Little mattress rant (i have a suggestion if you want to skip to the bottom)...
In Canada, no two different chain sells the same mattress. So Sleep Country might sell the Sealy xNight 3487 while MattressMart sells the Sealy Cloud 4.3. The specs are always slightly different. It makes comparison shopping impossible, it is clearly intentional, and I can't believe its legal.
In Hong Kong, within department stores, each brand is sold by its own sales staff. So when you get to the mattress floor, there's a billion sales people (which isn't unusual in HK) and they each have 3 or so mattress for you to try out...they don't know/wont' tell you anything about any other mattress. They aren't interested in helping you find the best mattress in the huge choice, they are interested in selling you one of their mattress.
Someone needs to break the Mattress Cartel and its diabolic ways!
As for suggestions, my last mattress was an all-latex mattress. It was more expensive, but I loved it. Unlike those foam mattress which are (a) hot and (b) feel like ur sinking, these feel a lot more like a normal mattress with a couple key points. The most important being that they are [supposedly] more dust-mite resistant and they last much longer..so in 4 years you don't start to feel a spring (because their is no springs!) and the thing still has its original shape, more or less.
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Also worth pointing out that you can negotiate the hell out of this...especially if you go to a national chain. Their markup has got to be over 50%...The mattress I speak of was priced at something like $3800CAD and I think we got it down to $1650 with some extra covers or pillows or something....and I still felt like there was room to go.
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Little mattress rant (i have a suggestion if you want to skip to the bottom)...
In Canada, no two different chain sells the same mattress. So Sleep Country might sell the Sealy xNight 3487 while MattressMart sells the Sealy Cloud 4.3. The specs are always slightly different. It makes comparison shopping impossible, it is clearly intentional, and I can't believe its legal.
In Hong Kong, within department stores, each brand is sold by its own sales staff. So when you get to the mattress floor, there's a billion sales people (which isn't unusual in HK) and they each have 3 or so mattress for you to try out...they don't know/wont' tell you anything about any other mattress. They aren't interested in helping you find the best mattress in the huge choice, they are interested in selling you one of their mattress.
Someone needs to break the Mattress Cartel and its diabolic ways!
As for suggestions, my last mattress was an all-latex mattress. It was more expensive, but I loved it. Unlike those foam mattress which are (a) hot and (b) feel like ur sinking, these feel a lot more like a normal mattress with a couple key points. The most important being that they are [supposedly] more dust-mite resistant and they last much longer..so in 4 years you don't start to feel a spring (because their is no springs!) and the thing still has its original shape, more or less.
edit:
Also worth pointing out that you can negotiate the hell out of this...especially if you go to a national chain. Their markup has got to be over 50%...The mattress I speak of was priced at something like $3800CAD and I think we got it down to $1650 with some extra covers or pillows or something....and I still felt like there was room to go.