What Kind of Mattresses Do Hotels Use?

What Kind of Mattresses Do Hotels Use?

When you're on vacation or holiday, do you find yourself intrigued by an unexpected solid night of deep, refreshing sleep—a welcome and pleasant surprise? Sleep experts will be the first to admit that it can be challenging to get the same quality 'shut eye' while traveling, away from the comforts of your own home. But these days, some hotels have stepped up their game in the sleep and mattress comfort categories. Now, it's easier than ever to sleep great while on vacation and mimic the luxury of your favorite hotel, all in the comfort of your own humble abode.

Picture bringing that wonderfully comfortable night of sleep back home with you. The great news—with the help of experienced sleep professionals—you can absolutely make it happen!

Next, experienced sleep and mattress specialists will highlight specific characteristics of the best and most modern hotel beds today, including a trendy option—the hybrid mattress.

Continue reading to explore various mattress firmnesses, styles, and other options, similar to those found in some of the world's finest luxury hotels worldwide.

The cherry on top: Many top-quality mattress options, which are either an upgrade from or comparable to exceptionally comfortable hotel beds. An impressive selection of mattresses is available at Mattress World Northwest, offering free white-glove delivery, including setup inside your home and removal of your old mattress.

hotel room pillows

The Big Reveal: Why Hotel Mattresses are So Comfortable

The noticeable comfort and great night's sleep you get on a high-quality hotel bed isn't just a coincidence. Today, many hotels, particularly those with four and five-star ratings, carefully curate their selection of comfort products inside their rooms, including the mattress, bedding, and pillows.

Many hotels these days are investing significantly in these types of products due to the realization that a good night's sleep has a profound impact on the visit, and sleeping well is essential for guests' health, wellness, and satisfaction with their stay overall.

Due to this newfound awareness of the role and impact of a comfortable mattress, many hotels are utilizing higher-quality sleeping surfaces, often a hybrid or supportive independent innerspring variety. These mattress styles, crafted from high-grade coil springs and comfort materials, offer an even more profound and luxurious deep sleep experience during your stay.

That blissful, relaxing sensation of a great night's sleep on a hotel bed is the result of innovative mattress components working in harmony—such as latex or memory foam, often in the form of a plush-cushion-top or slightly softer pillow top. Harmonious and high-quality mattress components supply a balance of comfort, muscle relaxation, pressure relief, and ample support to align your back, hips, and spine.

Subsequently, you can easily duplicate this delicate balance of comfort, support, pressure point relief, and muscle relaxation by personally testing to find a comfortable and supportive mattress that feels like it's meant for you.

Since you already know you sleep particularly well on that one hotel mattress, you may be able to purchase the mattress directly from the hotel website. If a specific mattress isn't directly sold and advertised by the hotel, the chances are that exact mattress won't be available in stores.

If you end up trying to find a comparable mattress, start by inquiring about the specific details of that particular mattress, including its components and materials. These small details will serve as a starting point to help you find a closely comparable mattress to the one you slept on at what's now considered your favorite hotel.

pillow top mattress

Do Hotels Typically Have Firm, Medium, or Soft Mattresses?

Most often, hotels use medium to medium-firm mattresses. Aside from that, some hotels utilize hybrid or softer pillowtop mattresses or add featherbed toppers to enhance comfort and induce that exhale of deep relaxation as you lie down in bed.

Which Specific Types of Mattresses Do Hotels Use?

Many hotel mattresses are designed specifically for the hotel hospitality setting. Depending on the hotel, that exact model may not be available in retail stores and may only be purchased directly from the hotel itself. Still, hotels generally have hybrid or innerspring-style mattresses. Similarly, independent coil spring mattresses typically create the most comfortable hotel beds.

A less common hotel offering, but often favored by guests, some rooms will have gel-infused foam mattresses. Smaller boutique hotels even present Tempur-Pedic mattresses with advanced pressure-relieving material (APR) inside their rooms.

Regardless of the type of mattress, one thing is certain: major hotels with a decent reputation will most often utilize reputable manufacturers to supply them with top-quality mattresses.

Hotels frequently source mattresses from reputable manufacturers, such as Simmons, Serta, or Sealy, featuring well-recognized brand names like Perfect Sleeper, Posturepedic, or Beautyrest.

Well-Recognized Hotel Mattress Crossovers

Hotel mattresses are typically of mid-range quality, and the comfiest hotel mattresses—such as Beautyrest Hospitality and Serta Perfect Sleeper Hotel Collection—can be easily matched with comparable models available in stores if you prefer not to pay a higher premium price to buy direct from the hotel.

Level 1 / Firm

Hilton's Serenity Bed Mattress

A prime example of a mattress comparable to an exceptional hotel version. The Serta Perfect Sleeper X Quilted Hybrid Mattress is precisely similar, if not an upgrade, to Hilton's Serenity hotel mattress. Serta Perfect Sleeper is made in the USA with innovative zoned support coils, quality fabric, and CertiPur certified foam technologies.

level 4 plush

The Westin Heavenly Bed Mattress

The Beautyrest World Class Plush Mattress is highly comparable to Westin's famous 'Heavenly Bed' mattress—featuring gel-infused energy diffusion foams, cooling technology, natural antimicrobial fabric properties, and a tufted plush-top.

Pillow Top Firm / Pillow Top Soft

The Ritz-Carlton Mattress

The Stearns & Foster Estate, available at Mattress World Northwest, happens to be a thoughtfully inspired upgrade from the already exceptional mattress design brought to you by the Ritz Hotel. You will find luxuriously handcrafted Stearns & Foster mattresses with temperature-balancing technology inside hotel rooms at Ritz-Carlton properties.

But, if you would prefer not to pay the premium price through the hotel for your Stearns & Foster mattress? Instead, opt for a comparable mattress that utilizes a similar, if not the same, coil design and other equivalent materials. The S&F Estate mattress, available in stores, is also much more reasonably priced—over $1,000 less than the Stearns & Foster mattress offered directly from the Ritz hotel website.

What Brand Mattresses Do Most Hotels Use?

Most reputable hotels utilize mattresses crafted by well-recognized manufacturers, often in the category of established S brands, such as Sealy, Simmons, Serta, or Stearns and Foster.

Local mattress shops near your area showcase Beautyrest, Serta, and Sealy Posturepedic mattresses, all of which are commonly found inside four- and five-star hotels. Many comparable models to the mattresses you'll enjoy at five-star hotels like The Ritz-Carlton and Westin are showcased on display to try at your local mattress shop, Mattress World Northwest.

Make sure to check out the latest mattress innovations, like zoned support systems, temperature-balancing fabrics, and hybrid technology in the following hotel-comparable mattress models:

Hotel Mattress Upgrades

As if you thought it couldn't get any better! Hotels typically use decent-quality sleep products, including their mattresses, pillows, and sheets. For many, hotel-quality sleep products are a significant upgrade from the bedding and mattress they use at home—hence why many sleep so well while on vacation.

However, because hotels must supply a large quantity of goods, they typically fill their rooms with good-quality, comfortable mattresses and pillows. Nevertheless, even four- and five-star hotels often use upper-middle-quality goods, not top-of-the-line. To really feel a noticeable upgrade in quality with a hotel mattress, sheets, or bedding, a Five Diamond hotel is your best bet.

Make sure to feel the difference with these comparable Five Diamond hotel mattresses:

How To Closely Mimic Your Hotel Sleep Experience Inside the Comforts of Your Own Home

Now, suppose you've recently slept well at a specific hotel. In that case, you may be curious about that hotel's mattress in particular. You may be starting the process of figuring out where to buy a mattress like 'that one' you slept so well on, attempting to mimic that comfort and support with a comparable mattress for your home. You might also wonder about the high-quality mattresses and bedding that other hotels offer, specifically.

Next, we'll cover the most common mattress technologies and bedding accessory options typically found in hotel beds.

Mattress Temperature Balancing Technology

For starters, if you stayed in a hotel in a warmer climate and slept great, it could be thanks to innovative cooling and temperature-balancing technology. This modern mattress technology is found inside many hotel mattresses and comparable models, available at Mattress World Northwest.

Featherbed Toppers

Some luxury hotels‒such as the Kimpton, Ritz-Carlton, and JW Marriott, also enhance their mattresses with a feather bed to make the sleeping surface fluffy and comforting, often provoking increased muscle relaxation and that 'ahhh feeling.'

For a luxurious upgrade from a featherbed and to experience the ultimate comfort when you lie down in bed, reach for an Aireloom Timeless Luxury Pad or Posh+Lavish Natural Rubber mattress topper.

Premium Quality Bedding

If you thoroughly enjoyed those buttery soft sheets that you couldn't seem to peel yourself from while in bed at the hotel, make sure to check out luxurious and hotel-comparable DreamFit brand sheets:

Build-a-bed: Create Your Own Luxury Hotel Bed System at Mattress World Northwest

Next, test out quality mattresses, try on pillows, and explore various sheet colors and materials at your local sleep shop. Now, with one of the best selections of products in the mattress industry, it's easier than ever to build your own luxury hotel bed sleep system at any of the 25 Mattress World Northwest sleep shop locations.

The best part: creating your own luxury mattress system makes it personally designed just for you!

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