Mattress Forum

Dallasgirl, I've read that some people just don't "like" the feel of the way the latex sinks in, although other people love it. Latex different from what most people are used to sleeping on and requires some adjustment, and some people just end up preferring the feeling of a more traditional mattress. That's why the old hands on this list always recommend you take a "test drive" on latex before making a purchase, so you can make sure you like the way it feels and it feels comfortable to you. Mattress preferences are to some extent quite individualistic, it appears.

Anyway, fwiw, these are potential disadvantages listed on another website that might be helpful.

We did try a flobeds and could not get comfortable on it.

We tried untold hundreds of combinations of latex and/or pu foam and/or memory foam and though we could "tolerate" them we did not find them comfortable enough to live with.

Finally my wife convinced me that springs were what were missing, we tried a few spring mattresses and those did not work either. We figured out that the pu foam in the mattresses was the problem so we hit on the idea of mattress surgery and replacing the pu foam with latex.

For us, using latex over springs has been the best mattress we've been able to come up with. That said, we still do have issues and have to adjust the latex layers, sometimes add or change a layer to try to get it right.

But I definitely do not like sleeping on any kind of mattress without springs. (Except for maybe a water bed.)