Happy with my purchase
My boyfriend and I began having back troubles on our current bed, and were in desperate need of a new mattress, despite his protest. He didn't want to spend the money, and any time I would catch him stretching his back in pain he would play it off like it was nothing. FINALLY I convinced him to look at mattresses with me, and not only that, but I must have laid out a very persuasive proposal, for I talked him into upsizing to a King! So, we ventured out one weekend to a local Ashley Furniture store to begin getting a ballpark figure on how much this investment would run us, being that we had to now purchase a new bed frame as well. The sales lady, when I questioned her about the therapeutic and memory foam type mattresses, informed me that a King size purchase of that type would run us well over 2-grand for the mattress set alone. Well, needless to say I put that option out of my head, and we narrowed our search to only spring mattress sets. I found myself leaning toward a mattress set of either the Sealy or Serta brand, so the sales representative estimated a total that included the mattress, box springs, and a bed frame we were fond of, and the total was near two-grand. We told her we would think about it and we left the store.Thus began my search online to see if I could find one of the mattresses we had tested, and liked, at a cheaper price. I went to my trustworthy friend of Amazon, and so happened to run across the Sleep Innovations Memory Foam Mattress. I didn't understand how a King size memory foam mattress could be so cheap - It baffled me! As one could assume, I was very skeptic. "There's no way this could be good quality" I thought. So out of curiosity I looked at the number of reviews. At the time it had only about 60 reviews, and over 50 of them were 5/5 - and the reviews were of happy satisfied people who were extremely glad they took the chance on this mattress. Now I had a truly difficult decision to make. I originally didn't want to purchase a mattress online that we hadn't lain on in person - understandably I didn't want to waste our money on a mattress we hated - but this mattress was such a good price, and I had always wanted a memory foam mattress (I had a pillow of this brand and loved it).Finally, after reading probably almost every review on Amazon about this mattress, I decided to throw caution to the wind and purchase this mattress (the boyfriend had left picking out the mattress to me, as choosing between hundreds of mattresses turned out not to be `his thing' to do on the weekends - and he claimed it to be something a woman would enjoy. HAH!) Besides, anything was an improvement to what were sleeping on at the time.The mattress arrived earlier than the initial estimated arrival date, and I had even chosen free super saver shipping (it arrived exactly 1 full week after I ordered it - I ordered it on a Friday, and it arrived the following Friday). I already expected a small box, in comparison to the size of the mattress, but when I opened the box and dragged the mattress out, despite my knowledge from previous customer reviews, I was still shocked. I knew it was compressed, but still it only looked like half of a king size mattress folded accordion style - It looked like a twin! "Surely," I thought, "I didn't make some mistake and I was supposed to have purchased two of these...maybe that is why it was so cheap." But alas, my fears were proven unnecessary. After reading the instructions on how to properly remove it from the plastic in which it was sealed, I sliced it open and it grew rapidly before my eyes! Not only was it compressed accordion style, it had been folded in half like a sub sandwich as well! This is a mammoth of a mattress, so I recommend anyone who purchases it to open it up in the location you intend to leave it (the UPS tracking said it weight around 105lbs).It has almost been a full month since we purchased this mattress, and we are simply in love. I could almost swear that not even a few days have gone by without either my boyfriend or I remarking on how amazing it is. Some people complained about a lingering smell. It did in fact have a chemical-like smell upon opening, but after about 2-3 days it was fully gone. Even so, during those 3-days the smell was certainly not unbearable as some thought, but actually had very mild potency, and we slept on it the first night without any trouble.Also related to the first night, I was a bit worried we would have to sleep on the downstairs sofas the day it arrived, because we had a dinner date we couldn't miss, so I was unable to assemble the bed frame (which had arrived the same day) and unseal the mattress until 9:00pm. By the time I had finished assembling the bed and laying the box springs (two XL-Twins) in their place, it was 10:00pm. After we cut the seal, however, it was quickly apparent that it would take no time for it to expand. It was done in 30minutes or less! There may have been additional minor expansion that went on unnoticed to us, but for the most part it was finished (and the instructions actually say it will be ready to sleep on the first night, and that body warmth actually speeds up the process).I will never go back to a box-spring mattress again. Your body sinks right into this one as soon as you lay down. It has never been more comfortable to sit in bed and read a book before going to sleep. Also, on our old bed I used to wake up frequently through-out the night when the cats jumped on the bed, my back pained me, or when nature called. Now, however, I never even notice when the cats or my boyfriend move around in the bed, never wake up with back pains, and only wake up for bathroom calls if it is absolutely necessary. I find myself sleeping straight through the night until my alarm goes off for work, a blessing I haven't had in years.Some think foam mattresses are too firm, but they only appear to be at first. Once you sit/lay on them you begin to sink in. So it is firm, but it yields and molds to your body, something I find much more beneficial and comfortable than a soft mattress with no support. Also I can not attest to the mattress causing an increase or decrease in temperature caused by body heat or anything of that matter. I have noticed no difference.I am a thousand times grateful I took a chance on this mattress, and I would highly urge anyone who is debating on the matter to do so themselves!