Update 07.02.12 - Happy Canada Day! The Marriott bed arrived from Jamison in less than two weeks and after nearly a week sleeping on it I have to say that it's everything that we hoped for. My husband and I both love it and my lower back pain is gone. Costco took back their mattress with no questions asked.
Mattress shopping is boring and puzzling and time consuming. It takes lots of research and time in the store checking out mattresses - ugh! Or not. We had a 10 year old Sealy Posturepedic that had given up on supporting us and my husband hated it. I went to Costco and was very excited to find a Novaform® Gel Memory Foam Queen Mattress for $400. I brought it home without so much as touching it and could not wait to go to sleep that night. Much to our dismay it was hard as a rock and sleeping on it SUCKED. It still sucks two months later. I've been researching everything and finally my husband threw me a bone and said that the best bed that he'd ever slept on was at the Marriott Marquis Times Square from a trip we took in 2006.
Now I love a good detective challenge so as soon as I woke up the next morning and fed the dogs, the kids, myself and maybe got out of my pjs (maybe not) I was on the phone with the hotel to track down that mattress. It didn't take long to find Jamison Bedding - they've been making beds in the USA for 129 years. I called up and asked some questions and they spent so much time telling me all about their beds and box springs and specifically the ones that Marriott hotels uses. I ended up buying a queen supreme foam 7" mattress from them with the Marriott box spring and they threw in a mattress topper for free - the whole thing was $1500 including delivery. This is kind of a risky endeavor for me since there is no risk free try out period or 100% refund like I'll get on the Novaform mattress that is going back to Costco the DAY that this new mattress gets here, however I've stayed at quite a few Marriott hotels and always loved the bed. Here goes nothing! I'll update with how it is when it arrives and I've had a few nights of sleep on it. Our last bed was too soft for my husband and the Novaform is too firm and this is a medium so I'm hoping that goldilocks will be pleased with this one.
I'm curious to hear anyone else's mattress stories!
