Best Luxury Mattresses 2021 | Mattress Advisor's Top 5

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 chosen our five best luxury mattresses of 2021. Many of them offer extra support, customizable firmness controls, premium cooling technology, and other features designed to help you get your best rest night after night. If price is a big concern, keep in mind that luxury mattress deals could save you hundreds of dollars.

We’ve tested dozens of luxury mattresses in our lab and have come up with our top five favorites and who we think they’re best for. Use the links below to jump to our luxury mattress roundup and advice from Mattress Advisor’s experts.

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• The Best Luxury Mattresses of 2021
• A Beginner’s Guide to Luxury Mattresses
• How to Find a Great Luxury Mattress
• Summary: Mattress Advisor’s Best Luxury Mattresses

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The Best Luxury Mattresses of 2021

• Editor’s Pick – Saatva Solaire 
• Best Value – DreamCloud Premier
• Best Memory Foam – Loom & Leaf
• Best Cooling – Brooklyn Aurora
• Best for Side Sleepers – Purple Hybrid Premier

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Saatva Solaire

Why we love it

The Saatva Solaire is an eco-friendly mattress, made with organic cotton, CertiPUR-US® certified foam, and OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified latex that keeps VOC emissions low and Mother Earth happy.

A remote controlled airbed, the Solaire lets you control your firmness—you have 50 levels to choose from. It’s easily compatible with an adjustable base, so if you want to sit up or elevate your feet, it’s got you covered. Don’t know how to use it? A tutorial is covered in your free white glove delivery.

Read our full Saatva Solaire mattress review.

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DreamCloud Premier

Why we love it

The DreamCloud Premier is an affordable hybrid model made out of a whopping 8-layers—talk about support. This mattress combines five layers of premium memory foam, as well as pocket coil and latex layers to provide support, comfort, and breathability. This is yet another mattress that scored nearly perfectly on our spine alignment test.

See our full DreamCloud Premier mattress review.

Loom & Leaf

Why we love it

The Loom & Leaf is one of those high-quality memory foam mattresses we keep going on about. Offering dual-sided firmness, its foam construction gives pressure relief to the place you need it most.

Not only will you get a good night’s sleep, but a clean sleep too. The Loom & Leaf is made with an antimicrobial treatment, full of botanicals, that keeps away bacteria, mold, and dust mites for years.

Read our full Loom & Leaf mattress review. 

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Brooklyn Aurora

Why we love it

If you’re a night sweater, the Brooklyn Aurora is the luxury mattress for you considering it’s one of the coolest mattresses we’ve ever had in our lab. If that’s not enough for you, check out its customizable firmness. The firmness chart is laid out on their site, telling you which level works for each sleep type.

See our full Brooklyn Aurora mattress review.

Purple Hybrid Premier Mattress

Why we love it

This high-quality mattress is uniquely made to contour your pressure points while it keeps you perfectly aligned—it even scored a 9.5 out of 10 in alignment in our mattress review. The various thickness levels allows you to choose both your support and firmness, almost like this mattress is tailored with you in mind.

See our full Purple Hybrid Premier mattress review.

A Beginner’s Guide to Luxury Mattresses

The most obvious thing that sets a luxury mattress apart from a regular mattress is price. A queen-size luxury mattress could cost $2,000 or more, although direct-to-customer brands that sell online usually offer them cheaper. Also, paying more means getting more. Here are some of the areas where high-end mattresses typically outperform budget mattresses:

• Durability. A combination of high-quality materials and solid 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.
• Customizability. Luxury air beds usually feature a remote control that lets you adjust the firmness level. Other types of mattresses, such as memory foam or hybrids, have dual-sided designs with different firmness options.
• Deals and bonuses. Luxury mattress brands often do bundle deals. For example, if you buy a specific mattress, you might get two free pillows, a free set of sheets, or a free mattress protector.
• White glove delivery: This means that the person who delivers your mattress will also set up in your bedroom and remove your old mattress. It’s a specialty service that’s typically included in the price.
• 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

The first thing you want to consider when searching for a luxury mattress—or any mattress—is the type of material it’s made with. Luxury mattresses tend to use memory foam, springs, latex, or put them all into a hybrid design.

• Memory foam.You’re usually going to want viscoelastic foam or another type of high-density foam that offers pressure relief and responsiveness. Some luxury memory foam mattresses are also made with additional materials that help keep the bed cool.

Related: Best memory foam mattresses

• Innerspring. For this type of mattress to be considered luxury, it has to be made with pocket coils. The springs are individually wrapped, which helps isolate motion to keep you from waking your sleep partner (or yourself) from a good night’s sleep. You also want a lower coil gauge because that makes the mattress more supportive.

Related: Best innerspring mattresses

• Latex. Luxury latex mattresses can be even more responsive and longer-lasting than memory foam. Some of them use organic latex rather than synthetic latex, which makes them hypoallergenic, resistant to dust mites, and of course, chemical-free.

Related: Best latex mattresses

• Air bed. Don’t confuse an air bed with an air mattress. Rather than simply inflating or deflating like a balloon, an air bed is designed with multiple chambers that let you adjust the bed’s firmness using a ventilation system.

• Hybrid. Luxury hybrid mattresses are a combination of these materials, using each one to target a specific need. That way, you get more contouring, pressure relief, and responsiveness.

Related: Best hybrid mattresses

How to Find a Great 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 that keeps your head and neck aligned. It should also keep pressure to a minimum on your hips and shoulders.

Firmness

With many regular mattresses, the firmness level is static. Many luxury air beds offer adjustable firmness, with up to 50 levels to choose from.

Cooling

If heat is what’s keeping you from a great night’s sleep, look for a luxury mattress that specifically addresses cooling. Latex is naturally cool, high-quality memory foam includes gel and breathable layers, and hybrid beds combine both.

Size

Luxury mattresses generally come in standard bed sizes, though you can customize this with some luxury brands. Here are the sizes you should expect:

• Twin: 38″x 74″
• Full: 54″x 74″
• Queen: 60″x 80″
• King: 76″x 80″

Sleep partner

A good luxury mattress for couples is responsive, has good edge support, and (most importantly) offers motion isolation. Memory foam is more effective at limiting motion transfer than innerspring.

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.

Summary: Mattress Advisor’s Best Luxury Mattresses

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

Accolade	Mattress
Editor’s Pick	Saatva Solaire
Best Value	DreamCloud Premier
Best Memory Foam	Loom & Leaf
Best Cooling	Brooklyn Aurora
Best for Side Sleepers	Purple Hybrid Premier

Luxury mattresses are more durable and offer more pressure relief than your average mattress. The various mattress types you’ll typically find are latex, hybrid, air bed, and memory foam.

Each of these are specially made to keep you cool, last for years, and improve your sleep. Now you have the knowledge you need to make an informed decision about whether to upgrade to one of the best luxury mattresses available.