Alternatives to Dunlopillo mattress

EAB2

Hi all

We have had a medium-soft Dunlopillo Royal Sovereign mattress for eleven or twelve years, and have recently noticed that it is no longer providing us a good nights sleep.

I would love to replace like with like, but cannot afford £1600 which seems to be the going rate for the king size we need.

The apparently equivalent Silentnight or Sealy latex mattresses seem to sell for a quarter of the price, so unless someone can show me a shop selling the Dunlopillo under £1000, what alternatives do people recommend?

Kind rgds
Ed

Lavendyr

Are the Sealy and Silentnight ones pure latex? I'd be surprised if they're not just a latex topping over something else (though could be wrong...).

We recently bought this Dunlopillo from Bensons for Beds for less than £1000 - it's not pure latex, but it's extremely comfortable and they do do a medium-soft version.

http://www.bensonsforbeds.co.uk/Divan-Beds/Hi_tech-Latex/Double/Dunlopillo/4-Drawer/5-_-Extra-Firm/Fusion-Ortho-Double-Size-2%27plus%272-Drawer-Divan-Bed-Set;83106.aspx

Pinkypants

Silentnight and Sealy will both be topped with latex. Dunlopillo all latex mattresses are in a class of their own, hence the price tag!!!

Alternatives would be a pocket sprung mattress topped with at least 50mm of latex, more if you can find it. But the more you have the dearer it'll be.

EABowden you must be the first person that I can recall moving away from Dunlopillo, as most people once they have one they never want anything else every again.

£145 a year for a good nights kip based on 11 years, pretty good going I reckon.

Pinkypants

Lavendyr wrote: »

Are the Sealy and Silentnight ones pure latex? I'd be surprised if they're not just a latex topping over something else (though could be wrong...).

We recently bought this Dunlopillo from Bensons for Beds for less than £1000 - it's not pure latex, but it's extremely comfortable and they do do a medium-soft version.

http://www.bensonsforbeds.co.uk/Divan-Beds/Hi_tech-Latex/Double/Dunlopillo/4-Drawer/5-_-Extra-Firm/Fusion-Ortho-Double-Size-2%27plus%272-Drawer-Divan-Bed-Set;83106.aspx

That's a lot of pennies for something which basicly uses a cot mattress topped with some Latex. But glad to read you find it comfortable, which is the may thing in a bed.

EAB2

Thanks all,

I dont WANT to move away from Dunlopillo, just the price tag is too steep right now.

I've been offered a Dunlopillo Diamond for £999 which I can run to, but need to know the difference between that and the royal sovereign - both appear to be 100% latext. I don't want a single spring!

Cheers
Ed

Pinkypants

All I can tell is the Royal Sovereign is slightly deeper but also much softer, maybe the softer latex is dearer to produce.

Lavendyr

Pinkypants wrote: »

That's a lot of pennies for something which basicly uses a cot mattress topped with some Latex. But glad to read you find it comfortable, which is the may thing in a bed.

Well, we tried a large range of mattresses and were happy to go up to the full price for 100% latex if we found it to be necessary. But this one was sufficient and less than half the price of the full latex ones that we were looking at as alternatives (the Firmrest type ones). If it has at least half the life then it's not a bad buy.

It's 50mm latex and the rest is foam - hubby not keen on sprung mattresses and nor am I particularly - and it's very firm and very comfy for us yes.

Pinkypants

Is quitea firm mattress but 100% latex non the less.

http://www.landofbeds.co.uk/relaxsan/mattresses/waterlattex-vision-deluxe

Lavendyr

Sorry Pinkypants, I don't think it is...

"the mattress core contains high resilience orthopedic polyurethane base, mixed with natural latex to provide a unique blend of support and elasticity, which is enhanced by the patented Airyform construction of the core, providing three distinct comfort zones to accommodate the different pressure points of the body"

Pinkypants

Yeap sorry, my bad.

Didn't read the small print! Dooooh:(