Cheap Mattress!

[The Duke 316]

We just returned from the Anchor Down get together and had a wonderful time! This was only our second outing in our new Reflection TT. After only 11 nights we have determined that our king pillow top "black label" mattress is unacceptable! Our mattress already has two large permanent indention's where we lay. I have a bad back and a good "quality" mattress is very important. I believe that GD has found one of many places to cut cost without a lot of complaints. I know that other manufacturers do the same thing. My previous Jayco had a very cheap mattress, which I promptly replaced. At Anchor Down, I was told by another Reflection TT owner that replacing the mattress was one of the first things that he had done. I will be replacing my "black label" pillow top mattress with a "memory foam" mattress before we take our next trip. If anyone would like a "almost new" king mattress, come see me and you can have it!

 

[Bamaman]

I've bought 2 memory foam mattresses @ BedInABag.com, a large mail order operation out of Johnson City. Service, quality and prices are great.

We bought a Beautyrest 3" memory foam topper for our GD supplied "pillow top" mattress, and we put a top quality mattress pad/cover on top of that. It sleeps just great.

 

[game warden]

Bite the bullet and get a Sleep Number you`ll love it and so will your back ! If you watch Camper`s World they put them on sale from time to time.

 

[Bamaman]

Sleep Comfort and Tempurpedic require bedding dealers to make quite an investment, and purchasing one a seriously major investment.

I have a buddy with a mattress store, and you wouldn't believe what the mark up on high line bedding is.

My wife is perfectly satisfied with a gel style memory foam mattress that's mounted on a Leggett and Platt adjustable bed--with "Magic Fingers." It's simply heavenly.

 

[Aazahn]

seems if you pay 20k on a camper or 75k on a camper, you get a crummy mattress. not the end of the world. I would rather pick out what I sleep on instead of the manufacturer guessing on what I may like.

 

[Bamaman]

Everyone has different wants and needs in a mattress. What's good for one is not necessarily good for another.

The whole industry commonly puts sub-par bedding into their campers--as they cannot judge mattresses. And it's a big cost saver, too.

 

[The Duke 316]

Keep on Biting!

Bite the bullet and get a Sleep Number you`ll love it and so will your back ! If you watch Camper`s World they put them on sale from time to time.

Seems like all I get done is bite the bullet! I just bit it again and purchased a Serta I-Cool memory foam. We sleep on a Tempur Pedic at home but all that they make is a 76" wide, not a 72" in a RV king. So now we will be cool and comfortable. Put one of these in our previous Jayco and liked it. I wish that the manufactures would just let you order your trailer "less mattress" and give you a credit, then you could put that towards a quality mattress of your liking.

 

[minnow101]

When we bought our 27RL, we took the new mattress out of the 27RL and swapped it for the mattress in our old fiver which I had bought a few years back. Dealer was happy as they had a pre-owned fiver with a new mattress. We were happy as we had mattress we have enjoyed from our old fiver.

 

[The Duke 316]

Would Have Been Nice.

When we bought our 27RL, we took the new mattress out of the 27RL and swapped it for the mattress in our old fiver which I had bought a few years back. Dealer was happy as they had a pre-owned fiver with a new mattress. We were happy as we had mattress we have enjoyed from our old fiver.

Yeah that would have been nice. We however sold our last trailer and we also went from a "short queen" to a "king." so wouldn't have worked on either account. Now we have another "almost new" mattress to give away or dispose of. Last time to my surprise, Goodwill no longer accepts mattress's. No matter how new. I guess they are afraid of "bed bugs!"

 

[Laurie]

Replacing the mattress is a priority for the hubby but I want to wait until next year since we only have a little over a month of camping season left.


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[mageorge]

We made one outing last year when we first bought our 303, and the mattress went to the Salvation Army! We ordered a Bed-in-a-box 9" queen and love it!!!


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[mageorge]

BTW Laurie, we live in Arkansas, and were in Iowa the 15th of April when the parks up there opened. You can always head south when they turn the water off up there.


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[Laurie]

BTW Laurie, we live in Arkansas, and were in Iowa the 15th of April when the parks up there opened. You can always head south when they turn the water off up there.


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Thanks! We still work so can't go South yet. Some day


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[another Todd]

I hope GD is listening. The mattress in our 2016 27RL is a POS. Maybe GD should consider delivering their products WITHOUT mattresses, rather than just sending them out with garbage mattresses. That way, we could purchase the mattress we want the first time, rather than purchasing a POS that comes with the unit. Maybe GD could provide a credit for new purchases at a national mattress chain so purchasers could get the mattress they want rather than the POS they force upon us.

 

[steve gravelle]

another Todd,
We had help in replacing our original mattress in our 337. We used it for 8 or 9 months, it went from extremely firm to bottomed out, no cushioning, and divots in the body contact areas. A customer service person no longer with the company advised us how to measure the depth of the divots per Lippert guidelines and photoed the process. We bought a memory foam from a Denver Mattress store in Corpus Christi, $349.00 with a 15 year warranty, got a check from Lippert for $175.00 from working through Grand Design. It is a great mattress!

 

[minnow101]

While doing our PDI, we removed the stock mattress from our 27RL and dragged it over to our old Couger which was our trade-in. We took our foam bed mattress out of the Cougar and put it in the 27RL. Cheap, uncomfortable RV mattresses are the norm in almost every manufactured RV. It is not a GD specific issue. A first time buyer does not usually know about the cheap mattress. A seasoned RV'er does and understands that they'll need to swap or negotiate a better mattress on a subsequent purchase.

 

[mageorge]

Just about any mattress is better than what comes with a new RV. We always pull it out, take it to the Salvation Army and get a new one. This time we tried one from Bed-in-a-Box online (the Original). And we love it.


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[tazlove40]

We put in a sleep number. We took the queen sleep number from the old one and put it in our guest room. Had to purchase a king for the new one.


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[2butler]

Bite the bullet and get a Sleep Number you`ll love it and so will your back ! If you watch Camper`s World they put them on sale from time to time.

Like Game warden said! we never used our stock mattress, I have a bad back as well and the sleep number is the only way to go.

 

[bob1340]

While doing our PDI, we removed the stock mattress from our 27RL and dragged it over to our old Couger which was our trade-in. We took our foam bed mattress out of the Cougar and put it in the 27RL. Cheap, uncomfortable RV mattresses are the norm in almost every manufactured RV. It is not a GD specific issue. A first time buyer does not usually know about the cheap mattress. A seasoned RV'er does and understands that they'll need to swap or negotiate a better mattress on a subsequent purchase.

Ditto here. Once we get our GD later this year, either a 303 FW or a 313 TT I'll be pulling my wonderful mattress out of my Keystone and putting in in the new trailer.
I wish you could get trailers without mattresses furniture. I'd just as soon get my own stuff.