The Nectar Memory Foam Mattress Is Worth the Hype
What, I found myself asking this morning, are the best critiques of the Nectar Memory Foam Mattress? A simple question—but one that was making me increasingly frustrated. Where does it fall short of a good night’s sleep? In what situation do you wake up overheated and sweaty, or with a brutally sore back? Surely there must be some drawback or flaw to it?
Speaking to my dedicated tester, who has now slept on it since early September, the answer continued to elude me, and seemingly him. Every good review needs a good understanding of the downsides to a product, naturally, but bar a couple of caveats, every question I asked has been met with just pure adoration, perhaps bordering on obsession, with this mattress.
It’s a Major Upgrade
Let’s rewind a bit: Nectar describes this mattress as medium-firm, comprising three layers of memory foam, which is supposed to “hug your body and keep you cool” for “the best of both worlds.” It comes in five sizes, from single through to super king and including that most elusive of mattress sizes, the small double, though each is the same depth of just under 10 inches, slightly less than the length of a school ruler propped on its end. (You’re not feeling a pea through this mattress, no matter how particular you might be about your sleep.) The idea is that each layer helps offer proper body support and good spinal alignment.
Which brings us back to our lucky tester: my flatmate. To give you an idea of where he was starting from, he’s generally a deep sleeper, though he had found that the older, department-store mattress that he was originally sleeping on was tired and past its best, with springs whose tensile strength had been lost. As such, he was sinking into the center of the mattress overnight, a tendency which wasn’t helped when his partner spent the night, either.
Now with a new mattress in place—when his partner did come to stay, so far, so good—the mattress was equally supportive over many nights with two people in the bed, and remained so over several nights of testing.
Hunting for Criticisms (Unsuccessfully)
Our conversations about the mattress remained consistently (and frustratingly) positive. You’d think perhaps his mattress might slip on his steel bed frame but no, no such luck. Nor has he managed to overheat in the night, having paired the mattress with bamboo sheets, as well as a mattress cover.
When pressed, the most negative thing he could say was that there’s a moment of compression when you get into the mattress, but nothing approaching the sinking feeling you get from a busted old thing whose springs—which this mattress doesn’t have, of course—can’t handle the weight of a human any more. It’s worth keeping in mind that foam isn’t always for everyone; it can be an unusual sensation to sleep on if you’re not used to it, and so it’s always worth trying out different mattress materials in-person in a bed or furniture shop even if you plan to order a mattress online later on.
The only other thing he’s mentioned? At just under 10 inches, it is quite thick, so if you have a tall bed frame or one with particularly deep storage, you might find yourself quite high up. It’s still less than other mattresses on the market, but if you’re sleeping in a loft or a room with a uniquely low ceiling, then you should measure the height out before you order the mattress.
The Value Is Outrageous
Even the price of the Nectar Memory Foam Mattress can’t be complained about. At $649 for a queen, it’s easily one of the best value mattresses under we’ve found—not just from our tester’s experience, but from having personally looked at the quality, Nectar’s surface, and just the general comfort you can sense from it even after a few minutes of lying down. Faultless? No—but maybe the closest we’ve come to a perfect review.
