Mattress Alternatives

doublea

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We just sealed the deal on a 2020 22MLE. It will follow us home when the snow melts. We noticed that while it has a queen size bed, the mattress is very hard. What are some of you doing for toppers or are you just scrapping the mattress and buying something different?
 
We just sealed the deal on a 2020 22MLE. It will follow us home when the snow melts. We noticed that while it has a queen size bed, the mattress is very hard. What are some of you doing for toppers or are you just scrapping the mattress and buying something different?

Some people just replace it outright. Some people use toppers. Others just use what's there until it dies and then replace it.
 
My wife and I abandoned the topper routine two campers ago when we really started spending many more nights per year camping. So, our last camper had a queen size, and we went with a custom-made Verlo hybrid mattress. In our Solitude, we put a California King sized Purple 3 Hybrid in place of the RV king (fit with nothing to spare with the slide closed). Hands down, the Purple has been the best mattress we've ever owned for both of us, including the primo, top-of-the-line, split comfort, custom mattress I paid way too much for in our sticks and bricks!
 
My wife really likes the mattress...me, I think it's like sleeping on granite. Might as well sleep outside on the asphalt. Shure hope it wears out soon!
 
We took delivery of our 2020 22MLE Saturday, and are on our first trip with it. My wife got a 3" foam topper for ours and I found it quite comfortable. The combination of the firm mattress for support, but the topper for pressure point relief was about perfect!
 
We have a 2020 2600 imagine. All the mattress in all the campers we tried 2019 and 2020 were bricks! absolute AWFUL. I tweaked my back on the first one not thinking I was going to plop on granite.

Purchased a new Sealy for the house and brought the "old" sealy into the camper. Must of looked hilarious from the neighbors house.
 
We spend around 80 nights per season in our Reflection. It was well worth it to purchase a good residential mattress to replace the RV mattress. By the way, in many RV's, a residential mattress will be longer than the RV mattress.
 
I just replaced mine with a short queen Comfort Zone® 10" Elite Mattress that I purchased at Camping World for ~$500. Fits fine. Much much better... Imagine XLS 21BHE
 
We full time in our 2022 Reflection 315RLTS. We had an Arctic Fox 28F and had upgraded to a Purple queen mattress. Love it so just swapped it to our new trailer.
 
We full time in our 2022 Reflection 315RLTS. We had an Arctic Fox 28F and had upgraded to a Purple queen mattress. Love it so just swapped it to our new trailer.

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We opted to just get a new mattress. Great deal on a layered foam residential 10”. Fits perfectly in the 22MLE. Nicer than the one in the house, lol.
 
Replaced ours with our guest room mattress. Yes it is an innerspring. but with the plywood base it still wasn't a "perfect sleeper" so...
We added a topper. Getting ready to head out over the Thanksgiving holiday. Hopefully it will be slightly better?????
 
I like hard mattress but those are ridiculous. After 3 nights we changed it with a Zinus off of Amazon 8".

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I am also looking for advice on a new mattress for my 297RSTS.
I have suffered three years with that terrible mattress that comes with the rv. I wanted to put in a sleep number but found out too late that they stopped making the rv version.
That being said, I am researching a bunch of rv mattresses. Obviously, you can't try them out unless you know someone who has one in their camper. I was interested in the hybrid one that you can determine the firmness for each side. However seeing another post here now makes me wonder if that is not a good pick. I really need a lot of input. They are costly and I don't want to get stuck with a lemon. Thanks!
 
I am also looking for advice on a new mattress for my 297RSTS.
I have suffered three years with that terrible mattress that comes with the rv. I wanted to put in a sleep number but found out too late that they stopped making the rv version.
That being said, I am researching a bunch of rv mattresses. Obviously, you can't try them out unless you know someone who has one in their camper. I was interested in the hybrid one that you can determine the firmness for each side. However seeing another post here now makes me wonder if that is not a good pick. I really need a lot of input. They are costly and I don't want to get stuck with a lemon. Thanks!

We replaced both the mattress at home and in our RV at the same time, with the same type (non-RV specific) mattress. It was a Serta mattress.

That way the bed(s) feel the same.
 
We went with IKEA mattress and a new 2” topper. Reasonable cost and easy on our backs. We did not want more than a 8” mattress, they have several options on firmness.
 

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