Adjustable beds like this always remind me of that scene in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" where the Hollywood producer has a bed that he keeps powering up and down during the phone conversation with "Fred"...

I'm with you - I wouldn't have pegged myself as someone who likes super-squishy beds. Firm is my style (I thought). We actually tested a bunch of Tempur beds in multiple stores. Like, fastidiously and for prolonged periods of time (because you're supposed to lay in it for a while and let it gradually mold to your body over several minutes, as other shoppers meander past and quietly wonder if you live there).

We ended up going with the Allura from Tempur. It has a 3-inch layer of squishy foam on the top, with a firmer foam underneath. It was supposed to give that initial soft feel and also let you be supported by the firmer stuff - best of both worlds, right?

When it arrived, it wasn't as soft as the model in the store. The interwebs + store personnel said there's a break-in period during which it would get softer. They recommended walking on it all over for a few minutes every day. It never got as soft as we wanted, and after four weeks, we actually made use of the store's 30-day satisfaction policy and traded it in for the TEMPUR-Cloud Supreme.

The Cloud has been otherworldly. Life-changing. I just --- I --- I can't adequately convey with words the amount of love I have for this bed. I can't believe I was initially turned off by its squishiness because I thought I was some kind of hard bed person.

Tempur-pedics seem to be the choice for people with my disorder (where rolling over in bed can cause a shoulder or hip to partially or fully dislocate.) But like you, I dislike memory foam and all the heat it retains.

For that reason, the next mattress I buy will probably be one with plenty of natural materials.

THANK YOU for pointing out the off gassing as well as the lack of natural materials in ALL TEMPUR PEDIC mattresses.
Just goggle Tempur Pedic toxins and you can see for yourself

I completely agree with Probosciedea, when we purchased THIS mattress it changed our lives. We've been sleeping on it for about 7 months now and it's perfect. I absolutely do not agree that it sleeps hot, BUT we do have the natural topper. We don't have the ergo adjustable base, we just have a basic metal frame and the low profile box spring. I have never slept so well, the ONLY negative we have about this bed is that we can no longer sleep in hotels. Even the best hotel beds don't do it for me. I can no longer sleep with my shoulder wrenching up into my neck and my hips propped up from a non-foam mattress that allows my shoulder and hip to sink directly into the mattress while my waist is comfortably supported. I have serious back problems and this is the magic. And my husband has no back issues and loves a firm bed and he has never loved something so much other than me and our pup ;o)

Ermm I don't make sense today. I mean the hotel beds don't allow my shoulder and hip to sink in where the Tempur Cloud Supreme does that in an amazing-I-couldn't-even-describe-it kind of way ;)

We have this bed, but in a king. The downside is the crack between the two twin mattresses that make up the king - it's a definite divider between partners. You have to keep pushing the top mattresses back toward the center. The other downside is sex on a Tempurpedic sucks - you sink too far down. Otherwise it's great for watching TV and working on the computer (besides sleeping!)

I am wondering about the duvet cover--it looks like a natural linen? Just what I'd like!

I too would love to know where the duvet cover came from? Anyone?

I am not surprised at all that you can't feel the massage function through 11 inches of foam. >.>;;;

I have a Tempurpedic and hate hate hate it. The heat retention is awful. You get stuck in a crater that the weight of your body creates and it's hard to roll around, change positions and get comfortable. Made both my husband's and my back hurt after a few months.

We went with an envirotech ecomemory foam mattress... about 1/3 the price, and no offgassing from it at all. it also hasn't had issues with being hot, but we still are in cool weather. I don't think it will be an issue, though, it feels as though it breathes. It's firm enough and soft enough at the same time. And way cheaper.

I've had one of the lower-priced Tempurpedics for a while. I ultimately don't care for the "sleeping on wet sand" feeling, as i've seen it described. It's difficult to move around on. I've had to use a natural mattress pad AND an old comforter under the fitted sheet, just to get some non-squishy cushion.

If i could do over the mattress shopping, i'd buy a conventional firm and try it a while (months) to see if i liked it. If not, they buy a topper of some kind. You can add plushiness, but you can't add support (i don't think).

I have the cloud tempur pedic for about a year now. I do not have the adjustable base since I did not want a split king bed. My husband and I both llove the bed. It did set us back a lot of money but when you think about the amount of time we spend in bed it makes sense to get one that you really like. I have bone cancer and I am in alot of back pain. I did have a sleep number bed and a dterns and foster and I have to say tempur pedic for me was a lot better. I do not have a problem with it being too warm I use natural fabics and materials on my bed that might make a difference. As for the odor yes when you first get the bed and its taken out of the pladtic there is a strong odor. The sales person where I bought the bed warned me about it. he suggested that I open all the windows in my bedroom and have my kids jump all over the bed for atleast half an an hour to get the odor out of the bed. We did just that and after they jumped on the bed I left the windows open for a few hours and the smell was gone and never came back. the bed is easy to care for and I have had no isuues just great sleep

I have this TempurPedic Cloud Supreme mattress, and I love mine. Previously I'd slept on their Celebrity mattress, which was an earlier model, and much more expensive, and it stayed with the ex when I moved out (finding room for a King is just too difficult).

The off-gassing with any TempurPedic is pretty awful, the first days especially (almost headache inducingly bad), and I'd say it takes a couple of weeks for the smell to dissipate entirely. I've now had mine for about 8 months I think and there is no lingering smell at all. This also happened with the previous TP mattress I've slept on too.

I've also found the TempurPedics sleep warm, but it doesn't bother me too much. I have an adjustable 2-piece 4-seasons duvet from Ikea, and presently sleep with the summer weight half of it. I haven't checked out a natural topper for it yet, currently there's a waterproof one on it, because small humanoids still want to come into the bed sometimes. A waterproof cover certainly doesn't help it feel any cooler.

Mine does not have an ergo adjustable base though, I just have it directly onto a platform bed frame (without any of their foundation pieces). I like my own bed frame, and just seriously doubt I'd use any of the features that the adjustable one offers.

If you can adjust to the memory foam as a surface to sleep on, which admittedly can take a few days and vary by person, it's a great mattress. I loved mine during my second pregnancy, having suffered through one pregnancy on an awful inexpensive spring mattress that gave me an aching back and sore pelvis and hips and poor sleep.

Unlike Wanderloot, I don't think sex on one is awful. But then, my partner and I had to make do with an Aerobed mattress for a couple of months, so a solid bed of any kind was an upgrade at that point. You will sink into it a bit, so I can see how it might make things a little tricksy or silly.

This looks weird.

My husband and I bought a TemperPedic bed in 2008, primarily for the non-transfer of motion properties. My husband loved it immediately. It took me about 2.5 months to get used to it--I woke up every day sore for a while. But our salesman said it could take some people a while to adjust, and I did. I realize that the discomfort was my spine "unkinking". After that 2.5 months passed, all the kinks were unkinked, I now sleep like a baby every night, and I wake up every morning feeling fantastic. This bed really changed my life in a great way!

Ugh. Our previous mattresses were Tempurpedic. At first we really liked them (hey, anything was better than the cheapo spring mattress with springs actually poking my bones..) But the "memory" in the memory foam wears away quickly. Then it's way worse than a regular foam mattress (which are actually not that uncomfortable necessarily), because it goes totally soft putty when in contact with body heat, forming deep recess. My back hurt, I'd wake up in the middle of the night to pain, changed position, and repeat! In the morning my back was the most sore. I was NOT looking forward to going to bed at night, it was awful. It was also too hot, and after I read about the off-gassing I was just so put off. We went to the complete opposite with our new bed, 100% natural Vi-Spring box spring, mattress and pillow top. We got a model that feels quite "solid", meaning not bouncy and jittery, the whole bed doesn't move when you do, which felt uncomfortable for me after years on memory foam mattress. There is great support as well as enough give. The materials and construction are beautiful. It has a lifetime guarantee. We chose Vi-Spring over Hästens because it was clearly better quality, with more choices, better guarantee (warranty?) AND cheaper.

Or, you could get a Keetsa mattress for a fraction of the cost of a tempurpedic. Keetsa's memory foam ones are made from eco-friendly materials and most importantly, do not off-gas anything nasty. In fact the new mattresses smell quite lovely! I've had mine for almost 2 years now and it has changed my life completely. One small drawback to memory foam is that if you live in a warm climate without A/C they can get a bit hot and sticky. Living in SF, I don't have that problem. More details on Keetsa and their materials: http://keetsa.com/about/

Hi, thanks for all the thorough reviews. Can you recommend a natural mattress topper for the Tempurpedic? I've never used one before. I'm guessing these can be found at department stores. If I'm mistaken, sorry, can you point me in the right direction?

Yvette, I dislocated my shoulder four months ago and can only imagine the agony you suffer with such a disorder!

For a couple of years now, I've been sleeping on a broken-down el cheapo mattress and box spring (half-stolen by the late bf) with an excellent mem foam topper I got on Ebay. My only complaint is that I haven't been able to find any sheets that will cover both the mattress and the four-inch topper, so I put the sheet on the topper and use a bedskirt to cover the mattress & box spring.

I have a Rhapsody Tempur-Pedic mattress and the Ergo adjustable base. I've had my mattress and base for almost 5 years. When I come home from a long flight, I like to sleep with the foot of the bed elevated. It helps when you're sick. You can sleep sitting up. This is the best bed I've purchased. On my last bed, my shoulder would be sore from sleeping on my side.

***We have been sleeping on a Tepur-Pedic for 10+ years and wouldn't have it any other way. Unfortunately, the more natural options were not available to us in Alaska at the time, or we would have looked into those. The bed did off-gas a bit in the beginning, but after it aired out it has been great for reducing my allergies. It was hard to get used to the change from a traditional mattress to a memory foam mattress; it took us 3 weeks to stop waking up sore and achy, but ever since I wouldn't want to sleep on anything else!
~I have even gone so far as to scout out the hotels that offer these type of mattresses so we will get a good nights' rest while traveling.
~I wish we had purchased the adjustable bed base, but we can always add it later. I agree about the pillows, I prefer my "side sleeper" standard allergy free pillow. ~We use an electric blanket to warm the mattress on cold winter nights before we crawl in to it, and conversely on hot summer nights I put a mattress pad o it to keep it cool.
~We LOVE our Tempur-pedic!