Brooklyn Bedding

The Brooklyn Bedding Signature mattress is one of the best-valued bed-in-a-box mattresses on the market. Brooklyn Bedding manufactures their own mattresses in the United States, allowing them to cut out the middle-man and sell for a more affordable price. The brand also doesn’t cut corners on quality, so you’re getting a great mattress and a very fair price. 

The Brooklyn Bedding Signature bed is its flagship mattress, and it has everything you can want in a good bed. It’s an 11.5-inch hybrid mattress made with over 1,000 pocketed coils in the support layer, making it supportive and durable for all body types. You also have three firmness levels to choose from when picking a bed, making it a good fit for all sleeping positions: back, side, stomach and combination. 

It also has a comfortable, neutral-foam feel that responds quickly to pressure. Even though the primary comfort layer is memory foam, it never makes you feel like you’re stuck in a pit within the foam thanks to the transition layer underneath it. 

For a little over $100, you can add a “Glaciotex” cooling cover that helps regulate temperature so you sleep more cool at night. There are also many RV sizes available if you’re looking for the best RV queen mattress, which is something you don’t see everyday with big-name online mattress brands. 

Nectar

The Nectar Premier mattress is the follow-up to the discontinued Nectar Lush mattress, and it provides a similar memory foam feel that, after a few moments, contours around the curves of your body. It’s not quite as soft as Nectar Lush, but it does offer a nice, pressure relief feel around your hips and shoulders that almost makes you feel weightless. 

This Nectar mattress is designed with four layers including a gel-infused memory foam comfort layer and a quilted cooling cover. The cover might not be ice-cold, but it should really help most sleepers sleep more temperature neutral and comfortable throughout the night. 

And these memory foam mattresses have really good motion isolation. I loved how this Nectar mattress limited motion transfer and didn’t bounce around when my boyfriend tossed and turned in the middle of the night. However, the edge support isn’t the greatest considering it’s designed with a foam base layer, as opposed to a sturdy layer. Read more in our full Nectar Premier mattress review. 

NOTE: The US Product Safety Commission recently issued a recall for Nectar Premier king and queen-sized mattresses manufactured on 9/24/21. Look for a model number CHILL and Prototype ID:ECS2003RHCH on a tag on the bottom of your mattress to find out if yours has been recalled. We have reached out to Nectar for comment and will update the story if they respond. 

The Helix Plus is marketed toward heavier sleepers, but it’s one of the best queen size mattresses for sleepers of any body shape and size. Like all Helix mattresses, the mattress material is a combination of memory foam and Helix dynamic foam — an adaptive memory foam that quickly reacts to your body when you move — but it also has an additional layer of four-pound memory foam that supports people with higher BMIs. At 13 inches tall, it’s thicker than most standard mattresses, so the queen size feels like a bigger mattress size without taking up extra space in your bedroom.

The Helix Plus felt supportive, while providing the right amount of “give” to offer pressure relief for my shoulders and hips and allowing me to sink into this mattress in all of the best ways. It also had more bounce than some of the other hybrid mattresses I tried, but was still surprisingly good with isolating motion — a combo I really enjoyed.

The mattress is categorized as a medium to firm feel — Helix rates it a 7 to 8 out of 10 on the mattress firmness level scale — and I would have preferred it a bit on the softer mattress end of the spectrum, but if you’re looking for a firm mattress that’s comfortable, supportive, and will stand the test of time, this is it. Read more in our full Helix mattress review.

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The main selling point of the Avocado Green is that it’s organic and completely free of harmful chemicals, flame retardants and toxic foams. It’s made from a combination of cotton, wool and natural latex (or they have a vegan mattress that’s wool-free) that will have you sleeping soundly and consciously. And while that’s a great start, it has to be comfortable too. Fortunately, it is.

At first, this queen bed felt firmer than I typically like, but after a few days, I started to settle into it and really appreciate the balance of support and plushness. I felt equally comfortable sleeping on my side and my back and appreciated how responsive the mattress was — it adjusted quickly as I switched my sleeping position and didn’t have any lag or sink that can go hand in hand with some types of memory foam. 

I added the optional pillow top, which adds an extra layer of softness that I thought made a world of difference. If you like a firmer mattress, you may not need it, but I think it’s well worth the extra $500. Read more in our full Avocado mattress review.