layer designed to keep your hips lifted throughout the night. This helped it earn its 8.5/10 score for spinal alignment.

The Nectar Premier Hybrid’s medium firmness should appeal primarily to back sleepers and side sleepers. Luckily, these folks have a 365-night trial so they can decide if it’s the most best luxury option for their needs.

Read our full Nectar Premier Hybrid mattress review. To compare other cooling beds, see our roundup of best mattresses for hot sleepers.

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Saatva Solaire

The Saatva Solaire’s adjustable air chambers make it easy for you to dial in how firm or how soft you want the mattress to be, a great feature for people with back pain or neck pain. You can choose between 50 firmness settings to find the one that most comfortably supports you. The Solaire also provides solid spine alignment and pressure relief (8/10 testing scores) to help you maintain a natural curve as you sleep while limiting pressure on the hips and shoulders.

For an even more luxurious sleep experience, you can pair the Solaire mattress with Saatva’s Lineal Adjustable Base. Features include wave massage, zero-gravity support, and under-bed illumination.

You also get free white-glove delivery—which includes a tutorial on how to use the bed’s remote control—a 365-night sleep trial, and a lifetime warranty.

Read our full Saatva Solaire mattress review. Also, see our roundups of best mattresses for back pain and best mattresses for neck pain.

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DreamCloud Premier

A luxury mattress on a modest budget? Maybe it’s not a dream after all. The DreamCloud Premier is an affordable luxury hybrid (just under $1,600 regular price for a queen-size) with an overall Mattress Advisor score of 8.9/10.

In the Mattress Advisor sleep lab, the DreamCloud Premier earns elite or near-elite scores in several categories including pressure relief (9/10), responsiveness (9/10), and cooling (8.5/10). It combines seven layers, including a memory foam Euro-top and a pocket coil system, to provide cradling support and breathability. The medium-firm feel can accommodate most sleeping positions and body types.

Also, DreamCloud offers a lifetime warranty and 365-night sleep trial. Combine those factors with the Premier’s price and you get a top-rated luxury mattress that offers a lot of comfort and a lot of value.

Read our full DreamCloud Premier mattress review. To see other high-value beds, check out our roundup of best mattresses for the money.

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Brooklyn Sedona Elite

A mattress that leaves you feeling stuck when you try to change sleeping positions can be anything but restful. The Brooklyn Sedona Elite can help, thanks in part to a 9/10 Mattress Advisor score for responsiveness that makes it a solid choice for combination sleepers and restless sleepers alike.

Firmness is another quality that makes the Sedona Elite a good match for combination sleepers. The medium-firm 6/10 feel offers cushioning for side sleeping, but you shouldn’t sink in too deeply when you switch to sleeping on your back.

With a 9/10 score for cooling, this Brooklyn Bedding mattress is also a good match for hot sleepers. Its two layers of gel memory foam and a pocketed coil layer promote breathability. We give it a 9.5/10 durability score, which contrasts favorably with a pretty standard 10-year warranty.

Read our full Brooklyn Sedona Elite review. You can also see our roundup of best mattresses for combination sleepers.

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WinkBeds GravityLux

When shopping for a mattress, couples will want to look for several qualities. The mattress should do a good job of isolating motion and be responsive enough for them to move around on with ease. We give the WinkBeds GravityLux 9/10 scores for motion transfer and responsiveness, which addresses both concerns.

This memory foam bed also earns a flawless 10/10 score for edge support, which means couples can comfortably spread out and use all the mattress surface. Testing highlights also include 9/10 scores for pressure relief and spine alignment—promising signs for side sleepers and people with back pain.

WinkBeds offers the GravityLux in three firmness options: Soft, Medium, and Firm. These options provide a lot of leeway in helping you choose the firmness that matches up best with your sleeping position and personal preference.

Read our full WinkBeds GravityLux mattress review. Also, check out our roundup of best mattresses for couples.

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Titan Plus

The Titan Plus from Brooklyn Bedding is a firm mattress (7/10) specifically made for plus-size sleepers. Its hybrid foam-and-coil design provides the support that heavier people need to sleep comfortably, particularly those who prefer sleeping on their back or stomach. It can support up to 1,000 lbs, or 500 lbs per side for two people sharing a queen-size or larger.

In Mattress Advisor testing, the Titan Plus earns elite-level scores in performance categories including spine alignment (9.5/10) and responsiveness (also 9.5/10). It also performed well on our cooling test (8.5/10), a good sign for sleepers who tend to overheat.

The Titan Plus earns a 9/10 score on our durability test, so you should be able to enjoy quality sleep on this mattress—which is backed by a 10-year warranty—for a long time.

Read our full Titan Plus mattress review. To see similar beds, check out our roundup of best mattresses for heavy people.

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Nolah Natural 11″

When comparing luxury latex mattresses, it’s best to start with the building blocks. The Nolah Natural hybrid uses two layers of natural Talalay latex—a 2″ comfort layer followed by a 1″ transition layer. Latex processed with the Talalay method is known for its plush feel and cushioning effects, which makes the Nolah Natural a good choice to provide gentle support.

The latex layers of the Nolah Natural contribute to its solid scores in both cooling (9/10) and responsiveness (8.5/10). The design also includes an 8-inch coil system for a boost of buoyant support plus layers of organic cotton and wool.

The materials used in the construction of the Nolah Natural are organic, free of harmful chemicals, and hypoallergenic. If you’re after eco-friendly luxury, the Nolah Natural is worth checking out.

Read our full Nolah Natural mattress review. You can see more top-rated latex beds in our roundup of best latex mattresses.

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Plank Firm

A firm mattress can do wonders for certain kinds of people, namely stomach sleepers, plus-size sleepers, and sleepers with lower back pain. If you’re after the luxury sleep experience in the form of a firm mattress, you should definitely consider Brooklyn Bedding’s Plank Firm.

The Plank Firm is a flippable mattress—one side is firm (7/10), the other extra-firm (9/10). Depending on your sleeping position, body type, and preferences, you can select the side that best accommodates you. For stomach sleepers, we suggest trying the extra-firm side first and flipping to the firm side if you want to sink in a bit further.

We gave the Plank Firm a 9/10 testing score for pressure relief and an 8.75/10 for spine alignment, so it should be able to give you a top-of-the-line feel while helping to keep your back free of aches and pains.

Read our full Plank Firm mattress review. Also, see our roundups of best firm mattresses and best extra-firm mattresses.

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Bear Star Hybrid

A product that earns a 9/10 overall Mattress Advisor score is a bed that doesn’t have many weak points. The Bear Star Hybrid does particularly well in spine alignment, where we give it a near-perfect 9.5/10 score. The cover is made with Celliant fiber designed to promote sleep recovery, one of the signature features of Bear’s athlete-oriented mattresses.

Quality materials help make this mattress one of our top-rated hybrids. Underneath a hand-quilted cover, it has three layers of high-quality foam and a layer of individually encased coils. The design combines the cushioning feel of foam with the support and breathability of innersprings.

The Bear Star Hybrid is backed by a limited lifetime warranty, along with a 120-night sleep trial. With a 9.5/10 Mattress Advisor durability score, it should last a long time.

Read our full Bear Star Hybrid mattress review. To see more top hybrid beds, check out our roundup of best hybrid mattresses.

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Guide to Finding the Best Luxury Mattress

Luxury mattresses aren’t just for the wealthy anymore. The emergence of direct-to-consumer brands and online shopping have helped create opportunities for many consumers who previously thought that high-quality bedding was out of their reach. In fact, more than half of the featured mattresses on this page list a regular price below $2,000 for a queen size.

While cost is still a factor, finding the right luxury mattress could be easier than you think. In this guide, we’ll explore some topics to help you make an informed decision.

• Why Are Luxury Mattresses More Expensive?
• Types of Luxury Mattresses
• Who Should Get a Luxury Mattress?
• Things to Consider When You’re Shopping

Why Are Luxury Mattresses More Expensive?

Luxury mattresses cost more than standard models, and with good reason. You’re paying more, but you’re also getting more for your money. Here are some of the areas where high-end mattresses typically outperform budget mattresses:

• Quality materials. Cutting-edge memory foam that gently cushions pressure-sensitive areas and hypoallergenic all-natural latex are just two examples of how better mattress materials can deliver better results.
• Extra comfort. A plush pillow-top or an extra layer of transition foam can make a huge difference in the quality of your sleep, providing additional cushioning and pressure relief.
• Special features. A luxury mattress could offer anything from specially engineered cooling memory foam to dual-side adjustable firmness controls.
• Durability. A combination of premium materials and high-quality workmanship should give your luxury mattress a longer lifespan. While the upfront cost is greater, it could be a decade or more before you need to replace it.
• Customer service. Luxury brands often go above and beyond to provide a good consumer experience, with amenities that sometimes include white glove delivery. This deluxe service means that the person who delivers your mattress will also set up in your bedroom and remove your old mattress. In some cases it’s offered free with the purchase of the mattress.
• Environmental stewardship. Luxury mattress companies frequently use organic materials in their products and support environmental causes, such as planting trees for every mattress they sell.

Types of Luxury Mattresses

Most types of luxury mattresses fall into the same categories as regular mattresses:

• Memory foam—Known for the body-contouring “hug” feel that provides good pressure relief
• Innerspring—The “traditional” springy feel with firmness and all-around support
• Latex—Responsive and durable with natural cooling properties, with natural latex also being hypoallergenic
• Hybrid—Different materials layered into one mattress, including foam/innerspring and latex/innerspring

In most cases, a luxury mattress is very similar to a regular bed but made with higher-grade materials to address specific needs or concerns.

Regular mattress	Luxury mattress	The difference:
Traditional memory foam	Gel-infused memory foam	Improved cooling
Basic coil system	Individually wrapped pocket coils	Better motion isolation, less squeaking
Synthetic or blended latex	Natural or organic latex	Hypoallergenic, less chemical odor

Luxury hybrids bring different combinations of these materials together into layered beds, with each layer targeting a specific need such as pressure relief or responsiveness. Some hybrids also include layers dedicated to providing lumbar support to help alleviate back pain.

Other luxury mattresses involve complex technology, such as the ventilation chambers that control firmness in an airbed or biometric monitoring systems in a smartbed.

Who Should Get a Luxury Mattress?

It might seem that the obvious answer is, “Anybody who can afford one.” In reality, factors besides wealth or consumerism could drive the decision to buy a high-end mattress.

• If you love the feel of a high-end hotel bed, you might want to enjoy the same sleep experience at home
• For vacation rental hosts, a luxury mattress could be a great selling point for their Airbnb or VRBO property
• Athletes and fitness trainers might also see a luxury bed as an investment if it helps them maintain peak conditioning
• Luxury RV owners will be pleasantly surprised to learn that some luxury mattresses are available in RV sizes
• Someone who wants to support the social causes or charities that a luxury brand endorses

The term “luxury mattress” can even be something of a misnomer. For instance, someone with severe back pain might need an adjustable smartbed not as a status symbol but simply as a way to sleep comfortably through the night. Because the features and technology affect the price, a therapeutic mattress could be mislabeled as a luxury product.

Still, treating yourself to a luxury mattress might not be such an indulgence after all. Restorative sleep has many health benefits, so you could think of it as a purchase aimed at improving your quality of life.

Considerations When Shopping for a Luxury Mattress

So you’ve decided that a luxury mattress is right for you, but when it’s time to change your mattress, how do you find the right replacement? There are a few things to consider when looking for a good, high-quality mattress.

Sleep Position

What position do you sleep in? The answer to this question instantly points you in the right direction for your mattress type.

• Side sleepers. Side sleepers are looking for a bed with pressure relief, primarily for their hips and shoulders. This sleep type should be looking for a latex or a gel memory foam mattress. These mattresses evenly distribute your weight and take pressure away from sensitive areas.
• Back sleepers. People who sleep on their backs need a mattress that evenly contours to their body but doesn’t disrupt the spine’s natural curve. For this reason, latex, foam, and hybrid luxury mattresses win out over the rest.
• Stomach sleepers. Stomach sleepers need a mattress that is firm enough so they can lie flat, but with a soft top layer to ease pressure off of the hips. Multi-layered memory foam and hybrid models work the best for this position.
• Combination sleepers. Combo sleepers need a super responsive mattress that is going to adapt to all of the tossing, turning, and position shifting. Hybrid mattresses are key for these sleepers. They have the adaptability for the changes.

Support

A luxury mattress should provide exceptional support and even weight distribution that keeps your head and neck aligned. It should also keep pressure to a minimum on your hips and shoulders—especially important for side sleepers and stomach sleepers.

Firmness

With many regular mattresses, the firmness level is static—you can get a soft mattress, a medium-firm mattress, a firm mattress, or an extra-firm mattress. Many luxury air beds offer adjustable firmness options, with potentially dozens of levels to choose from. Others are flippable, with a different firmness level on each side.

Related: Mattress Firmness Guide

Cooling

If heat is what’s keeping you from a great night’s sleep, look for a luxury mattress that specifically addresses cooling. Materials such as naturally breathable latex and high-quality memory foam with cooling gel do a good job of letting body heat escape from the mattress, while innerspring hybrids benefit from airflow-friendly coils.

Related: Best Mattresses for Hot Sleepers and Best Mattresses for Menopause

Size

Luxury mattresses generally come in standard bed sizes, although you can get customized dimensions with some luxury brands. Here are the sizes you should expect:

• Twin: 38″ x 75″
• Twin XL: 38″ x 80″
• Full: 53″ x 75″
• Queen: 60″ x 80″
• King: 76″ x 80″
• California king: 72″ x 84″

Related: Guide to Mattress Sizes

Sleep Partner

A good mattress for couples is responsive, has good edge support, and minimizes motion transfer. Memory foam is more effective at limiting motion transfer than innersprings. Some beds even have bouncy, responsive designs that make them good mattresses for sex.

Aches and Pains

If you or your sleep partner suffers from nighttime aches and pains due to surgery, over-exertion, age, or an injury, buy a mattress that scores well for pressure relief and responsiveness. When mattress shopping, look for a luxury mattress that specifically mentions pain or pressure relief.

Accessories

Putting bargain-basement sheets on a luxury mattress is kind of like filling up a sports car with low-octane gas. Consider adding a set of luxury sheets or luxury pillows to your premier-level mattress.

Price

When establishing your budget for a luxury mattress, keep in mind the following factors:

• Cost of the mattress
• Cost of a foundation
• New bedding
• Shipping or delivery costs

Even if your budget is significant, make sure you’re getting the best mattress deals available.

Summary: Best Luxury Mattress Picks

Here’s a recap of our top picks for the most luxurious mattresses on the market:

Mattress	Award	Mattress Advisor Overall Score
Helix Midnight Luxe	Editor’s Pick	8.7/10
Nectar Premier Hybrid	Best Mattress for Hot Sleepers	8.9/10
Saatva Solaire	Best for Neck/Back Pain	8.6/10
DreamCloud Premier	Best Value Mattress	8.9/10
Brooklyn Sedona Elite	Best for Combination Sleepers	9.0/10
WinkBeds GravityLux	Best Mattress for Couples	9.1/10
Titan Plus	Best Mattress for Heavy People	9.2/10
Nolah Natural 11″	Best Latex Mattress	8.7/10
Plank Firm	Best Firm Mattress	8.9/10
Bear Star Hybrid	Best Hybrid Mattress	9.0/10