Just about ready to buy a Tempur Pedic
| After a lot of lying on a lot of beds and about a month of research, we are about to buy a BellaSonna bed by Tempur Pedic. Could anyone that has that bed or a simular one give me your advice. Thanks so much! |
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Alexander wrote: Actually, I like Tempurpedic.</p><p>I don't like the Bellasonna not because of its price point but because of the departure from their design it displays. In my former shop and personal testing I found the Bellasonna's cylindrical drum system to be far less supportive and comfortable than the traditional layered Tempur-material. It is also, nation-wide, their least popular bed. It certainly did not read like that in your original post. Departure from the original design philosophy ? That horse left the stable long ago. In Tempur-Pedic's original infomercial it insisted the classic bed and contour pillow were the correct design giving you the correct posture and support after years of research by "sleep scientist." I am not surprised that the Bellasonna is Tempur-pedic's least popular bed. It has been telling its customers that inner-spring mattresses and counter pressure are "bad" for almost 20 years.No to mention the "disturbance" to your partner.Now it comes out with a foam bed that mimics an innerspring bed. The Bellasonna is for customers that up until now have never liked Tempur-pedics. It is a tough sell. It is no longer pushing the Contour pillow as "correct" and offers symphony,rhapsody,comfort,grand pillow etc. However, Select Comfort now has its top of the line bed standard with memory foam after insisting air was superior for years. Flobeds can be had with memory foam or "air mattress core for adjustability." Americans don't like being told by "experts" what to buy. They want choices. They are reassured if their choice is backed by experts but American consumers are going to buy what they "want." |
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KimberlyH wrote: I tried the Bellasona bed. I'm a little sceptical of their cylindrical "foam spring" system, if you can call it that. I just wonder how supportive, and how durable, it would be. If I were going Tempurpedic, I would have purchased the Rhapsody, if only because the others are just so expensive they are out of the realm of possibility for me. The Grand Bed strikes me as a little over the top . . . I suppose scepticism is warranted for all new technologies.I was skeptical when I saw the first Tempur-pedic infomercial almost 20 years ago. Now, I would never ever buy an innerspring mattress. Maybe latex but not innerspring. The Grand Bed has changed from its introduction a few years ago.It was bascially twice the cheap base foam plus cashmere ticking.Now it has the same size base foam as Rhapsody but twice the HD foam and twice the standard comfort foam.Unless you are morbidly obese it does seem like overkill. |
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| The original poster asked for advice from people with experience with the bed. Kimberly and I both have experience so we gave our advice. I hold to it. You're much better off spending a bit more and getting the Allura or just going with the Celebrity. |
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| Well I don't know if I have "experience." I have tried the Rhapsody bed and the Deluxe bed maybe 6-8 times, lying on each bed for a minimum of 1/2 hour. I've tried other Tempurpedic models, but not lying them on for an extended period. I did lie down on the BellaSonna and looked at it's foam inner spring system and didn't take to it. My personal take was that the less expensive models probably wouldn't last. But other people have other opinions . . . |
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according to tempurpedic, the cheaper their mattress the more support so to say if you dont get one of the top 4, well I called them with that attitude and told them i had low back pain and i needed to know which 2 or 3 provided the most support they told me the ones with HD provide the LEAST, etc if i go the latex route i wonder about it sleeping hot too...i sure wont order one without laying on one first and their store is a 5 hour round trip drive... This message was modified Oct 14, 2009 by randys
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randys wrote: according to tempurpedic, the cheaper their mattress the more support<BR><BR>so to say if you dont get one of the top 4, well I called them with that attitude and told them i had low back pain and i needed to know which 2 or 3 provided the most support<BR><BR>they told me the ones with HD provide the LEAST, etc<BR><BR>if i go the latex route i wonder about it sleeping hot too...i sure wont order one without laying on one first and their store is a 5 hour round trip drive...<br type="_moz"/> Tempur HD with 7 lbs density does not offer less support than regular Tempur foam at 5.34 lbs density. It does not make sense. Any salesperson or customer service rep that tells that to a customer should be fired. Some people find memory foam sleeps hot. I have not heard that is a problem with latex. The cheaperst will feel the hardest that does not necessariyly mean the best support. Some people can't get over that 1950's addage from the innerspring age. Some salespeople stop trying to educate customers and some are just ignorant themselves. |
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I do not believe latex sleeps as hot as memory foam. At least, "sleeping hot" is a common complaint among memory foam users, and it is not a frequent complaint among latex users. Think about it: memory foam is very dense and countours to your body, responding to and reflecting your body heat. That heat doesn't have anywhere to disspate to as the foam is in direct contact with your body. If you have looked at a picture of latex, the latex is perforated with hundreds, if not thousands, of holes from the manufacturing process. These allow the dissipation of heat from your body. If the drive to Flobeds is 5 hours, I still think it's worth making the drive so you can do a comparison. Otherwise, you won't know, unless you can find a closer mattress company that has latex mattresses. Here's a thought - one of your local mattress stores might cary the Vera Wang line of latex mattresses. I'm told that the high end of this line is 100% latex, whereas the lower end of the line is a combination of latex and foam. If you could try one of these out, they still have the overall feel of latex although they are not 100% latex. At least it would give you a baseline for comparing the difference between the feel of a Tempurpedic and the feel of a latex mattress. |
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i've had a bellasonna now for about 6 weeks. it was really firm to begin with, and still is, but it has softened up some. i went from another manufacturers top of the line memory foam bed to the bellasonna. the other bed was only 2 1/5 years old but i was having back aches every morning and they were getting worse. since the bellasonna my back problems have gone away. i caught the flu 2 weeks after i got the bellasonna and spent 3 days in the bed. if i had kept the old bed i probably wouldn't have been able to move. that said i love the bed. i'm sure that in another few months it will be a little softer but that won't be a problem. it doesn't really feel like an innerspring bed and i don't notice any movement when my girlfriend gets in or out of bed.if you haven't purchased the bed i recommend it. if you have tell me what you think. |